Evolution of the Daleks
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owlLa la la, ignore the skience and the plotholes and the odious comparisons....I didn't find this entirely satisfying. I think I had to suspend my disbelief in too many areas at once.
I say it again; Dalek Sec is a bit squicky. I did snort a bit at the 'Erm, is it just me, or has the boss completely lost the plot' bit. Daleks at the water cooler...
Okay, so solar flares cause gamma rays to come down as lightening and you can use it to zap DNA into adult human bodies and re-program their BRANES. GAMMA RAYS?? Okay, it's set in New York, Uberwald, then.
How many near-death experiences is the Doctor going to have this series? They'll have to do something really spectacular when they want to off Tennant. At least Martha didn't have to restart his heart(s) again. But the scenes on the spire were quite impressive, I liked his Tortured Faces, and he got to make hybrid Time Babies, yay! So for a short time he was not the Last Lonely God Emo Lonely Time Lord, aw.
The Dalek exterminated the Doctor's Hybrid Time Babies. Woes! I liked the 'I'm not causing another genocide' bit, with its two possible meanings. He's still a bit traumatised by the Time War, with the whole 'Kill me! Kill me!' in Hooverville. Is DT getting a bit better at Shouty Doctor, though? And Nine in the situation would have been going 'Die! Die! Why won't you die?! Woe!' at the point where Ten was racing around babbling about genes and about to load Sec into the TARDIS.
Poor Solomon. One minute he was going 'Respect my authority!' and I was going 'South Park? Gah?', and then he was 'I havea dream hope' and I was going, 'ok, you're going to die now' and he said 'what do you say to that?' and I said 'EXTERMINATE' a second before the Daleks did.
Nearly all the Dalek episodes could be renamed 'The Human St(r)ain'. Get icky human on your Dalek and it turns into Emo Dalek. Or Cyberwoman, as the case may be. Cos humans in the 1930s were entirely different from Daleks.
Emergency Temporal Shift, how handy. And the Doctor is sure that the Last Dalek (only not really) and the Last Time Lord (only not really) will met again. Or perhaps they already have, in Dalek :-P
Look, they have a time machine. Why not get Lazlo somewhere that has really good plastic surgery and drop him back in New York? Of course, knowing the Doctor's navigational skills it would probably be Cardiff in 2374, but the poor guy's going to end up in a freak show.
Doctor, get over yourself, you plonker! Stop making Martha feel inferior to Rose. And now she knows about the Time War, she can't be mistaking Genocidal Woe for My Girlfriend Left Me Woe. They seem to be back with her family next week; I hope she wants to stay at home and he has to go 'Well, actually, Martha, I'd really like you to stay cos you're brilliant and I like you a lot.' Come on, we've had 5 episodes, we like Martha now, enough retroactive Mary-Sue-ing.
I say it again; Dalek Sec is a bit squicky. I did snort a bit at the 'Erm, is it just me, or has the boss completely lost the plot' bit. Daleks at the water cooler...
Okay, so solar flares cause gamma rays to come down as lightening and you can use it to zap DNA into adult human bodies and re-program their BRANES. GAMMA RAYS?? Okay, it's set in New York, Uberwald, then.
How many near-death experiences is the Doctor going to have this series? They'll have to do something really spectacular when they want to off Tennant. At least Martha didn't have to restart his heart(s) again. But the scenes on the spire were quite impressive, I liked his Tortured Faces, and he got to make hybrid Time Babies, yay! So for a short time he was not the Last Lonely God Emo Lonely Time Lord, aw.
The Dalek exterminated the Doctor's Hybrid Time Babies. Woes! I liked the 'I'm not causing another genocide' bit, with its two possible meanings. He's still a bit traumatised by the Time War, with the whole 'Kill me! Kill me!' in Hooverville. Is DT getting a bit better at Shouty Doctor, though? And Nine in the situation would have been going 'Die! Die! Why won't you die?! Woe!' at the point where Ten was racing around babbling about genes and about to load Sec into the TARDIS.
Poor Solomon. One minute he was going 'Respect my authority!' and I was going 'South Park? Gah?', and then he was 'I have
Nearly all the Dalek episodes could be renamed 'The Human St(r)ain'. Get icky human on your Dalek and it turns into Emo Dalek. Or Cyberwoman, as the case may be. Cos humans in the 1930s were entirely different from Daleks.
Emergency Temporal Shift, how handy. And the Doctor is sure that the Last Dalek (only not really) and the Last Time Lord (only not really) will met again. Or perhaps they already have, in Dalek :-P
Look, they have a time machine. Why not get Lazlo somewhere that has really good plastic surgery and drop him back in New York? Of course, knowing the Doctor's navigational skills it would probably be Cardiff in 2374, but the poor guy's going to end up in a freak show.
Doctor, get over yourself, you plonker! Stop making Martha feel inferior to Rose. And now she knows about the Time War, she can't be mistaking Genocidal Woe for My Girlfriend Left Me Woe. They seem to be back with her family next week; I hope she wants to stay at home and he has to go 'Well, actually, Martha, I'd really like you to stay cos you're brilliant and I like you a lot.' Come on, we've had 5 episodes, we like Martha now, enough retroactive Mary-Sue-ing.
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Date: 2007-04-28 09:51 pm (UTC)I really hope he has to do more next episode than just open the door and say, "Wanna come with?" He'd better be really freaking sincere in wanting her to come, and not so he can whine about how much better Rose was the whole time.
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Date: 2007-04-29 06:39 am (UTC)Pretty much the only thing that didn't have me laughing at the cheesiness (and not at all in the way the old series made me laugh at the cheesiness) was the fact that David Tennant was really quite spectacular in the many moments of both manic and suicidal he was given in the episode.
Yes, the "authority" bit!!! I'm glad I'm not the only one who had a South Park moment.
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