Wrong. It did have access to weapons. Did you forget about all of the people that it killed, or the fact that it used its gun on the stairwell to kill that one guard? Yeah, that totally makes the Dalek incapable of using its weapons. It was no longer broken the second that it downloaded the entire internet. It was totally able to fix itself, therefore making it no longer broken. Look it up. The clips are on TH-cam, you nonentity.
Wrong - he's the fourth case - the first was when the Daleks tried to introduce the Dalek factor and ended up receiving the human factor. The second was when Davros used human heads to create a new race. The third was during the Time War when the Daleks used captive humans as cannon fodder, sticking them into shells and mutating them. This is the fourth case. The fifth case was Dalek Sec.
You'd think when a Dalek has to self-destruct, it would want to take out as much of the surrounding area as possible. But this one blows itself up inside a force field. That's rather polite, actually.
This is, without a doubt, one of the greatest episodes of the show. It shows the Dalek as this truly terrifying, unstoppable force that cannot be beaten or reasoned with, much different from the non-threatening caricatures they've become in later seasons. And then it takes this insane killing machine, and makes it relatable and vulnerable. The Dalek's death is still one of the most emotional moments in all of Doctor Who.
Metaltron's disgust at its change is an opposite to the Doctor. The Doctor changes into a new man through regeneration, it's natural and he accepts it. Metaltron changes into something new through a sort of regeneration, and can't live with it
@@tustinrocknrollfan4798 Thankfully, it appears they're fixing the damage which occurred in the Moffat era and making the Daleks badass again, if the performance of that lone Dalek in the New Year's special is any indication :)
Aidan Keogh It was empty inside. There was nothing in it but a void. And it didn’t even have its own kind to share in the misery. It was alone. Utterly and completely alone. And it never understood why. It never understood that what it was caused the extinction of its species. At least not until the end. It was the knowledge of its true nature that made it want to die. It was filled with hate, anger, despair and the hunger for power. There was nothing inside it but darkness and evil. Anything The Doctor could use to hurt it pales in comparison to the pain of realizing what it was, and what that meant. In the end, the poor thing was unable to cope with the reality of its existence. So, it chose to die rather than live with the knowledge of what it represented. It was a damned soul, something bereft of everything good in the universe. I think in the end, it realized that. I think this Dalek’s choice of suicide was an act of repentance. I also think it was an act of self-mercy. It wanted to die because it couldn’t accept what it was, and because it knew that by dying, for the first and only time it could do something right. I feel sorry for it too. It must’ve realized that it was an abomination. There’s no worse feeling than the realization that you are a monster. That poor, poor machine. It was created with an abandoned heart.
Scotty Bee You don’t really understand how an advanced civilization would view us, do you? The closest planet outside our solar system is Proxima Centauri. With our technology, it would take 54, 400 years to get there. That’s more years than we have recorded history. Don’t you get it? A race that could travel here with ease would be so far advanced that we would be less than insects to them. Aliens don’t need to destroy us. We were never a potential threat to them. We’ll destroy ourselves before they ever feel even the slightest bit of mild apprehension at our existence. You should count yourself lucky that no alien civilization has contacted us. If they did, there would be no stopping them. This isn’t a movie. Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum don’t save the day. They don’t come here to offer us friendship. They don’t seek domination like The Borg. Aliens would come here for one reason and one reason only: to eliminate a potential threat. They’d have no other reason to come here because if they could and they wanted to, they would be here. We are beneath their notice. If you’re going to try and fight the aliens, go ahead. Let me know how that works out for you. I, on the other hand will be bowing to my new galactic overlords because I have enough brains in my head to know when I can’t win. But all is this is academic until aliens show up on our doorsteps. And I for one, pray to all the gods I don’t believe in that such a day never comes. So should you.
*"I can feel... So many ideas... SO MUCH DARKNESS."* That was the moment the last Dalek realized just how much death and destruction he and his species was responsible for. It wasn't just about being the same as Rose, but he just didn't want to live with himself after all the terrible things he's done. *"This is not life! This is sickness!"*
Not to mention that horrific reality that is the Daleks, they're mutated beings who are insanely reliant on their war machines to survive. I doubt it feels particularly nice to realize how bad off their race really is after spending so long thinking they're the ideal life form. 💀
I think also the fact that he was just a mass of dying flesh inside a machine. I'm pretty most of the Kaleds would want to self terminate if they'd retained all their emotions in that state.
To be honest, I didn't think the Dalek Exterminated itself because it was now impure. I thought it did it because it now realised how terrible it's life and conditions were, and decided to die so it wouldn't have to live like that.
it's kinda poetic since they are made to destroy and conquer and a delek is the reason the dalek became extinct. i can feel so many ideas , so much darkness ( i think it saw how humans are just as capable of destruction as a dalek as it became smarter through mutation ) it cannot do anything without orders getting the genetic code from rose i think made rose tyler somehow the commanding officer of the dalek
I thought it was because it couldn't live with all of the sins it committed. This is a Dalek we're talking about. From birth this thing has done nothing but cause pain, agony, and destruction. So what happens when you give that thing complex feelings? You give it empathy, and therefore the ability to fathom the immeasurable suffering it caused. So personally I think it was just guilt that drove him to exterminate himself.
Not only that, but the Daleks are in a constant state of pain due to Davros' experiments. They're made to think that that pain is caused by everything else in the universe. Maybe Rose somehow broke that conditioning
@@Myne1001 Same, maybe with time travel being a plot point you could have Daleks from the past being a issue, be nice to have the sliver and grey ones back.
@@alexanderasher8037 Apparently the work environment was incredibly toxic back then, and it's why Christopher Eccleston only stayed for one season and has never returned to the show
The only Dalek that ever felt guilt. Think about that. Daleks are designed not to feel anything but extreme hatred. Anything that is not a Dalek is to them little more than an obstacle. This Dalek, in becoming human, learns to feel guilt and fear. It realises the atrocities it has committed, and all it wants to do is die. I saw this episode for the first time when I was ten years old. I'm 22 now and this episode gets more and more interesting the older I get. I really must properly rewatch the series sometime.
Dalek Caan also felt guilt, which was why he helped destroy the new dalek empire, he saw all of time and saw the atrocities the daleks had committed against countless species and declared that he would stop it from ever happening again by destroying Davros and the New Daleks.
Imagine if you suddenly gained empathy towards the ants you stepped on, the bugs you sprayed for being pests. Empathy the same level as one human feels for another. You'd be suicidal too
Dalek Sec as well. Ever since he evolved into human hybrid and gained emotions, he became a good guy, even siding with the Doctor so he could change everything that makes them Daleks. Unfortunately, he was overthrown and killed.
You should listen to Jubilee, they are written by the same writer and he used it as the basis for this episode but it is just as brutal to hear as this Dalek's realization and suicidal pleas.
I know! There's a brilliant shot in this episode, where after the classic "You would make a good dalek line" it cuts to the doctor's face, with complete silence and a totally black background.
This right here is proof of something magnificent: the Daleks true weakness is their fear of what we call humanity. They were not strong enough to handle the beauty and pain of life and the complex emotions and experiences that accompany it. Therefore, it is important to remember that experiencing life and humanity, embracing love and empathy, suffering through the pain and surviving, and never thinking that these precious attributes are a weakness. If you can live with them and embrace them, then you are truly strong!
This Dalek was the first to realize it. As Dalek Sec was the first of the Daleks to embrace this when he became the first Human-Dalek Hybrid. Would love to see another story like this for the Daleks one day. One where maybe one group of Daleks managed to accidentally succeeded where the Cult of Skaro failed back in the Daleks in Manhattans 2-parter stories.
Something tells me if this Dalek had lived and learned to accept it's mutation it might have become a character that is basically the antithesis of what the Dalek species is supposed to be. It would have been interesting, but somewhat tragic.
404 Error not possible. Daleks were once human like but Davros did all in his power to remove all human decency and feelings from them. The dalek was not able to cope with having his long dormant humanity, as it were, suddenly thrust upon him. Change was being forced upon him, but as a dalek he literally couldn't change. He's become philosophically compromised right down to the very core.
@@Matheus21video The originals were Keleds but because they reproduce by transforming other into Daleks they sometimes use humans. Ironic that a race that talks about being pure was never pure to begin with.
The True Dalek Origin. There was a shipment of canned calamari that they mistakenly put between the bathroom isle and the kitchen isle and then... Oh hey I just remembered I am a loser who still has not caught up with the first generation of online 2D gaming .
These kinda scene always get me. Like if Joker gained his sanity back and looked at all the pain and misery he caused. Or when captain Picard gained his identity back. So much sorrow and soul crushing pain. How can anyone bare such agony without losing themselves?
Christopher Hager ongoing series - The White Knight. Batman forcefeeds Joker a lot of psychiatric medication... and it works. Joker regains his sanity, by the medication is killing him.
@@Arman-tq4jq Thats only because Martian Manhunter could only do it for so long. And then recently because he ran out of meds. Depends on the story. He has no real control over his illness. Same with Batman Who Laughs.
I this moment I see Rose as one of the ultimate Companions. She can show mercy to a Darlek and is willing to tell the Doctor no and that he is in the wrong. "He's not the one pointing the gun at me."
This is probably one of the saddest moments in all of Doctor Who. Think about it. A creature that only has the capability to obey, kill, and hate. But at its end, it was cursed with emotions. With kindness. With empathy. With fear. For a creature like that, it's only torture of the worst kind. It's very existence causes it to hate itself in every way possible. But in the end, it was allowed to follow both parts of itself. It was allowed to exterminate something defective, and allowed to die to stop feeling so much pain for what it caused. That's why it sounds so relieved to tell Rose that it's scared. It's scared, but it's simply relieved.
Fun fact: the bbc wanted the Dalek to call Rose his friend. But Sherman was adamant that this didn't happen. This Dalek wouldn't do that, not even feeling emotions would change it. It still hated everything and everyone , it was disgusted in what it became.
I think there is something to be taken from the simple fact of the Dalek race. That the worst, most horrible hate-filled creatures in the universe are, below their terrifying shells, rather helpless, disgusting, and pathetic creatures. They are this way because someone made them this way and because they do not wish to change. And ultimately, they will never be happy because they can never appreciate the simple joys that make existence bearable and worth living. Things as simple as feeling the sun on your skin. (Note: I'm not an expert at Doctor Who, so if I've got a fact wrong or something, please forgive me).
Hatred is not strength. Hatred is sickness and poison, a crutch. Yet some people drink freely of its toxicity. The Daleks were made into monsters and they went on to make monsters. Did they know better? Probably not. They are like children raised to cruelty. But children grow up. And when they do, they are exposed to all the things they were taught to hate. And they have a choice to make: keep hating or learn and grow beyond their blind hate. This Dalek is one of a very small handful (Dalek Sec, Dalek Khan (?), Oswin the Dalek, and Rusty being the only others I can think of offhand) to ever look beyond hatred. I also think this is the one that came closest to being something other than a Dalek (other than Oswin). Khan and Rusty sought the destruction of their kind. Oswin was a Dalek in form rather than in truth. And Sec may have been a visionary but he wasn't all that human. But this Dalek, the very first Dalek we ever see, was the closest to growing beyond being a Dalek, the first to exhibit something genuinely human. And I can't describe it because I don't even know if this emotion has a name. But it's that moment of just stopping and letting go. Letting go of pain, of fear, of hatred, and just taking in the moment.
I love the theory but you've looked too much into it. The real reason is less human. They are a species of purity in all shapes and forms. The fact emotions have been introduced go contrary to every Dalek directive which is why its in so much distress and ultimately commits suicide.
@@ndubssneakz They became good involuntarily even by voluntarily doing something that lead them that far. No dalek will ever choose nor be able to choose embracing humanity. They will only embrace humanity when it's Done unknowingly. Not even Dalek Sec knew that he would agree with Doctor until his transformation. That's depressing really. They are in definition literally innocent by standards of psychology and yet just immoral in the eyes of majority.. It's contradicting..
Isn't it funny how in series one, both times the daleks appear, they end up as half human? I find that kind of interesting. This dalek has Rose's DNA inside of it, therefore half human, and the daleks from the finale (excluding the emperor) were made from the dead bodies of humans.
See I thought the Daleks came from a Humanoid race (The Kaleds) thus wouldn't really have been impure in the final of season 1 this one became impure because it had emotions
Definitely a missed opportunity to say the least. It would've been an amazing way to send off an era of the show long since gone by (The Classic Series) as well as showcase the subtext of this episode being how Doctor Who (The New Series) was going to fit into the Modern Age of television. Granted the BBC would obviously never do that considering the Dalek iconography but story wise to see the last remnants of the Classic Series die with dignity would have made for some really powerful stuff.
This originally was supposed to be the last time they appeared. BBC don't own the rights to the Daleks, the estate of Terry Nation (the creator behind them) does. So whenever they keep bringing them back they have to pay royalties, this episode was supposed to be a one off cameo / tribute to fans of the old series.
A dalek is trapped in more than just its casing, it’s trapped in its worldview. They are trapped in the illusion that they are superior to all other lifeforms. This dalek saw outside the cage , and while for the most part it was disgusted by what it saw, a smaller part was looking out of the cage longingly. It’s last words were “exterminate” but I like to think the last thing going through its mind was “I wish I could be like you”.
Everyone gets all emotional at this scene, but it's important to remember that the Daleks value purity above all else, even their own survival. The human equivalent to this scene would be a Nazi committing suicide after having his life saved by a blood transfusion from a Jew.
People get upset over this scene not because they have forgotten what horrible creatures Daleks are but because of how conflicting the situation is. Daleks are evil, no one is arguing that. But seeing someone so tortured, so vulnerable over something that should be better for it leaves people with many conflicting emotions.
It's worse than that. It's not that the Dalek wanted to die for being "impure". The mutation awakened his mind to the horror that is his existence. The "sickness" isn't his changing, it's what he is and always has been. Imagine that you're a Hitler Youth super soldier for eons, and then you're given DNA that extends your perceptions of reality beyond what you were programmed to. The moment he achieve self-awareness, he also realized his own existence is an unbearable abomination, and that he couldn't live with he had been doing his whole life. He who increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.
Mister Bubbles It doesn't have anything to do with that. The Daleks had no emotions since they were created except one: hatred (i think you write it that way). If a creature of any kind had no emotions and then in a split second start to feel everything, ideas start to flow through it's mind and starts to see the world in a different way, it wouldn't handle it. The brain and soul of the Daleks are not prepared or geneticly programmed feel the things that humans do. "I can't handle so many ideas."
Some Geezer i think they meant the real world equivalent mate, i always thought as someone already pointed out that in the end having its emotional range extended to more than just extraordinary malice made it see itself and its race in a way that disgusted itself to the point of becoming suicidal. When it says to Rose "i'll not be like you" i thought it was more saying that to try and goad her into ordering its death
The one thing you can say in the Dalek's favor is that they didn't choose to be xenophobic, they were made that way. In a strange way the Nazis, despite being far less destructive, are still more evil. After all, they had the choice to be what they are, the Daleks didn't
A Dalek lives for nothing but killing and conquering, his brain and mind literally are forced not to intervene with his being. He has a purpose and he will pursue it, without questioning himself. The only concept he has is the one of empire, he doesn’t sees himself as an individual. Rose gives him the one thing that Daleks always keeps away from their self: self-consciousness. He finally starts to see himself for what he truly is. When the dalek says: “this is not life, is sickness” it refers to the existence he has lived until that moment. It’s so. Fucking. Sad.
It’s just strangely eerie that the Dalek used to be an almost human race (the Kaled) and have twisted themselves to make themselves extremely alien and disturbing.
When I first watched this episode way back in 2005, I was almost in tears, because I didn’t know there were more Dalek survivors at the time (I should’ve known better lol) but I was sad because I thought it actually was the last Dalek in the universe. I thought we were watching the show’s most iconic monsters come to an end, the end of an era. They were extinct. Of course, I felt stupid when they revealed them to be alive lol.
I think it would have been better had this really been the last Dalek. And the "daleks" that came after it where some new creation mimicking them. Would be a cool series of the Doctor trying to figure out A. where did these new daleks come from. And B. Who made them (not Davros, that'd be boring tho.)
The S1 finale hits harder for people completely new to Doctor Who. You have this episode making out the Dalek to be such a horrible and deadly creature, and then later you get to see a whole army of them and feel the dread set in. That's what I felt when i first watched dr who
Time lords legends thought half timelord half dalek but they thought that because these two races were the most deadly war civilizations. But was hybrid doctor or Ashlidr?
I wonder what the Dalek meant when it said "This is not life, this is sickness." Was it referring to what it had become after absorbing Rose's DNA, or being a Dalek in general, only coming to that revelation once it felt humanity. Daleks obsess over purity more than anything, and thus to be "contaminated" with humanity, it saw itself as sick. Or was it that humanity made it realise that a life of hatred, of orders, of destruction is not living at all?
The concept of a dalek becoming self aware of his own hatred is quite destructive for a dalek, like dalek caan and rusty, in the end a dalek and a cybermen are not all that different.
I think this is one of the most underrated episodes in the show's history since it was brought back to the TV. Dalek is, in my opinion, once of the show's best episodes. There are some cheesy moments and unneeded moments but the plain destruction this one Dalek causes, the emotional turmoil of the Doctor and, weirdly, the Dalek itself, makes for an amazingly in-depth episode.
This scene made me cry like a baby when I first saw it and it makes me cry now. This really gave another side to the Daleks that wasn't seen before and made the Doctor realize that he would be no better than the Daleks who killed his kind if he had killed it.
@@darlig.ulv.bakhjernedon't think it can be understated how much the individual writers made some episodes so much better then others, take the impossible planet two parter excellently written by one writer followed up by love and monsters/fear her written by someone else, the contrast in quality is staggering haha
@@sevenv2154 And most of the best episodes in the RTD era were written by Steven Moffat, something most people dismiss when praising RTD. In fact most of the best episodes were not written by RTD.
I love this episode because it not only makes the Dalek a terrifying, skilled killing machine, but it also makes you feel empathy and compassion for it, from birth it’s trapped in a cold machine. Never feeling love, or warmth, or any positive emotions. Fuck
One of the few times where you genuinely felt sorry for a Dalek….even knowing what him and his entire race have done. That Dalek was having a major conflict inside becoming something more than hate and killing….this episode we see the Doctor is more like the Daleks than even the Daleks themselves at times….
Its strange but when the dalek is begging Rose for an order, it uses what I can only guess to be its real voice. It's Kaled voice, before it became the monster in the shell. In that last moment, it became what it once was again, as if it was begging Rose to let it die a Kaled, not a Dalek.
The music in this scene is beautiful, I was watching The Impossible Planet from Series 2 tonight and it had this same soundtrack in it, and it instantly made me think of this scene.
Yes this whole suite is fantastic and works so well in Impossible Planet too which has a good continuous 25mins of great music. This music is called The Lone Dalek and it's on the Series 1+2 soundtrack CD which is still my favourite one.
When a creature who has never once experienced shame, guilt, horror, and disgust mutates and acquires it can finally be made aware of all it has done. Thus, it could never have lived with itself.
i think the new who dalek mutants are better because they now include an eye and the remains of a mouth along with other features which serve as a grim reminder that they were once humanoids walking around like we are
Actually, as an alternative view, I greatly prefer this one, because it is so decrepit and inhumane. I imagine, by looking into this dalek's actual eye, that it can't see very well and it's gurgling croaky voice implies it is sickly. I believe it makes the dalek seem more sympathetic, because they are beyond the point of any animal or evolutionarily capable species without the aid of their "cold metal cages."
They come across as sick because they are devoid of any feeling in this mutants case feelings nade it physicaly sick and it was repulsed. Just think long ago it was probably a mother or father walking around just like me and you
Really does go well to showcase how the Kaled's had decayed given the War on Skaro leaving them so disfigured and disgusting. Feeble yet filled with an indignant hatred of all life that does not suffer equally to them.
This episode did what none other ever dared to. It humanised a Dalek. Gave it emotions, fear, sadness and ultimately... it was depressed. Impurity to Daleks isn't life. That's why it couldn't live.
Well, it also showed why Daleks can't feel any other emotion. Here the Dalek became self-aware of what it was made for. Thats where the line "So many ideas" is contrasted with "So much darkness". It was able to feel the light of humanity... only to realize how horrid of an existence it has had. That it killed so many people and was a blight on life itself. That amount of guilt would cripple anyone. Just like it did to the MetalTron. Ironically, Daleks are weaker in that aspect. They can't live with themselves if they truly were able to comprehend what they did.
The doctor pointing the gun at the Dalek as the Dalek itself stares into the light. Makes what the Dalek said earlier more impactful. “You would make a good Dalek”
I know Daleks are evil, but this one changed. It’s sad. I call it the depressed dalek for many reasons. “So... many... ideas... So... much... darkness...” “This is not life, this is sickness...” “Are you frightened Rose Tyler?” “ *Yeah...* ” “So... am... I...”
Very well done where the Dalek demands/orders Rose to order it's own destruction, and yet despite the seeming authoritative nature of the statement, you can tell it's begging her.
A Dalek, feeling all these new emotions through a Human's DNA, could not handle the guilt and supposed "impurities" it was taught to hate, and thus decides to end it's life But before that, he decides to cling to one more, familiar thought, one that brought fear to others, but duty, and now comfort, to him "Exterminate" 3:26
Poor Dalek found out what it is like to have a conscience, it couldn't handle it. They are lost with emotions and without them. Golden Age of doctor who!
not just in this story, but whenever a Dalek starts to change it wants to destroy itself. They are so convinced of Dalek purity that the'd gladly kill themselves at the first sign of "impurity", so I don't think a Dalek would ever be able to fully change
takeshi hiraoka To be honest I think it's happened a bit too much by this point. I mean in the classic series it only ever really happened once with evil of the daleks which made it pretty special. However in newer who there's this, evolution of the daleks and inside the dalek, so I think it needs a break
I totally agree. I guess ever since they first appeared the writers and producers have tried to make them more and more evil. If I had the chance I would try to make the DALEKS not so much as human, but sort of a mix. Thereby making the different views on life and existence all the more poignant and taut.
I think this episode came the closest to realising that concept Into The Dalek tried to do something with it as well, though it essentially backfired in the 12th Doctor's face.
It's rare for the Doctor to get a companion like Rose. She actually saw the Dalek, an organism built for killing, not as a danger or a monster, but a someone else. Someone she felt pain and sorrow for. The empathy she displays to the Dalek and it back to her is beautifully heartbreaking.
Note that offset of the dalek's single eye is a mouth and second eye fused shut, a nod to when they were once humanoid but have been so dreadfully disfigured that only remnants of their old selves remain.
the writer of this episode, Rob Shearman, added a flashback in the novelisation describing the birth of the Dalek, and it was born with two eyes, but one was ripped out with a spike because the Daleks decided it didn't serve a purpose
This was when Doctor who's writing was good, a dalek that wants to die because it can't accept not thinking and feeling like a dalek. I love how they really make you feel sorry for the dalek because it has to think like a monster with no mercy
The Doctor understands the Dalek’s better than anyone else. He actually apologises to the Dalek for it becoming more, for gaining empathy, because he knows that goes against everything the Daleks are.
All come to mind I saw this episode 13 years ago as a 6-year-old kid. Was absolutely terrified by the Daleks and now still am. But watching the ending is truly heartbreaking.
Everyone remembers River the one who made a Dalek beg for mercy but no one mentions Rose, the one who made a Dalek feel mercy
JorgeLuisOlmos NARUGEORGE I don't remember anything about River other than she was obnoxious.
Wow, spoilers much?
Saedin are you kidding? The episode in question was nearly a decade ago
Correction, she made a “broken” Dalek with no access to weapons beg for mercy which is not hard to do at all.
Wrong. It did have access to weapons. Did you forget about all of the people that it killed, or the fact that it used its gun on the stairwell to kill that one guard? Yeah, that totally makes the Dalek incapable of using its weapons. It was no longer broken the second that it downloaded the entire internet. It was totally able to fix itself, therefore making it no longer broken. Look it up. The clips are on TH-cam, you nonentity.
'This is not life, this is sickness.' - oh dear, I appear to have something in my eye.
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No. He's the second (wibbly wobbly timey whimey... sttuff) case of a darlek-human hybrid.
***** No this is just de dalek like usealy but he fall trough time and escape the time war
Wrong - he's the fourth case - the first was when the Daleks tried to introduce the Dalek factor and ended up receiving the human factor. The second was when Davros used human heads to create a new race. The third was during the Time War when the Daleks used captive humans as cannon fodder, sticking them into shells and mutating them.
This is the fourth case. The fifth case was Dalek Sec.
Robert Feld Thank you so much for the Evil of the Daleks reference.
You'd think when a Dalek has to self-destruct, it would want to take out as much of the surrounding area as possible. But this one blows itself up inside a force field. That's rather polite, actually.
Maybe both are options, and Metaltron did it this way on purpose?
A dalek does self destruct in Asylum of the Daleks so yah probs both options are available
Is that what happens? I didn't understand what happened
This is, without a doubt, one of the greatest episodes of the show. It shows the Dalek as this truly terrifying, unstoppable force that cannot be beaten or reasoned with, much different from the non-threatening caricatures they've become in later seasons. And then it takes this insane killing machine, and makes it relatable and vulnerable. The Dalek's death is still one of the most emotional moments in all of Doctor Who.
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Metaltron's disgust at its change is an opposite to the Doctor. The Doctor changes into a new man through regeneration, it's natural and he accepts it. Metaltron changes into something new through a sort of regeneration, and can't live with it
Agreed. Moffat made the Daleks like a toys, unlike RTD era where they are a major threat in every season.
@@tustinrocknrollfan4798 Thankfully, it appears they're fixing the damage which occurred in the Moffat era and making the Daleks badass again, if the performance of that lone Dalek in the New Year's special is any indication :)
"Are you frightened, Rose Tyler?"
"... Yeah."
"So am I."
*I feel so sorry for this thing somehow.*
@Scotty Bee Sometimes there's a difference between the kind thing and the right thing. If I have to choose, I'll pick the former every time.
Aidan Keogh It was empty inside. There was nothing in it but a void. And it didn’t even have its own kind to share in the misery. It was alone. Utterly and completely alone. And it never understood why. It never understood that what it was caused the extinction of its species. At least not until the end. It was the knowledge of its true nature that made it want to die. It was filled with hate, anger, despair and the hunger for power. There was nothing inside it but darkness and evil.
Anything The Doctor could use to hurt it pales in comparison to the pain of realizing what it was, and what that meant. In the end, the poor thing was unable to cope with the reality of its existence. So, it chose to die rather than live with the knowledge of what it represented. It was a damned soul, something bereft of everything good in the universe.
I think in the end, it realized that. I think this Dalek’s choice of suicide was an act of repentance. I also think it was an act of self-mercy. It wanted to die because it couldn’t accept what it was, and because it knew that by dying, for the first and only time it could do something right.
I feel sorry for it too. It must’ve realized that it was an abomination. There’s no worse feeling than the realization that you are a monster. That poor, poor machine. It was created with an abandoned heart.
Scotty Bee You don’t really understand how an advanced civilization would view us, do you? The closest planet outside our solar system is Proxima Centauri. With our technology, it would take 54, 400 years to get there. That’s more years than we have recorded history.
Don’t you get it? A race that could travel here with ease would be so far advanced that we would be less than insects to them. Aliens don’t need to destroy us. We were never a potential threat to them. We’ll destroy ourselves before they ever feel even the slightest bit of mild apprehension at our existence.
You should count yourself lucky that no alien civilization has contacted us. If they did, there would be no stopping them. This isn’t a movie. Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum don’t save the day. They don’t come here to offer us friendship. They don’t seek domination like The Borg. Aliens would come here for one reason and one reason only: to eliminate a potential threat. They’d have no other reason to come here because if they could and they wanted to, they would be here. We are beneath their notice.
If you’re going to try and fight the aliens, go ahead. Let me know how that works out for you. I, on the other hand will be bowing to my new galactic overlords because I have enough brains in my head to know when I can’t win. But all is this is academic until aliens show up on our doorsteps. And I for one, pray to all the gods I don’t believe in that such a day never comes. So should you.
Scotty Bee So do I, dude. So do I.
Aidan Keogh his entire species died. Everything he cared for was gone.
*"I can feel... So many ideas... SO MUCH DARKNESS."* That was the moment the last Dalek realized just how much death and destruction he and his species was responsible for. It wasn't just about being the same as Rose, but he just didn't want to live with himself after all the terrible things he's done. *"This is not life! This is sickness!"*
Not to mention that horrific reality that is the Daleks, they're mutated beings who are insanely reliant on their war machines to survive.
I doubt it feels particularly nice to realize how bad off their race really is after spending so long thinking they're the ideal life form. 💀
I think also the fact that he was just a mass of dying flesh inside a machine. I'm pretty most of the Kaleds would want to self terminate if they'd retained all their emotions in that state.
To be honest, I didn't think the Dalek Exterminated itself because it was now impure. I thought it did it because it now realised how terrible it's life and conditions were, and decided to die so it wouldn't have to live like that.
it's kinda poetic since they are made to destroy and conquer and a delek is the reason the dalek became extinct.
i can feel so many ideas , so much darkness ( i think it saw how humans are just as capable of destruction as a dalek as it became smarter through mutation )
it cannot do anything without orders getting the genetic code from rose i think made rose tyler somehow the commanding officer of the dalek
I thought it was because it couldn't live with all of the sins it committed. This is a Dalek we're talking about. From birth this thing has done nothing but cause pain, agony, and destruction. So what happens when you give that thing complex feelings? You give it empathy, and therefore the ability to fathom the immeasurable suffering it caused.
So personally I think it was just guilt that drove him to exterminate himself.
Not only that, but the Daleks are in a constant state of pain due to Davros' experiments. They're made to think that that pain is caused by everything else in the universe. Maybe Rose somehow broke that conditioning
It’s like in MGS4 when the soldiers get their Nanomachines deactivated and are forced to face the reality of their actions
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What's that short for?
Considering the show's immense history, this was a ballsy move from a reboot. Love it
Imagine if this really was the last Dalek in the universe and we never saw them again (outside of flashbacks). I actually wouldn't be that mad.
@@Myne1001 Same, maybe with time travel being a plot point you could have Daleks from the past being a issue, be nice to have the sliver and grey ones back.
The ninth doctor is by far one of the best portrayal of PTSD yet
He's the freshest from the time war so it makes sense. Honestly really sad they didn't bring him back for day of the doctor.
@@alexanderasher8037 They wanted to, but because of his bad experience during Series 1 he didn't return...which is a shame, but it's completely fair
@@pikachucetthesecond4296 I'm not familiar with it. What was the bad experience? Or was it just that he didn't enjoy the role
@@alexanderasher8037 Apparently the work environment was incredibly toxic back then, and it's why Christopher Eccleston only stayed for one season and has never returned to the show
I thought exactly this when I saw the clip.
The only Dalek that ever felt guilt. Think about that. Daleks are designed not to feel anything but extreme hatred. Anything that is not a Dalek is to them little more than an obstacle. This Dalek, in becoming human, learns to feel guilt and fear. It realises the atrocities it has committed, and all it wants to do is die.
I saw this episode for the first time when I was ten years old. I'm 22 now and this episode gets more and more interesting the older I get. I really must properly rewatch the series sometime.
Dalek Caan also felt guilt, which was why he helped destroy the new dalek empire, he saw all of time and saw the atrocities the daleks had committed against countless species and declared that he would stop it from ever happening again by destroying Davros and the New Daleks.
hotelmario510 most likely it’s Cortex vault is probably malfunctioned
Imagine if you suddenly gained empathy towards the ants you stepped on, the bugs you sprayed for being pests. Empathy the same level as one human feels for another. You'd be suicidal too
Dalek Sec as well. Ever since he evolved into human hybrid and gained emotions, he became a good guy, even siding with the Doctor so he could change everything that makes them Daleks. Unfortunately, he was overthrown and killed.
You should listen to Jubilee, they are written by the same writer and he used it as the basis for this episode but it is just as brutal to hear as this Dalek's realization and suicidal pleas.
when you love a character thats supposed to be despicable
Same
The music stopping when The Doctor says "Get out of the way", is just another reason why I love this episode. And Series 1 for that matter.
Death By Exile no I love that dalek.
I know! There's a brilliant shot in this episode, where after the classic "You would make a good dalek line" it cuts to the doctor's face, with complete silence and a totally black background.
I never thought I'd say this but, Poor Dalek...
You can FEEL just how miserable this Dalek was. It just oozed with agony
I always think that, when I see a destroyed Dalek.
@@szabm3179 Why? This one was mutated. A destroyed one is dead.
The puppetry and practical effects on the Dalek mutant have aged remarkably well.
This right here is proof of something magnificent: the Daleks true weakness is their fear of what we call humanity. They were not strong enough to handle the beauty and pain of life and the complex emotions and experiences that accompany it. Therefore, it is important to remember that experiencing life and humanity, embracing love and empathy, suffering through the pain and surviving, and never thinking that these precious attributes are a weakness. If you can live with them and embrace them, then you are truly strong!
Haley Tyree exactly.
"Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love" - Sarah Jane Smith, 'School Reunion' (R.I.P. Elisabeth Sladen)
This is really beautifully put, thank you :)
This Dalek was the first to realize it. As Dalek Sec was the first of the Daleks to embrace this when he became the first Human-Dalek Hybrid. Would love to see another story like this for the Daleks one day. One where maybe one group of Daleks managed to accidentally succeeded where the Cult of Skaro failed back in the Daleks in Manhattans 2-parter stories.
That's so interesting. EXTERMINATE!
Something tells me if this Dalek had lived and learned to accept it's mutation it might have become a character that is basically the antithesis of what the Dalek species is supposed to be. It would have been interesting, but somewhat tragic.
He and Rusty could have become best friends. It would have been touching, 2 Daleks learning to live good, attempting to redeem their race.
404 Error not possible. Daleks were once human like but Davros did all in his power to remove all human decency and feelings from them. The dalek was not able to cope with having his long dormant humanity, as it were, suddenly thrust upon him. Change was being forced upon him, but as a dalek he literally couldn't change. He's become philosophically compromised right down to the very core.
@@mikekean8344 Daleks are never Humans. They are from the Kaleds, the same race as Davros.
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The originals were Keleds but because they reproduce by transforming other into Daleks they sometimes use humans. Ironic that a race that talks about being pure was never pure to begin with.
@@beastwarsFTW only the dalek emperor did that.
"This is not life... This is sickness..."
"God forbid you have to get out of bed mate."
If you think about it. The doctor is fighting a war against racist octopuses
Cosplaying as R2. :D
al qu But then again, Star Wars came AFTER Doctor Who.
The True Dalek Origin.
There was a shipment of canned calamari that they mistakenly put between the bathroom isle and the kitchen isle and then... Oh hey I just remembered I am a loser who still has not caught up with the first generation of online 2D gaming .
Racist Octopus 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
...in TANKS!
These kinda scene always get me. Like if Joker gained his sanity back and looked at all the pain and misery he caused. Or when captain Picard gained his identity back. So much sorrow and soul crushing pain. How can anyone bare such agony without losing themselves?
Christopher Hager ongoing series - The White Knight. Batman forcefeeds Joker a lot of psychiatric medication... and it works. Joker regains his sanity, by the medication is killing him.
@@chrismanuel9768 Not, it's worst: the medication wasfailing losting effect
joker gained his sanity but after remembering what he did he just became crazy again
@@Arman-tq4jq Thats only because Martian Manhunter could only do it for so long. And then recently because he ran out of meds. Depends on the story. He has no real control over his illness. Same with Batman Who Laughs.
You should read more of Darth Vader/ Anakin. Their are parts that even with the mask on shows complete pain and hatred to what he becomes.
I this moment I see Rose as one of the ultimate Companions. She can show mercy to a Darlek and is willing to tell the Doctor no and that he is in the wrong.
"He's not the one pointing the gun at me."
Ironic, considering she's the one that ends up destroying their entire fleet in the series 1 finale.
She took in the energy of the time vortex by that point, of course she wouldn’t act like herself
In my opinion, after everything the Dalek did, the Doctor was in the right. That's just my opinion, though.
Because she wants to, because she wants to.
This is probably one of the saddest moments in all of Doctor Who. Think about it. A creature that only has the capability to obey, kill, and hate. But at its end, it was cursed with emotions. With kindness. With empathy. With fear. For a creature like that, it's only torture of the worst kind. It's very existence causes it to hate itself in every way possible. But in the end, it was allowed to follow both parts of itself. It was allowed to exterminate something defective, and allowed to die to stop feeling so much pain for what it caused. That's why it sounds so relieved to tell Rose that it's scared. It's scared, but it's simply relieved.
Exactly!
god this scene gives me the feels!!! it's so emotional!
right in the feels
I dont know why but I'm crying over a dalek.
Same
I did cry, too. 😭
Because not even a dalek deserved what van statten did to him
I didn't cry but I feel sorry for him
Its called emotions
You know someone’s a good writer when they make you feel sympathy for a dalek
"This is not life. This is, sickness." For some reason, that hits me.
Nerd
@@borris3768 You say that like its a bad thing
@@borris3768 Immature
Fun fact: the bbc wanted the Dalek to call Rose his friend. But Sherman was adamant that this didn't happen. This Dalek wouldn't do that, not even feeling emotions would change it. It still hated everything and everyone , it was disgusted in what it became.
If this was the last time we ever saw a Dalek, I'd be fine. What an ending to their story.
They couldn't let such a memorable villain go. But they should have done it, although I still feel like I would miss them.
I think there is something to be taken from the simple fact of the Dalek race. That the worst, most horrible hate-filled creatures in the universe are, below their terrifying shells, rather helpless, disgusting, and pathetic creatures. They are this way because someone made them this way and because they do not wish to change. And ultimately, they will never be happy because they can never appreciate the simple joys that make existence bearable and worth living. Things as simple as feeling the sun on your skin.
(Note: I'm not an expert at Doctor Who, so if I've got a fact wrong or something, please forgive me).
Jalaras Studios no. You are spot on, mate. Well done.
Hatred is not strength. Hatred is sickness and poison, a crutch. Yet some people drink freely of its toxicity. The Daleks were made into monsters and they went on to make monsters. Did they know better? Probably not. They are like children raised to cruelty. But children grow up. And when they do, they are exposed to all the things they were taught to hate.
And they have a choice to make: keep hating or learn and grow beyond their blind hate. This Dalek is one of a very small handful (Dalek Sec, Dalek Khan (?), Oswin the Dalek, and Rusty being the only others I can think of offhand) to ever look beyond hatred. I also think this is the one that came closest to being something other than a Dalek (other than Oswin). Khan and Rusty sought the destruction of their kind. Oswin was a Dalek in form rather than in truth. And Sec may have been a visionary but he wasn't all that human.
But this Dalek, the very first Dalek we ever see, was the closest to growing beyond being a Dalek, the first to exhibit something genuinely human. And I can't describe it because I don't even know if this emotion has a name. But it's that moment of just stopping and letting go. Letting go of pain, of fear, of hatred, and just taking in the moment.
I love the theory but you've looked too much into it. The real reason is less human. They are a species of purity in all shapes and forms. The fact emotions have been introduced go contrary to every Dalek directive which is why its in so much distress and ultimately commits suicide.
In that way daleks are very similar to us.. I really need to reevaluate my life.
Incorrect! Emotions are weakness! Seek! Locate! Destory!
Are you frightened Rose Tyler? So am I.......
That line gets me every time.
Karen Larke Exterminate...
Karen Larke the only friendly Dalek
@@tornadodestruction8517dalek sec?(after it turns part human)
Also dalek caan?(after it goes to the time war)
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They became good involuntarily even by voluntarily doing something that lead them that far.
No dalek will ever choose nor be able to choose embracing humanity.
They will only embrace humanity when it's Done unknowingly.
Not even Dalek Sec knew that he would agree with Doctor until his transformation.
That's depressing really.
They are in definition literally innocent by standards of psychology and yet just immoral in the eyes of majority..
It's contradicting..
Isn't it funny how in series one, both times the daleks appear, they end up as half human? I find that kind of interesting. This dalek has Rose's DNA inside of it, therefore half human, and the daleks from the finale (excluding the emperor) were made from the dead bodies of humans.
See I thought the Daleks came from a Humanoid race (The Kaleds) thus wouldn't really have been impure in the final of season 1 this one became impure because it had emotions
and they all died
the end
The Observer yes that is true the delaks came from kaleds
@@MegaTonytheboss The Kaleds are not Human's though so they're impure
Gamelover254 yeah! Bring back the self hating daleks!
Brilliant scene. This is part of the reason why I love Series 1 so much. Doctor Who just isn't the same anymore. Miss these episodes.
I don't know that much about Doctor Who, but this scene seems like it could've been the perfect ending to the Daleks! "EX....TER...MIN...ATE!"
Bowmaj 86 but no they drag them back from the dead
Definitely a missed opportunity to say the least.
It would've been an amazing way to send off an era of the show long since gone by (The Classic Series) as well as showcase the subtext of this episode being how Doctor Who (The New Series) was going to fit into the Modern Age of television.
Granted the BBC would obviously never do that considering the Dalek iconography but story wise to see the last remnants of the Classic Series die with dignity would have made for some really powerful stuff.
This originally was supposed to be the last time they appeared. BBC don't own the rights to the Daleks, the estate of Terry Nation (the creator behind them) does. So whenever they keep bringing them back they have to pay royalties, this episode was supposed to be a one off cameo / tribute to fans of the old series.
+Safebox Gaming well it wasn't
While that would have been a cool idea, you can't have Doctor Who without the Daleks. They were the first and most iconic villain.
"You would make a good Dalek..."
A dalek is trapped in more than just its casing, it’s trapped in its worldview. They are trapped in the illusion that they are superior to all other lifeforms. This dalek saw outside the cage , and while for the most part it was disgusted by what it saw, a smaller part was looking out of the cage longingly. It’s last words were “exterminate” but I like to think the last thing going through its mind was “I wish I could be like you”.
I would pay good money to see nine’s reaction to Davros’ return
Everyone gets all emotional at this scene, but it's important to remember that the Daleks value purity above all else, even their own survival. The human equivalent to this scene would be a Nazi committing suicide after having his life saved by a blood transfusion from a Jew.
People get upset over this scene not because they have forgotten what horrible creatures Daleks are but because of how conflicting the situation is.
Daleks are evil, no one is arguing that. But seeing someone so tortured, so vulnerable over something that should be better for it leaves people with many conflicting emotions.
It's worse than that. It's not that the Dalek wanted to die for being "impure". The mutation awakened his mind to the horror that is his existence. The "sickness" isn't his changing, it's what he is and always has been.
Imagine that you're a Hitler Youth super soldier for eons, and then you're given DNA that extends your perceptions of reality beyond what you were programmed to. The moment he achieve self-awareness, he also realized his own existence is an unbearable abomination, and that he couldn't live with he had been doing his whole life.
He who increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.
Mister Bubbles It doesn't have anything to do with that. The Daleks had no emotions since they were created except one: hatred (i think you write it that way). If a creature of any kind had no emotions and then in a split second start to feel everything, ideas start to flow through it's mind and starts to see the world in a different way, it wouldn't handle it. The brain and soul of the Daleks are not prepared or geneticly programmed feel the things that humans do.
"I can't handle so many ideas."
Some Geezer i think they meant the real world equivalent mate, i always thought as someone already pointed out that in the end having its emotional range extended to more than just extraordinary malice made it see itself and its race in a way that disgusted itself to the point of becoming suicidal. When it says to Rose "i'll not be like you" i thought it was more saying that to try and goad her into ordering its death
The one thing you can say in the Dalek's favor is that they didn't choose to be xenophobic, they were made that way. In a strange way the Nazis, despite being far less destructive, are still more evil. After all, they had the choice to be what they are, the Daleks didn't
if they'd never done another dalek episode I would never said this was the perfect ending.
A Dalek lives for nothing but killing and conquering, his brain and mind literally are forced not to intervene with his being. He has a purpose and he will pursue it, without questioning himself. The only concept he has is the one of empire, he doesn’t sees himself as an individual. Rose gives him the one thing that Daleks always keeps away from their self: self-consciousness. He finally starts to see himself for what he truly is. When the dalek says: “this is not life, is sickness” it refers to the existence he has lived until that moment. It’s so. Fucking. Sad.
It’s just strangely eerie that the Dalek used to be an almost human race (the Kaled) and have twisted themselves to make themselves extremely alien and disturbing.
When I first watched this episode way back in 2005, I was almost in tears, because I didn’t know there were more Dalek survivors at the time (I should’ve known better lol) but I was sad because I thought it actually was the last Dalek in the universe. I thought we were watching the show’s most iconic monsters come to an end, the end of an era. They were extinct.
Of course, I felt stupid when they revealed them to be alive lol.
I think it would have been better had this really been the last Dalek. And the "daleks" that came after it where some new creation mimicking them. Would be a cool series of the Doctor trying to figure out A. where did these new daleks come from. And B. Who made them (not Davros, that'd be boring tho.)
The S1 finale hits harder for people completely new to Doctor Who. You have this episode making out the Dalek to be such a horrible and deadly creature, and then later you get to see a whole army of them and feel the dread set in. That's what I felt when i first watched dr who
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They're always better in smaller numbers
@@aethertechagreed
Eccelston era had the best portrayals of the daleks
This was the Hybrid...
Domihork OH MY GOD! HOLY DANG I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT! IT REALLY IS! HALF HUMAN, HALF DALEK! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Domihork Moffat: *facepalm* DAMMIT WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT
Time lords legends thought half timelord half dalek but they thought that because these two races were the most deadly war civilizations. But was hybrid doctor or Ashlidr?
A HYBRID?!?
The Translator It was Russel T Davis at the time. Moffat is the failed hybrid.
I wonder what the Dalek meant when it said "This is not life, this is sickness."
Was it referring to what it had become after absorbing Rose's DNA, or being a Dalek in general, only coming to that revelation once it felt humanity. Daleks obsess over purity more than anything, and thus to be "contaminated" with humanity, it saw itself as sick. Or was it that humanity made it realise that a life of hatred, of orders, of destruction is not living at all?
The concept of a dalek becoming self aware of his own hatred is quite destructive for a dalek, like dalek caan and rusty, in the end a dalek and a cybermen are not all that different.
I think it was a bit of both
In my eyes it means compassion is sickness
"I pity the Dalek even though he killed a lot of innocent people!"
That one line, "I can feel so many ideas, so much darkness"
When a Dalek made you cry... Wait what...???
*awwwwwwwwwwww* Your Icon. :* #MoreLoveForDaleks
The fact that this show made me feel sorry for a Dalek just proves how good this show was. This is my childhood
I think this is one of the most underrated episodes in the show's history since it was brought back to the TV. Dalek is, in my opinion, once of the show's best episodes. There are some cheesy moments and unneeded moments but the plain destruction this one Dalek causes, the emotional turmoil of the Doctor and, weirdly, the Dalek itself, makes for an amazingly in-depth episode.
Definitely the most important episode of the first season. The whole show couldn't have survived if they couldn't pull off the Dalek's return properly
I like how you can feel its desperation with the last two "OBEY"s. Its so well done
This scene made me cry like a baby when I first saw it and it makes me cry now. This really gave another side to the Daleks that wasn't seen before and made the Doctor realize that he would be no better than the Daleks who killed his kind if he had killed it.
This is one of the most powerful scenes in any piece of media ever
This is one of my favorite episodes.
I'm glad RTD is coming back so he can make amazing stuff like this again
Russell definitely had a part to play in making this, but the real credit goes to Robert Shearman, the writer of this episode
@@darlig.ulv.bakhjernedon't think it can be understated how much the individual writers made some episodes so much better then others, take the impossible planet two parter excellently written by one writer followed up by love and monsters/fear her written by someone else, the contrast in quality is staggering haha
@@sevenv2154 And most of the best episodes in the RTD era were written by Steven Moffat, something most people dismiss when praising RTD. In fact most of the best episodes were not written by RTD.
Well this aged like fine milk.
@@blunderingfoolyeah not my proudest comment :(
I love this episode because it not only makes the Dalek a terrifying, skilled killing machine, but it also makes you feel empathy and compassion for it, from birth it’s trapped in a cold machine. Never feeling love, or warmth, or any positive emotions. Fuck
I love how his voice of tones changes when he’s talking to rose 1:32 and dalek 1:42 :( ❤️
One of the few times where you genuinely felt sorry for a Dalek….even knowing what him and his entire race have done. That Dalek was having a major conflict inside becoming something more than hate and killing….this episode we see the Doctor is more like the Daleks than even the Daleks themselves at times….
When you think about it when he’s screaming obey it’s the only way they can say please
Its strange but when the dalek is begging Rose for an order, it uses what I can only guess to be its real voice. It's Kaled voice, before it became the monster in the shell. In that last moment, it became what it once was again, as if it was begging Rose to let it die a Kaled, not a Dalek.
“This is not life… this is sickness.. I will not be like you.”
The music in this scene is beautiful, I was watching The Impossible Planet from Series 2 tonight and it had this same soundtrack in it, and it instantly made me think of this scene.
Yes this whole suite is fantastic and works so well in Impossible Planet too which has a good continuous 25mins of great music. This music is called The Lone Dalek and it's on the Series 1+2 soundtrack CD which is still my favourite one.
When a creature who has never once experienced shame, guilt, horror, and disgust mutates and acquires it can finally be made aware of all it has done. Thus, it could never have lived with itself.
Rose changed so many ways of Doctor. That's why I love her and Doctor traveling so much.
To think that Dalek was in complete agony because he finally had some human emotions and empathy and he hated it that much. Man daleks are messed up!
Imagine feeling guilt after an eternity of committing genocides
I won't lie and say that I didn't cry like a baby when I watched this episode back in the day. Still feel a little emotional all these years later.
if he didn't comit scuicide he would have been a great companion for years
vault 214 overseer what?
Doctor: Ok, we need to resolve this peacefu-
*_BBRRRRMMMMM TARRRGET, EX - TER - MI - NA - TED._*
This the the most emotion a Dalek has ever shown-
The only Dalek I liked through the episode and/or cared about by the end of it
Same here, and Dalek Sec when he fused with Diagoras. He tried to save the Daleks but was destroyed by them
What about rusty?
Made insane by radiation
TheorisingMatrix_Mouse And Oswin.
Oswin wasn't *really* a Dalek. She was scarcely more a Dalek than Clara Prime was a Dalek when she was wired into the casing by Missy.
*"I couldn't...I wasn't...oh, Rose. They're all dead."* Volumes are contained in what little is said and what is left unsaid.
I never suspected I would weep for the first dalek I saw.
The dalek got a glimpse of human thinking and emotion, and it sickened him so much he'd rather die than be like a human
At. 1:36 with english outo generated subtleties on, the dalek says "why don't wait some pie"
i think the new who dalek mutants are better because they now include an eye and the remains of a mouth along with other features which serve as a grim reminder that they were once humanoids walking around like we are
Actually, as an alternative view, I greatly prefer this one, because it is so decrepit and inhumane. I imagine, by looking into this dalek's actual eye, that it can't see very well and it's gurgling croaky voice implies it is sickly. I believe it makes the dalek seem more sympathetic, because they are beyond the point of any animal or evolutionarily capable species without the aid of their "cold metal cages."
They come across as sick because they are devoid of any feeling in this mutants case feelings nade it physicaly sick and it was repulsed. Just think long ago it was probably a mother or father walking around just like me and you
Really does go well to showcase how the Kaled's had decayed given the War on Skaro leaving them so disfigured and disgusting.
Feeble yet filled with an indignant hatred of all life that does not suffer equally to them.
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I think OP _is_ talking about this one
That poor creature it looks like it was fused into the suit but hearing it wish for death is so sad 😢
Still a very very sad scene that made me cry when I first saw this episode and still makes me cry.
This episode did what none other ever dared to. It humanised a Dalek. Gave it emotions, fear, sadness and ultimately... it was depressed. Impurity to Daleks isn't life. That's why it couldn't live.
Well, it also showed why Daleks can't feel any other emotion. Here the Dalek became self-aware of what it was made for. Thats where the line "So many ideas" is contrasted with "So much darkness". It was able to feel the light of humanity... only to realize how horrid of an existence it has had. That it killed so many people and was a blight on life itself. That amount of guilt would cripple anyone. Just like it did to the MetalTron.
Ironically, Daleks are weaker in that aspect. They can't live with themselves if they truly were able to comprehend what they did.
The doctor pointing the gun at the Dalek as the Dalek itself stares into the light. Makes what the Dalek said earlier more impactful. “You would make a good Dalek”
I know Daleks are evil, but this one changed. It’s sad. I call it the depressed dalek for many reasons. “So... many... ideas... So... much... darkness...” “This is not life, this is sickness...” “Are you frightened Rose Tyler?” “ *Yeah...* ” “So... am... I...”
Very well done where the Dalek demands/orders Rose to order it's own destruction, and yet despite the seeming authoritative nature of the statement, you can tell it's begging her.
A Dalek, feeling all these new emotions through a Human's DNA, could not handle the guilt and supposed "impurities" it was taught to hate, and thus decides to end it's life
But before that, he decides to cling to one more, familiar thought, one that brought fear to others, but duty, and now comfort, to him
"Exterminate"
3:26
Poor Dalek found out what it is like to have a conscience, it couldn't handle it. They are lost with emotions and without them. Golden Age of doctor who!
Back when Dr Who was still so very good.
Sadly, I never got to see this episode, and it looks good. I just wonder if the idea that the DALEKS could change was ever fully realized.
not just in this story, but whenever a Dalek starts to change it wants to destroy itself. They are so convinced of Dalek purity that the'd gladly kill themselves at the first sign of "impurity", so I don't think a Dalek would ever be able to fully change
Huh! that's disappointing. Personally, I'd love to see them evolve.
takeshi hiraoka To be honest I think it's happened a bit too much by this point. I mean in the classic series it only ever really happened once with evil of the daleks which made it pretty special. However in newer who there's this, evolution of the daleks and inside the dalek, so I think it needs a break
I totally agree. I guess ever since they first appeared the writers and producers have tried to make them more and more evil. If I had the chance I would try to make the DALEKS not so much as human, but sort of a mix. Thereby making the different views on life and existence all the more poignant and taut.
I think this episode came the closest to realising that concept
Into The Dalek tried to do something with it as well, though it essentially backfired in the 12th Doctor's face.
It's rare for the Doctor to get a companion like Rose. She actually saw the Dalek, an organism built for killing, not as a danger or a monster, but a someone else. Someone she felt pain and sorrow for. The empathy she displays to the Dalek and it back to her is beautifully heartbreaking.
Note that offset of the dalek's single eye is a mouth and second eye fused shut, a nod to when they were once humanoid but have been so dreadfully disfigured that only remnants of their old selves remain.
the writer of this episode, Rob Shearman, added a flashback in the novelisation describing the birth of the Dalek, and it was born with two eyes, but one was ripped out with a spike because the Daleks decided it didn't serve a purpose
@@darlig.ulv.bakhjerne damn that's harsh
You can see a nose between them too
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Eugh what
the one episode with humans vs daleks when humans are the monsters
0:04 That’s the sound effect from Rayman 3.
Sounds effects are used everywhere yk
"I am...the last...of the Daleks"
Hmmm...
I always named this Dalek "Sunny" in my head whenever I saw this episode.
…. In the current era of feelings over reason, this has not aged well.
He Doesn't Look scary, his weapon is a Toilet Plunger.
Is it just me, or is Rose so adorably cute at that particular moment?
I'm reminded of the end of Terminator 2. 'That a machine could learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.'
This was when Doctor who's writing was good, a dalek that wants to die because it can't accept not thinking and feeling like a dalek. I love how they really make you feel sorry for the dalek because it has to think like a monster with no mercy
What scares me is that that Dalek was turned into the Doctor, and the Doctor was nearly turned into a Dalek.
The beginning of this scene is one of my favorite moments...and then it goes and breaks my heart
The Doctor understands the Dalek’s better than anyone else. He actually apologises to the Dalek for it becoming more, for gaining empathy, because he knows that goes against everything the Daleks are.
Well I just saw a dalek commite suicide.
"So much darkness"
All come to mind I saw this episode 13 years ago as a 6-year-old kid. Was absolutely terrified by the Daleks and now still am. But watching the ending is truly heartbreaking.
This is how great this episode was. I don’t even watch the series, but I did for a little as kid after watching this episode.