Stuart, thank you for mentioning the Scrap Dalek being able to fly and shoot rockets. That was the moment I was shaking my head, because it was too much for me to take. That standoff idea you had would have been so brilliant; to see a Dalek act like an animal backed into a corner. Imagine the tension! Oh well...
The Daleks killed some people in The Pilot which was a year an a half ago, can't blame you though since that was only a cameo and the time before that was Into The Dalek
@@jonathanskinner7647 Yeah that's why I said I couldn't blame you. I agree that Daleks are better when they're treated with reverence and fear for how dangerous they can be. I liked how both times the Doctor faced the Dalek it instantly tried to shoot them; no beating around the bush, no talking, threats, it just tried to kill her. Always bugged me in the other series how Daleks stand around and give people time to get away.
This is what my mate from Canada said about it. I take no credit for it "Seriously that was super cheesy. I don't understand criticising a story like Planet of the Daleks when you got this past the drawing board. I don't even use that word often to describe media because it's a little lame and disingenous, but yeah. The whole business with the guy and his dad. And the dad clearly should have died at the end, I mean come on, what was the Doctor even thinking?I love the fact that hand holding somehow kept him from being sucked into a black hole or whatever that shit was. yeah, it was totally throw away and a "blink and you'll miss it" moment" (guy mentioning doing dirty things to his bf) Seriusly guys, if you liked this episode just cause the Dalek killed people, i suggest you look back cause i think Chibnall has made you drop your standards to the underground
I love how the series has been marketing itself as extremely progressive but they introduce a gay character literally just to kill him. Also the only gay character in the series. I wouldn’t even be that annoyed if 99% of the marketing (and even some of the actual show itself) was based on screaming “GUYS LOOK HOW PROGRESSIVE I AM! JODIE SHATTERED A GLASS CEILING IN THIS TRAILER! YOU HAVE TO LOVE US!”
James M I completely forgot about her! And I can’t think of who the third gay character would be. Either way for a show that now prides itself on how progressive it is it’s definitely falling on its ass with this one.
@@V-grandraccoon Forgot her name but the woman from The Ghost Monument. I'm fine with treating it like it is not a big deal because it shouldn't be, but its getting into bad horror film trope territory.
That stupid no internet cutaway became an in joke between me and some friends. Someone simply says “suppose we’ll have to have a conversation” and the rest of the group screams “A WHAT!?!?”
@@HudsonMedia Right but the point I'm making is that they didn't actually die because of technobabble. Whereas in 'Dalek' we are introduced to plenty of characters who just get murdered by the Dalek and then they are gone with no way of getting them back. I prefer that.
6:35 The director dropped a bit of a bollock there. It's supposed to be New Year's Day and there are no Christmas decorations or cards to be seen; not even a box of chocolates.
What annoyed me about this episode was that it's established that UNIT is dismantled so why didn't we see the Dalek go a UNIT warehouse where items were being sold to other governments to cover costs. It was also shown that the Dalek could interact with the TARDIS meaning we could get a cool scene where the Dalek uses non-Dalek tech to rebuild itself, then just as the Doctor arrives the Dalek disables the TARDIS forcing the Doctor to have to use Bessie that was being kept in storage to chase the Dalek down. Also when they said 'the first Dalek to leave Skaro' why didn't we have a scene where this Dalek still thought it was fighting the Thals and had never heard of the Doctor, that would of shaken things up and not of made the second half feels like a redo of 'Dalek', it was bad enough that the first half felt like Chris had watched the trailer for 'Venom' and decided that's what he wanted to do whilst giving the Dalek a bunch of unnecessary extra abilities.
As I understood it, UNIT still existed, but was no longer operating on UK soil due to the British government refusing to fund it. So most UNIT assets will have relocated to Geneva where the organisation is headquartered. The episode said the Dalek scouts were the first Daleks to leave Skaro - not that this particular scout was the first (I suppose it could be, but whether it is or not isn't elaborated upon). Scouts were given capabilities and intelligence levels greater than those of regular Daleks explaining some of it's ability to exist without a shell. We already know from previous stories that even without a casing, Daleks are capable of being extremely dangerous. And just because this is a very old Dalek, it doesn't mean it has not been back to report it's findings to it's superiors many times over the aeons. No reason to assume it has been out of contact for how many thousands (or more) years it has been roaming the Galaxy. All we know is that this specific Dalek scout at some point in it's travels through time and space (it has to be "time" because the Daleks are created in the far future according to Dr Who chronology) was somehow bested by a bunch of angry dark age locals. How it ended up in that mess is anyone's guess! But I agree, it does feel like a re-run of "Dalek", no matter how welcome that storyline may be. It would definitely have made for a more interesting story to have a very "young" Dalek who doesn't know about the Doctor, and is still intent on hunting down Thal colonies.
I thought one of the reasons there was no title sequence was so that they could reveal at the end credits that it was actually called Resolution of the Daleks.
carealoo744: I actually prefer the title as-is, but it seemed like that’s what they were gonna do after they chose to open it like The Woman Who Fell to Earth.
There were good things in Resolution but they were quite drunkenly assembled with a lot of shit that didn't need to be there and the end result was rather poorly paced and dull. The Dalek possessing the archaeologist was good, and taken on their own the scenes with Ryan and his dad were alright. The Dalek prop was really terrible and unconvincing, and the scene where it kills the platoon with a ludicrous array of hidden weapons was so overblown it just felt silly. Also there was the whole subplot where the Dalek had been split into three and buried around the world by a secret society that went nowhere.
The thing is the Dalek should have died without its casing. The casing is its life support system as was shown in the very first Dalek episode ever. Its not just a suit of armour. Just goes to show that for a fan of Dr Who Chris Chinballs doesn't seem to understand it at all.
This was almost my favourite episode of the season. The story with Ryan's Dad could have been executed better, but the Dalek stuff was so fun I didn't care. Briggs evil performance, the body hijacking, and the junk casing, and throwing the damn thing into the sun was a blast! The impression I got is that the Dalek stole multiple alien artefacts from the vault to rebuild itself, so it was a mixture of scrap and alien tech (like how the Doctor did with her screwdriver). So I didn't have an issue with it rebuilding too quickly or the rockets and stuff.
(The Fonz) Even though I love Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor, and S11, I will agree with that. There was a lot of potential there that sadly wasn’t acted upon.
I really liked this one. The Dalek kicked ass, it felt cinematic and whilst it took a while to get going the second half was wonderful. Chibnall actually did something new with the Daleks and that was impressive.
I found this the best Dalek story since Doomsday. Like damn, for THE iconic baddies of the show, it’s been well over a decade since they actually got a decent showcase. I personally never felt much of a whiplash between the Ryan’s dad stuff and the Overblown Dalek stuff. I was just with the episode from beginning to end. I guess I just don’t have a problem jiving with Chibnall’s approach to tone.
My main problem was the way they resolved Ryan and his dad. The fact that Ryan had to be the active party in mending their relationship in the big climax of the episode completely undermined his character. His dad had done next to nothing to earn that sort of reaction from his son. The dynamic would have been a little bit better if it was Ryan who was infected and his dad actually had to step up for once, but the way it is, making Ryan suddenly flip completely destroys an semblance of hope for my interest in their relationship going forward. It just feels super cheap.
Probably the most unforgivable part, was when the show shut down U.N.I.T. The Unified Intelligence Taskforce is an incredibly significant part, in the show's history. Having been around almost as long as the Brigadier, one of the most important characters in the show, as well. (R.I.P. Nicholas Courtney) The Doctor, has depended on U.N.I.T. since his Second incarnation, and when he was exiled by the Time-Lords, in his Third incarnation, they took him in, and let him stay there, as home. I would expect the character to be a little bit more upset, then just moving on.
Second of all, I'm not just talking about: 'The Doctor's,' emotional state. 'U.N.I.T.,' is one of the few organizations, that keeps the: 'Earth,' safe, while: 'The Doctor,' isn't there. If it just shut down, like that, as soon as the opportunity came up, she would have immediately set it back in motion. Maybe ask those two people, at the end of the episode, to try and rebuild it?
carealoo744: Why bother? UNIT will be back. They needed a way to get UNIT temporarily out of the way to heighten the stakes, and this was as good a way as any.
I just hope that Chibnall does a Torchwood season 2 again and improve things. This wasn't the worst series for me (series 7 still takes the bottom spot) but it was easily the most disappointing. There was so much potential to be had here. A female Doctor played by a great actress, a good companion dynamic with Graham and Ryan, a whole new writers team, brand new monsters meaning that there isn't as much needless fanwank as there was in Moffat's era, a new production team, no convoluted story arc. This should have been a great season. Alas, it turned out that Chris Chibnall was not the best head writer despite being a halfway decent showrunner (like it or not, it hasn't had this big of an audience since 2008 so he knows how to get people watching it with good press). He never capitalises on potentially good ideas and instead plays things way too safe. Some episodes I liked e.g. Rosa, Demons of the Punjab, Kerblam, It Takes You Away and Resolution, but it was mostly a string of meh. It didn't even have peaks and valleys like with Davies and Moffat's eras. It was just one string of meh with the occasional blip into something interesting. But the worst part is how badly the fanbase has acted. If you liked series 11, you're an SJW PC Police Officer and your opinions are wrong. If you didn't like it, you're a sexist bigot and your opinions are wrong. And if you're indifferent, like I am, then you don't exist unless you choose a side. Despite not even liking series 11 all that much, I've somehow become a champion of the Chibnall era because of how insufferable the fanbase, the haters, in particular, have acted. But they still somehow won't shut up about it despite it ending nearly three months ago. And I fear it won't end until either Jodie Whittaker or Chris Chibnall leaves the show and honestly, I wouldn't mind if Chibnall left and someone more interesting like Toby Whithouse was brought in instead. Keep Jodie though, I do like her even if the scripts constantly let her down. *Sigh* Chibnall, please do better so I can have fun with Doctor Who again.
Time line of alternative story : Dalek creature takes over that person. Normal scenes of the dalek from the episode. No real need for the doctor to know of it at this point. Knowing that the doctor has no idea any of this is happening would really build tension. Dalek builds casing but it isn't OP like in episode. Slowly charging towards a largely populated area to get to the communications place. The two archeologists team up to attempt to get help maybe from UNIT to stop the dalek and get people to safety. Army trying to fight it off but failing all the same. The doctor is called near the end when situation gets too serious. Doctor has an actual emotional scene with the dalek with real anger and fear. Concludes with a solution that does NOT involve a microwave oven.
I love this one, I admit it, easily the best Dalej story since the RTD era and a lot of fun. Also the best special we've had, though yes that is a low bar indeed. Seriously, though, I really did like this story and I can't help but feel that we got more like this in series 11, I'd have been more positive about it overall (and I liked it more than most people, anyway).
The Dalek should have definitely killed a companion. They haven't done that in who knows when? And I think they missed an opportunity to make the scrap Dalek look actually intimidating. Instead they went for that strange skinny, chrome look.
I thought Daleks die when they are outside of their casing. The Dalek's casing is both a war machine and a life support system. The actual creature can only live for a short while outside of its vehicle. In which case, how did the Dalek creature live for so long with no machine? Or did the writers forget that detail
It’s Doctor Who. This stuff can change when the story needs it to. Capaldi’s final episode had Daleks running around outside their casing, and I believe Moffat tried establishing that Daleks can’t die or something(?).
@@davidthomas3826 Doctor Who has been changing the lore to suit the script from the earliest years. For example if Terry Nation had stuck to his original ideas from Hartnell's Season 1, the prototype Daleks in _Genesis of the Daleks_ should have been reliant on static electricity or some even more primitive mechanism of propulsion. They would also have been confined to base, unable to cross the Waste Lands to invade the Thal dome, which they evidently were able to do in the Tom Baker story.
@@ftumschk Then what's the point of the Dalek's casing? Why are they always inside it if they don't need to be? One of the darkest ideas about the Daleks is that they are prisoners in their machines
@@davidthomas3826 Well, a Dalek mutant did escape from its casing and go crawling around a building before strangling a soldier in _Resurrection of the Daleks_ , so there is a precedent.
I'm surprised you never mentioned the dalek's dialogue in this episode. So much of it felt clunky and didn't really fit a dalek. Like the moment it laughed? Has Chris not seen a dalek story before? They're not big on emotions. The only time we've ever seen a dalek laugh before was to show us something was wrong with it.
What did you think about the unit scene and the fact many think its a brexit joke. I did find the episode fun and liked the rough look dalek but yeah it seemed to have more firepower than a normal dalek and yet was destroyed with an oven
It was terrible. Watching the Dalek get unceremoniously destroyed with SPARE MICROWAVE PARTS was the worst thing ever. Why can't the Daleks actually be a credible threat?
This episode perfectly symbolises everything wrong with series 11. Overambitious, unfocused, forced character/emotional moments and most importantly interesting concepts wasted by awful execution or just lost under a pile of mediocrity
While I really enjoyed the dalek at the time, it doesn’t make any sense. Which dalek had missiles ? Why doesn’t the dalek look like it’s been made from spare bits of other Daleks ? How every time a dalek doesn’t use missiles it won’t make sense
Because this was a specific Dalek that created it's own casing and it must've thought it would need more firepower. I'm saying that because I hope new Daleks don't continue the same design, I wasn't keen on the missiles especially with the way it perfectly timed the shot to deflect the tank round pffff... Daleks should be powerful but not silly.
The missiles in the spheres felt like a bit much personally. Especially considering that it was built from scraps. And all it existed for was purely for that Matrix-y bullet time shot where it destroyed the tank.
The entire season 11 have three major problems (and I am not even going to point on political bs): 1. Too rushed passing. 2. Too much exposition. 3. And just weak pay offs. To create a interesting story as a writer must always priorities plot, characters, message and etc. But when writer have only 45 min mark and you have 4 characters to develop AND also give us though provoking or interesting moral... you must be a very skilled writer. Three companions is too much. Even OG Doctor Who had problems with writing three companions in to the stories. At least OG had time to develop characters, villains and lore, but in season 11 the only way to develop tings is through expositions. And pay offs is just non existent. At the end of the stories I just felt nothing. There is no achievement after too many uses of “sonicplotdivice”. All in all, the entire season 11 was a disappointment, like TLJ and STD. I think I liked season 22 from OG with Colin Baker, then 11 season.
Charlotte Ritchie is on my list of "people I'd go YES! if I found out they'd been cast as the Doctor list", which pretty much means she'll never be cast as the Doctor - it happened once when McCoy was cast
It's interesting you bring up the character of Lin. According to director Wayne Yip, the original plan was to have one of the companions possessed by the Dalek, and then the Doctor herself. I wonder if the story would have been better/worse if that had come to pass.
This probably would've been the part where Graham died except for the fact that most people already predicted it in advance, therefore Captain Chibbers made a hasty rewrite.
Whilst I really like this episode, and I really like what they did about the Dalek, (apart from the whole ‘destroy the internet’ thing) the Story itself is fractured like a broken egg, and there is a lot of clear transparent stuff that kinda means nothing. However, if you do look at it, there is a golden yoke in the middle... an undercooked, raw yoke, but a golden yoke all the same. On a personal tangent, I vote to call this new Dalek “rusty 2, electric boogaloo.”
The biggest issues I have with this episode is how did a group on horse back with spears defeat the Dalek when it arrived yet it hard no issues killing solders with Guns and Armour vehicles.
I don't know if I consider that an issue personally. We don't know the story of what condition that Dalek was in when it arrived on Earth. It may already have been damaged and malfunctioning before the locals got their hands on it. No hi-tech to lay it's protuberances on in order to repair itself in the dark ages!
Also, here's the problem with this New year's special... It's set after New year's. So it's an ugly day where everyone is tired and bored. What a fucking holiday. At least with Christmas episodes, you have these beautiful visuals of snow and decorations. This could've been really awesome if the climax of this episode took place at night, as the people are counting down to the midnight, and then when the doctor saves the day, all the fireworks go off, while she's at the top of Big Ben or whatever.
Would've loved to have heard your thoughts about Unit getting shafted by the government. That's the only thing any hardcore whovian talked about as soon as the episode aired.
I loved it pretty much till the last ten minutes. While I'll acknowledge that it was not shown very well I got the impression that the flashier elements of the dalek casing came from other alien tech that it stole from the warehouse. The flight capability and rockets. Since the dalek had to deflect a missile and it had bullets bouncing off its casing instead of being stopped by forcefield it was clear this Dalek didn't have the same protection as the ones we are familiar with. I do wish it had been made more clear in the scene what she took from that company and how it was integrated into the new casing cause it really did look like the woman built everything from the way it was shot.
Well, I feel like it was a good episode. But if they didn’t destroy the dalek and let it join with the fleet, because it threatened to kill Ryan’s dad or something, we could have a buildup for a Dalek invasion for series 12.
Best Dalek story since The Stolen Earth/Journey's End despite all it's flaws. This Dalek was actually evil, arrogant and psychotic, which is exactly what a Dalek is.
You should have brought up the scene where Jodie tried to inimidate the Dalek and told it to leave, but it said no and then she turns to the "Fam" for support showing that she's so unfit to be the Doctor and the "Fam" are a bunch of Yes-Men.
I love your reviews, Stu, but I really think that you need to stop imagining hypothetical better versions of the episodes because with almost every series 11 episode review so far you’ve been like “It would have been so much better if the episode and the series had these big and drastic differences” and I feel like your habit of doing that is causing you to compare these episodes to your own personal fantasies that they would never be able to live up to
His ideas don't sound unfeaseable and honestly, they'd be much better than what we got. I remember when the scene in the cafe began I was checking my watch constantly because it was taking so long to get back to the Dalek stuff. If it was just about the Dalek possessing the woman for most of the run time and then the doctor shows up halfway through to resolve things that would be interesting.
Yes he's pointing out legitimate flaws with the episode, what doesn't work, and how it could have been fixed. Most of the "hypothetical" versions he comes up with do actually sound better than what we got.
Alternative titles for Series 11 episodes: 1 - Person Nobody Cares About Falls to Earth 2 - The TARDIS it's the TARDIS like cmon 3 - Blonde White Woman Starts the Civil Rights Movement 4 - Don't Vote Trump 5 - Warriors of the Deep: Part II 6 - ERROR 404: Doctor Who Not Found 7 - An Ad for Amazon 8 - Dr. Seuss Sues for Copyright Infringement 9 - Worse Than Jimmy Savile 10 - Tim Shaw Is an Idiot 11 - At Least It's Over
@ Wario64I The Woman Who Fell Into a Sewer The Shit Monument Vincent And The... just kidding this is a terrible episode Arachnids In My Arsehole The Cuntundrum Demons Of The Rimjob Kerbad! The Shitefinders Kermit Takes You Away The Brief Skirmish
1 - The wrong companion gets killed off 2 - Enlightenment II: The Scary Bandages 3 - Doctor Who and the Biker Racist from the Future 4 - The Green Death II: Spiders 5 - Gremlins 3: Stripe X 6 - The Funeral Directors of Terror 7 - The Doctor goes Union Busting 8 - James I Gets Dirty 9 - Deadbeat Dad Fucks Entire Universe 10 - The Tim Shaw Who Would Be King 11 - The DIY of the Daleks
1 - The Episode That Determines If Anyone Cares 2 - The boring one where the general audience stops caring. 3 - Doctor Who Does Racism. 4 - Cool name wasted pulpy sci fi story about spiders and an obvious allegory 5 - A Piece of Shit 6 - The Episode that Rosa SHOULD have been. 7 - An ACTUAL Doctor Who episode? Am I dreaming? Is any of this for real? 8 - The one with Alan Cumming in it 9 - Frog on the log at the bottom of a universal nexus point between a good Doctor Who Episode and a terrible one. 10 - Tim Shaw 2: Revenge of the monster literally nobody wanted to see again. 11 - Dalek but boring family drama I thought we left behind in the RTD Era gets in the way of what everyone ACTUALLY wanted to see.
I actually liked Resolution less than the previous episodes. The body horror stuff I agree was great. But as soon as it was time to build the new casing, it was all over for me. It was back to the same emotionally-manipulative "fun" action scenes, complete with faux-epic soundtrack score. Hearing the new composer trying to channel that Murray Gold vibe was stomach-churning to me. It had great ideas that it squandered so that it could return to the very stuff I was happy to leave behind.
Would've preferred this episode if it stuck to being in the tunnels. It could've stayed as a horror piece where the Dalek takes over the split-up characters one by one to learn more about the time period and the Doctor. Maybe it could use them as hostages and as vessels to steal the TARDIS / kill the Doctor. That would've had so much more emotional weight to it than Ryan berating his dad who we never see again...
So Now that we are through How does series 11 compare with the rest of NuWho? Because series 11 has dethroned series 7 of worst NuWho series for me personally
I will admit Resolution left me in more positive spirits for the conclusion of Series 11 than The Battle of Ransack Av Whatever the fuck did. The episode had a good run for the most part, Nick Briggs was fantastic as ever and the thriller-esque style it went for in regards to the Dalek out of its casing made for some decent intrigue and build up, but unfortunately like all things in the Chibnall era it came down with a case of "Interesting ideas? EWWW GET IT AWAY FROM ME!!! Ah! There we are. Boring subplots about Ryan's Dad coming back! Bizarre cutaways to some random family who's a * Ahem * social commentary on how fake our lives are and how we should get together around Christmas- ERR I mean New Years Day" Aside from that I do like how the Dalek was indeed a proper threat again even in its patchwork state although the design feels very... Fan Made. The Dalek design seen here kinda reminds me of those old "Fake concept" designs I remember seeing posted up on Deviant Art back in 2004 before Series 1 with Eccleston aired and they had a bunch of mock up designs of what they thought the Daleks would be redesigned to be for the 2000s which is really what this Dalek design reminds me of. Granted I know people were getting tired of the Time War era Dalek design but I would've rather it stuck with a broken down variant of that than what we got. Other than that my only major problem with the episode itself is the fact that it treated UNIT as a fucking gag reference and dismantled the organization pending 'budget cuts'. I just... I don't get it? The joke wasn't funny and if you really needed to write UNIT out of the plot you could've easily had the Doctor make a comical remark that they're busy fighting the Sentient Moss Creatures from Necros who've invaded Earth to eat all the bees on Earth. Also bit of a nerdy nitpick but the goddamn Dalek laser sound effect sounded generic as hell compared to the past series where it had a distinctive sound effect to which I blame modern day film and television for providing inadequate COOL laser sound effects. So there, I give Resolution 6/10 Rubber Chickens. It almost could've been good if it had cooler laser sound effects and Sonic Sunglasses.
You said you were gonna review miracle day with your mates from snuggly chibnall time. Please can you review children of earth first and release it before that as many of the reasons why miracle day doesn't work are due to its differences to children of earth
I also honestly feel The Tsuranga Conundrum receives too much hate. It's fine. It's fun. The juxtaposition between the cute little monster and how serious they treated it was hilarious. A good story too to show Ryan and Graham getting closer. The story felt like an adventure that wouldn't feel out of places as a Second Doctor, Jamie, and Zoey short trip. Still ranking the series an 8/10, Spiders in the UK being the ultimate low point. I don't mind Yaz being "underused". She was used fine enough and is way more memorable that Clara was at the start. This is Ryan and Graham's season. Definitely felt the effect of the shorter season which doesn't help when the show also has only a 50 minute run time. Fingers crosses BBC has more faith to extend the season and they're hiring a wider pool of riders so it's not just Chibnall doing a majority of it. It would be lovely to finally get a longer run time, but I'd just be happy with a couple two-parters.
The Tsuranga Conundrum is too mediocre to be genuinely terrible. It's a base-under-siege story that doesn't really do anything new other than having a cute monster instead of a scary one. I found Arachnids in the UK much worse.
Super Skully that’s what I find so enjoyable about conundrum. It’s so cute but they treat it so seriously. And the pregnant man subplot was impossible not to adore. I agree, Arachnids is the only one I skip on rewatch.
I'm amazed at how in sync Stu and I were while watching this series. He even took the month-long break at the same time as I did, although he was a few episodes ahead.
Yikes haven’t watched it, this was it for me first story I hadn’t watched in ten years of being s fan, battle of whatever it was even called left me angry,l
To be honest apart of the glaring flaws that prevented this from being a future classic, I quite enjoyed it and thought it was better or at least more fun than some of the previous specials.
I felt the Dalek and Ryan's Dad did tie in a little nicely since it's about people coming together, like how the three opposing factions of 9th century people united to stop the Dalek.
I don't understand even the limited appeal a lot of people seem to have found in this one - I thought it was worse than anything in Series 11 except Arachnids in the UK, and given the mediocre quality of most of the season that's saying something. It immediately undermines itself at every turn, from the 'Dalek scattered across three continents' angle (it just magically summons them back) to, as covered in the video, basic tonal cohesion (whiplash between 'family drama' and Dalek plot, the most tired joke in history about the internet being down coming at just the right time to kill any lingering tension, characters rarely actually seeming all that bothered by the magnitude of the threat...). And I usually have a high tolerance for poor visual effects, but the CGI Dalek draws attention to itself by being so obviously not physically real/looking like something from a video game (especially when you devote runtime to an effects showcase - the Dalek/army battle - that adds literally nothing to the plot). It felt aimless and pointless, something even most sub-par Who stories don't sink to. I'd like to hope Series 12 can rectify the many issues with Series 11 and this special, but I'm certainly not confident...
I have to say I think this is a misread of the episode's intentions. I think that the intention here was, that the dalek is the closest the Whoniverse has to irredeemable villains. No matter how weak or vulnerable the dalek is it will always strive to evil. That would be intended to be juxtaposed next to...uh..."the dad". That no matter how irredeemable people in our lives may SEEM, they are still human, they are still worth giving a second chance, and they aren't nazis or monsters or what have you. Whether or not it was tonally consistent, called for, or what, is a different matter, but I felt that was pretty obvious the intent it was set out to prove. It might have been better served if the episode called to attention that, say, the dalek TARGETTED the dad as the...most morally compromised or weakest willed person in the room, and have him triumph over that selfishness in the end. But you can string the metaphors between the scenes of how the guest stars are interacting with the dalek and the family drama, in an admittedly rough sense. I think it's a rough call, myself, because I consider this just as good a reintroduction to the daleks as "Dalek" was, legitimizing it in a way that we haven't seen for a long time, but perhaps that was something they didn't notice at the time, and couldn't shift the focus to in the end.
its just a boring dull episode imo took way too long for the already reveled dalek edit: yaz nothing intresting ryan only here cause graham arc (sort of) 2 arcyologysts best amazing characters the girl (fogot her name cause aint watched it in a while reminds me of tegan when she got taken over by the mara and the guy was just a realy fun character hell why werent they given a little buissness card to find kate stewert and help unit if sarah can give 1 to a cleaner in s5 of sja why cant the doctor
6:16 was actually quite accurate and I hope it teaches some of this little brats that the whole world doesn't just resolve around sitting on the internet all day....And being nicer to your parents.
It was a stupid and out-of-line stale joke about how everybody is sO oBsEsSeD with their own devices. This was mildly funny around ten years ago. It's not funny now. It also has nothing to do with the actual story.
So happenstance I listen to “Order of the Daleks” Spoilers . . . . . The monks in that story give there blood, larynxes & keep the dalek mutants in the stomachs of space buffalo That’s body horror
I love this story. For me its the best Dalek story since Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways. It simplified the Daleks and made them threatening again. It showed the Dalek creature as a threat rather than the casing which was a Brilliant idea. Even at it's most vulnerable it was the most dangerous creature in the universe and I really enjoyed the personal conflict with Ryan and his Dad even if I understand why some felt it was out of place. I made a review on my channel if anyone wants to check it out
Am I the only one who thought the design of this Dalek shell looked like a woman?... Ok hear me out with the way the face lit up as it talked the dome look like a bob hair cut and with the thin mid section and waist line, but with the normal skirt it made the Dalek look like it was wearing a corset and like a heavy metal 18th century dress. First The Cyberwoman, then The Master, then the Ice Warriors, then The Doctor and now the Daleks. Can't wait to see what the gender swapped Sontaran's look like.
I don't think that it was a particularly bad joke, but the whole scene was poorly acted and directed. With snappier delivery and direction, it would have worked OK.
I think it would have been really cool if Ryans dad was an older Orson Pink who kept popping in and out because he was a time agemta after the events of Listen
I can't believe they missed out on the golden opportunity to force the re-built Dalek into using an actual sink plunger as its arm. ;)
@@janetracer
Stealthy Daleks?
@@meris8486 Dizzy Daleks!
That would have been fucking epic.
That's the sort of camp even the 70s and 80s wouldn't touch. I'm amazed RTD didn't try it for a larf.
@@ShamrockParticle Douglas Adams definitely would’ve done something like that though
Stuart, thank you for mentioning the Scrap Dalek being able to fly and shoot rockets. That was the moment I was shaking my head, because it was too much for me to take. That standoff idea you had would have been so brilliant; to see a Dalek act like an animal backed into a corner. Imagine the tension! Oh well...
No matter your opinion of the episode, the Daleks killed someone. For the first time in 4 years. That's an improvement
The Daleks killed some people in The Pilot which was a year an a half ago, can't blame you though since that was only a cameo and the time before that was Into The Dalek
They were in the background, they were robots that the casual viewer wouldn't know and the whole Dalek bit was mostly irrelevant to the story
@@meris8486 technically no they shot a robot
@@jonathanskinner7647 Yeah that's why I said I couldn't blame you. I agree that Daleks are better when they're treated with reverence and fear for how dangerous they can be. I liked how both times the Doctor faced the Dalek it instantly tried to shoot them; no beating around the bush, no talking, threats, it just tried to kill her. Always bugged me in the other series how Daleks stand around and give people time to get away.
Its honestly the first time ive enjoyed a Dalek story since RTD which means I am forced to give it props
This is what my mate from Canada said about it. I take no credit for it
"Seriously that was super cheesy.
I don't understand criticising a story like Planet of the Daleks when you got this past the drawing board. I don't even use that word often to describe media because it's a little lame and disingenous, but yeah. The whole business with the guy and his dad. And the dad clearly should have died at the end, I mean come on, what was the Doctor even thinking?I love the fact that hand holding somehow kept him from being sucked into a black hole or whatever that shit was. yeah, it was totally throw away and a "blink and you'll miss it" moment" (guy mentioning doing dirty things to his bf)
Seriusly guys, if you liked this episode just cause the Dalek killed people, i suggest you look back cause i think Chibnall has made you drop your standards to the underground
Fandom's standards have been in freefall since 2005...
I love how the series has been marketing itself as extremely progressive but they introduce a gay character literally just to kill him. Also the only gay character in the series. I wouldn’t even be that annoyed if 99% of the marketing (and even some of the actual show itself) was based on screaming “GUYS LOOK HOW PROGRESSIVE I AM! JODIE SHATTERED A GLASS CEILING IN THIS TRAILER! YOU HAVE TO LOVE US!”
@@V-grandraccoon No. The third actually. However, the girl at the beginning of Arachnids in the UK was introduced, just so they could kill her off.
James M I completely forgot about her! And I can’t think of who the third gay character would be. Either way for a show that now prides itself on how progressive it is it’s definitely falling on its ass with this one.
@@V-grandraccoon Forgot her name but the woman from The Ghost Monument. I'm fine with treating it like it is not a big deal because it shouldn't be, but its getting into bad horror film trope territory.
That stupid no internet cutaway became an in joke between me and some friends. Someone simply says “suppose we’ll have to have a conversation” and the rest of the group screams “A WHAT!?!?”
I still remember my reaction when the rockets came out of the casing..."ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!"
Atleast the Dalek actually killed people for a change. Unlike almost all of Moffats Dalek stories.
That doesn't automatically make this a good episode though
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They didn't kill Missy and Clara though which undermines their effectiveness.
@@HudsonMedia
Right but the point I'm making is that they didn't actually die because of technobabble. Whereas in 'Dalek' we are introduced to plenty of characters who just get murdered by the Dalek and then they are gone with no way of getting them back. I prefer that.
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Er... ok.
Did you not watch into the dalek
Will you do some more: 'Big Finish,' reviews, please?
Yeah I'm still waiting for him to talk about A Death In The Family
Meris YES
Yes, more Big Finish reviews!
6:35 The director dropped a bit of a bollock there. It's supposed to be New Year's Day and there are no Christmas decorations or cards to be seen; not even a box of chocolates.
What annoyed me about this episode was that it's established that UNIT is dismantled so why didn't we see the Dalek go a UNIT warehouse where items were being sold to other governments to cover costs. It was also shown that the Dalek could interact with the TARDIS meaning we could get a cool scene where the Dalek uses non-Dalek tech to rebuild itself, then just as the Doctor arrives the Dalek disables the TARDIS forcing the Doctor to have to use Bessie that was being kept in storage to chase the Dalek down.
Also when they said 'the first Dalek to leave Skaro' why didn't we have a scene where this Dalek still thought it was fighting the Thals and had never heard of the Doctor, that would of shaken things up and not of made the second half feels like a redo of 'Dalek', it was bad enough that the first half felt like Chris had watched the trailer for 'Venom' and decided that's what he wanted to do whilst giving the Dalek a bunch of unnecessary extra abilities.
RoboticRob WE WOULDNT WANT TO CONFUSE THOSE POOR NEW VIEWERS! ITS BAD ENOUGH WE HAVE AN OLD MONSTER!
As I understood it, UNIT still existed, but was no longer operating on UK soil due to the British government refusing to fund it. So most UNIT assets will have relocated to Geneva where the organisation is headquartered.
The episode said the Dalek scouts were the first Daleks to leave Skaro - not that this particular scout was the first (I suppose it could be, but whether it is or not isn't elaborated upon). Scouts were given capabilities and intelligence levels greater than those of regular Daleks explaining some of it's ability to exist without a shell. We already know from previous stories that even without a casing, Daleks are capable of being extremely dangerous.
And just because this is a very old Dalek, it doesn't mean it has not been back to report it's findings to it's superiors many times over the aeons. No reason to assume it has been out of contact for how many thousands (or more) years it has been roaming the Galaxy.
All we know is that this specific Dalek scout at some point in it's travels through time and space (it has to be "time" because the Daleks are created in the far future according to Dr Who chronology) was somehow bested by a bunch of angry dark age locals. How it ended up in that mess is anyone's guess!
But I agree, it does feel like a re-run of "Dalek", no matter how welcome that storyline may be. It would definitely have made for a more interesting story to have a very "young" Dalek who doesn't know about the Doctor, and is still intent on hunting down Thal colonies.
This should have been called: 'Resolution Of The Daleks!'
carealoo744 YES
Resolution of the Dalek. Singular because there is just one, which is good because Inverse Ninja Law.
I thought one of the reasons there was no title sequence was so that they could reveal at the end credits that it was actually called Resolution of the Daleks.
I know! Like, what the heck?
carealoo744: I actually prefer the title as-is, but it seemed like that’s what they were gonna do after they chose to open it like The Woman Who Fell to Earth.
Flaws aside this was one of the funnest episodes this series.
Not really saying much though
Well considering the rest is a boring slough
The beginning of the episode was Justice League
it was Justice League/Venom/Civil War..... but with an Eastenders/Corrie hybrid about it..... such a shame
Yet the whole season had been Superfriends
Two words really stood out for me on the second viewing of this one. Pace and Tone
There were good things in Resolution but they were quite drunkenly assembled with a lot of shit that didn't need to be there and the end result was rather poorly paced and dull. The Dalek possessing the archaeologist was good, and taken on their own the scenes with Ryan and his dad were alright. The Dalek prop was really terrible and unconvincing, and the scene where it kills the platoon with a ludicrous array of hidden weapons was so overblown it just felt silly. Also there was the whole subplot where the Dalek had been split into three and buried around the world by a secret society that went nowhere.
how was this comment made a day ago, it's only been up for 7 minuets?
@@Henry-oj1oo time travel, obviously
Yeah. Inside every aimless 50 minute episode there's a tightly plotted 25 minute episode trying to get out. And probably done by Big Finish.
@@Henry-oj1oo Patreon Patrons get early access.
Also how did a Dalek survive being sliced into three parts?
The thing is the Dalek should have died without its casing. The casing is its life support system as was shown in the very first Dalek episode ever. Its not just a suit of armour. Just goes to show that for a fan of Dr Who Chris Chinballs doesn't seem to understand it at all.
This was almost my favourite episode of the season.
The story with Ryan's Dad could have been executed better, but the Dalek stuff was so fun I didn't care. Briggs evil performance, the body hijacking, and the junk casing, and throwing the damn thing into the sun was a blast!
The impression I got is that the Dalek stole multiple alien artefacts from the vault to rebuild itself, so it was a mixture of scrap and alien tech (like how the Doctor did with her screwdriver). So I didn't have an issue with it rebuilding too quickly or the rockets and stuff.
DakNJaxter 45 minutes of the main cast bouncing up and down on a trampoline would’ve been the “best episode of the series”
@@V-grandraccoon I generally found Seires 11 to be a good Season. The front half was a little dry and manic, but I largely enjoyed the back half.
I wrote this episode when I was 8.
No you didn’t
I hope that you've improved since
The couple at the start were more interesting in five minutes than Yaz and frowny boi were in the entire season!
(The Fonz) Even though I love Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor, and S11, I will agree with that. There was a lot of potential there that sadly wasn’t acted upon.
6:09 At first I thought you were gonna talk about the UNIT joke
oh yeah that too, I'd basically say the same thing though
LukeFancyFilms I’m kinda glad Stuart didn’t
I really liked this one. The Dalek kicked ass, it felt cinematic and whilst it took a while to get going the second half was wonderful. Chibnall actually did something new with the Daleks and that was impressive.
(Ben W) Same
I found this the best Dalek story since Doomsday. Like damn, for THE iconic baddies of the show, it’s been well over a decade since they actually got a decent showcase.
I personally never felt much of a whiplash between the Ryan’s dad stuff and the Overblown Dalek stuff. I was just with the episode from beginning to end. I guess I just don’t have a problem jiving with Chibnall’s approach to tone.
Day Of The Doctor was a great story with Daleks in it though the Daleks themselves didn't do much
Into The Dalek was pretty good as well.
I just rewatched Into The Dalek last night. It’s...alright. Really squanders its central premise, I feel.
Ryan impression on point
L H “no, not nearly! I’m sick of coming up here, I’m sick of falling... & I’m sick of this stupid bike!”
@@BH-98 Ryan Sinklair don't you dare!
I can't believe Jon gave up his dreams of animation to join the army.
Times got tough after the Five Who Fans disbanded.
My main problem was the way they resolved Ryan and his dad. The fact that Ryan had to be the active party in mending their relationship in the big climax of the episode completely undermined his character. His dad had done next to nothing to earn that sort of reaction from his son. The dynamic would have been a little bit better if it was Ryan who was infected and his dad actually had to step up for once, but the way it is, making Ryan suddenly flip completely destroys an semblance of hope for my interest in their relationship going forward. It just feels super cheap.
Considering that they were inconsistent with Ryan's dyspraxia, it seemed par for the course.
5:23 Ironic that the visceral and dangerous dalek story is ruined by...… the actual dalek.
You're missing the point: Dalek VS tank. Those 5 seconds were all we needed. Scrap the rest, it's even better if you do
Probably the most unforgivable part, was when the show shut down U.N.I.T.
The Unified Intelligence Taskforce is an incredibly significant part, in the show's history. Having been around almost as long as the Brigadier, one of the most important characters in the show, as well. (R.I.P. Nicholas Courtney) The Doctor, has depended on U.N.I.T. since his Second incarnation, and when he was exiled by the Time-Lords, in his Third incarnation, they took him in, and let him stay there, as home. I would expect the character to be a little bit more upset, then just moving on.
Do you remember The Doctor's exchange with Bill in Thin Ice? She has to move on quickly or more people die.
Huh? Okay, first of all, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Second of all, I'm not just talking about: 'The Doctor's,' emotional state. 'U.N.I.T.,' is one of the few organizations, that keeps the: 'Earth,' safe, while: 'The Doctor,' isn't there. If it just shut down, like that, as soon as the opportunity came up, she would have immediately set it back in motion. Maybe ask those two people, at the end of the episode, to try and rebuild it?
carealoo744: Why bother? UNIT will be back. They needed a way to get UNIT temporarily out of the way to heighten the stakes, and this was as good a way as any.
It still goes completely against: 'The Doctor's,' character, to just forget about It, and move on. So much for remembering: 'Brigadier.'
Can you do a Doctor Who Big Finish: Monthly range review series of the best ones? That'd be really cool and i'd watch the shit out of that.
Second
Even just a quick video of just a recommendations
I’m surprised someone hasn’t uploaded a version of this episode to RUclips without all the dad & ending stuff
Iain 97 no one cares enough to bother
I love the way you say, "Shut up hater."
I just hope that Chibnall does a Torchwood season 2 again and improve things. This wasn't the worst series for me (series 7 still takes the bottom spot) but it was easily the most disappointing. There was so much potential to be had here. A female Doctor played by a great actress, a good companion dynamic with Graham and Ryan, a whole new writers team, brand new monsters meaning that there isn't as much needless fanwank as there was in Moffat's era, a new production team, no convoluted story arc. This should have been a great season.
Alas, it turned out that Chris Chibnall was not the best head writer despite being a halfway decent showrunner (like it or not, it hasn't had this big of an audience since 2008 so he knows how to get people watching it with good press). He never capitalises on potentially good ideas and instead plays things way too safe.
Some episodes I liked e.g. Rosa, Demons of the Punjab, Kerblam, It Takes You Away and Resolution, but it was mostly a string of meh. It didn't even have peaks and valleys like with Davies and Moffat's eras. It was just one string of meh with the occasional blip into something interesting.
But the worst part is how badly the fanbase has acted. If you liked series 11, you're an SJW PC Police Officer and your opinions are wrong. If you didn't like it, you're a sexist bigot and your opinions are wrong. And if you're indifferent, like I am, then you don't exist unless you choose a side. Despite not even liking series 11 all that much, I've somehow become a champion of the Chibnall era because of how insufferable the fanbase, the haters, in particular, have acted. But they still somehow won't shut up about it despite it ending nearly three months ago. And I fear it won't end until either Jodie Whittaker or Chris Chibnall leaves the show and honestly, I wouldn't mind if Chibnall left and someone more interesting like Toby Whithouse was brought in instead. Keep Jodie though, I do like her even if the scripts constantly let her down.
*Sigh* Chibnall, please do better so I can have fun with Doctor Who again.
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No offense, but you say you liked some episodes, list half the season, and then say it was mostly “meh.”
Time line of alternative story :
Dalek creature takes over that person.
Normal scenes of the dalek from the episode.
No real need for the doctor to know of it at this point.
Knowing that the doctor has no idea any of this is happening would really build tension.
Dalek builds casing but it isn't OP like in episode.
Slowly charging towards a largely populated area to get to the communications place.
The two archeologists team up to attempt to get help maybe from UNIT to stop the dalek and get people to safety.
Army trying to fight it off but failing all the same.
The doctor is called near the end when situation gets too serious.
Doctor has an actual emotional scene with the dalek with real anger and fear.
Concludes with a solution that does NOT involve a microwave oven.
I really liked the episode. Finally a Dalek that creeped me out again.
(Companion92) same
It made the Daleks threatening again. The past few series used the Daleks under obligation, this felt earned.
It's a crying shame they didn't cast Charlotte Richie as the Doctor. She would be a darn sight more convincing than Whitaker
I love this one, I admit it, easily the best Dalej story since the RTD era and a lot of fun. Also the best special we've had, though yes that is a low bar indeed.
Seriously, though, I really did like this story and I can't help but feel that we got more like this in series 11, I'd have been more positive about it overall (and I liked it more than most people, anyway).
The Dalek should have definitely killed a companion. They haven't done that in who knows when? And I think they missed an opportunity to make the scrap Dalek look actually intimidating. Instead they went for that strange skinny, chrome look.
The dalek looked more rusty than scrap
If that makes sense
Good episodes? Please? Chris?
There's real potential but that's all I see Chris!
I was thinking this episode was a prime missed opportunity for the unused Spider Dalek to reappear
Why would the army send in ground troops first, knowing they have a tank coming in??
Because it's silly, fun blockbuster television, not real life?
@@peterkorman77 but if they fail in writing that what else are they failing in.
I thought Daleks die when they are outside of their casing. The Dalek's casing is both a war machine and a life support system. The actual creature can only live for a short while outside of its vehicle. In which case, how did the Dalek creature live for so long with no machine? Or did the writers forget that detail
It’s Doctor Who. This stuff can change when the story needs it to. Capaldi’s final episode had Daleks running around outside their casing, and I believe Moffat tried establishing that Daleks can’t die or something(?).
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It does not seem right changing the lore of characters just for the convenience of scriptwriters
@@davidthomas3826 Doctor Who has been changing the lore to suit the script from the earliest years. For example if Terry Nation had stuck to his original ideas from Hartnell's Season 1, the prototype Daleks in _Genesis of the Daleks_ should have been reliant on static electricity or some even more primitive mechanism of propulsion. They would also have been confined to base, unable to cross the Waste Lands to invade the Thal dome, which they evidently were able to do in the Tom Baker story.
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Then what's the point of the Dalek's casing? Why are they always inside it if they don't need to be? One of the darkest ideas about the Daleks is that they are prisoners in their machines
@@davidthomas3826 Well, a Dalek mutant did escape from its casing and go crawling around a building before strangling a soldier in _Resurrection of the Daleks_ , so there is a precedent.
I'm surprised you never mentioned the dalek's dialogue in this episode. So much of it felt clunky and didn't really fit a dalek. Like the moment it laughed? Has Chris not seen a dalek story before? They're not big on emotions. The only time we've ever seen a dalek laugh before was to show us something was wrong with it.
Well something clearly is wrong with it... it's been cut into pieces and left on it's own for centuries, why wouldn't it get unhinged?
Can we talk about how this story is basically
I AM A DALEK
Hey i recognise you from the doctor who youtube channel. God its like seeing that justin y guy but with doctor who
Lorcan Mccann at least having a bitchy comment here is ok
I still don't get why such an early Dalek model is so advanced.
What did you think about the unit scene and the fact many think its a brexit joke. I did find the episode fun and liked the rough look dalek but yeah it seemed to have more firepower than a normal dalek and yet was destroyed with an oven
It was terrible. Watching the Dalek get unceremoniously destroyed with SPARE MICROWAVE PARTS was the worst thing ever. Why can't the Daleks actually be a credible threat?
This is my second episode that I liked in series 11. Better than most of series 11. When will u be reviewing Ravnous 1
Hope so
This episode perfectly symbolises everything wrong with series 11. Overambitious, unfocused, forced character/emotional moments and most importantly interesting concepts wasted by awful execution or just lost under a pile of mediocrity
Overambitious? This series has been one of the safest, cookie-clutter offerings of the modern era.
@@UltimateKyuubiFox - Have we been watching the same series? I watched every episode, and they didn't give me any cookies.
While I really enjoyed the dalek at the time, it doesn’t make any sense. Which dalek had missiles ? Why doesn’t the dalek look like it’s been made from spare bits of other Daleks ?
How every time a dalek doesn’t use missiles it won’t make sense
Because this was a specific Dalek that created it's own casing and it must've thought it would need more firepower. I'm saying that because I hope new Daleks don't continue the same design, I wasn't keen on the missiles especially with the way it perfectly timed the shot to deflect the tank round pffff... Daleks should be powerful but not silly.
Meris but where did it get them from
The missiles in the spheres felt like a bit much personally. Especially considering that it was built from scraps.
And all it existed for was purely for that Matrix-y bullet time shot where it destroyed the tank.
The entire season 11 have three major problems (and I am not even going to point on political bs):
1. Too rushed passing.
2. Too much exposition.
3. And just weak pay offs.
To create a interesting story as a writer must always priorities plot, characters, message and etc.
But when writer have only 45 min mark and you have 4 characters to develop AND also give us though provoking or interesting moral... you must be a very skilled writer.
Three companions is too much. Even OG Doctor Who had problems with writing three companions in to the stories. At least OG had time to develop characters, villains and lore, but in season 11 the only way to develop tings is through expositions. And pay offs is just non existent. At the end of the stories I just felt nothing. There is no achievement after too many uses of “sonicplotdivice”.
All in all, the entire season 11 was a disappointment, like TLJ and STD. I think I liked season 22 from OG with Colin Baker, then 11 season.
nah man season 11 was the best since season eight
No comments on the UNIT scene?
Charlotte Ritchie is on my list of "people I'd go YES! if I found out they'd been cast as the Doctor list", which pretty much means she'll never be cast as the Doctor - it happened once when McCoy was cast
It's interesting you bring up the character of Lin. According to director Wayne Yip, the original plan was to have one of the companions possessed by the Dalek, and then the Doctor herself. I wonder if the story would have been better/worse if that had come to pass.
Dunno but at least the actors playing the companions would have got something to do
This probably would've been the part where Graham died except for the fact that most people already predicted it in advance, therefore Captain Chibbers made a hasty rewrite.
would certainly add character to Yazz
Whilst I really like this episode, and I really like what they did about the Dalek, (apart from the whole ‘destroy the internet’ thing) the Story itself is fractured like a broken egg, and there is a lot of clear transparent stuff that kinda means nothing. However, if you do look at it, there is a golden yoke in the middle... an undercooked, raw yoke, but a golden yoke all the same.
On a personal tangent, I vote to call this new Dalek “rusty 2, electric boogaloo.”
this episode was slapdash and emotional whiplash
The dalek stuff was all fantastic!
The biggest issues I have with this episode is how did a group on horse back with spears defeat the Dalek when it arrived yet it hard no issues killing solders with Guns and Armour vehicles.
I don't know if I consider that an issue personally. We don't know the story of what condition that Dalek was in when it arrived on Earth. It may already have been damaged and malfunctioning before the locals got their hands on it. No hi-tech to lay it's protuberances on in order to repair itself in the dark ages!
Also, here's the problem with this New year's special... It's set after New year's. So it's an ugly day where everyone is tired and bored. What a fucking holiday.
At least with Christmas episodes, you have these beautiful visuals of snow and decorations. This could've been really awesome if the climax of this episode took place at night, as the people are counting down to the midnight, and then when the doctor saves the day, all the fireworks go off, while she's at the top of Big Ben or whatever.
Would've loved to have heard your thoughts about Unit getting shafted by the government. That's the only thing any hardcore whovian talked about as soon as the episode aired.
I loved it pretty much till the last ten minutes.
While I'll acknowledge that it was not shown very well I got the impression that the flashier elements of the dalek casing came from other alien tech that it stole from the warehouse. The flight capability and rockets. Since the dalek had to deflect a missile and it had bullets bouncing off its casing instead of being stopped by forcefield it was clear this Dalek didn't have the same protection as the ones we are familiar with. I do wish it had been made more clear in the scene what she took from that company and how it was integrated into the new casing cause it really did look like the woman built everything from the way it was shot.
Good writing is rewriting! Does Chris even rewrite his scripts?
Well if this was a re-write I would hate to think what the actual first draft was like.
I’d forgotten how ugly the TARDIS interior is now
Well, I feel like it was a good episode. But if they didn’t destroy the dalek and let it join with the fleet, because it threatened to kill Ryan’s dad or something, we could have a buildup for a Dalek invasion for series 12.
Best Dalek story since The Stolen Earth/Journey's End despite all it's flaws. This Dalek was actually evil, arrogant and psychotic, which is exactly what a Dalek is.
You should have brought up the scene where Jodie tried to inimidate the Dalek and told it to leave, but it said no and then she turns to the "Fam" for support showing that she's so unfit to be the Doctor and the "Fam" are a bunch of Yes-Men.
completely agree with you here
AND YAY! A different ending of a stubagful review!!!!
Jodie is just not meant to be the doctor and this whole season proves it.
They probably could've done the Ryan and his Dad stuff in Series 12, but after that this episode was alright. One of the best so far.
I love your reviews, Stu, but I really think that you need to stop imagining hypothetical better versions of the episodes because with almost every series 11 episode review so far you’ve been like “It would have been so much better if the episode and the series had these big and drastic differences” and I feel like your habit of doing that is causing you to compare these episodes to your own personal fantasies that they would never be able to live up to
His ideas don't sound unfeaseable and honestly, they'd be much better than what we got. I remember when the scene in the cafe began I was checking my watch constantly because it was taking so long to get back to the Dalek stuff. If it was just about the Dalek possessing the woman for most of the run time and then the doctor shows up halfway through to resolve things that would be interesting.
Yes he's pointing out legitimate flaws with the episode, what doesn't work, and how it could have been fixed. Most of the "hypothetical" versions he comes up with do actually sound better than what we got.
Completely agree. It's like watching a review for a fan-fiction.
They should've done the "heavy sh**" in arachnids in the UK.
(Aidan Phillips) On the contrary, I think that should have been the “fun episode”. I mean, giant spiders roaming about Sheffield? Come on.
Nonnatus House Dalek speaking
Alternative titles for Series 11 episodes:
1 - Person Nobody Cares About Falls to Earth
2 - The TARDIS it's the TARDIS like cmon
3 - Blonde White Woman Starts the Civil Rights Movement
4 - Don't Vote Trump
5 - Warriors of the Deep: Part II
6 - ERROR 404: Doctor Who Not Found
7 - An Ad for Amazon
8 - Dr. Seuss Sues for Copyright Infringement
9 - Worse Than Jimmy Savile
10 - Tim Shaw Is an Idiot
11 - At Least It's Over
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Wario64I
The Woman Who Fell Into a Sewer
The Shit Monument
Vincent And The... just kidding this is a terrible episode
Arachnids In My Arsehole
The Cuntundrum
Demons Of The Rimjob
Kerbad!
The Shitefinders
Kermit Takes You Away
The Brief Skirmish
1 - The wrong companion gets killed off
2 - Enlightenment II: The Scary Bandages
3 - Doctor Who and the Biker Racist from the Future
4 - The Green Death II: Spiders
5 - Gremlins 3: Stripe X
6 - The Funeral Directors of Terror
7 - The Doctor goes Union Busting
8 - James I Gets Dirty
9 - Deadbeat Dad Fucks Entire Universe
10 - The Tim Shaw Who Would Be King
11 - The DIY of the Daleks
1 - The Episode That Determines If Anyone Cares
2 - The boring one where the general audience stops caring.
3 - Doctor Who Does Racism.
4 - Cool name wasted pulpy sci fi story about spiders and an obvious allegory
5 - A Piece of Shit
6 - The Episode that Rosa SHOULD have been.
7 - An ACTUAL Doctor Who episode? Am I dreaming? Is any of this for real?
8 - The one with Alan Cumming in it
9 - Frog on the log at the bottom of a universal nexus point between a good Doctor Who Episode and a terrible one.
10 - Tim Shaw 2: Revenge of the monster literally nobody wanted to see again.
11 - Dalek but boring family drama I thought we left behind in the RTD Era gets in the way of what everyone ACTUALLY wanted to see.
I actually liked Resolution less than the previous episodes. The body horror stuff I agree was great. But as soon as it was time to build the new casing, it was all over for me. It was back to the same emotionally-manipulative "fun" action scenes, complete with faux-epic soundtrack score. Hearing the new composer trying to channel that Murray Gold vibe was stomach-churning to me. It had great ideas that it squandered so that it could return to the very stuff I was happy to leave behind.
Charlotte Ritchie would make a great Doctor or companion. She’s great in Dead Pixes!
Hey look, its ANOTHER problem Star Wars is facing right now: the villains are unrealistically over-equipped.
William Gionet and yet somehow still amazingly incompetent
Would've preferred this episode if it stuck to being in the tunnels. It could've stayed as a horror piece where the Dalek takes over the split-up characters one by one to learn more about the time period and the Doctor. Maybe it could use them as hostages and as vessels to steal the TARDIS / kill the Doctor. That would've had so much more emotional weight to it than Ryan berating his dad who we never see again...
So
Now that we are through
How does series 11 compare with the rest of NuWho?
Because series 11 has dethroned series 7 of worst NuWho series for me personally
I will admit Resolution left me in more positive spirits for the conclusion of Series 11 than The Battle of Ransack Av Whatever the fuck did.
The episode had a good run for the most part, Nick Briggs was fantastic as ever and the thriller-esque style it went for in regards to the Dalek out of its casing made for some decent intrigue and build up, but unfortunately like all things in the Chibnall era it came down with a case of
"Interesting ideas? EWWW GET IT AWAY FROM ME!!! Ah! There we are. Boring subplots about Ryan's Dad coming back! Bizarre cutaways to some random family who's a * Ahem * social commentary on how fake our lives are and how we should get together around Christmas- ERR I mean New Years Day"
Aside from that I do like how the Dalek was indeed a proper threat again even in its patchwork state although the design feels very... Fan Made.
The Dalek design seen here kinda reminds me of those old "Fake concept" designs I remember seeing posted up on Deviant Art back in 2004 before Series 1 with Eccleston aired and they had a bunch of mock up designs of what they thought the Daleks would be redesigned to be for the 2000s which is really what this Dalek design reminds me of.
Granted I know people were getting tired of the Time War era Dalek design but I would've rather it stuck with a broken down variant of that than what we got.
Other than that my only major problem with the episode itself is the fact that it treated UNIT as a fucking gag reference and dismantled the organization pending 'budget cuts'.
I just... I don't get it?
The joke wasn't funny and if you really needed to write UNIT out of the plot you could've easily had the Doctor make a comical remark that they're busy fighting the Sentient Moss Creatures from Necros who've invaded Earth to eat all the bees on Earth.
Also bit of a nerdy nitpick but the goddamn Dalek laser sound effect sounded generic as hell compared to the past series where it had a distinctive sound effect to which I blame modern day film and television for providing inadequate COOL laser sound effects.
So there, I give Resolution 6/10 Rubber Chickens. It almost could've been good if it had cooler laser sound effects and Sonic Sunglasses.
You said you were gonna review miracle day with your mates from snuggly chibnall time. Please can you review children of earth first and release it before that as many of the reasons why miracle day doesn't work are due to its differences to children of earth
Who has had that problem before. Just watched Kinda and one minute it's going for scary and the next people are just acting silly.
I also honestly feel The Tsuranga Conundrum receives too much hate. It's fine. It's fun. The juxtaposition between the cute little monster and how serious they treated it was hilarious. A good story too to show Ryan and Graham getting closer. The story felt like an adventure that wouldn't feel out of places as a Second Doctor, Jamie, and Zoey short trip.
Still ranking the series an 8/10, Spiders in the UK being the ultimate low point. I don't mind Yaz being "underused". She was used fine enough and is way more memorable that Clara was at the start. This is Ryan and Graham's season. Definitely felt the effect of the shorter season which doesn't help when the show also has only a 50 minute run time. Fingers crosses BBC has more faith to extend the season and they're hiring a wider pool of riders so it's not just Chibnall doing a majority of it. It would be lovely to finally get a longer run time, but I'd just be happy with a couple two-parters.
The Tsuranga Conundrum is too mediocre to be genuinely terrible. It's a base-under-siege story that doesn't really do anything new other than having a cute monster instead of a scary one. I found Arachnids in the UK much worse.
Super Skully that’s what I find so enjoyable about conundrum. It’s so cute but they treat it so seriously. And the pregnant man subplot was impossible not to adore. I agree, Arachnids is the only one I skip on rewatch.
I'm amazed at how in sync Stu and I were while watching this series. He even took the month-long break at the same time as I did, although he was a few episodes ahead.
Yikes haven’t watched it, this was it for me first story I hadn’t watched in ten years of being s fan, battle of whatever it was even called left me angry,l
To be honest apart of the glaring flaws that prevented this from being a future classic, I quite enjoyed it and thought it was better or at least more fun than some of the previous specials.
Are these videos shortened or sth? No introductions or anything...
I felt the Dalek and Ryan's Dad did tie in a little nicely since it's about people coming together, like how the three opposing factions of 9th century people united to stop the Dalek.
I don't understand even the limited appeal a lot of people seem to have found in this one - I thought it was worse than anything in Series 11 except Arachnids in the UK, and given the mediocre quality of most of the season that's saying something. It immediately undermines itself at every turn, from the 'Dalek scattered across three continents' angle (it just magically summons them back) to, as covered in the video, basic tonal cohesion (whiplash between 'family drama' and Dalek plot, the most tired joke in history about the internet being down coming at just the right time to kill any lingering tension, characters rarely actually seeming all that bothered by the magnitude of the threat...). And I usually have a high tolerance for poor visual effects, but the CGI Dalek draws attention to itself by being so obviously not physically real/looking like something from a video game (especially when you devote runtime to an effects showcase - the Dalek/army battle - that adds literally nothing to the plot). It felt aimless and pointless, something even most sub-par Who stories don't sink to. I'd like to hope Series 12 can rectify the many issues with Series 11 and this special, but I'm certainly not confident...
I am a season 11 defender swimming alone in a sea of messy discussion, your's was not so messy...
Please, I'd love to hear what you enjoyed about series 11
AND THEN SHOOT IT DOWN WITH FACTS AND LOGIC!
But Ryan's dad had to be there because at the end it's all about family
Herohammer Studios is it?
I have to say I think this is a misread of the episode's intentions. I think that the intention here was, that the dalek is the closest the Whoniverse has to irredeemable villains. No matter how weak or vulnerable the dalek is it will always strive to evil. That would be intended to be juxtaposed next to...uh..."the dad". That no matter how irredeemable people in our lives may SEEM, they are still human, they are still worth giving a second chance, and they aren't nazis or monsters or what have you.
Whether or not it was tonally consistent, called for, or what, is a different matter, but I felt that was pretty obvious the intent it was set out to prove. It might have been better served if the episode called to attention that, say, the dalek TARGETTED the dad as the...most morally compromised or weakest willed person in the room, and have him triumph over that selfishness in the end. But you can string the metaphors between the scenes of how the guest stars are interacting with the dalek and the family drama, in an admittedly rough sense.
I think it's a rough call, myself, because I consider this just as good a reintroduction to the daleks as "Dalek" was, legitimizing it in a way that we haven't seen for a long time, but perhaps that was something they didn't notice at the time, and couldn't shift the focus to in the end.
its just a boring dull episode imo took way too long for the already reveled dalek
edit: yaz nothing intresting
ryan only here cause graham arc (sort of)
2 arcyologysts best amazing characters the girl (fogot her name cause aint watched it in a while reminds me of tegan when she got taken over by the mara and the guy was just a realy fun character hell why werent they given a little buissness card to find kate stewert and help unit if sarah can give 1 to a cleaner in s5 of sja why cant the doctor
6:16 was actually quite accurate and I hope it teaches some of this little brats that the whole world doesn't just resolve around sitting on the internet all day....And being nicer to your parents.
It was a stupid and out-of-line stale joke about how everybody is sO oBsEsSeD with their own devices. This was mildly funny around ten years ago. It's not funny now. It also has nothing to do with the actual story.
@@davidliu4134 That is your opinion, which I totally respect.
So happenstance I listen to “Order of the Daleks”
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The monks in that story give there blood, larynxes & keep the dalek mutants in the stomachs of space buffalo
That’s body horror
What? Space buffalo? this story sounds insane
Meris you’ll probably know the cover actually as when it was released it was the dalek made of stain glass windows and went viral online
HOLY SHIT!
I really need to listen to Order of the Daleks right now!
I need my Eric Saward inspired Doctor Who violence fix right now.
No reference to the fucking UNIT thing.
I love this story. For me its the best Dalek story since Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways. It simplified the Daleks and made them threatening again. It showed the Dalek creature as a threat rather than the casing which was a Brilliant idea. Even at it's most vulnerable it was the most dangerous creature in the universe and I really enjoyed the personal conflict with Ryan and his Dad even if I understand why some felt it was out of place. I made a review on my channel if anyone wants to check it out
Am I the only one who thought the design of this Dalek shell looked like a woman?... Ok hear me out with the way the face lit up as it talked the dome look like a bob hair cut and with the thin mid section and waist line, but with the normal skirt it made the Dalek look like it was wearing a corset and like a heavy metal 18th century dress. First The Cyberwoman, then The Master, then the Ice Warriors, then The Doctor and now the Daleks. Can't wait to see what the gender swapped Sontaran's look like.
R.I.P DOCTOR WHO 1963 - 2017
We know Mike but posting it everywhere doesn’t exactly prove your point
(Tech10K) The real fans accept the show no matter what. Like a real family you know?
Can we talk about terrible joke with 'talking with each other'?
(TheMorlun) I loved thr episode but hated that bit
I don't think that it was a particularly bad joke, but the whole scene was poorly acted and directed. With snappier delivery and direction, it would have worked OK.
I think it would have been really cool if Ryans dad was an older Orson Pink who kept popping in and out because he was a time agemta after the events of Listen