Originally Posted by Paully_C:
“Oh, I'm sure that the weapons still do work at long range. The thing is, Daleks get a serious kick out of seing their victims as scared as possible before they kill them. That's why they love shouting 'exterminate!' so often. That's why they diverted away from trying to get to the Doctor, just so they could go down to level 0 and wipe out the defenceless saps down there. That's why they still shouted 'exterminate!' even in the vacuum of space, just so poor Lynda-with-a-Y knew the fate that was about to befall her.
They're sick so-and-sos.
Paully”
Yeah, but in the older series (And the lone Dalek in Ep 6) were all perfectly happy to yell Exterminate across the room. If they're going to get that close, they could have at least made use of their new Killer plunger extentions.