S8E2: Into the Dalek

This episode was absolutely phenomenal. It has great writing and a fantastic plot.

I am writing under the assumption that you have seen the episode if you go past the page-break, which is only visible if you're on the home-page of the blog. Any other way, you must have clicked directly there, in which case, there is your error. I do not give a synopsis, I give a critical reaction.

NEW PODCAST "The Long Game" S1E7

Brittany, Daniel, Ley, Mary, and Sam cover "The Long Game." We discuss Adam's function in the episode and try to give an answer to the Editor's question: "Is a slave a slave if he doesn't know he's enslaved?" 

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My Predictions for the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special #SaveTheDay

"Original British Drama"
Those may not be the first words to come to mind when you think of Doctor Who, but they are the first words in the show's official 50th Anniversary Special Trailer.

As this is a post fraught with spoilers, click here to read at your own risk:

The Best Theory on Clara I've Seen Thusfar.

So, this theory is not my own. But I agree with it. It is from Who-lligan on tumblr.

We know Oswin was a Dalek…

And we assume she died…

But what if she didn’t? What if she lived and eventually went insane and became the Dalek Emperor? The one at the Game Station.

And then Rose Bad Wolfed her.

But because she was Rose…

When she did this to the Emperor…

She also did this…

And this…

And because she knew this…

…knowing everything as The Bad Wolf, knew she couldn’t always be with the Doctor, and she knew that The Emperor, Clara Oswin Oswald, was once good…had once helped the Doctor. So Rose sent Clara to places in time where she could help the Doctor when Rose could no longer be with him.

Like here…

And here…

Rose sent Clara throughout Time and Space so the Doctor wouldn’t be alone.

She knew the Emperor Dalek had been Oswin Oswald, and that she had been good and had helped The Doctor, and wanted to both help The Doctor and give the girl a second chance.

• Rose isn’t Clara’s mother…but she IS responsible for her creation, which is why we are being given so many hints back to Rose.
• Facts Supporting this Theory, mostly noticed by other whovians, but that helped me developed or have since strengthened my theory…
• The Tenth Doctor told Jack Harkness that he was impossible because of what Rose did to him as the Bad Wolf. The Eleventh Doctor keeps referring to Clara Oswin Oswald as not being possible. Additionally, the TARDIS has something against both Jack and Clara (See Here).
• Presence of Roses around all three Clara Oswin Oswalds

• Date on the headstone of Clara’s mother, 5th March 2005, was the same day that Rose met the Doctor (See Here).
• Clues that the hand of Bad Wolf/Rose Tyler might have been directing things around Clara Oswald’s life, including:
• Clara’s mother saving her father from a car that looked remarkably like the one that killed Rose’s father (See Here)
• The leaf of fate being from a Norway Maple (See Here)
• The TARDIS phone number being given to Clara by a girl in a shop
• If you see any issues with this, or have any questions, throw them in my ask! But please go check the Clara Theory Asks section first to make sure it wasn’t answered already. Thanks!

"Turn Left" 4x11

Original Air Date: 21 June 2008

I almost hate this episode enough to not want to watch it again. I hate it because it is what would be without the Doctor!
Always go left....
I think they make that bug thing in like a backpack-y thing.
Did you pick up on that in "Fires of Pompeii," Lucius Petrus Dextrus said to Donna that there was something on her back?
This episode is invalid. Timelords have respatory bypass and therefore cannot drown.
The person in the stretcher wasn't DT. DT doesn't even know who it was.
Well, isn't that wizard?!
Is that like a sequel?
And Rose literally just disappears.
Its playing with Donna's hair!
It's more in a state of temporal grace than flux....
This...is to combat dehydration.
The music from this episode is particularly awesome. The released ones are: Turn Left, A Dazzling End, and The Rueful Fate of Donna Noble.
And the Doctor's all like...IZ MAH ROSE!

"Partners in Crime" 4x1

Original Air Date: 5 April 2008

Who else thought that the Doctor and Donna were already working together?
I've met cat people. You're nothing like them.
Look! That taxi has ATMOS!
I love how Donna is such a teenager even though she's like 35ish. Parents who yell at her, hard time getting a job, spunky. I think I like her the best.
Aww, the Doctor stars talking about his findings and looks up and no one is there to listen to him :(
Why'd they shoot the door? I mean I know it was locked but like, don't they have a key?
You caught that puppy!
They said the title!
I wonder what an adult Adipose looks like.
Yes, Donna. You are waiving at fat.


DOCTOR: I just want a mate.
DONNA: You just want to mate?
DOCTOR: I just want a mate!
DONNA: You're not mating with me, sunshine!
DOCTOR: A mate. I want a mate.
DONNA: Well, just as well, because I'm not having any of that nonsense. I mean, you're just a long streak of nothing. You know, alien nothing.
DOCTOR: There we are, then. Okay.

Iz Rose.

"Doomsday"

Original Air Date: 8 July 2006

Yes. We are called Daleks. Thank you, Rose Tyler. I didn't know that we were Daleks.
Random car fire!
Next time I video chat with someone, I'll be like "establishing visual link."

This is one of my favorite scenes:

DALEK 2: Identify yourselves.
CYBERMAN: You will identify first.
DALEK 2: State your identity.
CYBERMAN: You will identify first.
DALEK 2: Identify!
CYBERMAN: That answer is (??) and illogical. You will modify.
DALEK 2: Daleks do not take orders.
CYBERMAN: You have identified as Daleks.
BLACK DALEK: Outline resembles the inferior species known as Cybermen.
CYBERMAN: We followed in the wake of your sphere.
BLACK DALEK: Long range scans confirm the presence of crude cybernetic constructs on worldwide scale.
DALEK 3: We must protect the Genesis Ark.
CYBERMAN: Our species our similar, though your design is inelegant.
DALEK 2: Daleks have no concept of elegance.
CYBERMAN: This is obvious. But consider, our technologies are compatible.
CYBERMAN: Cybermen plus Daleks.
CYBERMAN: Together, we could upgrade the Universe.
DALEK 2: You propose an alliance?
CYBERMAN: This is correct.
DALEK: Request denied.
CYBERMAN Hostile elements will be deleted.
DALEK: Exterminate!
CYBERLEADER: Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen.
BLACK DALEK: This is not war. This is pest control.
CYBERLEADER: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?
BLACK DALEK: Four.
CYBERLEADER: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?
BLACK DALEK: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek.
BLACK DALEK: You are superior in only one respect.
CYBERLEADER: What is that?
BLACK DALEK: You are better at dying.

Isn't that great?

The Cyberleader's head exploded, lol.

Does Pete's World not have its own Doctor??

Mickey, you dumb tin dog, you touched the Genesis Ark.

Pete and Jackie! Such a mushy scene. 

You know, in the 50th, there better be some follow up as to the new Tyler.

Rose! Hold on! No, Doctor I'm gonna let go on purpose.
Dårlig Ulv Stranden, of course it means bad wolf bay. I wonder if it's a real place...

Even when he's crying, David Tennant is so cute!

Aaaand, Donna Noble's sassyness!

"Army of Ghosts"

Original Air Date: 1 July 2006

So, I finally am getting my brother to watch this with me.

She said the title! SHE SAID THE TITLE!
You have no idea how excited I was when she first said that she died. I really thought she did!

Awp, Jackie's crazy.

Was that Martha working at Torchwood???? Googled it...yep! And Katheine Gillian was a soothesayer in "Fires of Pompeii" #HowToBecomeACompanion (Yes, I know they validate it by saying that she's Martha's cousin.)

Ever notice the music in this one sounds like the music from Torchwood?

Jackie, why can't you just be happy for your daughter?

Ooooh the Void Stuff glasses!

He said "allons-y!" for the first time!

Now, what do you make of that? Its a giant cookie.

Oh neowww teh grosts is cybermens.
And teh sphrere haz derlerks!

"The Idiot's Lantern"

Original Air Date: 27 May 2006

This episode is, yes, very, very creepy. Obviously, it has Ten's "when in doubt, lick it" moment, but otherwise its really extremely boring, I find.

How many of you tries to wrap your hand around your elbow and make your fingers meet? I did this time but I don't recal the first time. I guess I trusted the Doctor on that one!

Rose sans visage: she's never looked better!

"The Age of Steel"

Original Air Date: 20 May 2006

Ooh. Maximum Deletion. Not just ordinary deletion.

Aw man, Rickey got deleted! Now the City of London will never paid for those parking violations.

This is the age of steel and I am its creator. Oh! OOH!, they said the title!

I'd call you a genius, except I'm in the room.

LUMIC: You are proud of your emotions.
DOCTOR: Oh, yes.
LUMIC: Then tell me, Doctor. Have you known grief, and rage, and pain?
DOCTOR: Yes. Yes I have.
LUMIC: And they hurt?
DOCTOR: Oh, yes.
LUMIC: I could set you free. Would you not want that? A life without pain?
DOCTOR: You might as well kill me.

Hear that Rose? You CANNOT switch between realities! Understand? Nope, you never will.

"Rise of the Cybermen"

Original Air Date: 13 May 2006

This person who made the Cyberman, John Lumic, he looks a lot like Davros...with his wheelchair and such.

The TARDIS crashes and little air masks come down like an airplaine...

Here's a song about the episode.

Ha. Rose is a bitch. No, really, I'm not being vulgar, she's a female dog.

This is another episode I really don't care for. I'm not sure why. I didn't like it the first time Iwatched it, and I'm not quite fond of it this time, either.

Yea, Rose, they don't have a daughter now and they're rich. You're why they cant have nice things.

Maybe all the screaming and people slicing is why I don't like it.

Awp, they just deleted the President...

...and, it's David's birthday!

"New Earth"

Again, with these revisited episode posts, I'm not doing the ones I've seen for a second time already. Live with it. When I go and watch it a third time round I'll do it.

Original Air Date: 15 April 2006

Here is a fantasticly fun song about this episode.

Oh, how I love a young David Tennant!

They're both laying on his coat! (Officailly on the list of things I'm gonna do with my 10th Doctor coat when I
get it [hopefully for my 19th, which is in a few weeks], lay on it with my sig. other!) How cute.

New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York!

How does Cassandra recognize Rose? Didn't she, like, explode?

WET DAVID TENNANT.

Okay, fine. Cassandra's her back now.

The Doctors's all like: mah Rose just kissed me!

Wake up and smell the perfume.

I'm really not quite fond of this episode. Its creepy. Like, I feel like creating this human farm is something that people could and would actually do.

Get out of mah Rose!

"Oh, my. This is different. Goodness me, I'm a man. Yum. So many parts. And hardly used. Oh, oh, two hearts! Oh, baby, I'm beating out a samba! Oo, he's slim, and a little bit foxy. You've thought so too. I've been inside your head. You've been looking. You like it!"

-Cassandra in the Doctor's Tenth Body

Isn't feminine David Tennant fabulous? Yes, yes he is.

VERY WET DAVID TENNANT. Gawh, it's like Christmas.

Dying can wait. Oh, thank you Face of Boe.

Oh, sweet lord, I'm a walking doodle.

Its such a beautiful scene when Cassandra-Chip goes to visit herself in the past.

CASSANDRA [OC]: Oh no, don't. Stop it. Simply not true. Tiny. The beaches were so dismal, and the mosquitoes were
CASS-CHIP: Thank you.
DOCTOR: Just go. And don't look back.
ROSE: Good luck.
CASSANDRA: And if you actually see them, you're shocked. But don't quote me on that. Oh, naughty. A bientôt!
CASS-CHIP: Excuse me, Lady Cassandra.
CASSANDRA: I'm sorry, I don't need anything right now. I'm fine, thank you.
CASS-CHIP: No, I just wanted to say you look beautiful.
CASSANDRA: Well, that's very kind, you strange little thing. Thank you very much.
CASS-CHIP: I mean it. You look so beautiful.
CASSANDRA: Thank you.
(Chip's body collapses. Lady Cassandra cradles him.)
CASSANDRA: Oh, my Lord. Are you all right? What is it? What's wrong? Someone get some help! Call a medic or something, quickly!
WOMAN: Who is he?
CASSANDRA: I don't know. He just came up to me. I don't even know his name. He just collapsed. I think he's dying. Someone do something! I've got you, sweetheart. It's all right. There you are. There you are, I've got you. It'll be all right. There, there, you poor little thing.

That might just be one of my favourite scenes in all of DW.

"The Parting of the Ways"

Original Air Date: 18 June 2005

Jrak brew urp teh derlek!

"I wish I never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward" -Cpt. Jack Harkness

"If I'm very clever and I'm more than clever, I'm brilliant, I might just save the world." -The Doctor

Then he goes and saves Rose. He saves his world.

This is Emergency Programme One. Rose, now listen, this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger. And I mean fatal. I'm dead or about to die any second with no chance of escape. And that's okay. Hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The TARDIS is taking you home. And I bet you're fussing and moaning now. Typical. But hold on and just listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do. Let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it. No one'll even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world'll move on and the box will be buried. And if you want to remember me, then you can do one thing. That's all, one thing. Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life.

-The Doctor

What is the bad wolf story? Is it just the thing from the three little pigs?

Bet cha wish ya had all-wheel drive now, Mickey.

Captain Jack's so cute when he's mortal.

Go, Mickey, save the world with a yellow truck...and break the TARDIS.

Congrats, Jack, you are now a fixed point in time and space! A temporal anomaly!

mah head!

mah Rose!

Kiss the girl.

and then...regenerate.

Oh, but first, abandon Jack.

Sing a song and the Daleks will go away? Yep, that's it.

BECOME DAVID TENNANT! Yes, get rid of that daft old face. And yes, you were fantastic. Now be David and make smiles come to my face. Yep, that's right: Barcelona.

"Bad Wolf"

Original Air Date: 11 June 2005

Have all of you seen the Weakest Link DW special? Its great!

I'd never British Weakest Link...and it was kind of really funny. 

Ever notice that the Doctor is the 9th person to get evicted?

"Boom Town"

I'm skipping Empty Child/Doctor Dances for now- I've already watched it a second time. Maybe I'll write about them when I watch it a third.

Original Air Date: 4 June 2005

I like how they casually blew up Downing Street...
Did you know/realize that the actress who is Margaret (Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen) plays the prostitute in "Casanova" with David Tennant?

"What are you captain of? The innuendo squad?"

It was a very icy patch!

The scene where the Slitheen shows mercy is so...cute. And the Raxacoricofallapatorians are kinda cute to begin with.
...and the bit with the teleport....

We're in Cardiff. London doesn't care. The South Wales coast could fall into the sea and they wouldn't notice. Oh. I sound like a Welshman. God help me, I've gone native.

Pan-dimensional surfboards! Yay!

"Don't worship me- I'd make a very bad god." -The Doctor

They mentioned pizza. Now I want pizza.

Ok, so the Doctor and Blon's little last meal, last wish, date thing, they're talking about icky death penalty processes and her only being a killer because that's what she was taught, and the other people in the restaurant are just, like, chill?

She's an egg!

"Father's Day"

Original Air Date: 14 May 2005

Rose's dad is a ginger!

Rose, there's a man alive in the world who wasn't alive before. An ordinary man. That's the most important thing in creation. The whole world's different because he's alive.

 -The Doctor

Oh crap, the TARDIS is just a box!

"The Long Game"

Original Air Date: 7 May 2005

The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is, planet Earth at it's height. Covered with mega-cities, five moons, population ninety six billion. The hub of a galactic domain stretching across a million planets, a million species, with mankind right in the middle. Come on, Adam. Open your mind. You're going to like this. Fantastic period of history. The human race at its most intelligent. Culture, art, politics. This era has got fine food, good manners. The thing is, Adam, time travel's like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guide book, you've got to throw yourself in. Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers. 

-The Doctor

Wait. Guys. Face of Boe is pregnant. What is this, whaaaa?

Is there a ground floor on Satellite 5? Or do they just start on first floor?

Ooh, the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe! It kind of looks like the Prisoner Zero thing.
It...exploded. Nasty.

"Dalek"

Original Air Date: 30 April 2005

It is about 10 minutes in that, if you listen close enough, you see how much self-loating the Doctor has for himself at this point.

DALEK: I am alone in the universe.
DOCTOR: Yep.
DALEK: So are you. We are the same.
DOCTOR: We're not the same! I'm not (pause) No, wait. Maybe we are. You're right. Yeah, okay. You've got a point. 'Cause I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what you deserve. Exterminate.

The Dalek say that it and the Doctor are the same. At first, the Doctor denies it, then realizes that he can channel the hate of himself into the destruction of what he believes to be the last Dalek. He agrees that they are the same: they both deserve death because of what they have done.

Then, moments later Goddard and van Statten ask about the Last Great Time War and asks to clarify if the Doctor is the last of his kind. He said he survived, but not by choice. He says that he would have rather died than survived.

No! Rose don't touch it! Aww, Rose....

What are you gonna do? Sucker me to death? Yep. That's exactly it!

Ohh crap, it's a flyin' dalek.

Back to the Doctor's survivor's guilt we go.

DALEK: Then I shall follow the Primary Order, the Dalek instinct to destroy, to conquer.
DOCTOR: What for? What's the point? Don't you see it's all gone? Everything you were, everything you stood for.
DALEK: Then what should I do?
DOCTOR: All right, then. If you want orders, follow this one. Kill yourself.

Suicide. That is his advice to the Dalek. That since it has destroyed so much, since everything it was and everything it stood for is gone, that because it is all gone, it should kill itself. The Doctor, though, has Rose. Rose and all of humanity is the one thing the Doctor has left at this point.

Don't you just love it when Daleks have existential crises?

I love the song they play at the end. I know it's somewhere on my DW Spotify playlist but I cant find it...

Doctor...what are you doing standing inside a box?

"World War Three"

Original Air Date 23 April 2005

Ever notice that the Slitheen have little tails?
Raxacoricofallapatorius! Yay!

The telephone is actually red! And there's skittles next to the phone.

ROSE: If we could just get out of here.
DOCTOR: There's a way out.
ROSE: What?
DOCTOR: There's always been a way out.
ROSE: Then why don't we use it?
DOCTOR: Because I can't guarantee your daughter will be safe.
JACKIE: Don't you dare. Whatever it is, don't you dare.
DOCTOR: That's the thing. If I don't dare, everyone dies.
ROSE: Do it.
DOCTOR: You don't even know what it is. You'd just let me?
ROSE: Yeah.
JACKIE: Please, Doctor. Please. She's my daughter. She's just a kid.
DOCTOR: Do you think I don't know that? Because this is my life, Jackie. It's not fun, it's not smart, it's just standing up and making a decision because nobody else will.
ROSE: Then what're you waiting for?
DOCTOR: I could save the world but lose you.
HARRIET: Except it's not your decision, Doctor. It's mine.
JACKIE: And who the hell are you?
HARRIET: Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. The only elected representative in this room, chosen by the people for the people. And on behalf of the people, I command you. Do it.

"Aliens of London"

Original Air Date: 16 April 2005 (Eight years ago today!) (Well, I finished the episode on the 17th...)

Dear Doctor, how do you mess us twelve hours for twelve months? And, why not take her back to when you actually meant?
You gotta love the kid who spraypaints "Bad Wolf" on the TARDIS
And would you look at that--UNIT's back, and Tosh (Torchwood) is the one who analysed the body found in the spaceship! (Hmm, and right after we had Eve Myles [Gwen on Torchwood] as Gwenyth? That, I'd say is one of the few coincidences in all of the Whoniverse)

HARRIET: Excuse me! Harriet Jones. MP for Flydale North.
GANESH: I'm sorry, can it wait?
HARRIET: But I did have an appointment at 3:15.
GANESH: Yes, and a spaceship crashed in the middle of London. I think the schedule might have changed.

I just love Harriet Jones. She just might be one of the funniest DW characters. Even the Daleks knew who she was! But I'm sure she's having a great time with Downton Abbey (which I've started watching after I ran out of DW episodes, and I really like it). One say, I'll introduce myself, and they'll say "yes, I know who you are."

Awe, how cute, he gave her a key to the TARDIS! And then Mickey runs into a wall.

Why does the UNIT guy suddenly have a zipper when none of the others do?

*I appoligize for the original error in the title of the post