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title: "Doctor Who S01E05-E11: Daleks!"
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tags:
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- drwho
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Holy crap! I didn't realized the Daleks went all the way back to episode 4!
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Also there are some Dutch-looking people who are of course the good guys.
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## S01E05: The Dead Planet
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They find a dead city which, oops, high background radiation.
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Cool doors open up and some neat architecture.
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You know what, for the time and (I assume) paltry budget of the first season,
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this is pretty badass.
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This Doctor is a jerk. Faking a broken part to force everyone to do what
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he wants.
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## S01E06: The Survivors
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Daleks! It's cool that they waited until the second episode to bring them out.
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They're pretty clearly assholes right at the outset here.
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No moral ambiguity with the Daleks.
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The Doctor is pretty frail. Honestly, the rest of the crew seems more
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important than he is.
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## S01E07: The Escape
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I think we really meet the Norwegians here. I don't recall exactly.
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I'm pretty sure this is the one where
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the Norwegians try to meet up with the Daleks and forge a peace treaty,
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not knowing the Daleks are complete assholes.
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## S01E08: The Ambush
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They start taking out the Daleks. There appears to be some sort of
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creature inside, which can be taken out, and the dude teacher crawls in.
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This is actually pretty cool, I liked this one.
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## S01E09: The Expedition
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I think the guy teacher tries to convince the peaceniks to fight the Daleks,
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by presenting them with the possibility of him screwing up their stuff.
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The Norwegians traipse around through some cool looking sets to
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look like an alien landscape.
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I think this is when the Daleks realize they need high background radiation
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in order to survive, because the Norwegians (the Thaals I guess) anti-radiation
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drug kills them. They plan to dump ionizing radiation onto the planet's
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surface.
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A Thaal dude goes to get water and gets sucked up by a vortex or something.
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## S01E10: The Ordeal
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Half the episode was watching people jump over a chasm in a cave.
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The pacing on this, holy crap.
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I think this is the one where the Doctor screws up their electrical grid.
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## S01E11: The Rescue
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Everybody runs around in the cave some more, and eventually they pop out
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in the Dalek city.
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The Doctor and his Grand-daughter
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are imprisoned and he volunteers to teach them about his ship and how to
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travel through time if they let him go.
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The Norwegians and teachers rain holy hell and kill all the Daleks.
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Everybody goes home.
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Honestly, man, for being written 60 years ago, I'm surprised by how
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compelling the Daleks were written when viewed by me today.
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