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Series 5, Episode 3 - "Victory of the Daleks"
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Btw, just for those few who like the new Dalek design and for those briefly thinking that "you know, they weren't that bad, they have grown on me", here's a new screen-cap of the two designs from the episode. 1...2...3...
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only got around to seeing this tonight (stranded at home away from my bbc etc in london
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Didnt think too much of it, was a very rushed episode overall. It really could have worked ass a 2 parter playing out the daleks taunting the doctor in their *we are pets* mode much more...cause that was quite good, though jumped from *oh daleks!* to *D!MN YOU DALEKS* far too quickly.
Also what is it with daleks that they can play the wounded puppy so bloody well. Both in dalek and this my heart felt a small flutter of pitty for the poor things when they played innocent.
Aside from that, adding another sub group of daleks just annoys me (shouldnt the cult of skaro been pure blood aswell? why couldnt these be more like them?) I'd perfer if they tied the return more directly to one of the three already existing groups (which the cult of skaro last being seen in 1930's manhatten...it might have worked with some retcon) all this means is we'll have a bigger headache when someone decides to bring davros back and tries to work out how...
Churchill was annoying and seemed to gain the ability to teleport around just to annoy the doctor (most notable the scene when the doctor challanges the dalek) they also play up the good old churchill routine, which is fine for plucky old english people, but most irish and indian people watching this would have gone...*Churchill's a dick!*
Everybody is having a go at the daleks for being far too big but has anyone said anything about Amy? She's too tall for the set! she actually dwarves the doctor in most of the shots and has the hunch in all the indoor scenes...its hilarious.
I did like the jammy dodger biscuit, but that scene made no sense...what was the doctor actually doing that required the spacefire had to call of its attack while he defused the bomb?
Couldnt he have gone *Danny Boy blast these b*sterds back to Davros, I'm gonna pop out and defuse a bomb, btw the device that activates the bomb is on this ship so the quicker you blow up the ship the higher the chance we get to not bother defusing the bomb*
Really the episode had an uncomfortable time placing characters and pushing them in the right direction, lots of aimless wandering.
not to mention some confusing focus on one of the air controllers and her unseen fiance pilot (which I assume is meant to relate to amy but instead is just a random slodge of uncomfortable lingering shots on some poor girl crying)0 -
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Indeed. And Leadworth's emotions resetting a bomb. And the Doctor just leaving an advanced android roaming around the 1940's.
Um... on that I have a question (cause I've been overthinking somewhat
). So Leadworth goes off to have the oh so human experience, and during this something happens, y'know, one of those things that renders you temporarily emotionally dead inside (since this is a WW2 scenario, lets say his lover dies for example), does that mean the bomb is reactivated and there's essentially a rouge planet destroyer wandering around? 0 -
All he'd need to do is shout the Doctor's name and all the energies of hope would ward off any bomb's power!Jessibelle wrote: »Um... on that I have a question (cause I've been overthinking somewhat). So Leadworth goes off to have the oh so human experience, and during this something happens, y'know, one of those things that renders you temporarily emotionally dead inside (since this is a WW2 scenario, lets say his lover dies for example), does that mean the bomb is reactivated and there's essentially a rouge planet destroyer wandering around?
(yeah it's easy to imagine them using that isn't it?)0 -
Jessibelle wrote: »Um... on that I have a question (cause I've been overthinking somewhat). So Leadworth goes off to have the oh so human experience, and during this something happens, y'know, one of those things that renders you temporarily emotionally dead inside (since this is a WW2 scenario, lets say his lover dies for example), does that mean the bomb is reactivated and there's essentially a rouge planet destroyer wandering around?
Ha ha I thought the same - one day he gets a bit depressed...BOOM...whoops.0 -
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Jessibelle wrote: »there's essentially a rouge planet destroyer wandering around?
looks a bit like this
sorry embarrassing typo 0 -
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popebenny16 wrote: »
i really do not like the "airvents" or whatever they are round the back.
Health and Safety issue, I believe... Have you ever farted in a phone box?
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popebenny16 wrote: »also need air, turboprop planes of the time operated very badly at high altitudes where the air in thin. But who cares, its Doctor Who!!
nah gravity bubble sorts all that out for you 0 -
Not if you reverse the polarity of the neutron flow and use a sonic screwdriver -then all things are possiblepopebenny16 wrote: »also need air, turboprop planes of the time operated very badly at high altitudes where the air in thin.
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[pedant] spitfires had V12 petrol piston engines[/pedant]popebenny16 wrote: »also need air, turboprop planes of the time operated very badly at high altitudes where the air in thin.
I watched it again and I know its Dr Who, but god it was so rushed and cobbled together. Spitfires in space? Great to see, horribly badly explained away. Out of the blue, they retrofit three spits and get them guys in the air? Ditto with the love bomb thing. Very lazy and that laziness of simple story telling was what the previous producer was lambasted for(rightly). But he started off with more "reality" going on in the first series. I had hoped the tidy up at the end for its own sake may have been left behind in the rejig. I know its a fantasy type gig, not "hard" sci fi, but continuity and good story growth should still be present.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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