It's Dalek Day and I'm getting out my plunger!
Well, we don't know who the villain is in this story. I kept mentioning how afraid I was that the Master would be in this, but my expert viewer assured me that he was in prison and not likely to show up. You never know, though. Oh here comes the Master, riding a Dalek! Just kidding.
We haven't seen the Daleks in a good while, so I was ready for a good evil Dalek story. Unfortunately this one just wasn't very fun for me. We didn't get any really good Dalek action until the end of the 3rd episode. My expert viewer told me that they added the Daleks at the last minute to get viewers started on the 9th season. If you are going to write a Dalek story, you may as well cram it full of insane killing machines, and not make it about guerrillas and other strange people.
I have often expressed a dislike for time traveling, and temporal paradoxes. How did I ever make it through Star Trek? But I don't really like that in Doctor Who. He uses the machine to travel through time, but he really doesn't go back or forward in time, to create paradoxes and change history. At least he's not supposed to, according to the Time Lords. So this was more like a Star Trek episode.
Jo was downright annoying in this episode. One thing I don't like is her naiveté. She doesn't really think much, and she is gullible. The Controller managed to scramble her brain with propaganda in less than 10 minutes, and she believed him. I think mostly she thought he was hot. Of course she's never met the Daleks, nor has the Brigadier, so they didn't know what to expect.
The Doctor of course, hits the roof when he found out about the Daleks. The Daleks also hit the roof when they discovered that the Doctor is around. "Exterminate!" We did get to see pictures of Hartnell and Troughton as the Daleks laughingly remembered all the merry adventuring they had with the Doctor. Well actually they started slobbering and snarling at the mere mention of his name. They don't like him. I can't imagine why. They are about to kill him, but the Controller interferes. I actually thought it was uncharacteristic for them to be 'talked out of' killing the Doctor. They always act as though they would kill their own grandmas just for the Doctor's head on a silver platter. At least they got a good torture scene out of him.
You think at that point they would have said, "Okay. Let's just go home." but they decided to keep on with their plan. They have taken over Earth [again] and enslaved everyone. The guerillas from that time, wish to change their history. They go back to this time when they think was the crucial downturn of their history, when Sir Styles was organizing the Second World Peace Conference. They think that Sir Styles blew up the peace conference, thereby making it easy for the Daleks to invade Earth. Therefore the guerillas want to kill Styles before all that happens. Then it got all confusing for me. The Doctor and his friends know that Styles isn't responsible for all this. He's a regular kind of guy. Hopefully. But he does have good wine.
The Doctor deduces that in fact the guerillas themselves cause the explosion that scrambles Earth, thereby throwing them all and Earths' future, into a temporal paradox. WHAT. Not to be left out of the plot, the Daleks and their little minions -- the Ogrons -- return to 'present' time to ensure that their takeover of Earth still happens. That was a bit stupid on their part. They didn't think they were walking into a trap? Quickly the Brigadier evacuates all the members of the conference when the Daleks arrive, and then they blow the building to smithereens with all the baddies inside. HAH! THAT will show them!!!
They have a bomb called the Dalekanium bomb, that is designed specifically to blow up Daleks. You know that you are in too many Doctor Who episodes when they build a bomb designed solely to destroy you and they even name it after you. What's next? This is a Cybermanium bomb! Actually I've been working on a bomb of my own. It's called a Zarbianium bomb. Mwah hah hah!
Like I've said before, this had very little actual Dalek action. Although I shouldn't complain. Usually I like episodes that are only in four chapters.
We got to see more Doctor Who karate chops. Oh yay.
The Brigadier has now met the Daleks. He's become so alien savvy.
Don't the Orcs look like Ogrons?
I wouldn't say this is the coolest mode of transportation.
Next Up: The Curse of Peladon
P.S. I apologize if my writing has been sporadic. We got A Link Between Worlds for Christmas and let's just say that I've been a little distracted since then. Well, the game was really for my expert viewer, but I get to play it on occasion. Stupid hero mode! My nerdiness knows no bounds.
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