Davros comments that “It will kill you in the end.” While that remains to be seen, compassion is what draws him to Skaro. It’s one of the fundamental foundations of his personality–even for his enemies. As The Doctor says, “This is where you dump a smelly old Uncle.” Almost seemed like a commentary on elderly care.Ĭompassion flows from The Doctor. Davros in his final death throes becomes a sympathetic character, despite his murderous tendencies. I’m just going to say it, the scenes between Capaldi and Terry Malloy were some of the best in the 50 year history of Doctor Who. While Clara and Missy were wading through the river of Dalek doo doo, The Doctor pow wowed with the head Dalek, Davros. The sewer/graveyard the two of them traversed was fairly disgusting, but in the midst of their banter did anyone else notice Missy mentioned she had a daughter? I feel that’s significant and she will probably show up later in the season.

Obviously Missy wants The Doctor too, but to save him or manipulate him? Clara clearly means nothing to him as she later tries to get The Doctor to destroy Clara when she’s trapped in the Dalek. We knew Clara’s motives were clear–find The Doctor and get the Hell out, but Missy’s seemed ambiguous. Aside from being a cool little narrative (the sequence where the doctor goes through a dark hall changing really worked) it made the deus ex machina easier to swallow.Ĭlara and Missy’s team up was quite an interesting dynamic. Credit to the writers on this one by coating the explanation with a story of how the Doctor escaped a similar situation. It obviously came as no big shock to anyone that Clara and Missy were still alive thanks to some slick redirection of energy from the Dalek lasers.

Well another week and another stellar episode of Doctor Who.

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