Death to the Daleks - Episode 2

Anyone watching the previous episode would have wanted the following Saturday to arrive so they could see how the Doctor was going to survive. The truth is rather dull and its that they are affected by the power loss that affected the TARDIS. The Daleks shoot and there is no death which is instantly an interesting idea but sadly any hopes that the story will pick up lasted less than three minutes when the story moves to Sarah Jane and the Exillons.

The scene where the Daleks are talking amongst themselves where they talk about not wanting to reveal their true intentions is a nice moment. There is a moment when they are being attacked by the Exillons and I was thinking why are they screeching when arrows cant hurt them and they could just run away. The shot of one of the Daleks on fire is quite an iconic one and is perhaps the highlight of the entire episode.

The humans that the Doctor encounter are mildly interesting but lost a bit of sparkle when John Abineri got killed by the Exillons. Now they are just a group of rather weary individuals that are trying to pretty much stab the Doctor in the back to get what they need to and get off the planet. That’s pretty much all that is accomplished in this episode.

This is a thoroughly dull episode. It is the first time for quite a while that I have felt so downbeat about a story. I am just greatful that this is a four part adventure could I don’t think that I could have dealt with six episodes of this. At four episodes the plot is stretched a bit and I cant wait to get past this story and that’s a terrible thing to say about a Dalek story. This has to be one of the worst Jon Pertwee’s stories that I have seen and that’s pretty much all I can say about this story so far. I am still holding out a bit of hope that this story will pick up but I’m not holding my breath.