Didn't write about Victory earlier...
Apr. 19th, 2010 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcTo quote Gatiss in DWM: "The Daleks win. They win."
And I suppose they do, given their goal was simply to ensure the continued existence of Daleks. And I'm certainly pleased that we have a Nu-Who Dalek story that doesn't end with them all being completely wiped out forever - again. We know they'll be back, so lets aknowledge that.
Churchill was brilliant, and the "Ironsides" were pitched just right; there's a couple of moments when it looks like they're slowly counting to ten and reminding themselves there's a plan.
The new Daleks are awesome!
It looks like every episode is going to have a "bad science" moment for me. In "Eleventh Hour" it was the Doctor illustrating the effects of the computer virus by pointing to a mechanical clock; in "The Beast Below" it was the stuff with the glasses of water (inertia keeps a spacecraft moving at a constant speed until it hits something or the engines are used to slow down or steer). And this week, well, I have a hard time believing that a Spitfire modified to be an antigrav spacecraft would still look like a Spitfire in any event, but what pushed it over the edge was that the propellor was spinning, despite having nothing to push against.
But the Doctor ... well, he didn't really seem to do much, except, you know, get completely scammed by the Daleks into allowing them to open the box. And, yes, it's "Victory of the Daleks" and that's the point, but a couple of minor victories on the Doctor's part wouldn't have gone amiss. (He didn't even stop the scientist blowing up; he worked out what to do in theory, but Amy had to actually get it to work.)
So all in all, something very odd in Who terms: A good episode, with a disapointing Doctor.
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Date: 2010-04-19 11:09 pm (UTC)Oh, I wasn't disagreeing with you.
I said in 1982, "If the new guy wants to contrast with the old guy, then in his first story he needs to be pure-D wrong." Interesting that they're finally listening to me. But it's not something you can do every story and still be Doctor Who.