Doctor Who

[frelling_tralk]

Well firstly I should probably confess that I've never actually watched “Genesis Of The Daleks”, but I have read summaries of the older episodes and I vaguely know about the Doctor's dilemma in that one, so I was able to keep up all right *g* There were a ton of callbacks in this episode actually, not just the flashback to the Fourth Doctor, but also the media reaction to the planes felt very Russell T Davis, plus the Shadow Proclamation and The Judoon and The Ood coming back as well :D

I loved this episode, but I can't think of a whole lot to say about it at the moment, maybe because it's a two-parter and we don't have the conclusion for it yet? The cliffhanger was probably the weakest part of the episode for me actually, just because it felt so unlikely that the Doctor would actually go through with killing a child, or that the timeline with the Dalek's really will be that significantly changed. Well we'll see next week I suppose!

Were we supposed to think that Davros was confronting the Doctor for abandoning him on the battlefield though, because I've seen some reviews talk about how the episode was saying that the Doctor's moment of weakness there is what contributed to Davros becoming what he became, but that's not what I got from it? In their final confrontation Davros was trying to make the Doctor admit that compassion was a weakness, so was that not his way of trying to get the Doctor to admit that he screwed up in not killing/abandoning him as a child when he had the chance? I feel like there's going to be an obvious twist coming up with that in the second part, the fact that this episode ended on the Doctor appearing to be about to kill young Davros suggests that the second part will most likely be going in the opposite direction from that, and that the Doctor will try and save him instead?

And finally I really loved everything with Clara and Missy (although I do kind of wish that they would still refer to her as The Master now that the Missy mislead from series 8 has been revealed...), the opening was great with the hand-mines being genuinely creepy, everything about Peter Capaldi's Doctor in the Middle Ages was A+, and I loved the way that Missy and Clara actually being on the planet Skaro rather than in space was introduced. I've read some complaints about not enough happening in this episode (?), but I felt like the pacing was much better than Deep Breath from last year, I really enjoyed it!

Comments

[poniesandphotos.livejournal.com]

Time went pretty quickly for me in the episode. It was decent. But I don't really have anything to say about it either. I guess I'll wait until next week to pass judgement.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Yeah I liked it a lot, but I'm struggling to think of much to say about it *g*