Oh, Twelve, I love you so.
Am I imagining it or does Journey look like Susan? Not just the hair, I swear the face is similar too.

Ha, just as I was thinking that it's nice to see Peter Capaldi in a more smiley role, the Doctor sees that his patient is a Dalek and his face falls.
An episode with a single Dalek? Well, that reminds me of the great episode Dalek and now I got my hopes up that Into the Dalek will also be a good episode.

While it's nice to see Clara's life outside the TARDIS, it feels a bit weird and unconnected to the story.
But I already Danny.

Wait, that's actually the coffee they were talking about in the previous episode? Oh, Doctor. >_<

Hehe, "into darkness". You can say what you want, but I will remain convinced that this is a reference to the Star Trek movie with Benedict Cumberbatch.

Pfft, the Doctor calls the Dalek Rusty. Sometimes I called Russell T. Davies Rusty.

Interesting new info about Daleks, I love it! They have antibodies in their armor! They do indeed eat!
Have I mentioned yet that Peter Capaldi is great?

Huh, so a Dalek can look into its armor?
Oh, good, we're getting to see the actual Dalek! Would have been weird to have an episode about wandering in the armor of one, but not seeing the Dalek itself.

Wait, did the Dalek really cleverly just pretend to be a good guy to get people to fix him? I'm impressed!

...Or not, if the Doctor is right. Huh, I had ruled out that it was due to the radiation leak fixing, because the Dalek changed back to evil pretty fast.
Hm, how disappointing, a good Dalek would have been nice, because a whole evil species is just annoying and makes no sense. ...Yay, at least Clara disagrees with the Doctor's view.

Aaand we're back on course! Although I have no idea how they hope to make that Dalek good again. I can only think of opening the radiation leak again, but that would be a mean thing to do - I'm assuming it would slowly kill the Dalek. If not, that could be considered a disability and would be fine. At the moment I'm totally seeing this episode as disability-championing, that disabilities are okay, they don't need to be fixed. Although that interpretation would have the unfortunate implications that without our disabilities, we'd be bad or something.

The Doctor learned that a good Dalek is possible and suddenly I'm thinking we're heading for a peaceful end of the Time War. Which part of me is having trouble believing, because evil Daleks are such a big part of this show, even bigger than the Time War. Yeah, so judging by the last Christmas episode, the Time Lords will come back, probably in the season finally. And it would be really helpful for their existence, if the Daleks (or at least a lot of them) didn't want to exterminate them anymore, so that's why I'm thinking we'll have masses of good Daleks by the end of the season.

There's something about Twelve that reminds me of Four.

Oh, right, there seemed to be something like an afterlife in the previous ep. Missy creeps me out. I also don't like her because her short, mysterious visits remind me of Kovarian.

What if I'm right with my guess about all the good Daleks and by the end of the season RTD's invention of the Time War will be history? Maybe the Dalek that started the end of this storyline is named Rusty as a hint or something? Wow, I'm in such a speculative mood tonight.

Ha, there's something else very Four about Twelve now: Twelve holding the Dalek's brain cables together reminds me of how Four had the chance to off all Daleks by holding two cables together. Man, I keep coming back to my theory: Imagine how meaningful both of these moments would be, if I'm right about the good Daleks. Four will have done his future self a favor by not becoming a Dalek mass murderer and Twelve will have found a peaceful way to rid the universe of the Daleks' evil. No way is this gonna happen, because the Daleks are too iconic as baddies, but it's a fun idea. ...Although... if there are a fuckload of Daleks, making some good would totally work, because there'd be still enough left to serve as baddies. Hey, that could totally work and with the bonus of uncertainty! You know, if we meet a Dalek and it seems to be good, but who knows, maybe it's just pretending to be!

Argh, ALMOST! The Doctor almost got the Dalek to be good!

Why are the Doctor & co. their normal size again and how did they get out?
Hm, I guess you could call Rusty semi-good. At least from the side he killed for he can be considered good. But wouldn't it be nice to have a Dalek that's not murderous?

Verdict: Solo-Dalek episodes really are really good.