Sunday, 3 March 2013

Doctor Who Project - 'Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks'

Ok time for another live review I think. This time I'm going to take on a 2 parter! Think I might have to take a break inbetween. lol

Ok here goes:

Daleks in Manhatten


  • Lights, music, showtime oh and a bit of love interest.
  • Oh what was that rushing past the screen? ;)
  • Oh look a great big man pig. This Lazlo guy's lucky it's just a pig slave and not a weeping angel as we now know they were in New York around this time.
  • Martha "where are we?" Nope it's not New York, it's actually Cardiff (the team cheated by filming against a wall that looked like the wall underneath the statue of liberty.
  • Oh Martha just made a valid point, New New York to (old) New York.
  • What's Hooverville? A Doctor Who convention in Derby isn't it? ;)
  • People living in poverty due to the recession, would be interesting if they made another episode like this now!
  • 'How can they build the world's tallest building yet people are starving?' Exactly!!
  • Ooh love that art deco light that lining up perfectly with the Dalek stalk. Brilliant.
  • Yay Dalek. Daleks are always best when they're being sneaky.
  • Missing people, the plot thickens.
  • Dalek panels on top of the Empire State Building?
  • This Mr Diagonal or whatever his name is is a bit of an arse.
  • Yeah more Daleks. His loyalty will be rewarded by Daleks? Hmm don't like the sound of that.
  • Nice close up of the black Dalek there.
  • Dalek Sec, yay the Cult of Skaro are back.
  • Basically RUN!! lol love it.
  • Hauuns in the air and no funnny bizzniss. Dodgy accent.
  • lol Lazlo's not a pig. You sure about that Tullulah?
  • Oh dear Martha's pining over the Doctor. Why did they have to go down this route again?
  • Liking all this Dalek experiment business.
  • This whole musical performance is a bit unnecessary.
  • Skaro! The Doctor's worked it out.
  • Why is it she doesn't recognise his voice but she recognise him with a pig's snout?
  • Like how Martha doesn't know what a Dalek is.
  • lol Dalek Sec looks like a washing machine on full spin!
  • Human Dalek - Interesting.
Time for a quick break before the next episode. So far so good. Not quite 'Dalek' or 'Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways' but so far one of the better Dalek stories in New Who.

Evolution of the Daleks
  • Ok here we go again. No pre title action just a catch up on the last episode.
  • Emergency temporal shift? What all 4 of them? To the exact same point and place in time?
  • Oh oh the Dalek's feeling humanity.
  • Now that Dalek Sec is no longer in his Dalek case does that mean he's no longer connected to the hive (see Asylum of the Daleks)? Bit of a weakness for a Dalek don't you think? As well as losing the protective shell which Davros designed for them to survive the Kaled/Thal war. Not much of an evolution. The only positive things I can think of for a Dalek would be that they now have little Dalek bits and could reproduce.
  • Putting his gun down and trying to reason with a Dalek, big mistake.
  • EXTERMINATE! lol That was pretty funny after that moving speech.
  • Daleks never change their minds. They never seem to be able to kill The Doctor when they get the chance to either. They're a bit like Bond  villains in that sense.
  • Ooh this looks like a scene out of The Matrix or the blood bank in Blade.
  • So the final experiment is to wipe the minds of humans and fill it with Dalek ideas. So what was the point in the Human/Dalek hybrid?
  • Ah right, so they need a Human/Dalek hybrid's DNA to re-write the DNA of the human captives.
  • Davros was wrong? Why do they go back to him at the end of series 4 then? Saying that the other Daleks just disagreed with him, maybe he inspired Dalek Khan to pop back into the Time War and get Davros.
  • So now this Human/Dalek hybrid is redundant as they're changing the DNA structure now Dalek SEC has decided they need to be more human.
  • Surely if the DNA feed is now 100% Dalek it will change how the humans will look?
  • Looks like the Daleks have finally cottoned onto the fact that Sec is now redundant. Could've told them that 10 min ago.
  • Why is Dalek Sec all chained up? The Daleks gone soft in their old age? Exterminate him FFS.
  • Bit confused, how does a solar flare affect lightening? Also lightening hitting a rod to generate enough power to feed advanced technology, deliberate nod to Back to the Future? Probably not.
  • So how many sonic screwdrivers is that now? He bust one in 'Smith and Jones' and has just dropped another.
  • Ok so The Doctor can survive a bolt of lightening (strengthened by solar flares) but he can't survive a fall from a satelite dish or a little bit of radiation (although he can shake it into his left shoe?).
  • "I am a Dalek", you sure about that?
  • This whole Daleks as masters and Dalek Sec in chains is a bit BDSM. Kinky Daleks!
  • I like how the Daleks only move they're heads and eye stalks rather than wobbling around all over the place like they're on speed.
  • Oh you're not a Dalek now. Make your mind up!
  • Why didn't the Dalek just exterminate The Doctor just then instead of shooting at the Dalek-Human who stood up to them.
  • Especially when they can just kill on mass like that.
  • Nice parallel with the Dalek and The Doctor there, just 1 in the universe.
  • Just thought is the guy playing Frank, Andrew Garfield from The Amazing Spiderman?
  • Just IMDB'd him, yes it is.
  • Yep The Doctor will see that Dalek again.
Well that wasn't too bad. It had it's flaws, the whole thing with the DNA was a bit silly and confusing as well as pointless but it wasn't the worst episode. It's not even the worst Dalek episode (That's probably Victory of the Daleks). Not a big fan of the next episode, should be interesting to see how I interpret/enjoy it this time around.


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