Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Dalek: Difference between revisions

::The Dalek is more likely looking for ''present'' information regarding Daleks on earth, in which case he is likely the only one in 2012 itself. In addition, dialogue within various [[Torchwood]] episodes, as well as Remembrance of the Daleks suggests that information about certain events was repressed from public knowledge. Stolen earth and journey's end were just because there are probably no daleks on earth in 2012 dosent mean there would be no useful info on the internet for this dalek. Also if it had access to the internet it could get access to secret files about extraterrestrials, [it is in van stattens vault] and could therefore find out info from unit and torchwood about , the cult of skaro, stealing of the earth and davros and indeed the daleks from doomsday

:::These events could have been removed from history by the [[Cracks in Time]].

*How can van Statten (who seems to own the President) not know what a Dalek is, even though they stole and attacked the Earth 3 years earlier in ''The Stolen Earth'' and ''Journey's End''?

::Again, History may have been changed. Also, there is as yet no indication that any Dalek "remains" survived the Medusa Cascade incident for study. And the episode establishes van Statten as a megalomaniac - he may have simply made up the name Metaltron because he liked it better than Dalek; he says he'd rather find out the Metaltron's real name, but he could have been testing the Doctor. Note he doesn't make a big deal of it once the Dalek's name is revealed. In addition, later stories (but earlier events) establish that some Daleks have names ([[Dalek Caan]], for instance); who is to say van Statten wasn't looking for this information? '''' ''''''' Amy Pond in DW:Victory of the Daleks does not know of the Daleks' existence which leads one to believe the memory may have been wiped from the minds of all humans.''

:::These events could have been removed from history by the [[Cracks in Time]].

*The Dalek begs the Doctor for pity. It was established in [[DW]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' and other stories that the Daleks cannot feel pity, having no concept of it.

::In this episode, however, the Dalek is knowledgeable about emotions to manipulate them without actually having any itself, hence why it was able to trick Rose into touching it. Plus a major point of the episode is how the Dalek takes on human characteristics after Rose touches it.

*If the Daleks can hover around the city and even space with ease ([[DW]]: [[Doomsday]]/[[DW]]: [[The Stolen Earth]]/[[DW]]: [[The Parting of the Ways]]), why is this one slowly getting around hovering? Since it also wants to get past the bulk head as fast as possible.

::It's possible that this particular Dalek was of an older model, or that it was not 100% repaired when touched by Rose. Also, this Dalek hadn't hovered, or even moved in over 40 years, so it would likely been slower than others.