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I watched the first of this double-parter last night, which turned out to be extremely apt as it's set on 1st November! (Okay, 1930, but still…)
I never wrote a review first time round and I'm afraid I still don't have very much to say (mainly because it's late and I'm tired) but I'm determined to actually post something!
Like Gridlock, I enjoyed these a lot more than I did the first time. Yes, there are some pretty awful characters (Tallulah and Laszlo spring immediately to mind) but there are some really cool ones too, like Frank and Soloman. (And the guy who plays Soloman was a character in my absolute favourite episode of Press Gang many, many years ago, which is pretty cool!)
The first part is a pretty standard episode, but it kept the interest going and I enjoyed it. And the second part had some really interesting stuff. The Daleks making humans into Daleks and the way that debate kept going back and forth, and the Doctor being so damned cool giving himself up to the Daleks at Hooverville, and his desperation when he lost his screwdriver trying to get the Dalek panels off the top of the mast, and clinging to the mast so the lightning would go through him too - very cool! (Though I do think they missed a bit of a trick there, in that the 'new race' were therefore part Time Lord – they could have made more of that – a spark of hope in the Doctor that he now wasn't entirely alone, before they wiped them all out!)
And how cool was the Doctor going down afterwards to face off Dalek Caan? (Or is it Kahn? Suddenly, I can't remember!) The Doctor had a lot of really cool moments in this one. It really was DT's episode.
Daleks in Manhatten – 6.5/10
Evolution of the Daleks – 7.5/10
I never wrote a review first time round and I'm afraid I still don't have very much to say (mainly because it's late and I'm tired) but I'm determined to actually post something!
Like Gridlock, I enjoyed these a lot more than I did the first time. Yes, there are some pretty awful characters (Tallulah and Laszlo spring immediately to mind) but there are some really cool ones too, like Frank and Soloman. (And the guy who plays Soloman was a character in my absolute favourite episode of Press Gang many, many years ago, which is pretty cool!)
The first part is a pretty standard episode, but it kept the interest going and I enjoyed it. And the second part had some really interesting stuff. The Daleks making humans into Daleks and the way that debate kept going back and forth, and the Doctor being so damned cool giving himself up to the Daleks at Hooverville, and his desperation when he lost his screwdriver trying to get the Dalek panels off the top of the mast, and clinging to the mast so the lightning would go through him too - very cool! (Though I do think they missed a bit of a trick there, in that the 'new race' were therefore part Time Lord – they could have made more of that – a spark of hope in the Doctor that he now wasn't entirely alone, before they wiped them all out!)
And how cool was the Doctor going down afterwards to face off Dalek Caan? (Or is it Kahn? Suddenly, I can't remember!) The Doctor had a lot of really cool moments in this one. It really was DT's episode.
Daleks in Manhatten – 6.5/10
Evolution of the Daleks – 7.5/10