Yes, I'm a bit behind again.
Sue me.
Spoilers to follow.
Part of the reason it keeps taking me a while to get around to writing up these reviews is that the last group of episodes just haven't wowed me.
This episode sees the Daleks coming to terms with the new hybrid human/dalek they have created. And rather than becoming the future of the Daleks, or a warring offshoot, or some other interesting idea, they just end up killing off the hybrid.
There was a lot of potential there, but they just tossed it away.
When they brought back the Daleks (or rather a single Dalek) in the first new series, they made them out to be so horrible that even one Dalek was no match for the near future's military force to deal with. But now we see that four Daleks have to hide away in the basement in the 1930s.
They are not doing a very good job of making them any scarier in my opinion, but as they were voted scariest Doctor Who monster recently I may be in the minority. I wonder how that vote would go now, or after this series finishes.
Anyway, overall, not a horrible story, but not a great one either. At the end of it all the Doctor Dalek relationship hasn't changed, and once again there is supposedly only one Dalek and one Timelord left. That is if you don't think about the fact that the TARDIS travels in time, and just because there planets have been destroyed, that doesn't mean every TImelord or Daleks have been completely wiped from history.
Does it?
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