Thinking about it over lunch, I saw another connection between "Dalek" and "Parting of the Ways" - the Doctor tells Rose the Daleks mustn't get their hands, er, plungers on the Tardis technology. Likewise, having discovered that van Statten's basically an asset-stripper, he wouldn't want van Statten to get his hands on Dalek technology, which would greatly increase his capacity for destruction.
I also came up with a theory that the Doctor accusing van Statten of being worse than a Dalek was in part a reaction to being told he'd make a good Dalek himself ("maybe I'm bad, but he's worse"). Unfortunately, though I haven't played the tape back to check, the various online synopses suggest the quotes occur in the wrong order for that to work. Oh well.
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Thinking about it over lunch, I saw another connection between "Dalek" and "Parting of the Ways" - the Doctor tells Rose the Daleks mustn't get their hands, er, plungers on the Tardis technology. Likewise, having discovered that van Statten's basically an asset-stripper, he wouldn't want van Statten to get his hands on Dalek technology, which would greatly increase his capacity for destruction.
I also came up with a theory that the Doctor accusing van Statten of being worse than a Dalek was in part a reaction to being told he'd make a good Dalek himself ("maybe I'm bad, but he's worse"). Unfortunately, though I haven't played the tape back to check, the various online synopses suggest the quotes occur in the wrong order for that to work. Oh well.