Comments | dwrewatch: 7x01 Asylum of the Daleks discussion post

_thirty2flavors in dwrewatch

7x01 Asylum of the Daleks discussion post

Sep 02, 2012 17:27

When we restarted this comm most people voted for us to have discussion posts for new episodes as they aired. Since we do rewatch posts on Saturday, we figure we'll do the discussion posts for the new episodes on Sunday, after you've hopefully had a bit of time to digest.

( Spoilers, obviously! Discussion under the cut. )

discussion post, series 7, 7x01 asylum of the daleks

Comments 10

_thirty2flavors September 2 2012, 21:59:33 UTC

1. I didn't care much about this stuff when I first watched, but the more I think about it the dumber it becomes. I mean, Dalek mythology is never gonna be my number one priority, so... whatever, but I still think it IS pretty stupid. Skaro wasn't even necessary for one, it was just there for the "omg" moment, but supposedly Skaro was destroyed so ? IDEK. The constant changes to what a Dalek is are a bit annoying as well since Daleks are meant to be the ultimate in racial cleansing. Your standards are slipping, Daleks ( ... )

shinyopals September 2 2012, 22:00:37 UTC

Lollll these questions are so delicately phrased.

Is this a good way to put a new spin of the Daleks, or an embarrassment to 50 years of canon?

A+ whoever wrote this.

Things that were good about this episode: OSWIN. And Karen's acting.
Things that were not: everything else.

I seriously want to see Dalek general election posters and slogans now. And televised election debates. And pundits. Dalek!Stephen Colbert is on the side of higher taxes and freeing human prisoners,that sort of thing. This was the wish I didn't know I had.

kilodalton September 2 2012, 22:22:14 UTC

Since "Oswin" is not a girl's name, but rather a boy's name/surname, and considering how much she liked gender-bender nicknames, my current bet is that this IS Clara, and that Oswin is her nickname for herself. Eleven never saw her, and we saw a mind-wipe in progress sooooo ... timey wimey stuff is my bet.

fauxkaren September 3 2012, 00:48:42 UTC

1. The idea of the Daleks not killing the insane/imperfect Daleks because their hatred is "beautiful" was pretty stupid, imo. I mean, it just doesn't really make sense to me that the Daleks would hesitate to kill anything that didn't live up to their standards of perfection. But whatever. I'm not all THAT attached to Dalek mythology, so meh. Did earlier episodes specifically say that Skaro was destroyed/time locked? I am really bad at remembering this stuff. But since I'm bad at remembering stuff like this, it didn't bother me that Skaro was there. LOL. Like idk. The Daleks are never an enemy that interests me for their Dalek-ness. Like genocidal robots are not an especially brilliant villain. It's more about their history with the Doctor that is interesting. More on that late ( ... )

foxmoonfade September 3 2012, 14:23:39 UTC

1. Daleks This didn't bother me as much since as early as the end of season one there were thousands of Daleks again (though they were obliterated). I think it's weird that so many Daleks AND SKARO have returned, but no Time Lords and no Gallifrey. That also doesn't bother me as much, since they shouldn't bring it all back or else what was the point. It just makes me think that possibly the Time Lords/Gallifrey could come back eventually. JUST NOT UNDER MOFFAT, PLEASE ( ... )