History YMMV / DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks

* FairForItsDay: While Kemel suffers from some of the same issues as the following story's Toberman in terms of being an example of the "mute savage" archetype, they're not nearly as bad here since it's made clear that Kemel's muteness has nothing to do with his ethnicity, and he's nowhere near as slavishly loyal to Maxtible as Toberman is to Kaftan, siding with the Doctor and Jamie once he realises he's been deceived. Victoria is shown to love and trust him as a friend rather than viewing him as a mere servant or tool, and he's shown to care about her in the same way. Unfortunately, the show does allow Kemel to be overpowered by a crazy old man and flung to his death rather than live on to the next episode.

* FairForItsDay: While Kemel suffers from some of the same issues as the following story's Toberman in terms of being an example of the "mute savage" archetype, they're not nearly as bad here since it's made clear that Kemel's muteness has nothing to do with his ethnicity, and he's nowhere near as slavishly loyal to Maxtible as Toberman is to Kaftan, siding with the Doctor and Jamie once he realises he's been deceived. Unfortunately, the show does allow Kemel to be overpowered by a crazy old man and flung to his death rather than live on to the next episode.

* PopularityPolynomial: Much like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E1TheTombOfTheCybermen the following story]], this story enjoyed a near-legendary reputation for several decades, only for it to decline dramatically around the turn of the century -- in this story's case due to footage of the episode's final battle being rediscovered, and being widely agreed to be a colossal letdown that suffered major cases of both FightSceneFailure and SpecialEffectFailure. However, this story's reputation has recovered noticeably better than that of the following one, partly due to its racial politics being less troublesome, and partly due to the animated reconstruction allowing the story's strengths to show through, and giving the final battle the sense of grandeur that it deserved.

* FridgeHorror: Maxtible calls his laboratory "the only thing of value in [his] life". [[ParentalNeglect He has a daughter]].

* FairForItsDay: While Kemel suffers from some of the same issues as the following story's Toberman in terms of being an example of the "mute savage" archetype, they're not nearly as bad here since it's made clear that Kemel's muteness has nothing to do with his ethnicity, and he's nowhere near as slavishly loyal to Maxtible as Toberman is to Kaftan, siding with the Doctor and Jamie once he realises he's been deceived.

* HilariousInHindsight: The serial ends with the Doctor dramatically announcing that they have just witnessed the definitive end of the Daleks. Yeah, you're allowed to start laughing at that...

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While the Dalek city on Skaro isn't terribly impressive judging by the few surviving bits of footage and still photos, the Dalek Emperor is a different story entirely, towering at twice the height of the other Daleks and the human characters.

* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: For Loose Cannon's VHS reconstruction of the serial, they went to the Grim's Dyke House (Maxtible's country house in the serial) and asked the owners if they could film some new live-action footage there. The owners were enthusiastic, so together they organised the recreation of entire shots from the original, with an actual Dalek performer and the house's owner [[FakeShemp playing Victoria in long shots and from behind.]]

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: The Daleks saying "Doctor. Jamie. Friends," is reminiscent of the Ood doing the exact same thing a few decades later with the DoctorDonna.
* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: This story is widely considered to feature the greatest Dalek performances in the Classic Series, depicting the Daleks with a range of emotions and complexity never seen before or since until the Revival Series began in 2005 and featuring some of the strongest vocal work from Peter Hawkins and Roy Skelton; a good contingency of people think that Hawkins and Skelton's performances in this serial outpace even Nicholas Briggs's rendition of the pepperpots in the Revival Series! The physical performances for the Daleks are also quite strong, featuring a broad range of movement that fits both the standard and Human Factor-infused Daleks and allows them to feel more distinct as characters than before. It's clear that with this having been planned to be the last Dalek story ''ever'' (a plan that was ultimately for naught come the 70's), the Daleks' voice actors and mechanics decided to go all out and end things off with a bang.

* FridgeHorror: Maxtible calls his laboratory "the only thing of value in [his] life". [[FridgeHorror He has]] [[ParentalNeglect a daughter]].

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: This story is widely considered to feature the greatest Dalek performances in the Classic Series, depicting the Daleks with a range of emotions and complexity never seen before or since until the Revival Series began in 2005 and featuring some of the strongest vocal work from Peter Hawkins and Roy Skelton; a good contingency of people think that Hawkins and Skelton's performances in this serial outpace even Nicholas Briggs' rendition of the pepperpots in the Revival Series! The physical performances for the Daleks are also quite strong, featuring a broad range of movement that fits both the standard and Human Factor-infused Daleks and allows them to feel more distinct as characters than before. It's clear that with this having been planned to be the last Dalek story ''ever'' (a plan that was ultimately for naught come the 70's), the Daleks' voice actors and mechanics decided to go all out and end things off with a bang.

* MagnificentBastard: The Dalek Emperor. Establishing a council of Smug Snakes to procure the materials necessary to destroy the Earth, and then manipulating the Doctor himself, making him isolate the "Human Factor" so that the Daleks could isolate the "Dalek Factor".

* HypeBacklash: Much like the following story, during the 1970s and 1980s it achieved a legendary status among fandom. And then the surviving footage of the climatic battle scene turned up, and the massive FightSceneFailure it suffered from helped caused the serial go from being a contender for the show's best-ever story among fans to generally not even being seen as the better of the two Dalek stories from Creator/PatrickTroughton's run.

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: This story is widely considered to feature the greatest Dalek performances in the Classic Series, depicting the Daleks with a range of emotions and complexity never seen before or since until the Revival Series began in 2005 and featuring some of the strongest vocal work from Peter Hawkins and Roy Skelton; a good contingency of people think that Hawkins and Skelton's performances in this serial outpace even Nicholas Briggs' rendition of the pepperpots in the Revival Series! The physical performances for the Daleks are also quite strong, featuring a broad range of movement that fits both the standard and Human Factor-infused Daleks and allows them to feel more distinct as characters than before. It's clear that with this having been planned to be the last Dalek story ''ever'' (a plan that was ultimately for naught come the 70's), the Daleks' voice actors and mechanics decided to go all out for this one.

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: This story is widely considered to feature the greatest Dalek performances in the Classic Series, depicting the Daleks with a range of emotions and complexity never seen before or since until the Revival Series began in 2005 and featuring some of the strongest vocal work from Peter Hawkins and Roy Skelton; a good contingency of people think that Hawkins and Skelton's performances in this serial outpace even Nicholas Briggs' rendition of the pepperpots in the Revival Series! The physical performances for the Daleks are also quite strong, featuring a broad range of movement that fits both the standard and Human Factor-infused Daleks and allows them to feel more distinct as characters than before.

* HeReallyCanAct: This story is widely considered to feature the greatest Dalek performances in the Classic Series, depicting the Daleks with a range of emotions and complexity never seen before or since until the Revival Series began in 2005 and featuring some of the strongest vocal work from Peter Hawkins and Roy Skelton; a good contingency of people think that Hawkins and Skelton's performances in this serial outpace even Nicholas Briggs' rendition of the pepperpots in the Revival Series! The physical performances for the Daleks are also quite strong, featuring a broad range of movement that fits both the standard and Human Factor-infused Daleks and allows them to feel more distinct as characters than before.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The surviving footage of the last episode is notorious for featuring Dalek ''[[OffTheShelfFX action figures]]'' in the climactic fight scene between the "humanised" Daleks and the Emperor's troops. (Which ''might'' have worked, except they're [[OffModel the Marx Toys bump-n-go Daleks]], which looked very different from their full-sized inspirations.) The same action figures are used again for the shots of the frozen Dalek army in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks "Planet of the Daleks"]].

* SpecialEffectFailure: The surviving footage of the last episode is notorious for featuring Dalek ''[[OffTheShelfFX action figures]]'' in the climactic fight scene between the "humanised" Daleks and the Emperor's troops. (Which ''might'' have worked, except they're [[OffModel the Marx Toys bump-n-go Daleks]], which looked very different from their full-sized inspirations.) The same action figures are used again for the shots of the frozen Dalek army in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks "Planet of the Daleks"]].

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The surviving footage of the last episode is notorious for featuring Dalek ''[[OffTheShelfFX action figures]]'' in the climactic fight scene between the "humanised" Daleks and the Emperor's troops. (Which ''might'' have worked, except they were ''very bad'' Dalek action figures.)

* MagnificentBastard: The Dalek Emperor. Establishing a council of Smug Snakes to procure the materials necessary to destroy the Earth, and then manipulating the Doctor himself, making him isolate the "Human Factor" so that the Daleks could isolate the "Dalek Factor".