Doctor Who: Victory of the Daleks - REVIEW - Dalekcember
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- The Daleks are bigger, bolder, brighter and more boring than ever in this franchise-maintenance episode; 'Victory of the Daleks'.
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"WOULD YOU CARE FOR SOME TEA?!?!?"
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The one made me lose it was "You do not require tea?"
I love the idea of the Scientist Dalek coming to the same conclusion as Sec and Caan and suggesting that maybe the Dalek goal of exterminating everything is a bad idea, and the Supreme Dalek just giving him a look before exterminating him on the spot, before declaring science illegal in the Dalek Empire.
It would explain why they gradually devolve back into using older models and lose their menace under Moffat's run.
MrTARDISreviews sorry I'm a coffee drinker myself
The Paradigm Daleks did make another appearance in The Pandorica Opens where they were all turned to stone. Would explain how the Paradigm’s were destroyed, just not how the other Daleks came back.
I actually love the Paradigm Daleks, I really just don't get the issue with the colours. It makes sense that they would use bright colours to easily identify each rank. Honestly I think they would have been a lot more accepted if they stuck to it and explained the rankings of the different colours more.
I love the daleks going into hiding. There is something ammusing about seeing Daleks having to think out of the box.
I'd love to see more of that. They're so creepy when you so t know what they're planning.
"OH GOOD GOD IT'S THIS GUY AGAIN. DOCTOR, THIS IS BORDERING ON HARASSMENT. WE DO NOT WANT TO BUY ANY CLEANING PRODUCTS FROM YOU."
Since you’re here, you might as well stay for the show! It’s Progeneta’s first gig
Right so... This video kinda makes me wish you added Curse of thhe Fetal Death in before Dalek and called it 25 episodes
8:03 I read an earlier version of the script, and at one point Mark wrote the Daleks bringing up essentially a futuristic PowerPoint. I'm glad it was cut down.
May I ask where you read the early version of the script?
sounds like timeless children tbh
Despite it's flaws this episode is the best Dalek story of Smith's run because it has the serious relationship between the daleks and the doctor whereas in other episodes he just doesn't take them seriously and also damn I forgot how underrated this episode's soundtrack is!
Best Smith dalek story isn't much of a compliment when you consider what the other ones are.
Considering how the Daleks show up every series, and are very rarely as powerful as they were back in the time war, it’s understandable that the Doctor would stop reacting so dramatically to their comebacks. I mean the sixth doctor didn’t even bat an eyelid when he learned that the Master had survived being burnt alive because the Master had already been surviving ridiculous shit for the previous 3 seasons.
One issue I never see brought up is how shit the interior of the Dalek ship is. It's literally a warehouse in Cardiff, and dosent look like the previous ones.
Yeah, it was a Cigarette factory. Can't get that imagery out of my head now.
Best quote of the day..
‘I am the Doctor and you are the Daleks!’
The sad part is the fan backlash pretty much killed any chance of seeing a new Dalek design that isn't a one off
9:30 I love how the ceiling is barely high enough for the supreme Dalek 😅
I actually loved the Paradigm Daleks, I think they deserved a better chance.
I even got my Drone Dalek figure from Wallapop...
I never liked the design. They lost the classic pepperpot profile & looked as if they were about to tip over. I'm not surprised they were jettisoned.
@@Via_The_Void there was supposed to be a weapon in their backs. How cool would it be to have have something like say, a gaint Lazer gun out of its back.
@@Via_The_Void I thought they looked like one of the dalek toys from the 60's
And here we are back at the beginning. Looking at that first video it's so interesting to see how much you've changed and grown as a creator.
So glad your still going 9 years later and I've loved Darlek-Cember. Ashame that it's almost over.
Best Dalek quote-Would you care for some tea?
In power they say do you require liquid...nice nod to the past
"I am the Doctor, and YOU are the Daleks!"
You don't say!
Amy should be wearing Daisy Dukes instead of that mini but who's gonna complaib about those legs?
I like the paradigm Daleks very much. in fact, I have all of them and I did not know that the scientist Dalek appeared only once.
At the time I loved this episode & constantly rewatched it. It has gone down as time’s gone on, mainly because of online reviews & watching power of the Daleks which does this concept better, but I still find it entertaining & think it’s an underrated gem. Plus it’s miles better than the next Dalek story....ugh
‘I AM YOUR SOLIDER!’
A homage to Power of the Daleks when the Dalek said ‘I AM YOUR SERVANT!’
Is homage the new word for rip off?
Delboy359 No.
@@SegaNintendoGuy64 Sorry, but it is.
Delboy359 Nobody I know said that that line is a rip-off of another.
@@Trev359 it's just a nod to an old story, not a rip of. It's like saying the doctor mentioning the yeti and zygons In remembrance of the daleks is a rip of
Edit: I know it's not the best example but I couldn't think of anything else at the time
Screw the cracks and retconning 2 fraking Dalek invasions! And Waters of Mars along with the said 2 invasions, now that I think about it! Humans actively knowing about them with no way to hide their invasion could have so much potential...
Honestly, Moffat clearly doesn't want to write Daleks in any shape or form, except for street cred. The best Dalek story in his run is actually Davros' story.
I think Paradigm designs are ok-ish, but red being the drone (and thus, the main face of the daleks) was a bad decision. Also, straight up having no plan for eternal.
During Moffat’s run the Dalek really took a back seat. And whereas the Cybermen got to shine by the end of his run.
Ironically this has left a situation where for the first time since the 2nd Doctor, the Cybermen feel like a bigger deal than the Daleks.
Despite all the criticism (some right, some wrong) I do think Chibnall understands the Daleks better than Moffat (just the scene of a single Dalek single handily taking out a UK army division was a better representation of the Daleks than Moffat’s run).
@@calumbishop7082 strongly agree. The Daleks get a really rough ride in Moffat's era, IMHO.
The Cybermen didn’t even get much in the Moffat era
But yeah he just doesn’t like writing Dalrksv
@@ItsButterBean1020 Pain...pain...pain...
@@mayotango1317 as I said
That is the one two parter where they feel credible
The other two are cameos or them getting undone by the power of love
when those multi coloured daleks emerged from the lift on the dalek ship, i half expected them to start singing YMCA. What we see here is the dumbing down of the daleks, the fear factor a distant memory, great cast though.
I had a chat with a friend the other day about the Paradigm Daleks and I don’t know if it’s true or not but apparently he told me that there are some fans who actually regret lashing out on them and wish that they kept quiet and just let them have them time in the sport light.
I’d say so. The design wasn’t what people wanted but their legacy is even worse now knowing they were used once properly and never again. If they had the opportunity to be in stronger stories then I’m sure they would never have been hated so much
@@geesefeeders1 So perhaps it was best that they brought back the Time War Daleks but still if we get another attempt to redesign the Daleks aside from the Reconnaissance Scout or Shin Dalek as I call it, hopefully it will be something that we can all agree on.
In the shot of the ships exploding you literally see one fly off unharmed. The CGI team knew it wasn’t the end
I like this episode, mainly for Nostalgia factor. It was one of my first Doctor Who stories, I will always treasure the memories of being in school and when we were asked to pick out reading material, picking up copies of adaptations of series 5 episodes, namely The Eleventh Hour, this story, and the Lodger, which introduced me to Doctor Who, it's why Matt Smith is my favourite Doctor and why the Eleventh Hour is my favourite episode.
Modern Power of the Daleks
In other words awful rip off.
@@Trev359 you're very negative about my opinions
@@dubliam8064 But I'm not wrong and neither are you.. It is a modern day Power, but, by definition, that makes it a rip off. In my opinion it's an awful one. I am not trying to be negative, I can't help my opinion. I love this season but I think this is the weak one. I think the majority of fans would agree this isn't in the same league as Power.
Wait, wouldn't the Davros DNA make them the most Dalek who ever Daleked, as they are literally mutated Kaleds? Also the Daleks need to not be aliens and appear to be inventions, to be annoying enough that the Doctor has to verbally say they are Daleks.
Yes. This episode makes no sense whatsoever.
4:28 The biggest connection is that Matt Smith was personally chosen by Wendy Padbury herself, probably because of his uncanny resemblance to Patrick Troughton.
"GO GO DALEK RANGERS, MIGHTY MORPHIN DALEK RANGERS"
Something you brought up in a previous video on this episode, I wonder if this would have gone over better had it been expanded into a two parter. The second half is very rushed and if they had a whole episode perhaps the new Daleks could have made more of an impact.
On another note, I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but there’s a really well done fan video called The Dalek That Time Forgot that connects this episode with Journey’s End and some classic Dalek events as well very well in a very timey-wimey way and fleshes out Caan’s story just a bit more, and sets several events in motion. It’s really very well thought out and makes for a great addition to the New Series Daleks’ story.
Fellow defender of the nee paradigm Daleks. I do wonder if that knee jerk decision to scrap them encouraged some bad habits to form in the fan community?
I don't think it was the cause of entitlement in the fanbase, but it certainly didn't help.
The problem with the updated Daleks design isn't the design itself, it's what it represents. The Daleks are already a credible threat and don't need updating to be slicker and more dangerous. It's like the constant upgrading of "threat" in place of narrative content. End of the world < End of the Universe < End of Reality itself etc. It doesn't make the audience any more engaged with the characters. The creepy Daleks silently gliding around are much more sinister than the bigger, deep-voiced "new paradigm" because of the writing. Long exposition monologues are just lazy writing.
I genuinely love 80% of this episode, the crayola dalek sequence is goofy as are the space fighter jets, however even the part with 11 and the jammy dodger redeems that somewhat. I think the scenes in the war base were good and had serious potential for an isolated dalek story.
I liked this when it aired and I still do. Call me crazy...
10:46 It's tradition... any pure white coloured Dalek shoots like a stormtrooper. Just look at the Imperial Daleks from Remembrance.
Mighty Morphing Power-Daleks!
We were introduced to Progenitors before this episode. They were used in The Doctor’s Daughter to create the human and Hath armies, as well as Jenny. Although I think in this episode they elaborated a bit more on how the Progenitors work.
7:02 Megan from EMS Productions: Uh, oh, that can't be good.
Dalek: Correct!
I'll be honest, I still really like Victory of the Daleks. I still like the story it's trying to tell and the new status quo for the Daleks it tried to establish. There are a lot of fun and memorable moments, and I do enjoy the new Dalek designs. While the bronze ones are in my opinion the most timeless, the Progenitor Daleks have kind of an organic aesthetic, particularly with the eyestalks, that really does work for me. I even like the color-coding because I did watch the Peter Cushing Dalek films when I was younger.
I feel like this episode could have been great with one alteration - instead of the Oblivion Continuum in Bracewell's chest, the Dalek Drone is sent down to exterminate everyone in the bunker if the Doctor doesn't back off. They could have the Breem character trying to protect Amy while the Doctor and Bracewell combine their knowledge of Dalek technology to build a weapon capable of destroying the attacking Dalek. Breem would get some character development, Bracewell's character arc still gets to end on a triumphant note, and the new Daleks would get to do something.
As it is, I do still think this episode is okay, but it does mark the turning point for the Daleks mostly devolving into a less credible threat in the New Series under Moffat's run. I'm personally still sad we'll probably never get to see the Progenitor Daleks in the series again.
in journey's end you can see 1 ship flying away, out of formation. which is a great little detail
Dude, I have so much respect for, watching endless Dalek stories. Your review on this one is spot on!
The Paradigm Daleks were absolutely WASTED potential. Their design and voice in my opinion were awesome and we could had more variants of them.
I have just recently seen the power of the daleks and I've realized that the beginning of victory of the daleks is pretty much just that episode but the ruse is cut short. (Also, the intro of daleksember has one part of the power of the daleks apart of it.)
Edit: nevermind. You pointed that out.
I honestly loved the Paradigm Daleks, I'm so sad that they never had another chance.
13:10 Mark's voice acting *further proves* my theory that he only writes as an excuse to act. Plenty of actors do it, though unfortunately I think Mark developed to consistent a reputation of writing. It's clear that writing isn't where his heart really is - he's a brilliant actor.
Brilliant review! Nice to see it come first circuit as Victory was your first review! Comparing the review is astonishing to see how much indepth you go and you get your opinion out more clearly.
Also fun fact that same time the first Eleventh Doctor story for Daleksember came out the BBC released best eleventh Doctor moment! On there UA-cam channel.... just thought that's pretty funny
OMG the paradigm Daleks!! I remember being 10 years old and watching Series 5 air their new episodes every week and it being such a huge deal. All I could think when they appeared was What are these Joesph's coat of many colour daleks doing here? Such a radical change and yet I only saw them on this two parter, The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang and then once at Doctor Who Live. Their height and their weapons were the only impressive thing about them. Bold and strategic move on the writers part and love that they wanted to take them in a new direction but glad they didn't stick with it for much longer after that.
7:36 Haha never thought I see that again.
What is it with war movies/tv shows having good first half and bad second half
Thanks again for the review and for this month of Dalek reviews - whew!
I know you like Matt Smith's Doctor; when I first saw this, I kept hoping for better things. It was OK; Winston Churchill seemed pretty obsessed with "do anything to win".
I like the idea that this is a modern Power of the Daleks... I never noticed this before.
You could get that Victory poster, it was in a magazine at the time.
This episode isn't perfect, but i have a real soft spot for it. Since i started Doctor Who with The Eleventh Hour, this was my first exposure to the Daleks. And for me at least, it was a great introduction to their menacing and cunning nature.
Though in hindsight, I do wish that the new Daleks got more exposure. Though Dalek leaders seem to come back every now and then after long hiatuses so you never know. Maybe they'll pop up again one day.
You... do not require tea??
Does anyone else wish there was a Dad's Army cameo in this episode?
But Dad's Army were the Home Guard. They were attached to the Army. This was the RAF
WW2 era planes being able to destroy a post time-war dalek ship is just... asinine.
To be fair, the Doctor himself says that the Dalek ship is a wreck, just barely operating.
@@DalekTheSupreme Human weaponry from the 1940s should still have no effect on Dalek armour.
Didn’t they just take out that one very exposed machine.
The Dalek ship is outright a wreck
@@dmaxwell910901 You watch Resolution?
@@mayotango1317 Aye, and that Dalek's casting was mostly constructed from Earth metal. It makes sense that it'd be easier to destroy.
0:48 Ey, can we just appreicate they put cloth over the dalek's lights cause it was the blitz era? haha
There's tonnes of stuff funny about dr who that I missed cause I was young and took it sooo seriously haha
I’m glad I’m not the only person in the world that like the design
GO GO DALEK RANGERS!
MIGHTY MORPHING DALEK RANGERS!
I think the problem with the NPD design is the conflict between the macro scale simplicity of a bold primary colour scheme and finickity over-design on the details such as the eye stalk.
That’s a really interesting observation, so like a plain yellow Tonka toy with a fine metal filigree detail on the bonnet, it would just feel all wrong.
The Paradigm Daleks are a good idea, as they give some variety and potential for stories. However their design was lacking
I'm sorry, but after all these years, those "Progenitor" Daleks still look goofy as hell. They went to the trouble of updating and modernising the Daleks, finally making them look like they're tough and metallic, and they replace it with these plastic, fragile-looking Tonka Toys. They are by far the least threatening-looking Daleks in Dr Who history, they look like "Baby's first Dalek" to me.
This is why I maintain itd be better if the Cult of Skaro created the Paradigm (entirely new philosophy and tactics)
Interesting thought, actually. If Jast or Thay had secretly survived in the 1930s, then Caan could go off and do his thing with Davros, while the other one spends 10 years finding the projenator and setting up this confrontation. Plus it would make more sense that it isn't considered to be a pure dalek because they were specifically designed to be different and "think as the enemy thinks." It doesn't involve time travel or have the "how did they survive a genocide that literally targeted their Davros cells" plot hole, plus the reason the projenator rejects them actually makes sense.
This is a great episode... until the Paradigm reveal themselves. Then it gets really silly and rushed. Which is a shame because everything else up that point is great, and I love the scheming Ironsides and Eleven getting genuinely mad and frustrated at their continued schemes.
5:44 I’ve had this exact poster on my wall for years, but it’s canvas so it’s lasted all this time!
I thought the end of this story was weak but great review! Happy Christmas!
Next Time: Daleks in a Asylum, They don’t destroy each other which is false, Not showing the old ones, And the return of the Bullshit Divorce subplot.
"you do not require tea" I didn't notice that this was in the actual episode.
I know tomorrow will be the Asylum. I know how it's going to go. I know I am not ready for it, not again. I can't do it
I feel like the new designs should have kept the original dalek silhouette, but had the appearance of the NDP daleks. There's plenty of images online to demonstrate this.
12 days until series 12.
I have very fond memories of watching this episode for the first time with my family. Absolutely loving the first half for everything you mentioned, then laughing together at the new Teletubbies Daleks. It's a shame, because for the most part the new design does look good, but the very vibrant colours just made them feel childish. I remember really liking the way it looked after 2000 years in the final episode. I feel if they had much less extreme colours they would have been received a lot better.
“You do not require tea”
7:40 look carefully when the Crucible explodes. You can see one ship fly off
My pet theory was always that the eternal Dalek was primarily focussed on the preservation of the race above all else ie making sure the daleks are an eternal presence in time
The NPDs were badly served in the first, mainly because the concept design was badly translated when the props were built. The neckbin being altogether too tall and set forward, the hump being too big, the plastic colour scheme etc... There are numerous fan images showing the original concept design translated faithfully and it works so very well.
They get a small redesign in Asylum which is hardly ever noticed, a smaller almost non existent hump, the new colour scheme... Shame they were discarded so quickly.
We could have had another cool Dalek Civil War story with the Paradigm Daleks against the remaining Time War era Daleks. God with how it is suggested they have multiple weapons, imagine a special weapons paradigm Dalek.
There's a theory floating around that the Dalek Paradigm led by the Dalek Supreme were in a war against the Time War Daleks led by Davros.
Basically the theory says that the reason Davros attempted to steal the Doctor's regeneration energy in The Witches Familiar is because he knew that his Daleks would never be able to win against the superior Daleks.
The Parliament of the Daleks (as seen in Asylum of the Daleks) was established to create a peace between the two factions and to stop the Paradigms from wiping them all out.
I like the Paradigm Daleks. Although only as high ranking officers that command forces of standard bronze Daleks.
Drones: lead squads and command ships.
Strategists: strategize new ways to conquer.
Scientists: experiment with technology and genetics.
Eternals: lead time travel schemes and are engineered to preserve the continuation and purity of the Dalek race.
All these having three to five Paradigm Daleks leading a room of the standard Daleks.
That’s what I thought they were going to do, but they show up two more times and then never show up again. We only had one episode where they were seen coexisting with the standard Daleks.
I liked this episode and the new design too. Shame they got canned. The bit with the spitfires was fun, but it's almost like Star Wars Death Star fight.
My personal theory on the Eternal Dalek was that it was the carrier for the Progenitor Device, allowing for more Daleks to be made. As long as this Dalek is alive, more Daleks can be made, thus they will be Eternal.
The problem with the new Daleks is that they were WAY too colourful. I mean it's bright colours and as you said before the daleks looked metallic in the reboot and they just look plastic here.
And they're TOO THICC.
midgetwars1 one thing asylum of the Daleks does better in is the colours of the paradigm Daleks are toned down & look more metallic, & it looks great. Sadly it’s the last time we see them & they’re barely utilised in the episode.
Am I one of few who likes the Paradigm Dalek designs?
You're not the only one who likes the designs!
As much as I like the designs, they were a wasted opportunity. I wish they stuck to their original plans and shouldn't let backlash get in the way.
Yes.
I quite like the New Paradigm Daleks, but "paradigm Dalek" doesn't add up. Paradigm is a noun, not an adjective, and it means an example, model or pattern. "Paradigm Dalek" just means "pattern Dalek"... which makes little sense. It needs the word "new" in front of it, to distinguish the new look from the "old" paradigm/pattern/model that it replaced.
I liked the designs. I do wish they had been given more to do in this episode and that they stuck to the change in future episodes.
17:46 uuuum, I wouldn’t call Power of the Daleks complete AT ALL! 😂
You know why
I mean when another story is better despite barely any of it’s footage existing, you know you f**ked up.
Ahh...Victory of the Daleks. For what is essentially a remake of The Power of the Daleks, I still have a real soft spot for this episode. Churchill and the WW2 setting work really well and while redesigning the most iconic villian of the show's long history isn't necessarily a bad idea the fact they are so underutilised and only appeared again as glorified cameos really wasted their potential. That being said who doesn't want to see spitfires shooting at a Dalek ship.
So this story was written before Matt was casted, so this could have been a David Tennant episode. And also the Paradigm Daleks, do appear quite a bit more. There was backlash but each color played different roles, such as Strategist, Supreme, Drone, Scientist, etc. We see them again during the Pandorica arc.
Will you do Day and Time of the Doctor as part of Dalekcember?
It's a bit of a mess but it was nice to see the daleks actually out place the doctor for once. So disapointing that after the adventure game they failed to do anything with this design.
It might seem a weird thing to reccomend but immediately following this episode there was the kids comic the only good dalek and the free pc adventure games. The game has full (if woefully directed) audio from the cast, it explores the restoration of the daleks and skaro and gives you a lot more experience with the new dalek designs. It was certanly my reason for being really disappointed by this new series relegating them to being an officer class and then dropping them all together.
The reveal of the new Daleks seems more like a toy commercial. As you say, they don't actually do anything. Just roll out the new toy product.
I have that Victory poster and the Ironside Blueprints on my wall : )
It's a good idea to introduce the Daleks to make the audience feel better about the new doctor, but then has this new doctor lose. Not a great start.
5:52 would you care for some tea lol.
I can't believe they kept asking Mark Gatiss back to write more scripts after his dreadful track record. Apparently he can write for other things pretty well, but his televised Who material is DIRE. This episode starts well and I actually do like the humanity stuff, but overall his scripts for the show were spotty at best. And he just kept coming back. It all culminated in the monstrosity that is Sleep No More.
Its a shame some of the props were looking a bit worse for wear when you look at the vent panels on the three time war daleks, the state of the eyestalks (discs being dirty or out of order/shape) the gap between the eyeball and the discs having a metal ringer to patch up the eyestalk that had been battered by years of explosions and the dome being lopsided in some shots. The paint too on the skirt looks a bit rushed or done my hand, you can see flakes of gold on the neck rings and beside some of the orbs. No wander mof wanted new daleks. Weirder the eyestalk seems to have carried over the silver bit between the eyeball and discs when in RTDs era it was all black and shorter onto the new batch of props built for asylum.
Finally someone who slightly appreciates the Paradigm Daleks.
Something I don't get, if these Daleks are the ones made from Davros' own cells how they impure? Daleks are mutated Kaleds, deliberately created by Davros who is also a Kaled. Did he just forget the correct process or is there some reason his cells aren't good enough?
Glad I'm not the only one who liked the NDP daleks, but yeah, those colors needed to B muted & metallic.
This was a great story. I feel like it’s because people expect the Daleks to kill a bunch of people and be conquering tanks all the time that dislike stories like “Daleks in Manhattan”, “Evolution of the Daleks”, and this story.
The Daleks were originally portrayed as manipulative strategists in their original story. They weren’t advanced enough to be the unstoppable tanks most of Davies’ run portrayed them as at that point.
11 dalek stories to go.
Honestly, this episode could have been a great movie! Get a filmmaker with a vision and something to say, combine them with Mark Gatiss’ ideas and just give us a 90 minute story set in this world, flesh everything out properly and make the Daleks scary!
Yeeeech, nothing really redeems this story for me. So much doesn't make sense.
The design or creation of Spitfires in Space is not talked about at ANY POINT before it happens, nor is there ANY evidence that Bracewell has actually created ANY of the technology needed to produce them beyond sketching blueprints. And yet, AND YET, they're able to cobble together THREE of them, train pilots to fly them AND THEN launch them into space (a vehicle of that kind not heading directly up at supersonic speeds would take nearly an hour to reach space!) for a space battle all in less than 6 minutes!!! I just couldn't suspend that level of disbelief. It might look cool but it's utter bullshit and that was my over-riding reaction to them. Not "Cool!" but "Oh fuck off."
Then it seems that the story runs out of stuff to do. It stops dead for the bomb nonsense. The plot literally halts for 10 minutes. It's jarring in the extreme and shoddy scriptwriting.
And then they let a DANGEROUS, PLANET DESTROYING HUMANOID BOMB just walk out into the world unsupervised without any evidence that he couldn't reactivate due to "the feels" - I mean if warm feelings turn it off, what's stopping him blowing while watching a sad film? Or a Radiohead marathon? It's astonishingly irresponsible.
By the end I just wanted to turn it off.
It's crap. It's lazy. It's unfocused and sloppy.
And I've not even said a word about the paradigm.
It's a terrible story that was rock bottom for me,... Right up to Sleep No More (the second worst Doctor Who story since The Twin Dilemma - ask me what's the worst.)
Hey,... Who wrote that one again?
You watch Series 11?
@@mayotango1317 where do you think my number one "worst story since Twin Dilemma" comes from? The Tauranga Conundrum is a new low. It's actually down there with worst stories since 1963.
I really think this episode needed to be a two-parter so that the new Daleks could actually get the chance to do something. I know that Dalek two-parters had already become commonplace and it might be a bit eye-rolling to see another one so soon, but the alternative was going an entire decade without any good Dalek stories because the entire flow of their continuity was destroyed when they had to be retconned. I’m sure they had some good plans of where to take these Daleks, but since they were so poorly presented they had to be scrapped, meaning all future Dalek stories felt contrived as you didn’t have the single inkling of why or how the Daleks were at this stage in their life.
Say all you want about the Paradigm Daleks, but man that Supreme Dalek looks like it's going to bump its head on that vent. Maybe just a bit too tall?
Well actually if you look closely you can see one UFO escape the exploding ships…. Guess where that ship ends up.