The Daleks are certainly powerful in the new series. With shielding as well as armour and 360deg rotation of the weapon section. Seems they are all genius level IQ just the soldiers seem to be warped into an abject requirement for orders, and so function poorly without them.
Insights into Dalek psychology are gained in later eppisodes, warning some spoilerism follows… for Bad Wolf and The Parting Ways episodes
Humans can be turned into Dalek creatures with sufficient genetic engineering, seems that feeding the Humans a constant supply of death and terror through the media helps both keep the Humans from reacting positively to other alien races, and makes them good stock for building dalek creatures. The Daleks hate any creature that is not Dalek, and being created from Human seems to have had an adverse effect on the new Dalek’s psychology. They can be scared by the Doctor for instance, flinching backwards.
Anyone else think/hope that the time wars lead to the sort of distruction that simply going back in time can’t help. ie that if the Doctor were to go back to Gallifrey (sp?) to a time ‘before’ the war he would find it uninhabitted. That the Daleks and Timelords have been removed from history almost completely.
Also it seems the Doctor’s idea of the correct future history of the Universe has a supreme human colonisation and interbreeding. Maybe the Daleks also saw this future, and that was the reason they seeked to make the new Daleks by modifying Humans. So if Human dominance of the universe is somewhat unavoidable the dominance may still be by human-Daleks. The Dalek emperor would hardly waste time with Humans and that blobby creature to control them otherwise.
The Timevortex-Rose godbeing did seem to destroy the Daleks, but she really put things right. Maybe there was a right otherplace/time where those Daleks should be and they were sent there rather than destroyed?
They probably did from time to time – often an alien race would come up against them without knowing what they are – but I doubt the phrase was common on the show.
I thought that was amongst the expressions said by the 1970’s talking dalek toy, but a web search reveils it only said
“Exterminate”, “Attack”, “You will obey!” and “What are your orders?”
I’m guessing there exists certain anomalies like the car that kills Rose’s dad in the pocket universe, that may exist and could be used to try and resurect either the timelords or the Daleks, but that they are rare, and likely to attract those ‘grim-reaper’ creatures.
I wonder if those grim reapers could harm a Dalek, though it was stated nothing in this universe could harm them, it looked like their attack was purely physical and could perhapse be deflected by dalek armour or force fields.