Fridge / Doctor Who S12 E4 "Genesis of the Daleks"

• While it appears that the Doctor has only delayed the rise of the Daleks by a thousand years, which he says isn’t much on the cosmic scale, it is worth noting that their next few televised appearances placed particular focus on the Daleks’ lack of initiative and imagination; while the Daleks prior to this were aware that they lacked a proper understanding of humanity, they were still able to take the initiative, such as their attempts to manipulate the Doctor into helping them isolate the Dalek Factor (“The Evil of the Daleks”) or their efforts to master the power of invisibility (“Planet of the Daleks”). With this in mind, it is tempting to consider that the Doctor’s efforts here did have a deeper impact on Dalek development; since his presence indirectly provoked Davros into activating the Daleks before Davros had finished preparing them, the ‘new’ Daleks lacked the initiative they had possessed before, requiring them to resort to other measures to overcome their reliance on brute force and raw power as combat strategies, such as reviving Davros (“Destiny of the Daleks”) or ‘recruiting’ the creativity of a little girl to utilise human ingenuity for their battle strategies (“Remembrance of the Daleks”).