Doctor Who: Dalek realization

[butterfly]

It's because of the Doctor that Dalek Sec decided to try doing the human hybrid thing. I'm up to the Dalek-Doctor confrontation in Doomsday (God, it's a hard episode to rewatch, because it's actually thoroughly delightful before it rips out my heart) and the Doctor says it, right to Dalek Sec's eyestalk...

Rose: "They said one touch from a time traveller will wake it up."

The Doctor: "Technology using the one thing a Dalek can't do; touch. Sealed inside your casing. Not feeling anything... ever... from birth to death, locked inside a cold metal cage. Completely alone. And that explains your voice. No wonder you scream."

The Doctor gets right up to Sec and completely pwns him. Also, no wonder Sec wanted the Doctor around in Evolution of the Daleks if the Doctor was what made him realize he wanted out of his cage in the first place.

edit: They touched. Just a little -- Rose touching his shoulder when they back out of the door just after she's asked an excellent question ("Why do they need to get outside?") and the Doctor has no answer ("Time Lord science... what Time Lord science?"), but I hadn't noticed it before this rewatch and it makes me feel the tiniest bit better about the agony of the no-touching on the beach. Well, I say 'better'. It makes the agony slightly more bearable.

Comments

[vampireborg.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!!!!!!!

I totally would have never have thought of that, but you're right. :D

[honorh.livejournal.com]

Wow, I hadn't even thought of that--but you're right. Quite possibly the germ of an idea for Sec.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

It just came to me and now is totally part of my personal fanon about the show.

*nods*

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I was all *gasp* when the Doctor said that this time around. Because it makes so much sense -- all of Dalek Sec's plans have come to dust, he's just lost a ton of power because of the temporal shift, and the Doctor's words are ringing in his mind.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, nice observation!!

(And the Doctor's "can't touch" speech always kills me for what it turns into for himself at the end - locked inside a cold metal cage of the TARDIS, completely alone.)

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

And the Doctor's "can't touch" speech always kills me for what it turns into for himself at the end - locked inside a cold metal cage of the TARDIS, completely alone.

God, yes. And the comparison of the Doctor with the Daleks continues. They've actually done that in all of the Dalek episodes, now that I think about it. The fallen soldiers of Dalek, the choice of being a great exterminator laid before the Doctor in Parting of the Ways, trapped in a cage without touch in Doomsday, and final survivors in Evolution. His greatest enemy and what he fears most -- and he keeps treading the line towards becoming them.