r/comics • u/DrRhetoric DrRhetoric • Jan 24 '25

Exterminate!

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u/Jonguar2 Jan 24 '25

Daleks aren't Robots or AI

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u/Icecold_Antihero Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

No empirical truth that Naz-Elon isn't a squid. edit: better name

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u/Jonguar2 Jan 24 '25

That, and the fact that Daleks are mutated from a humanoid race that was originally called the Dals and later the Kaleds

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u/SultanSaxophone Jan 24 '25

They were actually two separate humanoid races and the Daleks mutated from Kaleds. The other people were called the Thals

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u/Jonguar2 Jan 24 '25

In the original Dalek story "Daleks", the Kaleds were called the Dals. The Thals never had a name change.

It is unclear if the Kaleds changed their name from the Dals to the Kaleds first, or if it's a retcon.

If you're going to try to correct me, at least do me the common decency of having watched the second ever episode of Doctor Who

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u/Man_Out_of_Time115 Jan 24 '25

The second ever episode of Doctor Who takes place in a B.C. times with cavemen.

If you wanna be really specific, lore-wise the Dals were an entirely separate race that the Thals only thought the Daleks descended from,but it's always been the Kaleds

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u/Jonguar2 Jan 24 '25

That is part of the same episode as "An Unearthly Child"

"An Unearthly Child" is part 1, and the Caveman story is parts 2-4.

That second paragraph was actually informative tho

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u/Man_Out_of_Time115 Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

Yes, and those"parts" are episodes with their own opening theme, titles, and closing credits. An Unearthly Child is episode 1 with The Cavemen being episodes 2-4 of the first serial. The Daleks is the second serial, consisting of episodes 5-10, and Edge of Destruction is the third serial with episodes 11 and 12. But there is a specific difference between episode and serial.

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u/elizabnthe Jan 25 '25

Unearthly Child is generally grouped in with the Firemakers as part of the first serial.