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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 383167" data-attributes="member: 8">What&#039;s new in the whoniverse. It isn&#039;t New York because they have already been there in the previous episode, but when the Doctor discovers yet another scheme by the infamous Daleks then you know it&#039;s going to be something epic.I can&#039;t keep up with the official number of Daleks in existence, further complicated by Who History going back and forth in time, but in this episode there are four.In order to survive - and to make sure that no-one else does - they&#039;re plotting to create an army of human-Dalek hybrids, but it all goes terribly wrong.The point of the story, the way I saw it anyway, is that the power of the individual always overrides (or should override) dictatorial authority, and that&#039;s something the Daleks will never understand.The story also features the sub-plot of people turned into pig slaves. Why the Daleks want them to look like pigs with a very limited lifespan is not clear to me but I understand that there had to be something to distinguish them from the other human characters.Furthermore, the human victims were divided into two groups: intelligent people would take part in the revolution experiment and the ones with a low intelligence rate became pigs. Quite rude and politically incorrect, when you think about it.Martha still comes across a Doctor Who fan (sometimes a bit stalker-ish) and she has a habit of telling everyone what just happened. &quot;They shot him in cold blood!&quot;Yes, I saw that.I had not expected this series mostly aimed at a younger audience to be &quot;haunted&quot; by the ghost of Rose Tyler even if she was the first companion in the Doctor Who revival. It gives the Doctor a lot of edge, doesn&#039;t it.I think the best part of this story is David Tennant&#039;s unrelenting energy and commitment, and so far the Daleks have never failed to entertain me.All in all, an eventful episode (two, actually) but I don&#039;t think it&#039;s going to make the list of Most Rewatchable Stories.[ATTACH=full]49926[/ATTACH]Ha ha.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 383167, member: 8"] What's new in the whoniverse. It isn't New York because they have already been there in the previous episode, but when the Doctor discovers yet another scheme by the infamous Daleks then you know it's going to be something epic. I can't keep up with the official number of Daleks in existence, further complicated by Who History going back and forth in time, but in this episode there are four. In order to survive - and to make sure that no-one else does - they're plotting to create an army of human-Dalek hybrids, but it all goes terribly wrong. The point of the story, the way I saw it anyway, is that the power of the individual always overrides (or should override) dictatorial authority, and that's something the Daleks will never understand. The story also features the sub-plot of people turned into pig slaves. Why the Daleks want them to look like pigs with a very limited lifespan is not clear to me but I understand that there had to be something to distinguish them from the other human characters. Furthermore, the human victims were divided into two groups: intelligent people would take part in the revolution experiment and the ones with a low intelligence rate became pigs. Quite rude and politically incorrect, when you think about it. Martha still comes across a Doctor Who fan (sometimes a bit stalker-ish) and she has a habit of telling everyone what just happened. "They shot him in cold blood!" Yes, I saw that. I had not expected this series mostly aimed at a younger audience to be "haunted" by the ghost of Rose Tyler even if she was the first companion in the Doctor Who revival. It gives the Doctor a lot of edge, doesn't it. I think the best part of this story is David Tennant's unrelenting energy and commitment, and so far the Daleks have never failed to entertain me. All in all, an eventful episode (two, actually) but I don't think it's going to make the list of Most Rewatchable Stories. [ATTACH type="full"]49926[/ATTACH] Ha ha. [/QUOTE]

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