Baron von Blitztank said:
gigastar said:
Gotta admit, you did exceedingly well. Good job, Citizen!
Although some still require some explanation and I'm just going to ask you as some kind of Doctor Who guru.
Oh im no guru, i just type what i remember and fill in the rest from Wikipedia.
Ill take the rest of the praise though, i like a good ego stroking.
Why were the Daleks in the Asylum still in their armour?
Cheaper than building a whole new life support platform for the sole purpose of containing insane individuals and a method to transfer them. I would think.
Why would the Daleks be worried about costs?
If they're going to the effort of launching them to another planet then surely they can at least make a few life-support test tubes like the Dalek Prime-Minister is in?
I think the best counter to this rebuttle is that alot has changed within the Dalek society since the Time War. A prime example being that they have shifted from an empire to having a parliament with a prime-minister.
And during the Time War while the Daleks did number in the trillions, possibly quadrillions, and any resource the Daleks could find or salvage would have gone into replacing lost ships or Daleks, including organic matter.
How did Dalek-Oswin still think she was human?
Oswin's conversion occured completely under automated supervision, so its probably that something went wrong because of this.
Fair enough but how did it work in The Parting of The Ways way back in the Season 1 Finale of Nu-Who?
Sure the Dalek Emperor probably would have had more time to fuck around with the creation process and was just creating normal Daleks as opposed to making a Dalek with specific genius-level intellect and that messed with the system but surely the concept of Human-Dalek conversion would have been studied and revised at this point before they tried a Human-Dalek-Genius which could fuck up the entire Dalek race if unchecked.
In that instance the humans used for conversion were actually dead before conversion. The Dalek Emperor at the time killed the humans, completely rewrote the genetic code in the corpses then stuck them in a test tube then applied lightning until he got more Daleks.
At least thats my interpretation of how he did the full thing. The actual process is probably more complex and involves necromancy.
Why were the Daleks afraid of entering the Asylum?
As mentioned in the episode, Daleks treat hatred like art, art which they would like to keep if possible. For regular Daleks to go down would run the risk of stirring up the hornets nest and resulting in them destroying thousands of pieces of "art".
Not to mention alot of the Daleks on that planet were still armed, pretty much making it a war of attrition
Good point but 70% of the insane Daleks we saw didn't even have guns and even for the ones that do have guns, I'm fairly certain the effect isn't as drastic as much as it is on a Human. Sure it probably would harm the Dalek on the inside but it'd probably just hurt as much as a bullet wound on a human, not instantly fatal but would hurt like fuck. Going with that analogy it does depend on where the human gets shot but here the Daleks have really slow reflexes so by the time they shouted "EggStirMinute" the other less-insane Daleks would be halfway across the room and at that range I doubt they'd be able to hit anything too vital.
Not only that, but the Insano-Daleks only seemed to go apeshit once they found out about The Doctor and Rory which being The Doctor and Human make them enemies of the Dalek race and so to be Exterminated. I'm sure that if a squad of Daleks came in they'd just be happy rusting away talking about Eggs and spinning in place while the squad do their jobs unhindered.
Finally, even if the Insano-Daleks ran the risk of attacking their own kind, there are more than enough Daleks on that ship to do a Zerg Rush and just send in more Daleks than the Insano's could possibly hope to defeat. If the Daleks didn't want to sacrifice their own kind, then why not capture and create a team of Dalek-Human sentries like they have on the ship?
I think you underestimate the numbers that could have been on that plannet.
I mean, the whole world is full of Daleks deemed unfit for military service
by the Daleks and they were dumped there throughout the Time War.
Also a Dalek is never unarmed. If thier lasers dont work, thier plungers probably will. If plungers dont work, then set the self-destruct and charge into a crowd of sanes. If the damage caused by any one exploding Dalek is anything like the one we saw blow in the episode, then thats more than enough to at least cripple a sane Dalek.
Then theres the matter of that forcefield, it seems specifically designed to keep Daleks from penetrating it. Which would explain why no insane Daleks escaped over the countless years this place has existed and why the sane Daleks didnt simply go in themselves.
Or there could have been some other eldritch abomination banished to the plannet that we never saw. Possibly could have been a Dalek Supreme or three in there?
Or they could have been stuck contemplating what kind of horror managed to survive despite thier security measures among the hordes of the insane Daleks.
Why haven't the Daleks been shown blowing up whole planets before?
I'm pretty sure they have, but then i havent seen the old series.
Either way, in the new series so far until now, blowing up planets was either completely counter-productive or not the point of their presence there
But why didn't they do that in The Parting of The Ways?
From what I remember of that episode the Emperor didn't care about the Earth anymore after he'd gained a large of Daleks from it's populace so why take slow effort in destroying the place continent at a time when it could have been blown up quicker in its entirety from orbit?
I could pin this down to being that these Daleks would have had better access to weaponry since it's the ship with the Dalek-Parliament onboard and the Emperor had to build everything from scratch. Plus there could have been a load of Dalek-Motherships behind the Parliament-Ship that we didn't see and it's only the Motherships that have the really devastating weaponry and the Emperor only had one Mothership with good thousand odd Battleships but I'm wondering if you have any different ideas for this one.
Ok that simply could have been military sense. If the Daleks simply nuked Earth then nothing would have stopped the Doctor from setting off his shiny new doomsday device and killing them all.
