Dalek death. Dalek death everywhere.
Thankfully this was only four parts, or I would have been weeping.
So much for the planet Florana. Exxilon was a much better place to spend one's vacation. Just kidding. Guess what? It's an arid planet. No one wants to live there. It's no better than Skaro. The Marines have landed on this planet, too. They need parrinium to stop a space plague. What better place to find it than on an inhospitable planet.
The Exxilon natives are freaking weird. That's what happens when you live on an arid planet for so long. You turn funny.
The Daleks have also landed on this planet in search of parrinium. They have a plague as well. Everyone has this plague, apparently. Something is draining all the ships' power, so the marines, the Doctor and the Daleks sort of try to get along to discover the real problem. That, of course, isn't going to go well. The Daleks are incapable of keeping to themselves at any given moment. The Daleks lose temporary loss of their weapons, which was kind of interesting, but that didn't last long before they were Dalek-ing everyone to death.
Some of the Exxilons are good, some bad. Of course it's another one of those civilizations that is 80% stupid, and 20% lords of pain in the butts. They used to be technologically advanced, but they built this city that became one of the Wonders of the World. How it became sentient makes no sense to me, but it drove out the natives, and made them stupid. The few intelligent Exxilons want to destroy the city, presumably so they can become smart again, but I'm not really sure how that works. Won't they need books, ipads and things?
It's nice to be helped by strange mummy guy.
And what the heck?
We get the "lets go through puzzle rooms' scene, which me reminded me of those hidden object games that are mostly a pain in the neck. However, I really don't know why one of the Wonders of the World was booby trapped. I mean, tourism must not have been their thing. Or maybe that's the problem. They killed all their tourism with all the booby traps, and the natives had nothing to live on. That's the real problem. They needed a good economic system.
Anyway, they blow up the city, thus returning power to everything. The Daleks enter into a rough labor dispute with the Exxilons. They just do not have good people skills. It's a bad idea to enslave natives that already hate their lives. They're just not going to cooperate.
Oh this is funny. Turns out the Daleks were actually causing the plague. Once they leave the planet, they will wipe out the surface with the illness, thereby destroying the planet. With all the parrinium in their position, they can basically hold it for ransom. That's right. Create a plague and hold the antidote for ransom. You guys rock.
Oh well, they the marines blow up the Dalek ship with one of the two Dalek bombs, while Sarah and Jill had exchanged the parrinium with bags of sand, so they have the parrinium while the Daleks have nothing. They can now use the parrinium to stop the plague. So now the Exxilons have lost their city as well. Oh well, they didn't have much going for them, anyway. Happy ending. Though if you ask me, this could have been titled: Death to the Exxilon City. But we just don't care about them. It's always about the Daleks.
Next Up: The Monster of Peladon
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