And then of course, the Earth was teleported across space, planets filled the skies, and Daleks roamed the streets rounding people up. He would have been about the same age as future astronaut and Mars colonist , Adelaide Brooke at this time, and she was profoundly affected by the experience.
To round the year off, Ryan actually turned into Harold Saxon for a bit. This was probably, on balance, the worst Christmas of the lot. The Cybermen invaded again. Then, not long after Ryan left school, the entire world was taken over by a species of really gross looking mummified monks who claimed to have always been in charge, before they also disappeared overnight.
Not long after that, Ryan met the Doctor for the first time and was shocked, shocked, to discover that aliens exist. Steven Moffat did give us one handy explanation for why nobody in Doctor Who remembers the Dalek invasion, or the giant steampunk Cyberman that invaded Victorian London, and probably much more.
The cracks in time left by that explosion erased all kinds of events from history, including, handily, anything that would cause the human view of the universe to deviate too far from the real-world status quo. Of course, that does leave some problems. Because while the Doctor has often waxed lyrical about humanity being indomitable, creative, and curious, there is also a lesser innate human quality the Doctor sometimes mentions: our absent-mindedness.
Or the Yeti in the Underground? Your species has an amazing capacity for self-deception. Likewise, nobody remembers dinosaurs invading London, or the other time shop window dummies came to life and started killing people, or when the Earth encountered its exact twin.
In this episode, three essential facts are made clear about the Daleks: they're mutant alien squids inside robot bodies, they're very dangerous, and the Doctor has a long-standing beef with them.
Still, because they've been around so long, it seems a little bit weird no one on Earth really knows about them in the year In fact, when the Doctor calls an info line trying to enlist the help of her old buddies at UNIT, the operator implies there hasn't been an alien invasion of Earth in a very long time.
This isn't a continuity error or anything, and Jodie Whittaker's era of Doctor Who isn't subtly rebooting the Dalek canon at all. In fact, everyone on Earth suddenly not remembering the Daleks goes way back. The Daleks first appeared in in the second serial featuring the 1st Doctor William Hartnell , which was simply and appropriately titled "The Daleks. The Daleks even pre-date the sonic screwdriver and the concept of Time Lords regenerating, so when a Dalek faces the Doctor, this is literally about as old-school as the show can get.
Over time, the show eventually revealed that the Daleks were created by a madman named Davros from the planet Skaro, who has tangoed with the Doctor in nearly all of the Time Lord's incarnations. In the famous Tom Baker serial "Genesis of the Daleks," the 4th Doctor grapples with the moral quandary of going back in time and preventing the Daleks from existing in the first place.
Ditto for the Peter Capaldi episode "The Magician's Apprentice," in which the 12th Doctor is presented with an opportunity to let a child version of Davros die way before he can invent the Daleks. In the new episode, "Resolution," this fact alone is part of the reason why the Daleks know about the Doctor even as far back as the 9th century on Earth. Because the 12th Doctor met Davros as a child, the Daleks have known about the Doctor since the very beginning.
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