this is SAD! | Doctor Who Season 1 Episode 6 "Dalek Reaction!

[@emme]

Episode 12 “bad wolf” reaction was just posted on patreon and iykyk about how that ties into this episode 👀 patreon.com/emmereacts

[@johnpaullogan1365]

the stairs thing was very much a knock at classic who from the '60s. they got special effects budget now

[@normandrake3292]

It was also really cool watching it in 2005, knowing how it was Dalek's limitation in the classic series. The pause they put in while it looks like the Dalek is thinking about it was definitely put in for us old fans.

[@RightTurnClyde]

Everyone else is going to say this but the Daleks have been the Doctor's chief enemies right since the beginning, in 1963. A long time before R2-D2 came out! They have serioius history

[@johnpaullogan1365]

@@RightTurnClyde technically the second serial so not the very beginning

[@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg]

​@@johnpaullogan1365people seem to forget that Daleks could get up stairs in the classic series too. Usually off-screen, but we did see them 'elevate' in Rememberance of the Daleks.

[@brendanoconnor1550]

“You Would Make A Good Dalek” is the closest thing a Dalek can get to a compliment in their eyes, and is the deepest of insults to someone like The Doctor

[@kg4wwn]

"Insult" isn't even a strong enough word. I think that "personal attack" would be closer, except for how overused that phrase has become. The Doctor is shaken to his core by the accusation, and even deeper by its merit.

[@medafan53]

The Daleks were actually the first monsters of Doctor Who, the first story "An Unearthly Child" pitted the Doctor and his companions against Cavemen, the only sci-fi elements being the protagonists and the TARDIS, it was then the second story that introduced the Daleks, and history was made.

[@PFitz-sh4ms]

The Daleks are the iconic Doctor Who villains. There was always a joke about them not being able to get up stairs which this episode played on

[@sithlordkaeyl21]

When the Daleks first appeared in 1963, they were supposed to be a one-off enemy, but people found them so terrifying that the writers brought them back, and turned them into The Doctor’s worst enemy.

[@Harry_SS]

And the BBC doesn't even own the rights. They have to negotiate with the creators' estate every time they want to use them.

[@ThetaSigma-vu1sk]

@@Harry_SS The BBC doesn't own the rights to any of the villains or characters, except the Doctor. If the current showrunner wants to use a character or villain from the past, they have to ask the character's creator. It's also why there have been a couple of non canon spin offs like K9 Adventures in 2010, K9's creator pitched the show to an Austrailian broadcasting company. It's also the main reason why the Rani has never returned. The creators are both dead and they had no children, so no one actually knows who owns the rights to the Rani now.

[@andybodle7560]

The Daleks preceded Star Wars by 14 years. If anything, R2D2 was based on them! Glad you enjoyed it

[@AlmightyCRJ]

Not the only Who thing R2D2 is similar to - Quarks.

[@johna5635]

..and 'The Matrix' as a 'Doctor Who' concept preceded the Hollywood film of the same name by 23 years!

[@cuedotfilms4427]

That's what I was going to tell her. 🙂

[@BoboftheOldeWays]

This was the episode that really sold me on the reboot. A Dalek story that truly surprised me, and did something I never thought possible: made me feel sympathy for one of the most murderous creatures in all of Doctor Who canon. And the regret with which The Doctor delivers the line, “I win,” at the end really broke me.

[@mayotango1317]

I not a reboot. Is the same show.

[@BoboftheOldeWays]

@@mayotango1317 Fair enough, it’s the same continuity. That wasn’t the point tho.

[@Jumpyman_thegamerYT]

@@mayotango1317 Technically it is a reboot, since before 'Season 1' in 2005, the show was last on TV on 6th December 1989 with the 7th Doctor. Doctor number 8 features in the movie from 1996 (I don't count this as 'being on TV' since it was a movie). Then there was the gap where Dr Who was off the air for 9 years. Towards the end of the 7th Doctors era, Dr Who was suffering popularity issues and ratings weren't particularly high. Thankfully, the revival has brought it back onto our screens once more.

[@mayotango1317]

@@Jumpyman_thegamerYT Is that is true, so Eccleston should be the First Doctor.

[@Jumpyman_thegamerYT]

@@mayotango1317 He could be considered the first of the new series, yes. But he is the 9th overall.

[@StephenRichmond89]

It's interesting that this is the Doctor Who I got as a child but growing up here, even not having seen classic who, I knew what a Dalek was and had a sense of the world the Doctor was in. It's really interesting watching it seen by someone who doesn’t have that context and really is genuinely looking at it fresh. I really never thought I'd like reaction content but getting to see stuff from other perspectives is actually great.

[@IslesYankeeLady]

Yep, I’m a 40 year old American. First watched Doctor Who when I was back at University to finish my degree. I was 29. I’m caught up on nuWHO. While I was catching up I studied for a semester outside London, so it was much easier to get a hold of. I went to the DW experience in Cardiff too. But anyway, the only Americans I knew of that watched Doctor Who prior to it hitting Netflix in America had watched it on public tv as a kid/younger adult. So they were easily my age or older. I know that there were people that tracked down the DVDs, but that was a niche audience. You can tell the writers wrote this episode for the majority of the audience that would not necessarily recognize a Dalek at all, or they’d have heard of them in passing. It invites you to reconsider exactly why they’re so scary and their impact. It’s only the classic Who fans that picked up on that Cyberman mask and that voice instantly.

[@hanonhold]

Yep. The classic show was cancelled the year I was born and aside from a few Pertwee and Tom Baker episodes (none of which contained daleks or cybermen) I hadn't seen much of the show however, I just knew what daleks and cybermen were throughout my childhood. I knew what the TARDIS looked like and that it was a spaceship, I knew there was a robot dog called k-9. It's iingrained in British culture. Then obviously I started watching it properly in 2005 and I'm still here nearly 20 years later! It's really interesting to see somebody react to this show with no context.

[@RunningTogether]

“So weird and weirdly tragic.” A great description of many Who episodes. 😜 Great reaction as always!

[@richardbradbury3658]

Sorry to break the news, but no...no-one has confirmed the existence of aliens.

[@xedalpha1]

Nah there was one in this episode. I saw it on the TV.

[@MuchWhittering]

Yeah, I feel like that would be quite a major news story.

[@MarkJackson916UK]

The fact that your initial feelings about being introduced to 2 of the Doctors most iconic and terrifying enemies are “sad” and “cute” is genuinely hilarious to me 🤣 I doubt you’ll feel the same once you really start progressing through the seasons

[@thedoctor4327]

Dalek episodes tend to really get the Doctor going and force him to confront his values and who they are as a person. Usually this comes via phenomenal dialogue exchanges. Here it’s “You would make a good Dalek” after the Doctor raged at the Dalek only to hear that and be shaken. In the classic story “Genesis of the Daleks”, the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) has the chance to destroy the Daleks before they ever rose to power, leading to the iconic “Do I Have The Right?” Speech

[@CrankyGrandma]

That’s a must watch before series 4

[@0lyge0]

Feels bad for a Dalek and thinks the cybermen are cute. Can't wait to see how that plays out as Emme goes through the series.

[@IslesYankeeLady]

How about we let it happen for her like once upon a time we didn’t know? I don’t understand the point of spoiling things for reactors if you want a real reaction.

[@azizuladnan2957]

"Sad" and "Dalek" is something I did not expect to read in a KZbin title video, and yet.... here we are...

[@tengkudita3665]

Me nether

[@paulbrecken2136]

Totally agree ❤

[@maxvickrey4357]

Haha I loved the aw the cybermen looks cute and the I feel bad fo the darlek moments.... Oh you sweet summer child....

[@thepandorica1660]

​@@maxvickrey4357what's a 'darlek'?

[@peterlewis2178]

@@thepandorica1660 lol ikr? I've seen a number of people think that it's Darlek. I think it comes from mis-interpreting the British accent. Since in British accents a lot of times the r in words is sort of silent, or at least not pronounced the way it always is in an American accent, I think sometimes Americans hear "Dalek", and think that the same thing is happening there, and the r is just not being pronounced.

[@alexdundas-taylor3420]

Very rare to see anyone experiencing a Dalek for the first time. So on edge at just its first word.

[@ThatWannabeMusician]

A few things here: 1. Doctor Who predates most scifi that's popular today, having started in 1963. The original theme was composed before the invention of synthesizers. 2. Daleks were originally presented as a one-off villain in the show's early days, but were so popular they became a reoccurring menace. 3. Getting shot by a Dalek beam has been described as being struck by a combination of a bolt of lightning and a wave of radiation. 4. That "cute" head in the display case was a Cyberman, another Early Who villain that was repeatedly brought back. They are humanoid remains preserved in essentially space suits, with their emotions removed to dull the pain of conversion. Their end goal is to process and convert all organic life into cybermen.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

Area 51 is located at Groom Lake, Nevada...but people often overlook the idea that there may be more than one such installation.

[@matthewmartin2558]

During most of the classic series, it became a running joke to run up a flight of stairs would foil them every time

[@grabtharshammer]

Yes, right up until the Seventh Doctor when they learnt how to master them

[@timidwolf]

@@grabtharshammer And *spoiler* was similarly hovering during the Sixth Doctor's time, so they had the tech even earlier.

[@Ralph-yn3gr]

There's also a bit in The Chase in 1965 where a dalek is shown at the top of a flight of stairs aboard the _Mary Celeste_ that it could only have gotten to by hovering up them.

[@MatthewCYN15]

And here we see the Ninth Doctor's rage: Moody, dark, and traumatic. The wounded veteran in a leather coat who witnessed the destruction of the universe. And the Daleks are not just a classic villain, they ARE THE Villains of Doctor Who. But some enemies are better than others.... And this episode shows that maybe the Doctor isn't as heroic or just as he thinks he is, as the rage of a person can make them darker....

[@qqqqqqqqqqqq121212]

Being made to feel bad for the Dalek is the point really - this episode is poetry 🥰

[@kemmdog4444]

This story was based on a Big Finish audio drama featuring the 6th Doctor.

[@kildooma.659]

yeah that one was pretty messed up

[@six7388]

A tiny bit of Dalek knowledge… but they are literally modelled after Nazi facism. They only exist to hate and eradicate everything, and if anything changes about a daleks personality, it’s no longer a dalek and will be treated as an enemy if it doesn’t kill itself first. TL;DR… it’s best to not feel sorry for the Daleks, they are great villains but not exactly defendable in Morals

[@alexanderharris5022]

It’s ok to feel sad for something suffering an existential crisis. It chose to die rather than change what it is, that is saddening. It’s like… It’s not sad that the former leader of Germany, 1933-1945 died. It is sad that he chose to cause so much pain and suffering rather than change and become better as a person. The Dalek chose death over change. The choice is sad.

[@WolfHreda]

"I just wanted to hear you talk." "Then hear me talk now. Exterminate." I can never remember the name of the actor who voiced the Dalek, but he's so good.

[@jeanlafayette7152]

Nicholas Briggs. He voices a lot of aliens, and also played the Doctor in a series of unlicensed audio dramas produced by fans.

[@granadosvm]

I guess someone unfamiliar with the Daleks may be sad about one of them dying. The difference starts early in the episode... 4:25 An old Whovian: "Oh, nooooo!" A new one "what is that?"

[@CobraShadowz]

I wasn’t expecting Emme to be team Dalek

[@Gizmo_Mogwai_]

Definitely one of the best episodes. 💯

[@andrewroberts299]

The Daleks were the first alien foe the Doctor ever fought, way back in the 2nd ever Doctor Who story from 1963. Kids and adults went nuts for them and their appearance in that story took the show’s ratings to over 10 million viewers! From this, Dalekmania took hold of the UK and merchandise flooded the shops with remote control Dalek toys, kids wallpaper, cosplay Daleks outfits - you name it, it was manufactured. The Daleks success also spawned two colour movies, starring Hammer horror actor Peter Cushing as a human version called Doctor Who (sic) and both films were cut down versions of the first two Dalek TV stories. The first film was a tremendous success but the second one less so, and because of that, a planned 3rd film was shelved. The Daleks featured in only 15 stories (one of which was a 1 part 25 minute story that didn’t even feature the Doctor or his companions at all!) That’s not a lot when you consider that in Classic Who there were 158 transmitted stories from 1963-1989 before the show was cancelled. The creator of the Daleks was Terry Nation, a British comedy writer who was down on his luck getting work when the Doctor Who production office contacted him, asking if he had any ideas for their sci-fi show. Thrown a career lifeline, Nation came up with the Daleks, who he based on the Nazi’s from World War 2. The Daleks were ruthless killers who had no emotions except fear and hate of others being different to them. They only wanted power, and they would stop at nothing to achieve victory! The squid like creature inside the Dalek was originally human from an alien planet, and a leading scientist there realised that their world of polluted radiation would eventually change the DNA of the people, turning them eventually into the mutant creature you saw. The scientist, realising that this would be the people’s ultimate form, took living cells from them, treated them with chemicals and simply sped up the process of turning them into these mutants. Once he knew that this was to be their final form, he devised a travel machine for the mutants to inhabit and move about in. Thus the Daleks were formed!

[@1funkyflyguy]

Good stuff! Well done. Hope that brings Emme insight into what type creature the Doctor is dealing with and why his reactions where so extreme when encountering one of them again.

[@richtensail]

davros?

[@andrewroberts299]

@@richtensailno spoilers remember?

[@AlmightyCRJ]

"A new alien." Nope. The oldest aliens we have! 😂 Nice how the narrative splits the audience in two - the noobs still follow Rose but the audience who remember Daleks end up choosing Doctor as their surrogate.

[@ronfehr7899]

The Dalek race first appeared in the Classic Who period, and was basically the Doctor's first real threatening enemy. They have remained popular throughout the show's run. For me though, this was my first encounter, and it made me curious to find out more about them.

[@jonathanward2527]

Been looking forward to this! One of my favourites of this series

[@mareiramv]

Emme Who tuesday, yay! I remember that I really wasn't a fan of the last two parters but this particular episode brought my hype back when I first watched the show! The Dalek was super interesting and getting all that info about the Time War was very exciting. Your reaction here 16:35 had me rolling, that was so funny. Great reaction and it's cool that you commented about euthanasia, because I had the exactly same thought when I first watched this. I also think about the Nazis, because the Dalek seems to think he was "sick", because he's not just a Dalek anymore, like he isn't "pure".

[@monumatt]

it's so funny seeing you mention things that doctor who inspired and then say that doctor who is similar to those things, and not the other way around, curious how references work

[@salvessen6100]

Great to watch this one with you and get to see someone witness a Dalek for the first time.

[@davidwilburn4734]

Daleks were introduced long before Star Wars was even conceived. It was in the of the very first episodes of Dr. Who back when it was black and white. Daleks destroy anything that isn't Dalek it is there reason for being.

[@elliottnoad1270]

What i like with this one is how you end up almost pitying the Dalek after everything it did regardless of this was your first dalek story or if you had seen classic and/or read the Expanded Universe and knew all the terrible things Daleks in general had done in the franchise. 1 classic story explained that when a dalek exterminates/when it shoots someone, that person's insides get scrambled.

[@medafan53]

There's also a novel I read, Prisoner of The Daleks I think, where it's revealed it doesn't need to take a moment where the victim is screaming in pain, at the highest setting it could be instant, too fast for them to even feel it, but they lower the setting just enough that you die in agony.

[@elliottnoad1270]

​@@medafan53 yeah remember reading it a lot when I was a kid, then later listening to Dalek Universe and thinking how similar Prisoner Of The Daleks & Dalek Universe were to each other. (Like in theory, if the TARDIS situation was the same in both (either TARDIS there in both or not there in both), could've said Prisoner Of The Daleks was episode 0 of Dalek Universe).

[@SarahH-ns6ly]

It is interesting how they make us feel sorry for the Dalek, even people who know them as terrifying villains from the original run of the show. There was a bit of a running joke that Daleks were easy to escape because they couldn't climb stairs (they were originally guys moving around in prop suits on wheels). Hence, Adam and Rose thinking they can escape up the stairs, followed by the Dalek's ability to EL-E-VATE! making it all the more terrifying.

[@Raymail-tj4cf]

The stairs were always a joke about the Daleks. People always said just run up stairs and get away. So New Who said stairs won’t save you.

[@dabbadonisthestout7284]

Daleks can be described as down bad for death and destruction 😂

[@SpiderRiderKya]

Probably one of the rare times you get to feel sad for a Dalek.

[@alexandermills9965]

Now if a Darlek needed to go up stairs it would just use the wheelchair ramp.

[@gunmasterx1164]

There's no R in Dalek

[@QuisletEsq]

The helmet the Doctor first sees is of a Cyberman. The Cybermen are pretty much the second big Doctor Who baddies after the Daleks. The Daleks, Cybermen, and the Nestine Consciousness from the first episode are all baddies from the original series.

[@IslesYankeeLady]

The previous idea that Daleks were always defeated by stairs belongs in the same conversation as Stormtroopers having terrible aim. Both ideas are beloved jokes now.

[@quintuscrinis]

That thing actually looks kind of cute - from the outside perhaps.

[@HuntingViolets]

The creature inside is the Dalek; the outside is their armor, in a sense.

[@mrcdramavid]

Really fascinating to see this episode through the eyes of someone with absolutely no knowledge or preconceptions about Daleks!

[@paulkelly1726]

The Daleks are the doctors oldest enemy they was frist seen in the second stroy of season 1 in 1963 😊

[@k_who-7706]

At this point the Doctor only has super seeded hatred for anything Dalek after all they did destroy his people, he’s still thinking like a warrior and nearly becomes genocidal it’s Rose that makes him better by realising he’s acting more like the Dalek and that the Doctor can do better. Never be cruel, never be cowardly, hate is always foolish and love is always wise.

[@paulbrecken2136]

Welcome to proper doctor who, shit gets real now

[@jackmichael2468]

You can see the anger in his eyes when he first confronted the Darlek. When the doctor decided to torture it - that wasn't the doctor, its very recent for him, he just escaped the time war...

[@thepandorica1660]

Dalek* How can you get it wrong when it's the name of the episode?

[@MARC-p5w]

the dalek was not kidding when the dalek said to the doctor you would make a good dalek at the end of the day that what they were humans

[@dracoargentum9783]

15:33 apparently, they also need a good bowling form, too.

[@Whalewraith]

They favour a Radiation gun and nerve gas. The stairs stopping Daleks was a joke for about 45 years.

[@m0nkeywrench]

"No one can escape the Cage" lmaooo

[@tyforestreacts]

This episode is so interesting because if this is your first time watching Doctor Who, you're with Rose and feeling bad for the Dalek. But if you watched Classic Doctor Who, you're with the Doctor and want it dead.

[@ernestholliday8914]

Lmao I felt bad for the Dalek too the first I saw the episode

[@ernestholliday8914]

The episode is designed that way if you’ve never seen doctor who before

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thank you, Emme! ⏳ Joe Ahearne directed this episode.

[@johantolli372]

The Dalek did kill alot of people this episode but it was a private military force, paid to keep it prisoner and torture it and which was constalty shooting at it in attempts to kill it for trying to escape. Based soley on this episode, that Dalek is just an innocent being that got captured by bad people and was not completly unjustified in doing anything it needed to espace a hostile alien race keeping it prisoner and torturing it. Kinda interesting gettomg tp sympathazing with the Dalek when its a very first introduction.

[@alexthorpe6583]

The Daleks are the oldest recurring enemies of the Doctor, from way back at the start of the show. Tiny mutated Kalads on the inside, who used to be a human-like race, in a mobile survival machine made for war. They have always sought to 'exterminate' anyone that wasn't a dalek. Traditionally, they HAVE been defeated by stairs in the past. Until this very episode, we meet one that can fly. Having only one single dalek in this episode was different. Still extremely dangerous, yet unsure of itself without anyone to give it orders.

[@MrStephenLodge]

The first time a Dalek elevated onscreen was in 1985 "Revelation of the Daleks". The first time ever was in the comics in the 1960s.

[@alexthorpe6583]

​@@SGlitz Yeah, you're probably right. I'm having trouble remembering any real details from that episode.

[@kevindean0000]

The Daleks actually floated up stairs one time before in the 7th Doctor Sylvester McCoy's episode "Remembrance of the Daleks"

[@grabtharshammer]

Kaled mutations, not Kalad - hence the anagram name Dalek

[@alexthorpe6583]

@@grabtharshammer yeah, I went back and forth on the name before posting. I wasn’t sure it sounded right in my head.

[@juliet1203_]

I like all the references to Star Wars and the Matrix. However, the Daleks came first :)

[@twofacetoo75]

Genuinely the best singular episode the show has ever had. Absolutely love it, no notes and no complaints.

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

Van Statten is my favorite one-off villain.

[@Jonno92100]

Daleks are one of the longest reoccurring villains in the Doctor Who franchise and honestly one of the most terrifying. I'd watched a fair bit of classic Who as a kid, I remember watching this episode when it aired and was totally shocked when the Dalek started levitating! Stairs where like their one biggest weakness for years!

[@SunlessNick]

Picking up hitchhikers is what the Doctor does! It was fascinating seeing this episode via someone who's not familiar with daleks.

[@apatternedhorizon]

That exhibit of his old enemy is a nod to the cheap costumes used in some of Classic Who.

[@campagnollo]

This is such a great episode. If you come from classic Doctor Who, it carries the canon very well. If #9 is your first intro to Doctor Who, it really fills in who the Daleks are.

[@paulpenna5615]

Daleks are biggest recurring foe in Doctor Who. They've been around since 1963. The second biggest villains are the Cybermen, who were introduced in 1966. The head in the case belongs to a Cybermen. And yeah, neither of these things are cute, trust me. The Daleks are all about racial purity and hate. They're pretty clearly based on the Nazi's. This Dalek might be slightly sympathetic, but it's also a mass murderer.

[@davidwebb4451]

The Daleks are the Doctor's greatest enemy. They first appeared in the second story of the classic series of Dr Who when the first Doctor lands on their home planet which had been wrecked in a giant war. That and later episodes in the classic series explain how mutations caused by that war plus interventions from their scientists led to the creation of the creature you saw when the Dalek "travel machine" opened. The Daleks are the ultimate Xenophobes wanting to wipe out anything non-Dalek across the universe and any Daleks they don't consider pure enough. (They are pretty much space Nazis but even more into racial purity). Although specialist Daleks sometimes have other attachments they are usually equipped with the plunger and a disintegration weapon. Whenever they fire that weapon they tend to shout out "Exterminate" as a sort of battle cry. The robot looking head is the head of a Cyberman another baddie from the classic Doctor Who series - generally considered the Doctor's second worst enemy after the Daleks. The Cybermen are part machine and part organic and are kind of like Star Trek the Next Generation's Borg in that they want to convert other species into more Cybermen. There have been a few different designs for Cybermen during the classic series but this is one of the most recognisable Cyberman head designs,

[@gumdeo]

"You would make a good Dalek". Ouch.

[@StephanieMaireFaith]

The dalek been using its laser since 1963

[@crandleberrysadie]

FTR, Area 51 is in Nevada. The thumbnail for this episode made me laugh because there are certain "sad" reactions we all wait for but I'm not sure this one is on that list.

[@SorchaSublime]

I really like this episodes because it pushes the limits of your empathy. Depending on if theyre new to the show or not viewers come in with either the Doctor or Roses pov and each of them are challenged. THE Doctor needs to put aside his trauma and past convictions to realise that this creature is evolving, and Rose needs to see past all of its actions and its monstrous physical appearance to recognise that it is slowly charging

[@therealpbristow]

16:30 - Remember, this poor Dalek just downloaded the entire internet. It's understanding of humanity is now polluted with masses of teenager-written fanfic. =;o}

[@bugsby4663]

Now I want to see a Dalek with a girlfriend and a sports car. Eccleston & Piper are magnificent in this story.

[@cardsfanboy]

This is what I consider the barometer episode of a new who fan, what I mean is that when I have convinced a friend to start this show, I tell them to give it to the episode "Dalek" before you give up if it's not your cup of tea.. And after this episode most people are hooked as the show has now hit multiple styles (comedy, horror, light sci-fi, and with this deeper story., and you kinda get what the appeal of the show is, it's a different genre every episode)

[@thepandorica1660]

Also... 1. Present 2. Future (and first trip) 3. Past (and a historical) 4/5. Multi part story 6. Meet the Doctor's arch enemies

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

Yes, as I understand it Daleks used to not be able to climb stairs.

[@leighraines8905]

Daleks shot is fire a beam that has electrical tendencies, is capable of propagating through water, and may be a form of plasma or electrolaser. When hit by it it turns all organs to liquid killing you instantly.

[@1funkyflyguy]

In other words a Dalek "Death Ray"!

[@leighraines8905]

@@1funkyflyguy basically in a nutshell 😂😂

[@HuntingViolets]

Ha, I have been waiting for someone to note that R2D2 looks like a Dalek. I won't say what C3P0 looks like.

[@SomeGuy4245-f1v]

Don't worry, you'll see what the Doctor was talking about with the Cybermen. And as the show goes on, you'll understand the Doctor's hatred of the Daleks. They're tragic, but not sympathetic. Every time they are given the chance to be better, they ruin it so they can continue their evil.

[@EricStanway-ky9ys]

For someone who first saw the Daleks in 1963, it's funny to see someone who knows nothing about them.

[@gunmasterx1164]

most Americans don't know about Doctor Who so it would make sense for them not to know anything about the Daleks or the shows history in general.

[@theshades5702]

Your reaction to the Dalek's true form... maybe I shouldn't mention that they're mutant abominations who used to look just like us...

[@edroia4123]

The cute robot head is a cyberman. they are a classic villain. They are basically forced cyborgs

[@mayotango1317]

20:25 Oh boy, you need to watch the classic Who companions.

[@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg]

No spoilers - but if you think this was a tragic episode, it's going to be interesting to see some of your reactions to some of the fan favourite episodes.

[@Sam-sr9zq]

I've been looking forward to this one!

[@LCBK]

Reminds me of R2D2 Na the daleks are closer to chopper

[@cjbalata]

BAD WOLF !

[@mickledapickle97]

I would really recommend going back and watching at least a couple classic Who stories. They're really fun and add some context to these things. Like, the Doctor explains here that the Daleks were the race the Time Lords fought in the Time war, but also he had fought them at least 15 different times before. As well as lots of other monsters that make appearences too.

[@Wolf359inc]

I’d recommend the exact opposite. I love that Emme is experiencing Doctor Who for the first time, and literally everything is new to her. It’s great seeing her reactions and interpretations of things, which make Classic Who fans alternately shudder, or cringe. Once Emme is done with NuWho, I would beg her to go back and watch some Classic Who, but not until then. Cheers,

[@mickledapickle97]

@@Wolf359inc I'm not saying go back any watch all of it or anything. It's 23 seasons. I did when I first watched it. My teacher showed us The Library two parter and the fugative doctor, then I went and watched it all chonologically. But I'm a complessionist and people don't typically want to do that. However while still this early, I think it'd be good to go back and watch some of the most important stories. The first ever encounter with the Daleks and some of their other stories, a couple of the cypermen, martians maybe. Just some that will be relevant in New Who. The main reason I watched Classic first was because I wanted to catch easter eggs and references to classic in new who. But regrettably there is really very little in the grand sceme of it. But those important ones here and there do make it much more enjoyable in my opinion. To me it's much more fun to see something and go, "oh yeah! I remember that from back then", rather than "oh, so thats what that was." But she can do whatever.

[@MrNoLen5]

This robot is in Looney Tunes Back in Action. Love that movie

[@ftumschk]

_"Not everything on the Internet is true. Maybe he learned some bad things"_ - That might just be the perfect motto for our times :)

[@crappiefisher1331]

that sentence gets a little ironic after she claimed that someone admitted the existence of aliens last year, but no one payed attention because so much else was going on... she said something similarly weird a few episodes ago... i wonder where she got that nonsense from.. i am sure internet in general or social media in particular had nothing to do with it.........

[@emme]

It’s a joke LOL

[@steve8510]

Never trust a Dalek

[@910luk]

2:25 Oh Emme... You will learn why the Cybermen are nightmarish soon...

[@SuperHeroStoriesUnlimited]

Yeah the fast ones from the later series they are scary but the standard ones i get how they beat us but they dont beat the daleks

[@jeanine6328]

The head that didn’t look to threatening and kinda cute, you’ll find out later, not so cute.

[@fayesouthall6604]

As others say Daleks have a dr who history. Basically Nazis in robotics form. You’ll see Daleks throughout new Dr Who

[@dylanburton4955]

While I enjoy the rest of the series before, this episode for me is when the show really starts to stick the landing and find its feet

[@ruairiedwards8616]

Emme, meet the Daleks

[@fayesouthall6604]

Don’t worry about Jackie Tyler.

[@sardoniccocobird7575]

The doctor in this episode does come off very unhinged at moments but a single Dalek is more than enough to justify that reaction. He’s also ended the war with a single button press, he knows how many ch1ldren he ki11ed and that was just before season one started.

[@craigmorris4083]

Emme, what happened was called the Time War. The war The Doctor lost.

[@craigmorris4083]

A war with the Dalek.

[@craigmorris4083]

Oh, and please Emme, please do not ever feel sorry for the large pepper shaker.

[@magicbrownie1357]

Does Emme still teach kinders?

[@emuselg]

I absolutely adore this episode as a fantastic subversion of classic Who Dalek tropes, but I've got to admit. The more I see it, and reactions to it the more it becomes evident just how much they dilute the Dalek to a misunderstood robot. As a first introduction to one of the greatest and most terriffying of all Dr Who villains, it really falls flat. In reactions, there's often a lot of 'Why's The Doctor being so mean to the poor little Robo-Goebells'. 'Bless the little Hitler, it's just misurderstood'. The episode is written to give maximum sympathy to the Dalek, and categorizes The Doctor as wrong for being opposed to the Nazi death machine. The best part of the episode is for sure the part midway through the episode between Rose activating it, to when it starts developing feelings, where they do fully sell it as the 'ultimate in ethnic cleansing' that it is.

[@markandresen1]

Good review, Emme.