Doctor Who : The Victory of the Daleks...

[fajrdrako]

Oh what a lovely Doctor he is, that Eleven. I don't find him as endearing as Ten, but I find his mind and personality more interesting and and more psychologically coherent.

As for "The Victory of the Daleks"... Seems to me it's about time they won in one of the moves of the game. How many times can the Doctor wipe them out completely, and see them come back again?

Infinitely, of course.

Comments on 5x02 "The Victory of the Daleks":

1. Amy Pond continues to be a winner. She's lovely. Smart and brave. She continues to enchant.
   
   
2. They've retained the Doctor's suicidal streak. I like that.
   
   
3. I like her outfit with the leather jacket. The nightgown in "The Beast Below" was a nice thrown-back to episode one, and a nice continuation of the fairy tale motif, but her mini-skirt and leather jacket outfit is pretty much perfect. Suits her.
   
   
4. I like the World War II setting for Doctor Who stories, and of course I was imagining Jack dancing with Rose on his invisible spaceship while the action was taking place. (Except that the Doctor wouldn't have overlooked those Daleks, even with the nanogene problem going on.)
   
   
5. Loved seeing the Daleks playing British soldiers, and bringing tea. They reminded me of Ianto. You know you've been watching Doctor Who and Torchwood too long, when a Dalek reminds you of Ianto.
   
   
6. I liked Professor Edwin Bracewell, the Dalek android who turned out to have a human heart. Usually I don't like the 'scientist' characters who turn up in Doctor Who stories, with some exceptions - he's one of the exceptions. I thought Dorabella was going to turn out to be a machine, probably an airplane; Tasia thought it sounded like a cow. Why I should think I've heard of an airplane named Dorabella, I can't imagine. Perhaps a crack in time and space has altered my memory?
   
   
7. I wanted Captain Jack Harkness to be the pilot who attacked the Dalek ship.
   
   
8. I love the ongoing motif of the crack in space and time.
   
   
9. I quite love the new and improved TARDIS console room, too, but every time I see it I can't help thinking that we lost the Torchwood Hub to get it, and I'd rather have the Hub as well as the TARDIS. What, bitter, me?
   
   Just missing my Torchwood.
   
   
10. I don't like Mark Gatiss as an actor and I didn't think I liked him as a writer - I particularly disliked "The Unquiet Dead". But I really enjoyed this story.
    
    
11. Ian MacNeice did a good job of portraying Winston Churchill - he was fun. I was afraid he and the Doctor were going to have a breach, as Ten did with Harriet Jones, and I was most relieved when it didn't happen. Loved the scene at the end, when Amy caught him palming the TARDIS key. I think that key will be a running joke, too.
    
    
12. TARDIS key: I can't help wondering. Captain Jack still has his TARDIS key. Will it still work in the new, improved, regenerated TARDIS? I suppose the logical answer is: It will if the TARDIS wants it to.
    
    
13. I think I could easily be a Doctor/Amy shipper, but then, I always feel that way with the Doctor and his companions; totally unapologetically. I think he ought to feel personally drawn to them, and he to them. I'm glad he isn't intending to take her back immediately, as he intended with Martha.
    
    
14. Seems to me we know rather little about Amy's background and her life. We haven't seen her aunt, we don't know what happened to her parents... We're meant assume she's about to marry Rory, I suppose? After the twist they threw in in terms of Martha's marriage, I'm not sure this will be the case.
    
    
15. Hitting a Dalek with a wrench seems rather pointless to me. Might as well hit a mountain with a puff-ball.
    
    
16. I did briefly think that the multi-coloured Daleks looked a bit like a chorus line. Liked the look, though. I do enjoy Daleks as villains - I have ever since seeing "Dalek".
    
    
17. I continue to delight in Amy's maturity.
    
    
18. There's a mood to the Stephen Moffat scripts that I love, but can't think of words to describe it. Edgy? Sophisticated? I'd call it "adult" except that part of it is that he likes to feature children, and fairy tale motifs, and references to the monsters of childhood. But that's part of it. He takes these things that kids find scary, and brings them into the light of day of adulthood, where they become scarier still.
    
    
19. I sometimes find myself confused by the time paradoxes associated with the Daleks, but that's okay. For instance, when the Doctor travels back in time, why doesn't he meet Daleks of the type he encountered back when he was in an earlier regeneration? Why do they always move forward in time in relation to his own erratic and convoluted timestream? Because they are stalking him?
    
    Okay, that's cool.
    
    
20. The trailer for the game at the end looked interesting. I don't suppose we'll be able to see it in Canada, more's the pity. Maybe it will become available here commercially.

Comments

[beccaelizabeth]

Captain Jack still has his TARDIS key.
Captain Jack lost everything, including flesh and bone. He lost the TARDIS key.

[fajrdrako]

... In the Hub explosion, you mean?

I was assuming a bomb wouldn't harm it. Maybe it did, or maybe he couldn't find it again. In any case... if it did still exist, would it work?

Yes, I know it's a non question.

Maybe it would be even better if the Doctor gave Jack another key. I'd like that.