![]() Balance can be maintained between the dark and the light. But we know that The Doctor is good, we know that if he has a wobble, if there is a moment he is cruel or cowardly, it will be corrected. If The Doctor can be bad, then a Dalek can be good. If The Doctor is questioning who he is, so can a Dalek. ![]() I can see where the writers were going with this one. To me that is the absolute of Doctor Who. The flip side is that The Doctor is just as uncompromising a force, but a force of kindness, of creation, and of love. That inability to change is the essence of the Dalek and from that flows evil, destruction, and hatred. Their purpose is simply to exterminate everything that is not a Dalek. The Daleks have the same skill set, but they are the black knights, the unyielding, uncompromising force that cannot be changed. He changes the universe for the better, a white knight affect positive change. He can go anywhere, he can do anything, he can force change through his stubbornness and willpower. And it is flawed from a very basic premise that left me unable to engage with the story. The starting point of the story, the imagery of climbing around inside a Dalek is wonderful. The script that has been built up around that image is flawed. It's a weakness that I hope is minimised over the following episodes. This year the arc moments have great big signs, and take up nearly an act of the episode. Doctor Who has always been geared as an anthology show, and in the modern reboot with a very shallow arc story going through the season. While the story of Clara and Danny is likely going to play out over the rest of the year (as is our little trip to Heaven), it took time away from the main event. From a fast-paced action-movie opening, building up the tension, we jump to a plot so contrived it wouldn't be considered worthy of a soap opera. The production team have managed that wonderfully.Īnd then we have Danny Pink. Going inside a Dalek (and a subtle reminder, what you see is a casing, a tank, a sort of travel machine) requires imagination and wonder, but with enough nods to the existing design. Pitched as 'Die Hard in a Dalek', 'Into The Dalek' opens up with a space battle that in years gone by would have been represented by a character saying 'there was a great space battle.' The visuals on offer are by far some of the best seen on a British science-fiction show.
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