tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post3659659828608240851..comments2024-03-14T05:07:57.110-07:00Comments on Doc Oho Reviews...: Death to the Daleks written by Terry Nation and directed by Michael E. BriantDoc Ohohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01819922630249965949noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-3771112620673606612020-11-17T23:42:37.953-08:002020-11-17T23:42:37.953-08:00Watching all in order. Looks great, some brilliant...Watching all in order. Looks great, some brilliant model work. Fast pace, Pertwee had chronic back pain which may explain the tired look, but he is still outstanding. Sarah is gorgeous. Love the Galloway Stewart scene. Hamilton is extremely wooden, Jill is just a poor 70s stereotype but gets better as the story goes on. Some brilliant action. 'Look its a floor' is still crap today, but would have been done in season 2 definitely. Bellal is hilarious, cute and heartwarming. Much better than Planet and much better than the flack it gets, Simpson would have done a better score obviously. 3rd best this season so far.Linx D Oderanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06587578831858117637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-89623016056097889792017-12-27T20:40:03.074-08:002017-12-27T20:40:03.074-08:00I wish I could be as enthusiastic about this one. ...I wish I could be as enthusiastic about this one. It's not a great outing for Sarah Jane, in my opinion. She's usually made of sterner stuff than this, though I try to chalk it up to her being on an alien world for the first time. It's also got not one but two of the worst cliffhangers in the show's history, the aforementioned floor tile of death and the Daleks popping out to that ridiculous soundtrack, firing their weapons entirely ineffectually upon the humans. I'm not entirely immune to the story's charms, but I'd never give it higher than a 6/10. David Pirtlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00636601389899125100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-25573842889030856512015-07-09T05:03:25.845-07:002015-07-09T05:03:25.845-07:00Well I can say one thing, it's not just nostal...Well I can say one thing, it's not just nostalgia that makes this one awesome, sinse I watched it for the first time yesterday with my dad and also for the most part loved it. <br />I have to disagree about the Daleks however. We've been told so many times that the Daleks are the ultimate evil bad arse evilness of all creation, however it's stories like this that actually make you believe it, not bye having massive fleets of Daleks wiping out a hole planet, just by having a few daleks starting in a distinctly powerless position and still able to be menacing. <br /><br />The Dalek manic emotions here I really loved, from the panicking dalek that can't exterminate to the one that has a nurvous break down at prisoner escape. It made them feel extremely alien and also have far more personality (sinse the Daleks are not the emotionless cybermen), it reminded me of Mr. Croup's quote in Neverwhere "You think us funny, but what is funny may also be dangerous!" <br /><br />I love the Dalek air guns, and their little tardis model target (they're really vindictive suckers). <br /><br />The city I fully agree is awesome, as is the world and I actually did appreciate the exploration of Galloway. <br /><br />My two major bugs with this story are firstly Sarah's sacrifice, and secondly Bellal. <br />Primatives whowere once an advanced species who worship their own creation is a lovely idea, but why do we have to go down the tired old girl gets captured by cave men and sacrificed route? particularly with the tough, independent and generally much more compitant Sarah, when she was dragged into that chanting ring with it's torches and when the Doctor stormed in to save her with his awesome fighting skills I wondered if I'd tuned into one of those rather naff sixties jungle adventure films. <br /><br />It actually would've been more fun to have the Doctor rescued by Sarah and setup their dynamic much better, particularly with how Sarah gets her own plot later and actually is the one to bring the plague antidote to the millions who need it. <br /><br />Galloway was a character I liked from the off, including Stewart's scene, and he continued to surprise me sinse just as I'd written him off as the usual Dalek dupe, he changes tack entirely. <br /><br />The only other issue I had was Bellal. REally with his toothy voice, waving hands and pawing of Sarah I was expecting this guy to start quoting Firengi rules of acquisition! why is it whenever we see a resistance group, they only have one member, ---- oh, two in this case. <br />i never really got the point of this character other than being there to go into the city with The Doctor, where he was singularly useless, indeed it might have gived Jill Tarrant a little more personality if she went. <br /><br />The city however was brilliant, and again I loved the fact that you can work out why the Doctor's logic works, it's not just magic. I'm a real sucker for the idea of a deadly obstacle coure, and this was a particularly brilliant execution, I also liked the fact that the city never got a voice or to make a huge vilain monologue, it's intelligence and what it wanted theDoctor for remained mysterious and inscrutable which only emphasized it's power. <br /><br />The score I admit took some getting used to. On the one hand, very catchy indeed. On the other, it did feel a little too commic much of the time for awesome events,s ort of more like the muppets do outerspace than a confrontation with primatives, daleks, a galactic plague and an awesome ancient city. <br /><br />All around though a pretty awesome story with lots i liked. darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15526681809763999806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-21284189708270841962013-08-16T06:34:04.997-07:002013-08-16T06:34:04.997-07:00Excellent review for an underrated tale. Word I he...Excellent review for an underrated tale. Word I heard is that Tarrant was an old nickname of Terry Nation's - if that's the case, why did he insist on giving the name to such drippy characters?Richard Snoreply@blogger.com