Can I use this idea and actually do this?

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For all the problems I have with Chibnall’s era, I can’t deny that he knew how to write the Daleks properly. Honestly kinda hope that he comes back to write a Dalek story or two in RTD2.

I agree, it was a shame they were killed off as I kinda liked the design .

While they were a good design They definitely weren't made in mind to be a permanent replacement

@@lordferbus2970 In hindsight, that seems obvious; and maybe I bought into the hype. There's a Radio Times cover promoting this special that referred to the Defense Drone Daleks as "the new Daleks"; and, granted, that's nothing more than hype and promotion. But, after 10+ years of the Time War design, I was ready for a change.

I wouldn’t necessarily have liked to have seen them because permanent design per say but I think it would have been more terrifying if they had been the only Daleks to appear in this episode, with the death squad Daleks appearing even later in the story of better yet not at all. This was my really only major gripe with the story is that the Recon drones barely get anytime to shine before they are destroyed off screen. I also loved the design, there were so many references to classic who which I always love. Shame we didn’t see more of them. Xx

I think the reaction to the Paradigms caused the production team to be 'cautious' about potential replacements. Things like the DDs are probably intended to test the water.

I think another major factor as to why the paradigms failed was besides the "our daleks are better" it's also the fact that they didn't do much in there introduction episode. They come in, kill the original bronze daleks. Miss the doctor when firing at him, and then they leave. Besides that you also had the worst choice of set for a dalek ship with the whole industrial kitchen ordeal. I'm sure if the props weren't phased out because of issues using them the fanbase would of eventually gotten use to the designs, but it doesn't change just how weak of an introduction they got. I will say though, although many consider them bad, I really do love them and wish they got a proper short at being daleks.

I think the Paradigm was less "our Daleks are better" and more, "Hey, new era! New design!" They always came off as a creative choice rather than a "screw you" to fans. In a way, I think it was supposed to be a "passing of the torch" from the bronze Daleks since they created the Paradigm. I think had Moffat stuck with whatever story he had planned, the Paradigm Daleks would have been accepted and maybe even liked. I hope one day we find out what that story was... (Big Finish pls?)

Paradigms are disliked for: 1] Their dreadful primary colour schemes 2] The horrible hunch back While both of these were addressed somewhat in a later episodes; the damage was done.

​@@ekij133 I don't mind the colours (the metallic ones from Asylum are better though) or the hunchback. Where they deviate from Dalek design is the height and not having a pointy skirt.

Didn't Moffat reset the universe at the end of S5 as an attempt to definitively establish the idea that DW's continuity was non-existent?

@@KitchenSinkSoup He sort of did... it think it was more that the cracks caused certain events to be erased. Hence why no one remembers the "Cyberking." But certain events are still referenced afterwards. Like the fall of Torchwood is mentioned in "Spyfall," so that still happened. I'm not sure about Stolen Earth, because I heard those events were erased and that's why Davros survived. Also, "there is no continuity" is just an excuse for writers to be lazy.

@@crimsong8068 Tbf to the writers though, DW does have a... loose idea of continuity

@@KitchenSinkSoup I mean, you're not wrong... But even adding a simple line or two would suffice in most cases.

yeah stolen earth was revealed to be erased by one of the time cracks (victory of the daleks) when the doctor asked amy why she didn't remember 27 planets in the sky and the daleks invading and kidnapping loads of people cause she was alive at the time.@@crimsong8068

I covered them briefly in my Recon Scout Dalek video, but I thought they deserved their own focus video

I think the lights changing from blue to red is a bit too on the nose for my liking

The robot Daleks from Destiny of the Daleks

New Who takes the same approach that Classic Who did - unless the events of a previous episode are directly relevant to the current episode, they're usually overlooked. There's a great moment in Remembrance of the Daleks where Ace questions this, asking why nobody from her own time remembers Daleks rampaging around London in 1963. The Doctor replies by sarcastically berating Humanity for having "an amazing capacity for self-deception", and lists a couple of other high-profile alien attacks from earlier in the series like the Zygon gambit with the Loch Ness Monster and another time when there were Yetis in the London Underground. New Who took the same approach from episode 1 - Jackie witnesses the Auton attack, then seems to have completely forgotten about it a year later. Steven Moffat offered an explanation in his series, in that timeliness are in flux and "temporally sensitive" events aren't retained in the memories of the general population for long. The giant Cyberman from the Next Doctor Christmas Special is cited as an example - because the Cybermen fell back through time, and because they were defeated using wibbly-wobbly time technology, the population don't retain their memories of the attack for long and soon forget. Remember in Series 6 when Rory fell into a time field and everyone forgot him, including Amy? It's the same basic premise but applied on a bigger scale

It doesn't really matter to the Daleks - they're advanced enough that any foothold on the planet is as good as another. They have no interest in taking over the pre-existing governments or infrastructure of Earth, theyre far more likely to simply wipe the US, China or any other large nations off the map completely. They do seem to like islands though - they've made several incursions in Manhattan as well as the UK. I suppose it makes it easier for them to consolidate their forces if they quickly conquer a Human-controlled landmass and use that as a staging area for their global conquest.

without the mutant, the drone is just that - a drone. but it was designed to allow the mutant to override the original function

To be fair I don't think they were intended as a full replacement.