#s1 the dalek

[miametropolis]

literally took my dumbass until today to realize that the s1 finale is a direct parallel to “the dalek” in that the doctor ‘loses’ rose and decides to betray his usual code because “I lost her once. I can’t do it again” only for him to think in the finale that she’s really gone (cut to the pile of ashes he falls dramatically onto and holds in his hands) and THAT’S why he sends her off in the TARDIS, that’s why he has that look on his face. he can’t bear the thought of losing her, he knows he’s going to die. but he sends her back, not just because he loves her (duh, she’s the ‘woman he loves,’) but because he lost her once that day. and he’s not doing it again.

[gcballet]

Doctor Who S1 (2005) as Penguin Classics

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[ninesl3atherjacket]

Rose Tyler trying so hard to convince The Doctor to let The Dalek live only for the Dalek to order her to let him die always breaks my heart

[doctorwhocontext]

DOCTOR WHO S01E06 Dalek

[camellcat]

I'm rewatching s1 again and I think it's so fucking funny how much every other doctor except nine absolutely hates guns. nine is SO excited to shoot that goddamn dalek. he is READY he is DOWN he is soooo for it. he points a gun at rose tyler and doesn't even think about it until she scolds him for it.

and then in bad wolf where he's incredibly comfortable about holding that big ass blaster. never gets onto jack about parading around with them either. just does not bat an eye. in fact he is threatening people with it, even if it is a farce.

the others would NEVER lol

[coolbeansnico]

Watching doctor who is like:

"Who's behind this plot I wonder?"

"Oh its the fUCKING DARLEKS AGAIN 😐"

[lesbicosmos]

eight watches doctor who for the first time: season 1 episode 6 (dalek)

@latin-8-o-clock-my-room

[10moonymhrivertam]

Things that continually haunt me: New Who’s Companion-contemporary is a year ahead of the year it aired from Aliens of London/World War Three until the rewind in Last of the Time Lords, which resets it to correct contemporaneousness

[buildoblivion]

oh so jubilee is GOOD good

[bellamysgriffin]

hot take of the day but i think s2 of doctor who probs has the worst episodes out of the rtd era

[gaygollum]

that scene in doctor who where nine yells at the dalek why dont you just die? and there’s a pause and the dalek says you would make a good dalek. most brutal lines in all of doctor who and its episode SIX.

[atomiccollectionanchorme]

Doctor Who (2005) - Series 1 Episode 6 "Dalek"

Doctor Who Dalek | 1.06

[gcballet]

Up to the middle of chapter five in Possession by AS Byatt and I'm dying at how funny her takedown of American entitlement to the intellectual world of Europe is

[rosesbleachblondehair]

It is interesting how fandom understands that Rose influenced the Doctor to heal after the Time War and that she changed him for the better, but when it comes to how Rose shouldered the trauma of a veteran who came out of an incomprehensibly horrific war and how the first place that veteran takes her is to see her own planet get destroyed and how later she stands between that veteran holding a gun and a Dalek (she even has dialogue explicitly pointing out that the Doctor is the one who is pointing a gun at her), nobody in the fandom thinks about how any of that would have influenced and changed Rose.

It’s all why is s2 Rose different from s1 Rose? instead. And I think there’s an answer for why she’s different right in front of you.

[gotyouanyway]

and ofc it serves to humble and humanize the time lords to the audience especially in stories like square one where they do literally bicker at a conference and all that, like yeah these are just people on planets doing regular old politics. but imo considering that the time lords are actually as powerful as they claim to be (control the web of time etc.), and the other temporal powers are on par with them, it's good to remember that these aren't actually petty low-level interplanetary conflicts. compared to the rest of the universe, the other temporal powers are giants hanging out with the time lords. the time war could've just as easily been with the monans as the daleks, probably. it's just that the time lords, clinging to the tiny bit more power and authority they have, are so arrogant and dismissive that they (and their dominance of the narrative) can make anyone else seem totally average when they demonstrably are not

i also love how the time lords treat the other temporal powers. these are clearly not small, weak civilizations if they're powerful and time active enough to form meaningful relationships with gallifrey directly. i mean, on most planets they don't even know time lords exist, or they're known as a great and terrible legend. and the temporal superpowers are squabbling with them over conference tables, being both credible threats and allies, sending their students to their school. they are huge. but the time lords, despite recognizing their power/utility, can't even begin to admit they might be equals and can certainly never allow it to actually happen. unless they're besties at the moment or directly attacking gallifrey, all the other temporal powers are just annoying aliens to them. it's so arrogant it's awesome

[rabbitdarling]

So I'm on episode 6: Dalek and the one thing that has always stood out to me in this episode is the sheer compassion Rose shows. Yes she doesn't know what a Dalek is, the Doctor has never mentioned them or told her about them but her first instinct is to help and comfort this being she just saw be tortured.

She see's this hard metal thing, it doesn't look organic in any sense of the word, every other alien she has seen has had a more organic look to them compared to a Dalek. She asks if it's okay and if it's in pain, she reaches out to connect and comfort this cold inanimate object looking being.

Her sheer ability to empathize with others is so rooted into her very being that it changed the Dalek. Which has me wondering how much of Rose was always Bad Wolf from the very start of s1? I seriously love this season and how they interwove the story through out the episodes and I will always wish they delved more into how Bad Wolf could have changed Rose through out their adventures.