The battle continues with the Doctor being rescued. It seemed a bit lacklustre compared to the previous episode and the music doenst really help matters as it seems a bit cheery and cookey. After the long winded battle is over we got to the resistance’s base and it’s a very sombre affair with no-one looing particularly happy. Tyler walks in looking like a defeated man and seems quite miffed that the bombs didn’t work.
The Daleks sound like their on helium. Not like what we saw the first time. I cant make up my mind about whether it makes them sound less menacing than they did before. Was it the setting and the mood that made them seems so striking or was it the look and voice?
Theres a nice trio that forms with Dortmun, Jenny and Barbara. They go on a trip through the streets of London. The sequence where they are going through some of the landmarks and seeing Daleks travelling across Westminister Bridge is one of the best in the story. The sight of a Dalek pulling up infront of Big Ben is another great moment. The whole bit of location footage is brilliant even though not a single word is uttered and it’s a mixture of the performances from the trio and also the music is far more interesting than what we got in the battle at the beginning of the episode. It’s weird to see one of the most populated cities in the world look so empty.
The sets are very impressive in this episode, in particular the scene where Susan and David hide from a Dalek. It gets used more than once in this episode and there are other sets that are good to watch and it feels like some money has been chucked at this story.
Susan does get quite emotional and for the first time I don’t think it’s a sense of being told to act like child I get the feeling that she’s just tired of the fighting. It’s a bit like Tegan would be in ‘Resurrection of the Daleks’. Susan entertains the idea of her and David running on board and go somewhere that have never heard of Daleks and when David questions what to do if there is something bad, she just thinks about moving on and David doesn’t like this idea. I like how they casually drop in the idea of Susan’s exit. She seems to be more willing to listen to David than the Doctor and whilst a couple of stories ago this would have been a source of conflict, here it’s a minor irritation.
William Hartnell doesn’t really do a great deal as the Doctor is still recovering from being on the robotising machine. It’s not until the final five minutes that he gets on his feet and tries to pass of an idea as his own that he seems to show some life. It’s the last we see of Hartnell until Episode Five as he was unwell during the next episode and it’s another opportunity for the rest of the regulars to get a bit more of the action.
Dortmun’s death is quite a surprise as I think it was a wasted move. There was plenty more that the character could have done and his death came a couple of episodes too early.
The cliffhanger is another good one. The Doctor, David and Susan are waiting and just as they are doing this, two robomen plant a bomb. It’s a nice incentive to see what will happen to the trio in the next episode. As an episode it started off iffy but soon picked up and is memorable for the location footage. It’s the most extensive filming outside for the show up until this point and it seems to add a nice dimension to the story. At the halfway point of the Daleks’ second story, I think it’s a better story because the characters are better and there isn’t as much standing around talking.
The Daleks sound like their on helium. Not like what we saw the first time. I cant make up my mind about whether it makes them sound less menacing than they did before. Was it the setting and the mood that made them seems so striking or was it the look and voice?
Theres a nice trio that forms with Dortmun, Jenny and Barbara. They go on a trip through the streets of London. The sequence where they are going through some of the landmarks and seeing Daleks travelling across Westminister Bridge is one of the best in the story. The sight of a Dalek pulling up infront of Big Ben is another great moment. The whole bit of location footage is brilliant even though not a single word is uttered and it’s a mixture of the performances from the trio and also the music is far more interesting than what we got in the battle at the beginning of the episode. It’s weird to see one of the most populated cities in the world look so empty.
The sets are very impressive in this episode, in particular the scene where Susan and David hide from a Dalek. It gets used more than once in this episode and there are other sets that are good to watch and it feels like some money has been chucked at this story.
Susan does get quite emotional and for the first time I don’t think it’s a sense of being told to act like child I get the feeling that she’s just tired of the fighting. It’s a bit like Tegan would be in ‘Resurrection of the Daleks’. Susan entertains the idea of her and David running on board and go somewhere that have never heard of Daleks and when David questions what to do if there is something bad, she just thinks about moving on and David doesn’t like this idea. I like how they casually drop in the idea of Susan’s exit. She seems to be more willing to listen to David than the Doctor and whilst a couple of stories ago this would have been a source of conflict, here it’s a minor irritation.
William Hartnell doesn’t really do a great deal as the Doctor is still recovering from being on the robotising machine. It’s not until the final five minutes that he gets on his feet and tries to pass of an idea as his own that he seems to show some life. It’s the last we see of Hartnell until Episode Five as he was unwell during the next episode and it’s another opportunity for the rest of the regulars to get a bit more of the action.
Dortmun’s death is quite a surprise as I think it was a wasted move. There was plenty more that the character could have done and his death came a couple of episodes too early.
The cliffhanger is another good one. The Doctor, David and Susan are waiting and just as they are doing this, two robomen plant a bomb. It’s a nice incentive to see what will happen to the trio in the next episode. As an episode it started off iffy but soon picked up and is memorable for the location footage. It’s the most extensive filming outside for the show up until this point and it seems to add a nice dimension to the story. At the halfway point of the Daleks’ second story, I think it’s a better story because the characters are better and there isn’t as much standing around talking.
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