Doctor Who: 5x03 "Victory of the Daleks"
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kerravonsenMore catching up. Argh, now my shoulder hurts.
Well, I can understand why most of my flist didn't like this episode.
It was... rather dumb. Mind you, anything with Daleks in it, nowadays, is likely to be not very well done. I'm sick of Daleks. (sigh)
Okay, Churchill was amusing.
Watching the Doctor lose it was... darn, I'm getting tired of the Doctor's Dalek-angst.
The aeroplanes versus the spaceship was like something that a seven-year-old boy would come up with.
The whole dilemma thing was also a bit silly; surely the obvious course of action was to let the attack continue and at the same time go down and deactivate the bomb. The reason it was a stupid dilemma was that, normally, with such dilemmas, the problem is that the Doctor can't be in two places at once. But he didn't need to be; he wasn't flying the plane. Not to mention that the Daleks were intending to destroy the Earth whether or not the Doctor called off the attack.
It's one thing to handwave technology (though the planes were still stupid, they shouldn't have been able to fly anyway, even inside gravity bubbles) but when one's plot logic is not internally consistent, it doesn't even work with in-universe logic.
I could tell that the self-destruct thing was a jam biscuit very early on, I must admit I was then looking forward to watching the Doctor eat it.
I was not surprised about the Crack in the wall at the end; at first, I thought that Amy not remembering the Daleks was some temporal paradox to do with the presence of the Daleks in WWII, but as soon as the Doctor brought it up again, I thought "Ah, it's probably something to do with the Crack."
After all, we didn't get any foreshadowing in the previous episode, so it was time they reminded us again.
Well, I can understand why most of my flist didn't like this episode.
It was... rather dumb. Mind you, anything with Daleks in it, nowadays, is likely to be not very well done. I'm sick of Daleks. (sigh)
Okay, Churchill was amusing.
Watching the Doctor lose it was... darn, I'm getting tired of the Doctor's Dalek-angst.
The aeroplanes versus the spaceship was like something that a seven-year-old boy would come up with.
The whole dilemma thing was also a bit silly; surely the obvious course of action was to let the attack continue and at the same time go down and deactivate the bomb. The reason it was a stupid dilemma was that, normally, with such dilemmas, the problem is that the Doctor can't be in two places at once. But he didn't need to be; he wasn't flying the plane. Not to mention that the Daleks were intending to destroy the Earth whether or not the Doctor called off the attack.
It's one thing to handwave technology (though the planes were still stupid, they shouldn't have been able to fly anyway, even inside gravity bubbles) but when one's plot logic is not internally consistent, it doesn't even work with in-universe logic.
I could tell that the self-destruct thing was a jam biscuit very early on, I must admit I was then looking forward to watching the Doctor eat it.
I was not surprised about the Crack in the wall at the end; at first, I thought that Amy not remembering the Daleks was some temporal paradox to do with the presence of the Daleks in WWII, but as soon as the Doctor brought it up again, I thought "Ah, it's probably something to do with the Crack."
After all, we didn't get any foreshadowing in the previous episode, so it was time they reminded us again.
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Date: 2010-04-27 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-04-27 07:36 am (UTC)You and me both. I thought Spitfires In Space would be fun, but as you say they just didn't make sense. The whole thing was set up in an hour or two--nothing about how they'd move, or how the pilots would handle being in space psychologically. Bleh.
The most interesting thing was Amy not remembering Daleks, and I wish I didn't. They could have been interesting, all retro and subservient and serving tes, but they degenerated into RTD-style very quickly.
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Date: 2010-04-27 11:10 am (UTC)There were many things in the episode that had the potential to be good, and most of them failed hard. Like there was a good episode in there somewhere, that didn't manage to get out.
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Date: 2010-04-27 09:56 am (UTC)I'm assuming this is sarcasm, because the crack on the side of the floating UK ship was annoyingly obvious (not as annoying as Graham Norton, but still annoying!)
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Date: 2010-04-27 11:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-27 11:27 am (UTC)I didn't see any crack in the first part of the two parter though ... I assume it will show up right at the end.
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Date: 2010-04-27 11:55 am (UTC)In spite of the logic holes I did like the spitfires vs the Daleks. It was so quintessentially British and gung ho!
I didn't like the "new" Daleks though, they looked just like toys. It's a case of back to their "roots" = not as scary.
Of course if they'd transported the "bomb" to the dalek ship it would have been the ship that blew, not the earth. However it would have meant the end of Bracewell. Oddly enough I'm glad they "saved" him. Though the question is, how long was he designed to last?