History Recap / DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks

* {{Bookends}}: Inverted, as at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong the finale of series six]], and at the end of this episode (the series seven premiere), there is the repeated question "[[TitleDrop Doctor who]]?"

* ShutUpKirk: The Doctor tries to appeal to Darla to [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight remember the human she once was]], reminding her she has a daughter. Darla smirks and replies "Yes, I know. I read my file".

* AllThereInTheManual: The book ''Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe'' (2017) names the Parliament of the Dalek's saucer as ''Nacrana Va Hateen'' ("The Highest Authority" in Dalek). It also establishes that they were present for the [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor Siege of Trenzalore]] (see that episode's page for details on their fate).

* AllThereInTheManual: The book ''Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe'' (2017) names the Parliament of the Dalek's saucer as ''Nacrana Va Hateen'' ("The Highest Authority" in Dalek). It also establishes that there were present for the [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor Siege of Trenzalore]] (see that episode's page for details on their fate).

On the ruins of Skaro, the Doctor meets with the same woman to learn the specifics of his mission, only to be whisked away to a new location. Meanwhile, the Ponds, who have had a huge argument, have almost destroyed their marriage. Amy is a successful model but it is not a happy gig. Rory arrives... with the dreaded divorce papers, seemingly ready to put an end to the mess. However, before the signed papers can be filed and made official, both Ponds are teleported where the Doctor awaits them. All three are within the ''[[OhCrap Dalek]]'' citadel, where the redheaded woman reveals herself to be a new kind of Dalek: the Asylum uses nanogenes to infect trespassers and convert them to sentries, killing them and leaving their corpses as sort of human-shaped Daleks, with eyestalk out of the forehead and the "eggwhisk" out of the right hand. It is here that the Doctor prepares for the worst, on a scale of William Hartnell to David Tennant being him... only for the Daleks to begin pleading, ''"SAVE US."'' The Doctor is at a loss for words.

Kidnapped by one of his oldest foes, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter... the TitleDrop, a planetary prison confining a veritable ContinuityCavalcade of the most terrifying and insane of their kind (from when One first encountered them all the way to the New Dalek Paradigm). When a human starship crashed there and started broadcasting songs from ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'', the Daleks realized that if something can get ''in'', all the insane Daleks could also get ''out'', which would be really very bad. There's something, or someone, down there that no Dalek wants to go near, so the universe's leading expert on the Fell Saltshakers is forced to beam down to the prison planet to turn off the force field and blow up all the insane Daleks (as well as himself). He is sent in with Amy and Rory since Dalek data indicates that he needs companions at all times, but their marriage is in meltdown. Despite the breakdown of Amy and Rory's marriage, credit where it's due to the Daleks - ''it's an incredibly well thought out plan.''

The Doctor is seen in a diner accepting a mission from a strange hooded redheaded woman.

On the ruins of Skaro, the Doctor meets with the same woman to learn the specifics of his mission, only to be whisked away to a new location. Meanwhile, the Ponds, who have had a huge argument, have almost destroyed their marriage. Amy is a successful model but it is not a happy gig. Rory arrives... with the dreaded divorce papers, seemingly ready to put an end to the mess. However, before the signed papers can be filed and made official, both Ponds are teleported where the Doctor awaits them. All three are within the ''[[OhCrap Dalek]]'' citadel, where the redheaded woman reveals herself to be a new kind of Dalek: the Asylum uses nanogenes to infect trespassers and convert them to sentries, killing them and leaving their corpses as sort of human-shaped Daleks, with eyestalk out of the forehead and the "eggwhisk" out of the right hand. It is here that the Doctor prepares for the worst, on a scale of Hartnell to Tennant being him... only for the Daleks to begin pleading, ''"SAVE US."'' The Doctor is at a loss for words.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Or at least ends marriages. Amy throws Rory out upon learning she can't have more children, and somehow doesn't think to tell him this, leaving him understandably bitter after a couple of months or so of wondering what the hell he did wrong.

* TheReveal: Amy has been effectively rendered barren by Madame Kovarian's experimentation on her.

** Where does she get the milk for all the soufflés? This one turns out to be quite serious.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Averted: Oswin's appearance in the episode was kept completely under wraps prior to the episode's début broadcast.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The Daleks in intensive care normally don’t wake up for anything.

** Oswin listening to ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' throughout the episode. She even seems [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} to be cosplaying]] [[LadyInRed as said]] [[FlowerInHerHair character]]!

* FlowerInHerHair: Oswin wears one, or rather, her mental image of herself. After all, the Daleks "have no concept of elegance!" and she is human.

On the ruins of Skaro, the Doctor meets with the same woman to learn the specifics of his mission, only to be whisked away to a new location. Meanwhile, the Ponds, who have had a huge argument, have almost destroyed their marriage. Amy is a successful model but it is not a happy gig. Rory arrives... with the dreaded divorce papers, seemingly ready to put an end to the mess. However, before the signed papers can be filed and made official, both Ponds are teleported where the Doctor awaits them. All three are within the ''[[OhCrap Dalek]]'' citadel, where the redheaded woman reveals herself to be a new kind of Dalek: the Asylum uses nanogenes to
infect trespassers and convert them to sentries, killing them and leaving their corpses as sort of human-shaped Daleks, with eyestalk out of the forehead and the "eggwhisk" out of the right hand. It is here that the Doctor prepares for the worst, on a scale of Hartnell to Tennant being him... only for the Daleks to begin pleading, ''"SAVE US."'' The Doctor is at a loss for words.

Kidnapped by one of his oldest foes, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter... the TitleDrop, a planetary prison confining a veritable ContinuityCavalcade of the most terrifying and insane of their kind (from when One first encountered them all the way to the New Dalek Paradigm). When a human starship crashed there and started broadcasting songs from ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'', the Daleks realised that if something can get ''in'', all the insane Daleks could also get ''out'', which would be really very bad. There's something, or someone, down there that no Dalek wants to go near, so the universe's leading expert on the Fell Saltshakers is forced to beam down to the prison planet to turn off the force field and blow up all the insane Daleks (as well as himself). He is sent in with Amy and Rory, since Dalek data indicates that he needs companions at all times, but their marriage is in meltdown. Despite the breakdown of Amy and Rory's marriage, credit where it's due to the Daleks - ''it's an incredibly well thought out plan.''

A genius human hacker, Oswin Oswald (Creator/JennaLouiseColeman), has been stuck on the crash-landed ship for a year. This is a bit of a surprise for the audience, since Creator/StevenMoffat had stated that [[LyingCreator she wouldn't be appearing until Christmas]] -- then again, the Doctor tells the Daleks "it's Christmas!", so that's all right then. She's been keeping busy by making soufflés and playing ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' at high volume to keep out the nightmarish Dalek voices. She's almost impossibly successful in warding off the renegade Daleks: being the best hacker the world has ever known, she effortlessly destroyed the Daleks' security system and kept them away from her base. But the rest of her crew were killed in the crash, and -- as they're horrified to find out -- turned into sentries by the Asylum's automated system.

* BiTheWay: Oswin flirts with both Rory and the Doctor, and mentions her that first crush was a girl called Nina. She elaborates that [[ExperimentedInCollege it was a phase]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Having the Doctor as their Archenemy has only made the Daleks lift their game in response.

Meanwhile, Oswin has guided the Doctor to her hideout, and has used her suspiciously improbable hacking skills to delete ''all Dalek knowledge of the Doctor''. When he finally reaches her, he's horrified: while her fellow travellers were converted to sentries, the Daleks became aware of Oswin's genius mind and, since the casing ''are'' big enough to fit humans, had her placed in one, figured her intellect could enhance the Dalek HiveMind. What they didn't count on was Oswin being able to retain just enough of her sanity to unknowingly dream a world of cushy couches and soufflés. See, she always had a hard time making them without eggs. You know, eggs, stir, mix, bake... exterminate.

* GenreSavvy: The Daleks' plan is simple: Launch the Doctor at a planet and let him fuck up all the shit like he usually does. Either he'll succeed and lock the planet and then appear in front of them so they can then kill him... or he'll die in doing the process (or fail and they launch missles at him!) in which case, yay, they win and he is, at last, finally dead. Kudos to them, apart from Oswin's interference which means they don't kill the Doctor, it ''works''. Apparently, all those times having the Doctor defeat them has made the Daleks ''clever''... which is a rather worrying fact. A GenreSavvy Dalek - how worrying.

** "Eggs... stir... minate."

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Daleks turn out to have standards just as screwed up as they are.

Kidnapped by one of his oldest foes, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter... the TitleDrop, a planetary prison confining a veritable ContinuityCavalcade of the most terrifying and insane of their kind (from when One first encountered them all the way to the New Dalek Paradigm). When a human starship crashed there and started broadcasting songs from ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'', the Daleks realised that if something can get ''in'', all the insane Daleks could also get ''out'', which would be really very bad. There's something, or someone, down there that no Dalek wants to go near, so the universe's leading expert on the Fell Saltshakers is forced to beam down to the prison planet to turn off the force field and blow up all the insane Daleks (as well as himself). He is sent in with Amy and Rory, since Dalek data indicates that he needs companions at all times, but their marriage is in meltdown.

* BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind: Oswin is shown boarding up a door to her "escape pod" to keep out the Daleks. Since it's all a fantasy created by her, what she's really doing is keeping her humanity safe from her encroaching Dalek conditioning.

** "Where do you get the milk for the soufflés?" seems like this at first, but TheCuckoolanderWasRight. There are no soufflés -- Oswin was imagining it as part of her BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind against her Dalek conditioning.

* AsideGlance: Oswin says "Run, you clever boy. And remember." to the camera and thus the audience.

* AssimilationBackfire: Oswin kept her humanity after being turned into a Dalek, which allows her to wipe all memories relating to the doctor from all the other Daleks.

On the ruins of Skaro, the Doctor meets with the same woman to learn the specifics of his mission, only to be whisked away to a new location. Meanwhile, the Ponds, who have had a huge argument, have almost destroyed their marriage. Amy is a successful model but it is not a happy gig. Rory arrives... with the dreaded divorce papers, seemingly ready to put an end to the mess. However, before the signed papers can be filed and made official, both Ponds are teleported where the Doctor awaits them. All three are within the ''[[OhCrap Dalek]]'' citadel, where the redheaded woman reveals herself to be a Dalek puppet. It is here that the Doctor prepares for the worst, on a scale of one to ten being eleven... only for the Daleks to begin pleading, ''"SAVE US."'' The Doctor is at a loss for words.

Kidnapped by one of his oldest foes, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter... the [[TitleDrop Asylum of the Daleks]], a planetary prison confining a veritable ContinuityCavalcade of the most terrifying and insane of their kind. When a human starship crashed there and started broadcasting songs from ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'', the Daleks realised that if something can get ''in'', all the insane Daleks could also get ''out'', which would be really very bad. There's something, or someone, down there that no Dalek wants to go near, so the universe's leading expert on blowing up insane Daleks, the Doctor, is forced to beam down to the prison planet to turn off the force field and blow up all the insane Daleks (as well as himself). He is sent in with Amy and Rory, since Dalek data indicates that he needs companions at all times, but their marriage is in meltdown.

A genius human hacker, Oswin Oswald (Creator/JennaLouiseColeman), has been stuck on the crash-landed ship for a year. This is a bit of a surprise for the audience, since Creator/StevenMoffat had stated that [[LyingCreator she wouldn't be appearing until Christmas]] -- then again, the Doctor tells the Daleks "it's Christmas!", so that's all right then. She's been keeping busy by making soufflés and playing ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' at high volume to keep out the nightmarish Dalek voices. She's almost impossibly successful in warding off the renegade Daleks: being the best hacker the world has ever known, she effortlessly destroyed the Daleks' security system and kept them away from her base. But the rest of her crew were killed in the crash, and -- as they're horrified to find out -- turned into humanoid Dalek zombies by the Asylum's automated system.

As soon as the heroes land, the automated system starts working on them as well. The Daleks gave them wristbands to trick the security system into believing they'd already been converted. Amy manages to lose hers quite early on, and the Dalek mind virus starts "subtracting love and adding anger" -- turning her into one of their own. Oswin contacts the group using a makeshift intercom system, but avoids the question of why the Doctor can't establish a video link to her. The Doctor asks her how she made soufflés for a whole year -- particularly, [[ChekhovsGun where she got the milk]].

The Doctor rushes off to save Oswin while Rory tries to force Amy to take his wristband. It's simple logic, he explains: if the Daleks "subtract love and add anger", they'll have to spend much more time on him. Because the fact of their marriage is that he loves her more than she loves him ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang by 2,000 years, to be exact]]), and she hates him more than he hates her. She responds by slapping him in the face. The reason for their breakup and impending divorce is that Rory wants more children, Amy can't have any more after what happened to her on [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar Demons Run]], and she broke up with him to let him go and live a happy life without her. Amy breaks down in tears thinking she's worthless to Rory now, and Rory reassures her this is not the case. It doesn't matter in the end, because without either of them noticing the Doctor had slapped his own wristband on Amy before running off.

Meanwhile, Oswin has guided the Doctor to her hideout, and has used her suspiciously improbable hacking skills to delete ''all Dalek knowledge of the Doctor''. When he finally reaches her, he's horrified: Oswin is a fully converted Dalek, who unknowingly dreamed a world of cushy couches and soufflés to keep herself sane. She was right about one thing, though -- she's indeed a genius hacker, and by accessing the Dalek HiveMind equivalent, she was able to override all information the Daleks ever had on the Doctor. Which is ''great'', because the Daleks kept growing stronger, and more hateful, and more innovative, every single time the Doctor fought them -- every encounter with him just gave them more reason to become more violent. Daleks without knowledge of the Doctor are a fantastic favour to the whole universe. With her last conscious, human thoughts, she shuts off the forcefield, and the Daleks promptly blow up the prison planet with her (apparently) on it. The Doctor escapes through a sonicked teleport pad, bringing Amy and Rory along with him into the TARDIS as Oswin imparts one last message to the Doctor: [[ArcWords "Run, you clever boy. And remember."]].

Amy and Rory rather effortlessly resolve their marriage (well, at least until they get home that is... where Amy launches a very steamy look at Rory [[ReadyForLovemaking and we all know what's likely to follow will be physical]]), and the Doctor hastily bids goodbye to a collection of [[LaserGuidedAmnesia extremely confused Daleks]] who wonder who this Doctor person is and why he's babbling about an [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays Oncoming Storm]].

* CouchGag: This episode débuted a gag in the title sequence with the ''Doctor Who'' logo being textured differently every episode. In this episode it was textured with Dalek bumps.

** Two soundtrack examples. Firstly, Clara Oswald's theme is heard for the first time. Due to the later episode "Hell Bent" making the melody part of the narrative, every use of the theme from here on is foreshadowing for the events of Clara's final episode. Secondly, Together or Not at All - the sad music from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels Take Manhattan]]" - also makes a subtle appearance during Amy's hallucinatory scene.

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%%* ScaryDogmaticAliens:

** A redhead rendered barren who is connected to an assassin... Amy or [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Natasha Romanoff]], AKA the ComicBook/BlackWidow?

* InfertilityAngst: Why Amy broke up with Rory, because she knows he wants children.

On the ruins of Skaro, the Doctor meets with the same woman to learn the specifics of his mission, only to be whisked away to a new location. Meanwhile, the Ponds, who have had a huge argument, have almost destroyed their marriage. Amy is a successful model but it is not a happy gig. Rory arrives... with the dreaded divorce papers, seemingly ready to put an end to the mess. However, before the papers get to be signed, both Ponds are teleported where the Doctor awaits them. All three are within the ''[[OhCrap Dalek]]'' citadel, where the redheaded woman reveals herself to be a Dalek puppet. It is here that the Doctor prepares for the worst, on a scale of one to ten being eleven... only for the Daleks to begin pleading, ''"SAVE US."'' The Doctor is at a loss for words.

** A redhead rendered barren who is connected to an assassin... Amy or Natasha Romanoff, AKA the ComicBook/BlackWidow?

** A redhead rendered barren who is connected to an assassin... Amy or Natasha Romanoff, AKA the ComicBooks/BlackWidow?

** A redhead rendered barren who is connected to an assassin... Amy or Natasha Romanoff, AKA the [[ComicBooks/BlackWidow?]]