Forum:Stolen earth/dalek continuity error: Difference between revisions

Perhaps van Statten did know about the invasion, but being miles underground, he and his staff decided to ride it out there, and therefore may not have got a close up view of the Daleks, and then wouldn't know about their true identity when he found his one. Also, he could have simply forgotten about the name "Dalek" after seeing it on television afterwards or, as I've seen somewhere before, he preferred the name Metaltron. Again, perhaps he had no communications in the museum and didn't see images of the Daleks at all, far or close.

::The relationship between Daleks and the world hinges largely on Rose (and, later, Martha and Donna). It is easiest to understand what's going on by looking at the companion's timeline. Rose meets the lone Dalek with the Ninth Doctor in 2012. That Dalek dies. End of story. Except that we discover that the Emperor has, in a similar fashion to that lone Dalek, fallen through the "cracks" of the Time War and ended up in our relative future. Rose destroys all these Daleks. Next she, the Doctor and Mickey fall into the "Pete's World" universe. Their dance between dimensions, along with the two Torchwoods' later ramblings, fractures the walls between realities. This allows the Cult of Skaro to meet Rose in 2008. These Daleks become known to the broader world, which would seem to be a continuity error with ''Dalek''. But it's not. History, through Rose's travels, has gotten '''re-written'''. Therefore, both episodes, and the later ''Stolen Earth'', are true. From Rose's perspective, it's perfectly true that in 2012, Van Statten had a Dalek and he didn't know what it was. But then, '''at a later point in Rose's life''' in 2008, the world meets the Daleks in a big way. Meanwhile, ''Dalek'' doesn't account for the fact that Daleks were visibly present during the construction of the Empire State Building.