Anonymous asked: Hi, thought I would nerd out for a second after reading your post. I politely disagree with some of your thoughts but am willing to be swayed. 1. When in the new series did they state the planet Skaro was destroyed in the time war? I remember them saying Gallifrey but not Skaro. 2. In Victory of the Daleks a new race of Daleks was created, and doctor let them escape as to save earth. So the daleks built a new race, they've been doing it since the show began. So why is this weird?
1. The destruction of Skaro was either mentioned or alluded to multiple times by Ten (notably in 2005’s Dalek, but also afterwards whenever they showed up). Essentially, the Doctor destroyed Skaro at the same time he destroyed Gallifrey, ending both the TimeLords and the Daleks; but even if you want to quibble about word use and say it was decimated rather than destroyed, at the very least, Skaro is meant to be time-locked along with everything else from the Time War, and therefore unreachable. Apparently there’s a canonical video game where Skaro was somehow retrieved, but even if that’s true, letting it pass without mention in Asylum still strikes me as being bad writing, if only because it’s unreasonable to expect every viewer to also have played the game, and is such a big development anyway that a refresher would definitely be relevant.
2. As I’ve mentioned here, the new Daleks from Victory are very, very different to the Daleks we see in the Parliament - in fact, all the old-model bronze Daleks from Victory either killed themselves or were exterminated because the new, colour-coded models deemed them to be an inferior species. So it doesn’t make sense that, even if the Daleks had managed to rebuild their numbers, they’d all be the old-style Daleks instead of the new ones; nor does it explain why there were new-style Daleks in the asylum, which is meant to be centuries old.
At base, my complaint isn’t with the continuity being altered: it’s with it being altered massively with zero explanation, and without the characters asking fairly basic questions about what’s going on around them. If Moffat had tied up his loose ends, referenced the return of Skaro and dropped in a plausible explanation for what happened, that would be a different matter - but he didn’t, which undermines the integrity of the whole premise.
ETA: Anon has left me four other questions similar to the above, all of which I feel were answered adequately in my original post. It’s fine if s/he disagrees, but I don’t have so much free time that I’m going to essentially rephrase my entire blog on the offchance of convincing one person.