8 Things Non-Fans Don't Understand About Doctor Who

Once upon a time, this one wasn't true.

Originally designed to evoke feelings of the Nazis, the Dalek race was conceived to be a faceless species dedicated on nothing more than conquest and conformity. While the Doctor has always looked distinctly human in appearance, the Daleks were intended to look as alien as possible, being little more than a large metal casing with one single eye-stalk.

While they terrified children back in the '60s when they were introduced, they've been presented slightly differently since the show's 2005 revival. While the Daleks are undoubtedly evil, the Doctor has proved time and time again that he is capable of outsmarting the Daleks at every turn, and it's becoming harder and harder now for even the show's youngest viewers to find the metal-encased species to be as scary as they were first intended to be.

The Daleks are intended as a threatening presence, and one of the Doctor's arch-nemeses, but the big brains behind the show know that no-one finds them particularly scary anymore, and no longer attempt to present them as such.