DW 5x03 - Victory of the Daleks
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caz963This was old-skool Who – a ridiculous and totally bonkers adventure story. I really needed this one after being left a bit cold by The Beast Below last week.
There were plenty of laughs – watching the Daleks carry tea trays and mind their Ps and Qs for example, and the kids thought the Doctor whacking one repeatedly with a giant spanner was highly amusing. I’d been waiting to see his reaction to meeting his old enemies again – considering he thought he’d destroyed them all. I thought it was an interesting mix of emotions – the first time Nine met one, he was terrified, when Ten met them, he took the piss out of them even though you knew he had to be bricking it underneath… Eleven’s reaction to them was much more guarded than either of his predecessors, which I’m starting to think is going to be the mark of this version of him. He’s more adept at hiding his emotions, although I reckon he’ll turn out to be as big a bastard as Ten ever was when he has to be.
It seems our hero hasn’t lost his propensity for saving the world with food – or trying to. With Ten it was a satsuma, with Eleven, it’s a biscuit. And I loved the “sweetheart” thing. Is this another Eleven quirk? We’ve had him calling Churchill (and the TARDIS) “dear” and now this – I like it :-)
The kids like the colourful new Daleks, but I’m not sure. They look a bit tacky and plasticky to me – like today’s cars with all the black plastic trims and bumpers. I liked them when they were more metallic. Mr Caz reckons they look like kettles. Now there’s an idea – maybe they’ll be selling Dalek Kettles in Tesco’s. I’d buy one of those.
Okay, so the whole gravity bubble thing happened a bit fast, but hey – we got Spitfires in space! I, for one, am not going to complain about that *g*
And as ever, the Doctor is faced with another of those horrible choices that dog him. Save the Earth or let the Daleks escape. Surely he knows the megalomaniacal pepper-pots well enough by now to know that they’ll find a way to blow up the Earth even if he does let them go…
Okay, so now for the five minutes or so I wasn’t mad about. Are they going to rename the series from Doctor Who to Amy Pond? Because for the second week in a row, she’s the one who finds the way to save the day, and seriously guys, it’s too much. It was hard enough to swallow last week, but again? Is this supposed to be some way to emphasise the Doctor’s “alien-ness”, to try to distance Eleven from the more “humanised” Doctor that Ten was?
Oh, and by the way, I think we’ve all sussed that Amy is Scottish by now, despite her somewhat mangled accent, so can you stop telling us? kthx.
Things that I shall ponder –
The Doctor arrives a month after the phone call from Winnie at the end of the last episode (and since when did he have the Batphone in the TARDIS?). I know that when and where the old girl ends up is often a matter of luck rather than judgment, but given the way he’s persistently late in ep 1 and now again makes me suspect that Something. Is. Up.
And even more importantly - Amy doesn’t know what a Dalek is. And as the Doctor points out at the end of the episode – she should. I expect teh interwebz will explode immediately with even more speculation as to the timeline and setting.
But after all – there is a crack in the universe.
Next week, the return of the stone angels and River Song. Maybe she’ll kick Amy’s arse by being awesome. Is this going to be her first meeting with the Doctor, or just another one in a long line? (Personally, I don’t think she met him as Ten other than in the Library – but I’m going to wait until next week before I expound on that; and in any case, we might get a definite answer to that question… although given this is Moff, I doubt it.)
So yeah - much happier this week!
There were plenty of laughs – watching the Daleks carry tea trays and mind their Ps and Qs for example, and the kids thought the Doctor whacking one repeatedly with a giant spanner was highly amusing. I’d been waiting to see his reaction to meeting his old enemies again – considering he thought he’d destroyed them all. I thought it was an interesting mix of emotions – the first time Nine met one, he was terrified, when Ten met them, he took the piss out of them even though you knew he had to be bricking it underneath… Eleven’s reaction to them was much more guarded than either of his predecessors, which I’m starting to think is going to be the mark of this version of him. He’s more adept at hiding his emotions, although I reckon he’ll turn out to be as big a bastard as Ten ever was when he has to be.
It seems our hero hasn’t lost his propensity for saving the world with food – or trying to. With Ten it was a satsuma, with Eleven, it’s a biscuit. And I loved the “sweetheart” thing. Is this another Eleven quirk? We’ve had him calling Churchill (and the TARDIS) “dear” and now this – I like it :-)
The kids like the colourful new Daleks, but I’m not sure. They look a bit tacky and plasticky to me – like today’s cars with all the black plastic trims and bumpers. I liked them when they were more metallic. Mr Caz reckons they look like kettles. Now there’s an idea – maybe they’ll be selling Dalek Kettles in Tesco’s. I’d buy one of those.
Okay, so the whole gravity bubble thing happened a bit fast, but hey – we got Spitfires in space! I, for one, am not going to complain about that *g*
And as ever, the Doctor is faced with another of those horrible choices that dog him. Save the Earth or let the Daleks escape. Surely he knows the megalomaniacal pepper-pots well enough by now to know that they’ll find a way to blow up the Earth even if he does let them go…
Okay, so now for the five minutes or so I wasn’t mad about. Are they going to rename the series from Doctor Who to Amy Pond? Because for the second week in a row, she’s the one who finds the way to save the day, and seriously guys, it’s too much. It was hard enough to swallow last week, but again? Is this supposed to be some way to emphasise the Doctor’s “alien-ness”, to try to distance Eleven from the more “humanised” Doctor that Ten was?
Oh, and by the way, I think we’ve all sussed that Amy is Scottish by now, despite her somewhat mangled accent, so can you stop telling us? kthx.
Things that I shall ponder –
The Doctor arrives a month after the phone call from Winnie at the end of the last episode (and since when did he have the Batphone in the TARDIS?). I know that when and where the old girl ends up is often a matter of luck rather than judgment, but given the way he’s persistently late in ep 1 and now again makes me suspect that Something. Is. Up.
And even more importantly - Amy doesn’t know what a Dalek is. And as the Doctor points out at the end of the episode – she should. I expect teh interwebz will explode immediately with even more speculation as to the timeline and setting.
But after all – there is a crack in the universe.
Next week, the return of the stone angels and River Song. Maybe she’ll kick Amy’s arse by being awesome. Is this going to be her first meeting with the Doctor, or just another one in a long line? (Personally, I don’t think she met him as Ten other than in the Library – but I’m going to wait until next week before I expound on that; and in any case, we might get a definite answer to that question… although given this is Moff, I doubt it.)
So yeah - much happier this week!
