Doctor Who: 10 Times The Doctor Went Too Far
7. Dalek
The revival’s best Dalek episode is, without a doubt, its very first.
Nine, fresh out of the Time War and riddled with PTSD, comes across his first Dalek survivor. Having been sure he’d wiped them out, genociding his own people in the process, the Doctor does not take this revelation well. To put it mildly.
At first, the Dalek is caged and barely functional. Despite this, the Doctor sees this chained, helpless creature, and all he can feel is hatred. Gleeful that all the power is in his hands, and that the Dalek is defenceless, the Doctor’s very first instinct is to relentlessly torture it.
It’s a Dalek, sure, but yikes.
The Doctor spirals for the rest of the episode, going so far as to take up arms in order to destroy the Dalek, only for it to destroy itself after gaining some humanity from Rose’s DNA, and realising what a monster it is.
By the time the dust settles, Nine is thoroughly shaken. Just as the Dalek became a little too human, the Doctor became a little too Dalek.