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Post by Cyggy on Mar 5, 2022 0:40:50 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 9, 2022 1:27:42 GMT
I pretty much loved this on broadcast. The Daleks were back! And not just one Dalek a la "The Five Doctors", but back in force! And Davros too!
Now am not so keen on it. Just seems to be trying to cram too many separate Dalek plots and schemes into it imo. Have mixed feelings about Terry Molloy too. I do feel that Michael Wisher (obviously) and more recently, Julian Bleach had the edge on him by not SHOUTING quite so much. Poor old David Gooderson was handicapped by no voice filtering, bless him.
While the many, many deaths seemed quite effective back then must admit they look tame now, with people pressing what looks like a battery operated gun that makes a silly noise and you die.
Tegan's departure is nicely done though imo, with 'Tegan's Theme" in the background as she says goodbye helping a lot.
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Post by Black Orchid on Apr 8, 2022 19:47:26 GMT
Too many pointless deaths that mean nothing.
7/10
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Post by Cyggy on Apr 19, 2022 3:51:09 GMT
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Post by Servo on Apr 19, 2022 9:16:23 GMT
I still like this one. Watched it again recently.
The world is full of pointless deaths, why should a TV show be any different, particularly one depicting a story that pits one side against another.
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Post by GC on Apr 19, 2022 22:29:26 GMT
It's not a bad story really but... Too many deaths make it a grim depressing watch. Not keen on the gore, man with half his face melting. There seems to be too many different little bits of plot going on with it as well.
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Post by heccy on Apr 19, 2022 23:51:48 GMT
Did someone say RTD2 was self indulgent? Never...
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Post by GC on Jun 14, 2022 0:10:29 GMT
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Post by Future-Diver on Jun 14, 2022 17:23:51 GMT
"I can't stand the confusion in my mind!"What a great cast- Rodney Bewes, Rula Lenska, Chloe Ashcroft, Leslie Grantham and Maurice Colborne. The Fifth Doctor's only encounter with the Daleks is brutal and bleak but also a bit of a mess. All the violence! All the death and horror! Worse than that are the instances of people actually smoking real cigarettes and roll-ups in 'Resurrection Of The Daleks' - unimaginable nowadays. Nice exit for Tegan - "Its stopped being fun, Doctor". 7/10Here's me in a familiar location:
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 7, 2022 11:30:15 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 24, 2022 16:01:39 GMT
Hidden London: Shad Thames
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Post by GC on Jan 7, 2023 16:16:43 GMT
Doctor Who on BBC Video Ep.6: Resurrection of the Daleks
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Post by GC on Feb 1, 2023 21:50:45 GMT
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Post by sadako on Mar 31, 2023 9:59:19 GMT
Is it fairer to call this a mixed bag, or just a plain mess with a few rare gems dotted in there?
I think the story can be summed up as having a lot of ideas but not much imagination. Certainly enough ideas for a Dalek war season arc but probably too many for a traditional four parter.
Eric Saward admitted he wrote it to be so violent in backlash to what he felt was the more pantomime lightweight direction of Season 20. In some ways the final product does vindicate him. It does a lot of the time feel gritty and authentic in a way the era has sorely needed. It feels more authentically Doctor Who, and allows Davison to feel he's playing a more authentic Doctor actually weighing up the grander scale stakes and his reckonings with his conscience and humanity. He gives perhaps his best performance as the Doctor and pitting him against Terry Molloy makes for a brilliant confrontation. Indeed Davros' very presence makes it feel painfully apparent that the show has outgrown the Master as the principle arch enemy now.
But almost as often it just feels a bit too desperate to shock and horrify, like an adolescent naughty schoolboy, and it seems to do this repeatedly in the hope we get the banal point enough times that violence and killing is really bad. I still feel killing off Chloe Ashcroft's character was the most unforgivable moment. I have to say by the end I'd largely stopped caring because I'd stopped trusting the writer knew what he was doing by this constant abuse of death as a dramatic tool. I even thought maybe it was time to throw away my fan badge and call myself a Trekkie now, which is remarkable given the Daleks are usually a guarantee for me to stay invested.
Frustratingly it feels possible to trim this down to a solid and quintessential winner, but the excesses overall are a bit moronic and often too sickening to digest.
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Post by rapscallion on Mar 31, 2023 11:26:08 GMT
I still feel killing off Chloe Ashcroft's character was the most unforgivable moment. Whenever I watch Resurrection Of The Daleks I can remember my horrified reaction when I watched Professor Laird's death as a 9 year old. No word of a lie, that futile attempt to run and that chilling scream properly shook me up and stayed with me.
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