Emily Hayes-Magonus
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I don't really know what to say about this weeks episode.
To be honest I was sure that I was going to be disappointed in it, though i'm not entirely sure as to why. I like the Doctor and I like Clara, but I though that the situations they were being put into were annoying. Every Doctor has been defined by the way they handle the Daleks and I think it was interesting to discover how Capaldi reacted to them. Neither Smith nor Tennant handled them with any difference and they both reacted badly to their presence, most of the original Doctors all reacted in much the same way, full of hatred and anger towards their species, something that always made me realise that the Doctor was no better then a human, as he was full of prejudice towards the giant pepper pots of doom. I do fear that the Daleks are being used far too often. Since the beginning, before the reboot, Daleks were a very scarce commodity and when they actually did show up they were the most horrifying things imaginable. Each Doctor only ever had one Dalek story, even Baker, the longest running Doctor, only had two Dalek stories. However since the reboot, the Daleks have often appeared three or four times and it is beginning to make them almost unscary, rather more of a big joke. The final episodes of the ninth Doctor played by Christopher Eccleston saw the Daleks in fearsomely good form, en masse and more horrid than ever. Even the Doctor was actually scared. However, these days, they have become just an annoying inclusion that makes me want to bash my head against a wall whenever they appear. It has gotten to the point where I honestly fear them running out of storylines, considering that all the appearances have basically had the same elements.
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Overall, i am definitely staying for the remainder. I can't wait for the Robin Hood episode next week.
To be honest I was sure that I was going to be disappointed in it, though i'm not entirely sure as to why. I like the Doctor and I like Clara, but I though that the situations they were being put into were annoying. Every Doctor has been defined by the way they handle the Daleks and I think it was interesting to discover how Capaldi reacted to them. Neither Smith nor Tennant handled them with any difference and they both reacted badly to their presence, most of the original Doctors all reacted in much the same way, full of hatred and anger towards their species, something that always made me realise that the Doctor was no better then a human, as he was full of prejudice towards the giant pepper pots of doom. I do fear that the Daleks are being used far too often. Since the beginning, before the reboot, Daleks were a very scarce commodity and when they actually did show up they were the most horrifying things imaginable. Each Doctor only ever had one Dalek story, even Baker, the longest running Doctor, only had two Dalek stories. However since the reboot, the Daleks have often appeared three or four times and it is beginning to make them almost unscary, rather more of a big joke. The final episodes of the ninth Doctor played by Christopher Eccleston saw the Daleks in fearsomely good form, en masse and more horrid than ever. Even the Doctor was actually scared. However, these days, they have become just an annoying inclusion that makes me want to bash my head against a wall whenever they appear. It has gotten to the point where I honestly fear them running out of storylines, considering that all the appearances have basically had the same elements.
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I had initially thought, as many did, that this was going to be a rehash of the Eccleston episode "Dalek" which saw the first glimpse of Daleks in the shows reboot. So, of course, i was delighted to discover that not only was this episode not a rehash, it was an episode that managed to convince me that Peter Capaldi was more then definitely the right man for the job. The story at the start was a stranded Dalek in a room held by a small militia and the Doctor turns up. Here we go again, another rehash plus some added Inner Space for good measure, but then something strange happened and I'm laying the credit equally at the feet of Phil Ford and Peter Capaldi. The episode became about right and wrong, whilst the Dalek changed from radiated good back to pure evil the Doctor genuinely thought he was good and could help and ended showing Rusty (my Dalek collection now all have that name) that the Time Lord is more pure evil than the master race could ever be. Capaldi shone again, and I really think a drunk illiterate could write My Little Pony as an adventure and he could make it work, but Clara became the voice of sanity and the Doctor began to build the morals and guidelines that will define this era and for that I have huge admiration. We are yet to get a Talons of Weng Chiang, Blink, or The Doctor's Wife but I am now filled with hope that at some point this series it will click and Capaldi's crowning glory, the story that launches HIS Doctor and makes him MY Doctor is just around the corner.
Overall, i am definitely staying for the remainder. I can't wait for the Robin Hood episode next week.
I haven't seen it in a while but this is awesome.