Monday, 19 August 2013

The Daleks Master Plan - Coronas of the Sun


Back to the CD’s and this story isn’t written by Terry Nation. It’s his idea but the responsibility of continuing this story falls to former script editor Dennis Spooner. At the end of the previous episode, the Doctor, Sara and Steven seemed to be in a situation where they wouldn’t be able to escape however what I forgot about were the invisible creatures and its their encounter that allows the Doctor and co to escape. There’s a nice fight that occurs early on which would have looked good on TV but sadly without that luxury we have to make do with the sound effects.
It’s very rare that I comment on a line from one of these episodes but this time saw another cracking line when Chen was talking to the Daleks and Chen is trying to make an excuse for not getting the teranium. The Dalek says that “You make your incompetence sound like an achievement”. The Daleks and Chen are both in fine form.

The Doctor has made a new core to try and fool the Daleks and Chen. In the previous Dalek adventure, the Doctor spends ages making a bomb to defeat the Daleks and here we are in a similar situation. There is a moment when Steven screams in pain and the viewer at the time must have thought that Steven was going to be the third death in as many weeks. It’s a great feeling to know that anyone could be next. The story builds up to the handing over of the fake Teranium. There is a moment when there is a question as to whether they will be able to fool the Daleks.
The ending of this episode seems to imply the wherever they have landed is going to be lethel to them. Bearing in mind that I know that what the next episode involves I can only say that this is effectively the end of the first half of the story. It’s been a solid build up to this moment and despite it losing something by being on CD, it still has a lot going for it and I thought that it was another episode where there were no deaths which makes two in a row.

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