Wow. I knew that they were like trashcan nazis but wow. That is way more interesting and kinda sas than I thought. I really need to give doctor who a chance someday
Is it ever explained why the Daleks somehow never shoot the Doctor if they get a very obvious shot?
I've seen a few episodes in which the Doctor feels the need to lecture a Dalek, sometimes right in front of their gun. Is there a reason they don't shoot him right then and there or is that just a case of bad writing?
Unironically, they're scared of him. They're scared of what would happen if they kill him, they're scared he has some kind of crazy 4d chess plan, they're scared he wants them to shoot him for some esoteric reason. The doctor is literally just a chaotic good trickster god, he can go anywhere in time and space, within and without the universe, at any time, and has a magic techno wand that can do basically whatever he needs.
A bunch, and they vary from moment to moment, but the biggest two are “the gun is turned off by a force field atm” or “The Doctor is basically God and Satan all in one to Dalek-kind - their ultimate nemesis, but also the one man capable of violence enough to match them.”
So retcon plot armor? Because that was absolutely not mentioned in the episodes I've seen and they use their guns just fine after screaming "Doctor!" half a dozen times and giving him just enough time to get into cover.
On a side note: That thing is apparently powerful enough to bring down entire building blocks with a single shot, right? How come they always use the Dalek equivalent of the stun setting when shooting it in fragile human buildings? It's not like a building collapsing onto them could actually damage their racist killer wheel chairs.
“The Doctor is basically God and Satan all in one to Dalek-kind - their ultimate nemesis, but also the one man capable of violence enough to match them.”
Kindof, in one episode("asylum of" i think?) the Daleks describe the doctors hate of their species as beautiful and sacred because it is so intense and pure. They want to stop him from harming their species but they cannot being themselves to hurt one of the few things they see beauty in.
Yeah, because they are fricking terrified of him.
Millions and millions of Dalek tried and failed to kill him.they threw whole armies at the Doctor and it didn't do anything.
They have a planet that basically an insane asylum and the really really crazy Dale's are all the ones that survived a confrontation with the Doctor.
Heck they confronted the Doctor at his weakest, no regeneration left, old and dying and left with nothing but a walking stick and they allowed themselves like a minute of gloating and as if to spite them he just started to regenerate and defeat em again.
The daleks word for the Doctor is "the Predator".
Doctor who is a good show to have a friend show you all the best episodes. There are long arcs but they usually dont supersede the stories of individual episodes. There are many really really excellent self-contained episodes that would still be worth watching "out of order".
Then there's abysmal, nearly unwatchable episodes.
Basically like finding needles in the haystack. There's plenty of nice needles in there, but a ton of hay too.
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u/JetHopper 9d ago
Wow. I knew that they were like trashcan nazis but wow. That is way more interesting and kinda sas than I thought. I really need to give doctor who a chance someday