#the weaponised biotech spy theme!

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

[id: the doctor: we're here to help, but we're also stuck in the time loop. the robot isnt a robot, it's called a dalek and it's a living mutant creature inside weaponised battle transport. it will kill everything not within its own image.]

13 still very adamant that it's Not A Robot. especially with these lines right around it. mutant creature. weaponised battle transport. not within its own image

DOCTOR: (scanning it) Half organic, half machine. Starts to make sense now. Wait. It's a Gathering Coil. No, dozens of Gathering Coils. These tentacle-y things, they're creatures which gather information. They've been lashed together and augmented into one super-creature. But why? What data are they gathering? Unless... YASMIN: So that's an alien species? DOCTOR: Not really. More of a semi-species. Weaponised bio-tech.

DOCTOR: What are we talking here? A lifeform? A weapon of some kind? CYBERMAN: Both...

ASHAD [hologram]: The Cyberium has given me understanding. It has distilled my purpose. I am the perfect vessel. Everything is in me for the ascension of the Cybermen, and beyond. DOCTOR: What do you mean, beyond? What's beyond that? ASHAD [hologram]: All your deaths. The death of everything is within me.

wait a minute

CYBERMAN: I am addressing the Cyberium. It must execute the host to be extracted.

DOCTOR: Old Time Lord trick. Not a nice one. Pushed his mind to his future death, tricked the Cyberium into letting go, hoped his body would survive the trauma.

might this be a way to get around the division bomb thats possibly in the doctor's head?

oh! you know how else is Unimpressed by robots? and who used these exact words too?

MASTER: But robots. Oof. I'm a bit disappointed. I see how you got there - an AI wanting to create more things in its own image - but it lacks vision. Right, what if we, er, workshop this? You know, kick it around a bit? I have notes. ASHAD: You question the strategy of the Cyberium? MASTER: I do. I mean, it's good, but it's not great. There's loads of robots. Throw a stick in this universe, you'll hit a robot. I used to do that. Any idiot can make themselves into a robot. It's not special.

it's not special. it's not like all these mutant weaponised biotech data-collecting spy things we keep bumping into