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[kingandy]

Oh, a few quick notes re this week's Doctor Who ...

• Part of me hopes they will take this opportunity to tie all the Dalek survival into one big lump. Currently there are three distinct instances of Daleks surviving the Great Distaster From Which No Dalek Could Possibly Have Escaped, which is somewhat stretching the bounds of credibility. From 1930s New York, it would be quite easy for (a) one gold Dalek to end up, broken and confused, in Van Statten's museum in 2012, and (b) the others to escape, hide in subspace, decide one of them is the Emperor and start converting humans into Daleks^[1] to build up their empire (in their Long Game). I half-suspected the human-to-Dalek conversion process was what the Great Experiment was going to be ... it's still not out of the question for Dalek Sec to become the Emperor, he does have that big throbbing brain after all.
• I still don't see the advantage of leaving behind your impervious flying battle-suit with built-in ray-guns, even if you do get "imagination".
• Why wasn't it called "The Daleks Take Manhatten!"?

Still, it was all good fun and I quite liked the musical number. Loved those wings...

[1] Or "Using human cellular matter and protein chains as raw material from which to grow new Daleks"

Comments

[kingandy]

"anything can happen"
"Sec can't be the Dalek Emperor."

Hmm, yeah.

See, this is the thing. It's a long-standing narrative convention in Who that you always encounter fellow time-travellers in the same subjective sequence as they do (anniversary specials notwithstanding), but personally I see no reason for this to be. Perhaps with fellow Gallifreyans (who could conceivably have such safeguards installed in their TARDISes), but such conveniences are, as you point out, all the less likely now the Lords of Time are all but gone.

I like how half your post is about how things are less rigid and more open now, and the conclusion you draw from this is that things can only possibly happen in one way.

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

"I like how half your post is about how things are less rigid and more open now, and the conclusion you draw from this is that things can only possibly happen in one way."

Exactly.