Although Gok-Wan had done his best with a daring little khaki number she still felt frumpy compared to her best friend.Victory of the Daleks: Not so much rewriting Doctor Who history but more mutilating it and leaving it to die in a gutter.
Ok, it featured all the trade marks of a Gatiss script - criminally bad dialogue (his episode of Poirot is embarrassing to watch for this reason alone), no characterisation, cliché after cliché, jingoism and nothing much else. Like most of the Gatiss stuff it really just borders on being a very expensive, self indulgent fan-boy dream.
It also ventured the theory that any fat bloke can be made over to look like Winston Churchill.
Remember people this is all new Doctor Who because the Daleks now come in Technicolor.
Perhaps the best way I can explain it is with a story.
Many years before the show returned I was looking after my nephew and a few of his friends. My nephew had started watching Doctor Who (thanks to my video collection) and decided to show them Remembrance of the Daleks. They loved it. In fact they loved it so much they all begin playing out their very own story. It featured the Daleks in World War II. They were working with the Nazis. The Daleks had camouflage armour. It ended with a battle between spitfires and Daleks. In space. They then got bored and created the epic Prison of the Daleks.
Basically everyone has had this idea at some point, and probably done it much better, before rejecting it as a bit too obvious.
Incidentally just showing a crack at the end of every episode does not constitute a story arc.
Still next week we have the first meeting with River Song. And the Weeping Angels. In a two parter. Bloody hell. You know what, I'm sure there is something else I can be doing with my life.
Makako en Konvenig
April 2010
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