I’ve just realised that I am approaching the second
anniversary of this marathon. On the first anniversary I was watching Death to
the Daleks which isn’t one of the greatest Dalek stories ever and its fair to
say that before watching yesterday’s episode I would have rated these two
stories the same. I mentioned that the Radio Times had spoilt the big surprise
about the Human Dalek but its something that still bothers me because its
nothing new that TV guides reveals big plot points on the covers every week but
never to the extent that the cliffhanger is revealed.
Despite the lack of surprise when the Human Dalek. The start
of the episode is rather quite good. It leads to a nice little conversation
between Dalek Sec and the Doctor. The Human Dalek Sec is quite impressive when
he is talking to the Doctor at the beginning of the episode. The whole reason
why the Daleks are there in the first place is because they want to create new
Daleks. To be honest it’s a rather dull plan.
I love the two Daleks talking in the tunnels and they are
looking around to see if anyone is listening and it’s not something that we
have seen before and it’s just fun to see. The three gold Daleks are quite the
backstabbing lot and the whole thing about the Cult of Skaro is that they do
all the thinking and there is a great bit where one of them says that they have
dared to think about life with Dalek Sec.
The performances from David Tennant and Freema Agyeman are
quite good. Ok they aren’t classic performances but they are the only things
that make the episode worth watching. The anger that the Doctor during this
episode is another reason why Tennant’s Doctor is very good. Martha does seem
to take a new stride in the role as the companion and she ends the two parter
in a better position than she started. Even all the supporting characters were
on good form and its still weird to think that Spiderman has been in these two
episodes.
The thing about this episode is that most of it was largely
forgettable. It’s definelty clear that this episode lost some steam in this
forty-five minutes. I still think that as a two-parter this story is far
stronger than I have previously given it credit for. I think that after the
good run of episode that there have been this series, this is the weakest
episode of the series so far and it’s not the weakest Dalek story since they
returned in 2005 but neither is it a classic. 
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