tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18991145.post2562750458880447580..comments2023-10-09T09:11:58.065+00:00Comments on Ben's Blog: Keep calm and ex-term-in-ate!Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02152545728675983286noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18991145.post-10687577554800333322010-04-22T15:16:00.103+00:002010-04-22T15:16:00.103+00:00Agree with you that the episode went too fast whic...Agree with you that the episode went too fast which rather spoit it. Don't like the new daleks which look like a marketing man's dream ('which dalek have you got?') and also look designed to be made out of lego :(Valerienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18991145.post-28136948125567569022010-04-20T18:14:30.638+00:002010-04-20T18:14:30.638+00:00That is indeed another way the old school did it b...That is indeed another way the old school did it better. However, even they tended to give the game away by calling each episode "Blank of the Daleks". "Invasion" and "Earthshock" worked much better in that regard, keeping the existence of the silver jugheads closely under wraps. I suppose it was assumed that the very existence of the Daleks was scary enough. Which it was, once.<br /><br />This is why I tend not to watch the "coming next week" bit.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152545728675983286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18991145.post-19115976566889316622010-04-20T17:36:20.682+00:002010-04-20T17:36:20.682+00:00When we've had Daleks of all colours of the ra...When we've had Daleks of all colours of the rainbow, their capacity to scare an audience diminishes. -Especially as they are foreshadowed by the episode before, a front-cover of the radio times and features galore. - In the old days, the villains aren't always revealed at the start. you get a villain's eye view for the first few atrocities. - What better than invisible Daleks next time. And *inside* the Tardis too! -That'd be scary. "Delete room! Delete room! Oops! Delete room! Is that all of them Amy? ....Amy? Oops! Undelete!Nineteen-Deltanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18991145.post-28573315761061650602010-04-19T07:45:10.008+00:002010-04-19T07:45:10.008+00:00Agree with you both. However, even though it wasn&...Agree with you both. However, even though it wasn't Moffat-scripted, the series producer has a lot of power including the right to rewrite to the nth degree. So, any weak points (and there were many) were there because he let them be ...<br /><br />See update link above, which is quite funny.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152545728675983286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18991145.post-32978781920825525152010-04-19T03:50:57.840+00:002010-04-19T03:50:57.840+00:00One thing I really did appreciate about this episo...One thing I really did appreciate about this episode was that the Daleks were not all destroyed at the end, which means we don't need any silly non-explanations for how they survived the next time they show up.Ellennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18991145.post-27143991266308559492010-04-18T21:11:27.327+00:002010-04-18T21:11:27.327+00:00Whilst I agree with EVERY point you made, I must p...Whilst I agree with EVERY point you made, I must point out that Moffat didn't write that episode. I admit I don't know how their writing process works, Moffat probably had a large amount of control, but I don't think it's fair to call these "Moffat's Daleks."<br /><br />I wonder what the future holds for the Daleks? I don't think Moffat would have allowed (or conceptualised) an episode that started a new race of Daleks and essentially reset all of RTD's Dalek stories unless he planned on using them for more than that one episode. Hopefully what he has in mind is something more impressive than the typical RTD Dalek series-finisher with no more substance than "look - Daleks!"djchallishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08534053698170097722noreply@blogger.com