Resolution
The
2019 New Year Special. The Doctor had been taking her friends to
various new years related celebrations and two archaeologists had
discovered something strange
in the sewers beneath Sheffield. A very good introduction. Of course,
not the actual start. There is a set up with a 9th
Century battle, and the enemy being split up and spread to 'opposite
ends of the world'. While this is a good addition to the episode, the
two guardians (in Siberia and the at South Pacific atoll) aren't
involved in fighting against the Dalek.
(Of
course they're back.) The Dalek is a very effective villain, taking
over Lin, one of the archaeologists, in a very creepy way. This was
depicted in a very effective way, showing Lin's struggle against this
thing
rather well. She knows it's not a good thing, and doesn't want it to
do what it wants to do. The spree the Dalek takes her on as it
gathers the resources it needs to make a new travel machine was also
done rather well. It added to the tension in a very effective way. As
was the Dalek opposing the Doctor's attempts to track it.
Of
course, that's not all to the episode. There's Ryan's Dad, and also
UNIT being 'in review'. Also, can one say Chekhov's combination
cooking device? Relationships seem to be important. Ryan and his Dad.
Lin and the other archaeologist. The UK and other nations (maybe
their immediate neighbours, but that is a currently political
digression...). Still, are these relationships (apart from the later)
depicted well? The Doctor calling out Aaron for not being there for
his son was done very well.
(But
did the melodrama of the conversations between Ryan and Aaron, or
Graham and Aaron mesh with the rest of the episode well? Not sure.)
However, the final confrontation at GCHQ was done rather well, the
best bit of the episode. The presence of the Doctor made the Dalek
more crazy than it was. Overall, the episode was very interesting,
and worth taking the time to see. 8.4/10.
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