Archive of the Daleks
2 September 2012 12:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeWell, that was certainly a development we haven't seen before! (And it makes sense, in a way -- after all, if the Doctor is the one person the Daleks fear the most...)
I'm afraid I don't believe in the power of positive thoughts, either with relevance to the Daleks or the Cybermen (in the last series): if they're going to cyber-convert you, it's a purely ruthless mechanical abbatoir process -- as correctly shown in an earlier Cyber-episode of the new series -- and your state of mind isn't going to make any difference. The same ought to go for Daleks.
A certain amount of hand-waving involved in the denoument, but this may well be due to the poor digital reception round here which meant that several vital chunks of dialogue and picture simply pixellated into incomprehensibility (still, if there was no milk and eggs, where did all those opera broadcasts come from? Radio transmissions via wishful thinking?)
And surely it's easier simply to open a door with the sonic screwdriver than to manipulate the memories of all Daleks everywhere in the universe to achieve the same effect?! Isn't that what the sonic screwdriver was originally, basically, for? It's not as if this was being presented as an especially high-security seal...
Still, Moffat has achieved what looks like a clean reboot, which means that either the Daleks and the Doctor are going to meet on equal terms in the future or else (probably preferably) he will have an excuse for them never to come looking for the Doctor again :-)
I'm afraid I don't believe in the power of positive thoughts, either with relevance to the Daleks or the Cybermen (in the last series): if they're going to cyber-convert you, it's a purely ruthless mechanical abbatoir process -- as correctly shown in an earlier Cyber-episode of the new series -- and your state of mind isn't going to make any difference. The same ought to go for Daleks.
A certain amount of hand-waving involved in the denoument, but this may well be due to the poor digital reception round here which meant that several vital chunks of dialogue and picture simply pixellated into incomprehensibility (still, if there was no milk and eggs, where did all those opera broadcasts come from? Radio transmissions via wishful thinking?)
And surely it's easier simply to open a door with the sonic screwdriver than to manipulate the memories of all Daleks everywhere in the universe to achieve the same effect?! Isn't that what the sonic screwdriver was originally, basically, for? It's not as if this was being presented as an especially high-security seal...
Still, Moffat has achieved what looks like a clean reboot, which means that either the Daleks and the Doctor are going to meet on equal terms in the future or else (probably preferably) he will have an excuse for them never to come looking for the Doctor again :-)