Doctor Who - Victory of the Daleks - spoilers

[Plane Sailing]

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.

Indeed.

Think back to David Tennants first series outing (was it New New York?) with the hospital run by cat people and all the plague marys get out - and his response is to see them as the victims rather than the monsters, and he cures them all, saying 'that's why they call me the doctor!'

 

[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.

It seems to me that one of the big problems is that the obvious solution to a planet killing bomb in a robot is to quickly pop the robot into the tardis, go somewhere else (e.g. the dalek spaceship) and push the bombdroid out. Maximise chance of saving the earth, with additional side opportunity of causing the daleks problems too. Even if the dalek ship had escaped down a time corridor by that time, he could still have been dropped off somewhen safe.

And why, at the end, do the leave a dalek-tech robot with built in planetbuster bomb strolling around the country? THAT doesn't make any sense!



There were other little things I liked though. The daleks aggressively asking "WOULD YOU LIKE A CUP OF TEEEAAAA!" was fun.

Cheers

 

[Mouseferatu]

Oh, no argument that there were a great many logic holes. I'm not saying it was a great episode, just that I see what they were trying to do with the "talking him down" part.

There were other little things I liked though. The daleks aggressively asking "WOULD YOU LIKE A CUP OF TEEEAAAA!" was fun.

Absolutely. I want that as a sound file.

I also have to say, though, that even if there is precedent for color-coded Daleks, I'm not a fan of the idea--and certainly not in the day-glo Skittle-like, plastic-looking hues they chose.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I wasn't keen on the humpback look either.

I wish they had stuck with the Dalek from the Chris Ecclestone episode "Dalek" - that one worked brilliantly (especially with the rotating midsection).

The cynic in me wonders whether they couldn't get enough small operators for daleks, so they built them bigger so that they could get bigger people inside...

 

[nerfherder]

The cynic in me wonders whether they couldn't get enough small operators for daleks, so they built them bigger so that they could get bigger people inside...

Whereas the cynic in me thinks it's so that they can sell new dalek toys to children and Morrus

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

There were other little things I liked though. The daleks aggressively asking "WOULD YOU LIKE A CUP OF TEEEAAAA!" was fun.

I suspect there are some FANTASTIC out-takes from that scene.

Dalek: WOULD YOU LIKE A CUP OF TEA?
Scientist: No, thank you.
Dalek: OH, YOU WILL!
Scientist: No, thanks.
Dalek: COME ON, IT'S JUST A CUP OF TEA!
Scientist: I'm fine.
Dalek: JUST ONE CUP!
Scientist: No, thank you. I'm not thirsty.
Dalek: YOU WILL, YOU WILL, YOU WILL, YOU WILL, YOU WILL, YOU WILL...
Scientist: No thank you!
Dalek: HOW ABOUT A COFFEE?
Scientist: Honestly, I'm fine. I'm fine.
Dalek: OK.
pause
Dalek: HOW ABOUT AN ORANGE JUICE?

 

[nerfherder]

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.

Coincidentaly, I've just been watching Mark Gatiss in Nighty Night.