SPOILERS: New Daleks.. ? Pictures

[The Eternal Dalek]

City Daleks need contact with a metal floor to allow them to function: both motive power and life support need contact with the floor to access the static electricity they require. Maybe this was too complex for the writers to include in the story.

Sorry if I always seem down on this but I just have this feeling it's going to be a big messy free for all without any logic or cohesion.

Moffat has made the Doctor Who Experience non-canon now, so that suggests that the supposed war between the Paradigm and the RTD Daleks never happened, and rather that the Paradigm Daleks now just rule over them (like the Mondasian Cybermen rule over the Cybus Cybermen).

This will by the looks of things expand out and the Paradigm will just take control over every other type of Dalek to form one massive army to take on the Doctor.

When did he do that?

In his interview with DWM this issue. There wasn't a war and he's gone back to "Paradigm are the officer class" thing. Like the Supreme Council used to be the "officer class" during Planet of the Daleks.

[Ianotimelord]

If the Paradigm Daleks are to be in charge all the other Daleks are simply going to Obey them? The Special Weapons Dalek obeys Davros as well as the Imperial Daleks.

[The Eternal Dalek]

If the Paradigm Daleks are to be in charge all the other Daleks are simply going to Obey them? The Special Weapons Dalek obeys Davros as well as the Imperial Daleks.

The problem is, I believe that the "how" will be what the episode is about. All we know at the moment is the "what" if that makes sense.

How they team up is uncertain, all we konw is that they do team up and the Paradigm end up in charge, presumably as they are the most "pure". The nature of what makes a Dalek a Dalek is of course debatable, but the Daleks do seem to know what it is unless they have a superior Dalek lying to them about it. If the Daleks are the ultimate form of Kaled evolution then the Paradigm must be the end point of that evolution as perfected by Davros. Even in Genesis, Davros was still working on them throughout the story to make them even more "prefect" but as he was killed before his work could be completed the Daleks state of "purity" remains questionable even by themselves. The Progenitor devices were likely Davros' ultimate form of Dalek purity so these Daleks have the greatest "blobiness" as it was once described. If you are purer you get a higher ranking, although being pure doesn't necessarily mean they have great fashion taste, just that the blobs are perfect.

Of course that is all speculation.

[Melkur]

If the Paradigm Daleks are to be in charge all the other Daleks are simply going to Obey them? The Special Weapons Dalek obeys Davros as well as the Imperial Daleks.

It is a very good question, perhaps they come to some arrangement? Or maybe this has something to do with the mysterious Eternal, after all, a lot of Daleks that are supposed to be in it were destroyed in the stories they were in.

[Ianotimelord]

The story is likely to be called 'Asylum of the Daleks'.

[SeanMozzy]

The story is likely to be called 'Asylum of the Daleks'.

Out of curiosity why do you think that?

[Ianotimelord]

News on twitter, new series likely to start Saturday 25th August, or Saturday 1st September. http://news.drwho-online.co.uk/Series-7 ... ember.aspx

[Melkur]

The story is likely to be called 'Asylum of the Daleks'.

Oooh interesting! Does it mean Asylum, as in they are insane Daleks or Asylum as in Refuge? Probably the latter

News on twitter, new series likely to start Saturday 25th August, or Saturday 1st September. http://news.drwho-online.co.uk/Series-7 ... ember.aspx

Hope so, at least we won't have to wait too long.

[The Eternal Dalek]

The story is likely to be called 'Asylum of the Daleks'.

Oooh interesting! Does it mean Asylum, as in they are insane Daleks or Asylum as in Refuge? Probably the latter

News on twitter, new series likely to start Saturday 25th August, or Saturday 1st September. http://news.drwho-online.co.uk/Series-7 ... ember.aspx

Hope so, at least we won't have to wait too long.

We get five episodes early, but what of the others? Will they be delayed even further? Steven Moffat deliberately asked to move it to later in the year to avoid Spring broadcast but this series split will likely have destroyed those plans entirely.

But then again, there are people (or more correctly one) who is in charge of scheduling who hate Moffat and it wouldn't suprise me if this has been out of their own desires for scheduling it against Britain's Got Talent rather than when would be best for the show itself. He has said an Autumn broadcast would be best for the show, but as we all know August in the Northern Hempisphere is in Summer.

[Melkur]

We get five episodes early, but what of the others? Will they be delayed even further? Steven Moffat deliberately asked to move it to later in the year to avoid Spring broadcast but this series split will likely have destroyed those plans entirely.

But then again, there are people (or more correctly one) who is in charge of scheduling who hate Moffat and it wouldn't suprise me if this has been out of their own desires for scheduling it against Britain's Got Talent rather than when would be best for the show itself. He has said an Autumn broadcast would be best for the show, but as we all know August in the Northern Hempisphere is in Summer.

As we saw with Sherlock, Stephen is usually in the dark when it comes to the air date until nearly the last moment. Bit unfair, but i guess all producers are at their mercy.