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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7544362" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>Yeah, I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out how the vastly technological inferior humans from the first millennium AD on Earth managed to overcome not just a Dalek, but a "recon Dalek" - who are apparently so much more powerful than the standard model. Compare that to the 9th Doctor's episode, "Dalek," where a single Dalek completely overwhelms everything the modern military forces can throw at it.</p><p></p><p>And while I appreciate the "slapped together" look of the "trash Dalek" at the end, I still find it difficult to believe the squiddy alien was able to assemble something that sophisticated using Earth scraps in that short a time. Granted, it was able to retrieve its own original blaster weapon, but creating something that could fly, and shoot missiles, seemed a bit much. (Of course, I had the same problem with the 13th Doctor assembling her own sonic screwdriver from scratch in an Earth garage in the first episode of this season - isn't it a previously-established fact that the Doctor's sonic screwdriver uses the same software over its various incarnations, despite the fact its outer housing tends to change as the Doctor changes form?)</p><p></p><p>I didn't like the plot point of UNIT being disbanded over budget cuts. It seems to me that an organization that has been instrumental in saving the Earth from alien threats numerous times in the past wouldn't need to justify its existence. That just seemed overly silly.</p><p></p><p>It also seemed a bit of a cop-out to show the military vehicles being blown up by the Dalek only as explosions superimposed on the top-down view of the landscape. (I guess they were getting low in the budget by that point?)</p><p></p><p>In any case, I still liked the episode okay - it was one of the better of the whole last season. Although, truth be told, I think I preferred the parts when it was a Kaled mutant piggybacking on the back of a mind-controlled human riding mount. Sticking to that - and having the Doctor and her companions trying to keep them away from the recovered Dalek technology that would allow it to rebuild a fully-functional Dalek travel machine - would have been a different way to deal with a Dalek threat that hasn't been done before.</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 7544362, member: 508"] Yeah, I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out how the vastly technological inferior humans from the first millennium AD on Earth managed to overcome not just a Dalek, but a "recon Dalek" - who are apparently so much more powerful than the standard model. Compare that to the 9th Doctor's episode, "Dalek," where a single Dalek completely overwhelms everything the modern military forces can throw at it. And while I appreciate the "slapped together" look of the "trash Dalek" at the end, I still find it difficult to believe the squiddy alien was able to assemble something that sophisticated using Earth scraps in that short a time. Granted, it was able to retrieve its own original blaster weapon, but creating something that could fly, and shoot missiles, seemed a bit much. (Of course, I had the same problem with the 13th Doctor assembling her own sonic screwdriver from scratch in an Earth garage in the first episode of this season - isn't it a previously-established fact that the Doctor's sonic screwdriver uses the same software over its various incarnations, despite the fact its outer housing tends to change as the Doctor changes form?) I didn't like the plot point of UNIT being disbanded over budget cuts. It seems to me that an organization that has been instrumental in saving the Earth from alien threats numerous times in the past wouldn't need to justify its existence. That just seemed overly silly. It also seemed a bit of a cop-out to show the military vehicles being blown up by the Dalek only as explosions superimposed on the top-down view of the landscape. (I guess they were getting low in the budget by that point?) In any case, I still liked the episode okay - it was one of the better of the whole last season. Although, truth be told, I think I preferred the parts when it was a Kaled mutant piggybacking on the back of a mind-controlled human riding mount. Sticking to that - and having the Doctor and her companions trying to keep them away from the recovered Dalek technology that would allow it to rebuild a fully-functional Dalek travel machine - would have been a different way to deal with a Dalek threat that hasn't been done before. Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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