Doctor Who - Victory of the Daleks - spoilers

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Hadn't seen any comments about this yet, and it seems relevant since Amy is even wearing the same outfit (nice boots!):

YouTube - DWO - Doctor Who - The Adventure Games - Trailer

You get to run around. You get to push cars. You get to rotate the camera. In other words, it's everything a whovian could ever ask for.

Color me interested.

 

[nerfherder]

Only according to RTD in the last year or two. That's a new concept, and not one I agree with; I always saw him as compassionate and loving life, and not needing someone to tell him to do the right thing.

Yep - in Genesis of the Daleks he has the opportunity to wipe out the whole Dalek race, but can't bring himself to commit genocide.

The role of the companion has traditionally been to represent the viewer. They give the writers the excuse for the Doctor to explain things to us via the companion. This is part of the reason why I think Romana wasn't a good companion, and Leela was brilliant (she knew even less than us).

 

[Krug]

I didn't mind most of the episode that much; the "talking the bomb down" was indeed a bit silly, but I can see where they were trying to go.

My big objection is the Skittles-brand Daleks. What the heck is with the new color-coded candy shells? Looks really goofy.

Yeah. So all they got was a paint job? Uhhuh. I liked the worn out look better.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

4) "Broadsword calling Danny Boy!"...damn near fell off my chair, no one else get the reference? hehe

I didn't - what was it referencing?

 

[Felon]

I didn't mind most of the episode that much; the "talking the bomb down" was indeed a bit silly, but I can see where they were trying to go.

My big objection is the Skittles-brand Daleks. What the heck is with the new color-coded candy shells? Looks really goofy.

Forget Skittles. It's the Power Exterminators!

Red Dalek! Brontosaurus power! Yellow Dalek! Pterodactyl power! And so on...

 

[Morrus]

I didn't - what was it referencing?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdaeBiF__u4]YouTube - Broadsword calling danny boy[/ame]

 

[Redrobes]

I was so enthused with Ep1 as the dialog, humour, and story seemed just right and promised a series that might equal the best of the classics. Ep2 made a significant drop which could be excused as a one off cos it was ok just not scintillating. But Ep3 was utterly ridiculous on so many levels and seemed to be gasping for every moment to drop to that familiar barrel scraping level that's plagued all the modern series barring exceptions. The Broadsword Danny Boy reference was an example of where it was so unnecessary. Perhaps I am less "Easy" than previous posters.

Next week Blink II - a remake... don't do it man. I will now expect nothing from this series and maybe ill get lucky now and again just like the last ones. Nothing wrong with Matt or Karens acting, effects or production tho.

Oh just noticed that this Ep made a break with the previous two by being written by Mark Gatiss. Moffats back in the chair for the next two. Oh well maybe its down the script writer then.

(Wonder if the next Dalek ep will reveal the all new Hello Kitty Dalek or the Don't be Naughty and put it in the bin Mr Litter Dalek in a nice blancmange pink shade... maybe Davros will make us chuck with stories of how abused he was as a kid...)

 

[Plane Sailing]

I didn't mind most of the episode that much; the "talking the bomb down" was indeed a bit silly, but I can see where they were trying to go.

My big objection is the Skittles-brand Daleks. What the heck is with the new color-coded candy shells? Looks really goofy.

It's a nod to the early days

http://www.posters.ws/images/1472/doctor_who_and_daleks.jpg

 

[MarkB]

What worries me about Amy not remembering the Daleks is that it suggests a worrying possible direction for the "space-crack" arc plot. Namely that, rather than being the jagged line it appears to be, that crack may actually more resemble a big, round, red button inscribed "RESET".

If people no longer remember the Daleks, what else don't they remember? I have a bad feeling that the intention may be to reset the in-universe Earth to match our own in terms of awareness of alien activity. I can see that appealing to the writers - makes it easier to identify with the population, discards lots of inconvenient continuity - but the concept of humanity gradually coming to terms with being part of a wider universe is an aspect of the new series that I really like, and I'd hate to see it discarded.

 

[Felon]

Re: Danny Boy and Broadsword

Geez, those Germans have thousands of rounds to spew at Clint Eastwood...and not one lousy potato masher to spare?