The show never needs an excuse to have the Special Weapons Dalek show up.

Also, not how the series 5 Daleks are still nowhere to be seen. They started pretending that never happened fast. :lol

Fun theory version: the Doctor had the fake body appear to regenerate because he was that committed to the lie that he was only #11.

Real explanation: because Chris Eccleston hadn't refused to participate in the 50th Anniversary yet, therefore requiring the creation of a new Doctor to fill in the role of the guy who ended the Time War.

True (I like that they gave its neck glowing speech lights too), I was just amused by the fact there was a renegade Dalek a few steps away from it :lol

And if I wanted to go full-on nerd, original appearance Daleks can't travel on outside surfaces. But then they don't have glowing blue eyes either so whatever :lol

So when do we see the darker ace fight in new who

Daleks being just as nostalgic as the fans. Revisiting the old favourites and all that :)

I thought the various Daleks appearing on Skaro were them being recalled home, knowing the Doctor was coming and knowing they could destroy the TARDIS and take over the universe. Like a victory celebration.

Guess that kind of makes sense for some of them.
The only real issue (and I say "issue" in the loosest of senses, because I don't actually care and just enjoy talking Dalek variants) is that the Special Weapons Dalek and the grey one on the upper level were on opposing sides in a civil war, so wouldn't be getting on :p

I would assume that the Time War forced the Imperial and Renegade Daleks to put aside their differences and work together.

Maybe it's more budgetary. Maybe they couldn't afford to make newer Daleks so they just brought whatever was in storage?

Not exactly something they're capable of though is it? :lol
I can believe the renegades ended up winning and integrating the imperial Daleks into them though.

It was. Apparently a lot of them were borrowed from the Doctor Who Experience.

I think I'm gonna have to watch this episode at least once more to get a proper feel for it. I didn't think it was as strong as last week's, but it was still pretty great.

The Good:

- It's kind of shame Davros was pretending, because those scenes between him and the Doctor were really strong. Not a fan of the eye thing, but the whole exchanges about having a race and him congratulating the Doctor were delivered brilliantly.

- Missy was really fun again, I've warmed up to her a lot more over these last two episodes than I did last season.

- Clara getting into the Dalek. I'm always a fan of seeing that crop up again.

The Bad:

- Oh my god the Daleks were portrayed AWFULLY in this episode. I can kind of overlook it a bit here since it was primarily a Davros episode, but it just adds to the evidence that the Dalek stories took a serious nosedive in quality when he became a regular (apart from Remembrance, which he's barely in anyway sooo...). Everyone just rang rings around them and they didn't do anything REMOTELY threatening here.

- Sonic glasses. Yeah.