How do you defeat bad Daleks? With worse Daleks, because they're not so bad.
After Captain Jack breaks Doc out of not-Shada, they team up with the Scoobies for one last adventure as a fam
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After the events of Resolution (of the Dalek), as the Fam obliviously indulged in 007-themed shenanigans, the corrupt half of the two people working at GCHQ handed the remains of the Reconnaissance Dalek to Mr Big of Spiders in Sheffield fame. Similar to GCHQ, captain of industry Jack Robertson’s company also only employs two people, and the not-Mr-Big half of them sets about revolutionising the Dalek to form the basis of a new prototype security drone with a suspiciously Dalek-sized hole in the middle.
One year later, the aforementioned corrupt official is now somehow-still-not-the-worst Prime Minister and about to level up Britain’s security by unilaterally rolling out said security drones nationwide. Obviously the Dalek has gotten itself cloned in the meantime, though, and with Doc still stuck in a space prison there’s no one around to prevent the Earth from getting invaded from within. Nope, spoke too soon. Actual Captain Jack just broke her out of there with a breakout ball and a quick dart of Harkness, OK, tension resolved.
(Ok, there WAS a podium…)
What’s that? We’ve discussed this episode once before? Yep, that’s right. Heads-up, we were significantly more vitriolic in our instant-ish reaction review, available here: B070 Revolution of the Daleks (2021 New Year’s Special)
Hi folks
A LONG TIME AGO (2019)
Yes, that does feel like a long time ago…
So the pre-credits makes me think that an attempted theme of this is legacy and things coming back to bite you. Let’s see how that goes.
The Doctor’s escape from Not Shada (it doesn’t say shada in the ep nor is it the Stormcage) is too quick and I would be much happier if it had been just the Doctor doing it by herself. The Doc and fam are reunited at 25 mins 15 sec out of 1h11m21s. Too quick. Have the Doc in Not Shada for longer this ep and allow the Fam more time to do stuff without her. They are quite ineffective otherwise.
A mini Dalek civil war between variable genetically pure mutants? Chibnall, you’re copying from a far better story, Remembrance of the Daleks. Even the Fake Dalek voices are based on the ones from Remembrance (which Leon will be covering soon). And they use sound effects from Genesis for the mutants growing in that building.
Jack’s conversation with Yaz is actually sort of nice. And there’s nice batter with Ryan and Graham, especially not telling Robertson about the Tardis.
This doesn’t need to be 71 mins long, but also feels like it’s trying to do too much as well. There’s probably two better shorter length eps in this with the finished product not quite gelling. But more enjoyable than last time so 2.8/5 Fighting Daleks with Daleks just in the same way as the answer to gun violence is more guns….
Cheers
Kieren
Hello all you lovely people!
Here is my mini review for “ Revolution of the Daleks”
Just how bad can writing get on Dr Who?
This is pretty awful and a definite low point for me of Jodie’s run.
Before I bag it though, here’s a couple of good points:
The Jail scenes are not too bad at the start ( Harry Potter reference was great )
Production top notch,
And now…
OK brace yourselves.
Why is the Doctor apologising for being late after being in Jail?
Why is Yaz the worst written character ever?
WTF are SAS Daleks?
Why do they try ( and fail ) to give Ryan some depth in the last episode?
Why is “Mr Big” back? ( He just got worse as the episode went on )
Why can’t Daleks shoot our companions ( or Doc ) but can massacre civilians with pinpoint accuracy?
How did Captain Jack spend so much time breaking in?. WTF did he eat? How did he go to the toilet?
How did they know that driver would stop at that tea van on the way?
Japan…why?
Where are any actual Japanese?
Why are there no security people at the beginning when they transport the Dalek?
Leo can work by himself and needs no-on else to fully develop his product…hmmmmm
I could go on, but this is a mini.
I should mention the comedy is also soooo misplaced in this episode.
No Graham, you don’t joke when you are planting bombs on a frikkin Dalek ship where you could be dead any minute.
Urgh……..
I miss “Genesis of the Daleks” or “Day of the Daleks”.
Please go and rewatch these, writers of today. That’s how you make a Dalek episode
Rating 0.6
GP Haynes
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