Todays episode is where Davros get involved in the story
after seemingly being killed by the Daleks. There is a problem from the get go
because of the style that David Gooderson is talking. I would have thought that
he would try and mimic Michael Wisher but no, also they could have done
something to make Gooderson’s voice sound different because they could have
hidden his normal voice. Also the mask he is wearing seems to be the one the
Michael Wisher wore and as a result it doesn’t look right. The mouth is the
only active part of Davros’ face and it barely moves when he’s talking. Also
when Gooderson moves he wobbles from side to side which just looks silly.
It’s quite funny that the Doctor effectively kidnaps Davros
and the period of the episode where they are alone. It’s not quite as good as
the scenes they had in ‘Genesis of the Daleks’ but it still fits in with this
story. There is a funny moment when the Doctor tells the Daleks to ‘spack off’.
Clearly he was just trying to say back off but its funny they kept it in. I
don’t quite get why the Doctor goes to the trouble taking Davros if he’s just
going to hand him back to the Daleks.
Seeing Daleks walk around on Skaro is a huge development
because in the very first Dalek story they couldn’t even leave their city but now
they are walking around (albit with some strategically place cameras). The
quarry stuff is quite good and even though I know that it’s a quarry, I can
believe (via the sound effects) that this is a cold and miserable planet and
also that we are on Skaro.
After being quite good in the previous episode, its sad that
Romana doesn’t get to do very much in this episode. It seems she just leaves
the Doctor and ends up in a tube that has a bomb in it and that forms the
cliffhanger. It’s a good cliffhanger but I wish that she could have done
something interesting as opposed to what she ended up doing. I think this shows
that the second incarnation of Romana isn’t going to be any different than the
previous incarnation. This was another good episode but there are things that
happen that just take the shine off it. It’s not the greatest Terry Nation
script that he has ever produced for the show but its an interesting one and one
that is slightly let down by production values. If this weren’t a Dalek story
then I would probably be more positive or negative than I am being but when
it’s a Dalek story then I expect something slightly more engaging than what is
on at the moment.
No comments:
Post a Comment