While the Daleks assign Romana to their excavation detail, the Doctor and an escaped prisoner help the Movellans' attempt to beat the Daleks.While the Daleks assign Romana to their excavation detail, the Doctor and an escaped prisoner help the Movellans' attempt to beat the Daleks.While the Daleks assign Romana to their excavation detail, the Doctor and an escaped prisoner help the Movellans' attempt to beat the Daleks.
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- TriviaDavid Gooderson, who plays Davros, was also uncredited as some Dalek voices. This continued a trend of the actor playing the creator of the Daleks also doing voices of the creation. Michael Wisher originated the role of Davros previously in Genesis Of The Daleks, in which he also provided some Dalek voices. Wisher had provided Dalek voices in the previous Dalek story, Death To The Daleks.
- GoofsWhen the Doctor enters the lower level with Romana, they pass by two BBC studio lighting equipment stands.
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Dalek episodes are always good, but this one had some issues.
Greetings from the other side. I love Doctor Who, at least up until Jodie, and this Gatwa person is just brutal to watch. Anyways, there were some issues I had with this episode.
The big issue was the dialog for the Daleks. They typically repeat a word once, maybe twice, but here they went crazy at times. One line was, "Don't move, Don't move, Don't move, Don't move, Don't move, or you will be punished". That is just terrible to hear, and they do this in other places as well.
The is a scene where the doctor and others are in the Dalek control room, when a lookout comes in saying that Daleks are coming, so the doctor says to hide. One of the scariest, most brutal creatures in the universe is coming, and these people very slowly find a hiding place. They were so casual about it, that I laughed out loud. Then to top it off, when two Daleks roll by, the Doctor and company start running (in the direction the Daleks came from) and for some stupid reason, the Doctor yells out "Come on, let's go! (or something to that effect). Obviously, the Daleks hear this, and turn around to chase after them. If this isn't bad enough, the Doctor and company enter a ventilation hatch, and the Doctor says something like, "If you're the most technologically superior race, then why don't you climb in her after us?"
Another scene was a Dalek ordered two others to go search an area that had tresspassers, and they reply "We obey". A bit later, the Dalek beep the Dalek in charge, and when he asks what do they have to report, they reply something like "We are in sector 7 and starting our search for the trespassers". They two Daleks were ordered to seach sector 7 already, so why bother to inform the main Dalek that they were about to start searching? Not very efficient if you ask me.
Another stupid thing, was when the Doctor first arrived on the planet. They exit the Tardis and he mentions something about this planet appears to have quakes frequently. The Tardis re-materialized just inside a cave, so you would think that he would move it, just in case. However, he doesn't, and there is a quake later, and it gets buried. He is suppose to be super clever, so how did he not consider this? I'm sure everyone clued in as soon as he talked about frequent quakes, but not him. Lazy writing.
I suppose that is the main problem I had with this episode, which is Lazy Writing! There was just too many obvious issues, and I don't understand how nobody noticed any of these glaring problems.
Anyways, it's still a fun episode. It's Doctor Who and the Daleks, so what's not to like? Hehe.
The big issue was the dialog for the Daleks. They typically repeat a word once, maybe twice, but here they went crazy at times. One line was, "Don't move, Don't move, Don't move, Don't move, Don't move, or you will be punished". That is just terrible to hear, and they do this in other places as well.
The is a scene where the doctor and others are in the Dalek control room, when a lookout comes in saying that Daleks are coming, so the doctor says to hide. One of the scariest, most brutal creatures in the universe is coming, and these people very slowly find a hiding place. They were so casual about it, that I laughed out loud. Then to top it off, when two Daleks roll by, the Doctor and company start running (in the direction the Daleks came from) and for some stupid reason, the Doctor yells out "Come on, let's go! (or something to that effect). Obviously, the Daleks hear this, and turn around to chase after them. If this isn't bad enough, the Doctor and company enter a ventilation hatch, and the Doctor says something like, "If you're the most technologically superior race, then why don't you climb in her after us?"
Another scene was a Dalek ordered two others to go search an area that had tresspassers, and they reply "We obey". A bit later, the Dalek beep the Dalek in charge, and when he asks what do they have to report, they reply something like "We are in sector 7 and starting our search for the trespassers". They two Daleks were ordered to seach sector 7 already, so why bother to inform the main Dalek that they were about to start searching? Not very efficient if you ask me.
Another stupid thing, was when the Doctor first arrived on the planet. They exit the Tardis and he mentions something about this planet appears to have quakes frequently. The Tardis re-materialized just inside a cave, so you would think that he would move it, just in case. However, he doesn't, and there is a quake later, and it gets buried. He is suppose to be super clever, so how did he not consider this? I'm sure everyone clued in as soon as he talked about frequent quakes, but not him. Lazy writing.
I suppose that is the main problem I had with this episode, which is Lazy Writing! There was just too many obvious issues, and I don't understand how nobody noticed any of these glaring problems.
Anyways, it's still a fun episode. It's Doctor Who and the Daleks, so what's not to like? Hehe.
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- May 28, 2024
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