HERE BE SPOILERS... YARRRR...
So….
Remember how I said last time that the episode left new viewers dazed and
confused… Oh boy will they wish they could get that feeling back this time. Let
us dive in to the Dalek.
We start
off in space as some random sci-fi is happening. A ship is being chased and a
female is shouting over the radio as something bid and bad is chasing them. Sadly
for her and her brother that is riding shotgun with her they are outgunned and
shortly thereafter gunned down.
But she
wakes up inside the Tardis and promptly try to shoot the Doctor… A natural
reaction I should say as a long time viewer of the series. It turns out that the girl is part of the crew
of a medical ship trying to outlast a Dalek flotilla. It also turns out that
the reason the Tardis dropped the Doctor here is because of the very special
patient that resides on this ship. A
Dalek that is not only dying but in its delirium has found a new truth. One
that shocks the Doctor to the core. The dying Dalek is trying to kill the other
Daleks, having seen the beauty of creation and that the Daleks aims to end all
of that. In the meantime Clara is back home and at work flirting with a weird fellow
teacher and seeing how this is Dr Who he will most likely turn out to be a
squid-monster or something similar. Amy way one trip through Narnia and she
joins the Doctor as they and a small group of crewmembers from the ship get
ready to save the Dalek.
| The new Idoctor.. pocket size |
Then they
go all Fantastic Voyage as they shrink down and head in to the Dalek to try and
figure out why it is behaving the way it does and what it means. From here on
out the story is pretty basic and things go just as well as expected, they
trigger the Dalek immune system and some red-shirts die. But in the end they
manage to reverse the damage to the Dalek and it well… comes to its senses.
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| They call him Rusty |
Now trapped
within a Dalek that is working its way through the medical ship the Doctor,
Clara and the remaining ship crew fight a desperate fight to try and once again
sway the Dalek to the side of good and aid them in stopping the Dalek invasion
force that is coming for the ship. Trying to show the Dalek both the beauty and
the everlasting renewal of the universe the Doctor links his mind to the Dalek.
But as anyone who has seen the series know, the Doctor have a history with the
Daleks that is not exactly filled with love and puppies. It is fair to say that
it is not the love for the beauty of the universe that drives the Dalek to try
and wipe out his compatriots. In the end all is resolved and the Doctor have a
new and very unlikely ally.
We also see Paradise again… Yay… 0_0
The theme
for this episode is in my mind how no one is purely good or evil. Especially
how the Doctor need to keep on confronting his darker side and the dark deeds
he did/will do/might not have done. And to have those truth embodied in a Dalek
is pretty smart in my mind. Especially the scene where the Doctor try to show
the Dalek the beauty of the universe, but in doing so exposes his own darkness
that he tries to forget and ignore, just like the Dalek suppress what they see
as impurity and darkness.
There have
been a running theme in the new Who that the Doctor and the Daleks are not all
that different apart from their end goal. Both are maniacal and fundamentalists
in their beliefs and both are willing to pretty much as far as it takes to achieve
their goal. This episode again reinforces this idea by literally letting each
one in to the others head and having them reach a understanding in the end, the
Doctor saying that he hoped that the Dalek could have been good. The Dalek answering
with that the Doctor is a good Dalek, not him.
So I really
liked this episode, even if the plot was basic it had enough twists to make it
interesting and it advances my own favorite sub-plot of the Doctor and the Daleks.
It was also a very grim episode and the pace seem to be right now to alternate
between a grim and a silly episode going by the first and the trailer for the
third at the end of this one. But time will tell. This episode gave me some
more hope for this season and I am looking forward to see where this Doctor
will go.
Still not too
excited about the Paradise plot-line.
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