History YMMV / DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks

'''WARNING! THERE MAY BE UNMARKED SPOILERS!'''

** It is, however, worth noting that Amy is a woman with three timelines in her head, was already likely mentally ill from waiting for the Doctor as a child and/or growing up with the crack in her wall, never truly has time to process that she's lost her baby ''for good'', feels guilt over killing someone, and then after all of it finds out that the people who took her kid made her unable to have any more. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation It's very likely]] that she actually pushes Rory away not because she doesn't think he'd be happy, or even ''just'' because of the children, but instead that, for her, it's yet another thing about her that makes her unworthy of keeping him.

** It is, however, worth noting that Amy is a woman with three timelines in her head, was already likely mentally ill from waiting for The Doctor as a child and/or growing up with the crack in her wall, never truly has time to process that she's lost her baby ''for good'', feels guilt over killing someone, and then after all of it finds out that the people who took her kid made her unable to have any more. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation It's very likely]] that she actually pushes Rory away not because she doesn't think he'd be happy, or even ''just'' because of the children, but instead that, for her, it's yet another thing about her that makes her unworthy of keeping him.
* VillainDecay: Believe it or not, this is the very first Dalek story where they don't kill a single person onscreen. There's even a scene where Rory is surrounded by Daleks in the Asylum & is able to dodge all their shots, though these ones had been catatonic for who knows how long, so their aim can be considered as rusty as their casings.

* FreezeFrameBonus: An overhead shot in Oswin's cell shows faint track marks on the floor. Has she been moving to an imaginary oven, keyboard and barricade, over and over and over again?

%%* MemeticMutation: Soufflés.

** They went to extreme lengths to obtain old Dalek props, going all the way back to the 1960s, promising a focus on the threat of Daleks from throughout history... and then use them as generic background characters in such dark conditions that it isn't clear unless you know what you're looking for that they aren't just using the new props. Especially JustForFun/{{Egregious}} is the return of the Special Weapons Dalek, who ''doesn't even move''. What, did it die? Or is it pulling a [[Literature/RipVanWinkle Rip Van Dalek?]]
** For a story titled ''Asylum of the Daleks'', which promised us a planet's worth of insane out-of-control Daleks, it doesn't have anything even remotely close to the insane Daleks you might expect, in the mould of Dalek Caan. They're mostly just catatonic. (And not that Oswin's story isn't [[TheWoobie heartbreaking]] and all, but converting people is the Cybermen's gig, and has nothing much to do with the premise of a planet of crazy Daleks. How much more strange and arresting would it be if Oswin had never been human at all — if she really ''was'' a Dalek, whose insanity was that it thought it was a human?)

** Plus, if they really wanted kids, there's also adoption (which, of course, wouldn't be the same, but better than nothing).

* VillainDecay: Believe it or not, this is the very first Dalek story where they don't kill a single person onscreen. There's even a scene where Rory is surrounded by Daleks in the Asylum & is able to dodge all their shots, though these ones had been catatonic for god knows how long and their aim was as rusty as their casings. Still Rory was point blank and they still missed.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Possibly in response to criticisms about the new designs of the Daleks introduced in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks Victory of the Daleks]]", this episode utilizes the Dalek design introduced by the Creator/RussellTDavies run instead, while still using the New Dalek Paradigm as officers.

* MemeticMutation: Soufflés.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Amy, for throwing Rory out [[PoorCommunicationKills without even telling him why]], then acting as though her giving him up (which, as the end of the episode shows, wasn't even necessary) is more noble than his guarding her OnlyMostlyDead body for 2,000 years. The whole thing left many fans crying foul and some critics scratching their heads over what came off as an IdiotPlot because of it. There was also a sketch from WebVideo/ThePopArena where Rory incredulously asks if Amy seriously thought his lifelong love for her, and spending millennia guarding her, was just because he wanted a baby-making machine.

* VillainDecay: Believe it or not, this is the very first Dalek story where they don't kill a single person onscreen. There's even a scene where Rory is surrounded by Daleks in the Asylum & is able to dodge all their shots.

* VillainDecay: Believe it or not, this is the very first Dalek story where they don't kill a single person onscreen. There's even a scene where Rory is surrounded by Daleks in the Asylum & is able to dodge all their shots. Somewhat justified by the fact that these Daleks are all broken in some way.