I'll be back!

I would love for this particular Dalek to come in some shape or form. Like, maybe it’s revealed to exist for as long as it can in Dalek history, then travel back so the earliest Daleks find it. And we find out Daleks are strong as they are because it has already done this thousands of times, imparting better and better tech each time.

It's neat to learn the Eternal's role, but I liked the idea of Trenzalore's saucer housing the Dalek Parliament and the last of the Paradigm caste. Since the canon is so slippery and contradictory, especially outside the show, I think I'll just believe that instead.

DANG! I'm rather conflicted. On one hand we've gotten a story to have the paradigm Daleks properly shine and have s conclusive end, on the other it was a rather nice sentimental idea that a paradigm supreme was facing Eleven on trenzalore after the prime minister went mad. Eitheir way the Dalek Eternal certainly proved to be very interesting!

Here's the thing, I love Victory of the Doctor, but the Paradigm don't end there, they can't. At least the Supreme should have been a Paradigm in Time of the Doctor because of the voice modulation. And if the Doctor did succeed 100% then there wouldn't be any Daleks from Time of the Doctor onwards regardless, so it's fair to say the Parliament survived in some form, and the Supreme Dalek is one of the Daleks that survived

Glad the Eternals official role has been revealed

I love the idea that the Paradigm Supreme killed in Victory of the Doctor isn’t the same one from Victory or Time of the Doctor

Having watched the Paradigm Daleks' debut back in 2010, I wasn't that sold on them or their designs but your videos have recently helped me see these Daleks in a whole new light!

I want the Paradigm Daleks back!

The eternal dock has always been my favorite of the paradigm, though not as satisfying as I would’ve liked this is an OK explanation for its role

I like the dive into Paradigm lore, however limited it is.

My guy, the flood music and halo 2 ruins map, using it for the daleks... I love it. Honestly, it'd be interesting to see the daleks launch an invasion of the Halo universe. Do you think they would be successful? Have a sweeping victory? Struggle a bit? Or leave a small contingent to activate the halos and return once all life was dead? 🤔

It’s unfortunate that big finish brought them back only to immediately kill them off as they could of probably found ways to do more with them I still need to pick up this box set but from what I’ve seen it looks pretty good

Though it's nice to know what the eternals row was I do personally the fan Theory that the Eternal held progenitor devices so if anything happened the Eternal could rebuild the empire

That's way more interesting than what was theorised before and the only thing we had was: Well, it's... It's. It is yellow.

I've already specified what Role I would have given the eternal in the past, but I won't lie, I'm satisfied with its true purpose revealed now. Cataloging data regarding Dalek history is not an easy task, since the universe is based on rewriting the timeline via time travel.

well there we have it the paradigms destruction and the begining of a new era for the daleks.

Well one story I found, and in my soon to be written story the Enteral abandoned the Parliament making it's own faction of Daleks. Called the Neo-Imperials with the Time Controller as the second in command. With the purpose of having a new emperor to the empire.

I wondered if the Dalek Eternal (Since all the other's had their designations after the "Dalek" rather than before it I think) was a sort of Dalek "moral" arbiter, it a record of Dalek history and culture (such as it was). The Strategists and Scientists could formulate plans and weapons, and the Supreme could order them to be actioned through the Drones, but it was the Eternal who would evaluate the plan, judge whether it was true to the "eternal" Dalek ideology and, if necessary, say "No", countermanding the Supreme, without fear of reprisal.

I personally love the idea of its purpose being a historical archivist it’s something unique and different to the Daleks. The Eternal accesses the Data of their timeline, history battle information and analyses it to create new ways of survival for the Dalek race. I think that’s clever personally do I’m afraid I disagree with you about it being lacklustre. The Eternal still seems to serve an advisory role to the supreme similar to the strategist. Both analyse the data and advise the supreme. For me personally I much prefer the idea of the paradigm being destroyed in the final battle of Trenzalore as it’s far more fitting and climactic. So that is how I will personally believe that the paradigm end. To me victory of the Doctor takes place in an alternate Timeline so that this is just one of the paradigms defeats. I also believe that the eternal is still alive but damaged. Overall victory of the Doctor was a great story and I’d give it a solid 9.5/10 but I definitely have some issues with it. Great video as always. Remember to Keep Calm and Carry On, Living the Geek Life 😎. Xx

Well then there you have it, all Daleks will now return to their work.

I thought its role would have been like take 2 of the cult of skaro, a unit dedicated only on ensuing the survival of the daleks by any means necessary Though the historian angle could have been fun too i guess

While I utterly live this boxset, I mean it is proper grim and shows how much of force of nature the daleks are. I do love the strategist and supremes bickering, why the daleks would create a supreme so arrogant & up itself that it won't listen to the advice of its strategist is beyond me. I'm amazed they go anything done. I also love the fact the scientist and eternal held a lot of thr limelight over the others. That said, while the idea of the eternal being a historian is interesting, it is lackluster to all the hype Mark gatiss and Moffat made for him. They probably didn't even know what to do for him when they created him. Does beg the question on which dalek empire is this in time of the doctor, I know victory of the doctor has a line about daleks in stasis reawakening down the line. Or is it the davros daleks we see in series 9. Again I loved this boxset, it's just sad it destroy the reborn paradigm as the hype for their return was at a high.

Y’know, not sure you know this but I just found this out and thought I’d share it here. Might be interesting. Apparently, a “dalek” (though they refer to it within the story it appears in as a Mechanical Warrior / metal man) makes an appearance within Warhammer. Specifically, in the old scenario for Stuff of Legends: Vengeance of the Lich Master. On the page for the counters displaying the units for this scenario, the representation for the Mechanical Warrior has a striking similarity to a dalek. Not to also mention at the time of publishing this expansion, Citadel were making models for other famous properties, with Doctor Who being one of them - even showcasing an add of their rage later within the issue. The story itself focuses around several factions fighting around a monetary which is currently under siege by Skaven, and their leader Gnawdoom. The abbot, Bagrian - who is also kind of a mad scientist - has stolen an artefact from Gnawdoom called “The Black Ark Of The Covenant” which Bagrian plans to use as a power source for the Mechanical Warrior so that it may destroy Gnawdoom and his Skaven army.

I miss them in a weird way

Fair enough, though in my head canon (since I was a 9 year old haha) I always thought the Eternals (as I assumed there’d be more than one of them like the Drones) to form a kind of espionage branch for the Daleks, kind of like a KGB/CIA etc Dalek version. Who’d then go throughout time and space eavesdropping, spying, influencing, hypnotising and keeping tabs on the various alien races and civilisations out there to secretly nudge things by stoking violence and war (like what the Daleks did in Frontier in Space) in order to further Dalek hegemony. Like for example, they’re the ones who install the Dalek puppets (in my head canon)

think the eternal dalek plays it as it is in the youtube masterpiece video 'dalek Tales'

I think it sucks that it suggests we see even less of the Paradigm Dalek's story on screen, but also it's a slightly more honourable death than the Doctor essentially killing them by accident.

Well, tbh. I kind of prefer Librarian Bot's take on the Eternal as a caste rather than a sole individual being charged with keeping the "purity" of the Dalek Race and such.

Still pissed we didn't get the true paradigm at the height of their glory on screen. And I'm even more pissed that big finish didn't capitalize on this either. Adventure games and eternity clock it is then 😂😂

That’s like a perfect example of why you shouldn’t be secretive about something mundane, because fans will theorise, try to fill gaps and make sense of a mystery, which makes the ultimate revelation disappointing.

. . . I ain't gonna lie, the official end of the Paradigm Daleks does sound rather fitting for them; but I am slightly disappointed by the official role of the Eternal Dalek, just slightly. I personally still stick too what I've said in your original video on the Eternal Dalek DB, a Dalek who's sole job is too make sure that The Daleks never face extinction again by rebuilding a Dalek civilization and army; Hell that thing literally looks like a bee with its black and yellow color scheme.

Yeah if this is indeed the end of the paradigm then i would like to see what design the dalek supreme had in Time of the doctor. Perhaps the red supreme design.

Who blooming knows. I want him back though.

They reming me of Mini Coopers Dont know why, but they do Ant p uk

Wasn't it the Eternal that advised the Supreme to go to Trenzalore? I'm going to assume the Eternal somehow survived the pocket universe.

How many years has it been since we first saw the Paradigm Dalek Eternal? 14? I personally am very happy that its role has finally been updated because we've been both in the discord and across the internet been trying to figure it out.

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you just here using absolute bangers for your sound track now huh? first sonic heroes now halo? loving it

Maybe… I should listen to VoTD.

I wouldn’t be disappointed if this story isn’t cannon tbh. All the hype over the eternals purpose and it’s an over glorified librarian. Not to mention the horrible redesign the doubling down on the bronze usage and they all die to spiders at the end.

Don't know if this was ever addressed, do Daleks die of old age or are they immortal as far as aging goes?

I still need to design my own Dalek I'm already desided on useing the scraped movie dalek skirt design, the recon scout/defence drone turret section, and a modified paradime eye stalk but the head and neck sections a bit up in the air right now. Any sujestions?

i can imagine if i had a black one

I personally think that the new paradigm Daleks were a wasted opportunity utilised by pathetically poor writers and dismissed by a cowardly show runner. Here's my take; after Victory of the Daleks, the Paradigms instantly declare a crusade to annihilate all impure Daleks from all universes and all timelines. However, they remain few in number and it takes time to evolve more mutants to bolster their forces. Their quest to achieve the goal of a pure Dalek strain leads them to attack star systems for the raw materials they need and they seem all but invincible. Every encounter the Paradigm has with their other "impure" Dalek counterparts leads to the utter obliteration of the latter with the Paradigm's ultimate goal of retaking their original homeworld, Skaro, before going on to conquer in all universes and all timelines. Having limited numbers, I think the Paradigm could have been kept as background characters, only emerging every now and then to show off how ruthless, scary and unstoppable they are. They could have shown little regard for the Doctor, viewing him and Gallifreyans in general more as a pests rather than all powerful Time Lords. Their main focus would continue to be wiping out all impure Daleks, something of an epic undertaking regarding their still relatively small numbers. As for the Eternal, I would have made it exactly that; Eternal. An indestructible, immortal Dalek capable of regenerating itself no matter how much damage it took, even total disintegration. That way, even if all Daleks everywhere and everywhen were destroyed, the Dalek race would always have an assured way of returning. I honestly think that with a little time, effort and courage, the New Dalek Paradigm could have been an awesome enemy; one whose disregard for who and what he is puts even the Doctor on the back foot. Implacable, ruthless and hard to take down with only a handful of Drones able to conquer entire star systems. A foe so deadly that even the Doctor's oldest, most feared enemies approach him for help in a seemingly impossible conflict that decimates their numbers on a daily basis. In the rare event of a defeat, the Paradigm retreat into the shadows to rebuild their lost forces and bide their time until another opportunity to assert their dominance and superiority presents itself. Just my thoughts. Like I say, I think the new Dalek Paradigm was a totally wasted opportunity and Chinballs a total coward who let himself be utterly cowed by bitching Whovians with far too much time on their hands.