Doctor Who:
Victory of the Daleks
By Mark Gatiss
Victory of the Daleks
By Mark Gatiss
“You didn’t
know them Amy. You’ve never seen them before and you should have done. You
should.”
A story on
paper that looked like it could have been a classic but falls short. The story
looked promising. You have World War Two, Winston Churchill and the Daleks what
could go wrong. Well how about British war planes flying in space with the aid
of an antigravity saucer. But it gets
better that as the planes takes out the Dalek ship’s weapon that was focused on
London. That was a really pretty hokey moment of the episode right there. Well along with the Dalek android bomb that
can destroy the Earth. The character of
Bracewell was kind of weak especially when he remembers a female acquaintance
that helps defuse the bomb.
The
introduction of the new style Daleks was pretty clever using pure Dalek DNA to
create a new race of Daleks. Actually
they must have a share of stock with the toy company to come up with all those
colored Daleks. You know like a bag of Skittles. I think the new look Daleks looked pretty OK
but really liked the old style and these new style just look so bulky and
colorful. At this point when I originaly watched it I thought it would be good
to give the Daleks a rest as I’m tired of seeing them every season and
sometimes it is good to give something a rest and bring them back better than
ever.
