Howling:Coming Soon(?) - Our first real Dalek episode

So I'm curious what new and old Whovians think about the fact that our next Dalek story will probably be different from previous ones. Hopefully. And I don't just mean "far and away better" when I say different.

Recap: The only true Daleks we've seen in new Who, were in The Stolen Earth/Journey's End, and Victory of the Daleks. And possibly "Dalek," if that Dalek's backstory wasn't a lie. Plus the Cult of Skaro, but they were a separate culture whose personalities were (intentionally) nothing like normal Daleks. So really, the Daleks in TSE/JE were the first and only time new-Whovians have ever seen Daleks (as a culture or a war machine) in action.

We were promised a break from Dalek stories... well, we got a year off. Apparently S7 will have Daleks. If you need to groan, get it out of your system, before I ask...

What do you expect from new-Who's "real Dalek debut?" They're pure, they're organized, they're loose in the cosmos. Thanks to a cut-away moment (The Pandorica Opens) we know a group of them makes alliances to save the universe from an exploding TARDIS -- meaning at some point they grow strong enough to reveal themselves to other races with an open hand -- err, sucker -- of truce. Risky move, so I suspect they have confidence of numbers at that point.

My own answer is, I hope for something like a mini-version of The Dalek Master Plan, or more recently The Long Game and BW/PotW, where their involvement is a mystery until it's too late. That is their M.O. after all, and the suspense lasts long enough to spin quite a story while we wait to see screaming pepperpots. And most of all I expect to see the Doctor lose big in that upcoming encounter. Big, but not in the standard ways we're all used to (losing a companion, losing his own life, etc). Maybe the Doctor is trying to figure out a way to revert the Time War without making things worse -- and the Daleks will advance his plans for him before he's ready. The Daleks do have a way of screaming "Anything the Doctor can do, we can do better" -- and he's already rebooted the universe in this incarnation.

Y'all's thoughts? Agonaga talk to me 14:37, June 13, 2012 (UTC)