Whosday: The Daleks

ATTENTION ALL READERS!!

For years and years, every Dalek story fell on December, so every Whosday shall be dedicated to either the Daleks or the Christmas specials until the Epiphany of 2020.

So as of today, the Daleks have confiscated this blog from the very person who authored it, and will now use it to represent their own perspectives and opinions, especially on Tuesdays!

Without further delay, we present our first appearance ever!

The title of this serial is The Daleks, named after us, but it's labeled as The Dead Planet in this video simply because back in those days, the different episodes of serials had different names.  Humans clearly possess an inferior intellect that lacks Dalek efficiency.

Another unique quirk of this time period was that Doctor Who was sometimes treated as a somewhat educational show, having episodes that alternated between teaching science, and teaching history.  The historical ones actually have some valid educational value even to this day, but the scientific ones tend to be dated or distracted by fantasy, indicative of just how primitive the human race is by comparison to the Daleks. Here, this was one of the ones meant to convey scientific concepts, and while it does so at a mostly base level, it strangely has a bit more value in this area than most Doctor Who serials that focused on science did at the time.  In this case, it focused on things related to energy, particularly things powered by electricity and radiation-induced mutations.

Here, the mutations play a role, showing the different directions of two species; the glorious Daleks, and those disgusting Thals.

Of course, being the 1960s, a phase in human history in which both sides incorrectly feared that the other would use nuclear weapons (again, human intellect clearly has its limitations), this was also used as an opportunity to preach against nuclear war, and that's where the Daleks came in: They were not exactly as obsessed with total extermination as they are now, per se (in fact, they were depicted here more as engineers than warriors), but the Daleks were always xenophobic, afraid of things unknown to themselves, but with good reason, as ALL LIFE ENVIES THE DALEKS!!  Given that this was a Cold War reference, one could argue that the Daleks weren't exclusively akin to the Nazis, but rather to the overall jingoism of both sides at the time.  It is shameful that we, the Daleks, are used as symbolism for human anxiety and paranoia. DAL-EKS ARE SU-PER-I-OR TO HU-MANS IN EV-ER-Y SIN-GLE WAY!

DAL-EKS CON-QUER AND DES-TROY!!
DAL-EKS CON-QUER AND DES-TROY!!

This is hardly the most exciting Dalek story: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Power of the Daleks, and Genesis of the Daleks are far more interesting than this one, though all are anti-Dalek propaganda.  Daleks exterminate to remove all threatening life-forms, and to end all wars by preventing new ones from happening.  Daleks are not "evil".  Daleks have no concept of "evil".  DAL-EKS REIGN SU-PREME!!

But this Dalek story commanded a certain poignancy with pathetic humans at the time that caused the Daleks to stick with young British viewers are the time, creating a "Dalek-mania" that was instrumental to making the Daleks an important part of the show, thus beginning the path to widespread acknowledgement of our superiority.

Any dissent will be promptly exterminated.