1. The Daleks Were Threatening
When Russell T Davies brought the Daleks back onto our screens in 2005, the older fans were excited to see them again and the younger ones, without experience of Doctor Who, were instantly in awe of these fearsome monsters. They were brought back in an interesting episode that explored the Doctors character more than their own and then at the end of series one, they were a terrifying fleet of impending doom. Throughout the Russell T Davies era, the Daleks kept returning and almost winning, only for the Doctor to thwart their plans and remove them from existence, until they somehow returned with another mad plan the next time. Credit where its due, Moffat broke this cycle by presenting the Doctor with an ultimatum: defeating the Daleks once and for all or saving the Earth. As he always would, he chose the Earth. The Daleks escaped the Doctors clutches and flew away, to rebuild their empire and hopefully pose a massive threat to the Doctor later. Even if they were far too colourful and cuddly-looking to be at all threatening. Except, when Moffat brought them back in Asylum Of The Daleks, he ruined them forever. They were never going to be a threat again. The episode itself was fantastic; it was just the ending that got to me. Oswin, or rather Clara as we know her now, removed the Doctor from the Daleks collective knowledge, meaning that anything that had previously happened between the Doctor and the Daleks had now never happened as far as the Daleks were concerned. Yes, okay, she did save his life with that move, so I guess the rest of the universe is thankful. But removing the Doctor from their memories? Thats basically taking all of the threat away from them now the Doctor and the Daleks could easily patch up their differences and make up, or at least stay out of each others way. And before you argue that the Daleks are death machines and that not knowing the Doctor doesnt make them any less of a threat - it does. When the Doctor had finished on the asylum and returned to their spaceship, did they try and exterminate this unknown intruder the second that he appeared on board? No. They simply asked who he was. Yes, Moffat, a basic interview question is as frightening as a war cry.
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