Eve of the Daleks
The New Years Day Special. Daleks
yet again. And yet with a slightly different approach. Those gatling guns are
interesting. But a story should be about more than the antagonists. It’s about
the situation and how the characters deal with it. As such the Doctor’s speech about
learning from one’s mistakes was a very good one. Each character has their own
way of coping with the situation. It’s certainly an unexpected approach to a
time loop situation. But not one I hadn’t seen before. (Last seen as part of
the climax of Phineas and Ferb: Last Day of Summer.)
The concept of a storage facility
as the setting is reminiscent of all the ‘Base Under Siege’ serials from Classic
Who. (Although none of those were close to being a storage facility.) There was
good set up with Jeff’s stuff, like the fireworks, and Sarah’s mother. But back
to the characters. Sarah was realised very well, although her decision to go
around the world with Nick seems very ill advised. Nick was quite
creepy, what with keeping the stuff from flings in the storage unit in the
hopes of giving it back. His character was well developed also.
Dan’s delaying tactic was done
very well too. That was definitely a good moment. Yas and the Doctor, not sure
what to make of that. Aside from Sarah and Nick going off together, the ending
was quite well done. 8.5/10.
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