Evolution of the Daleks

The start to the opening two parter has some great emotional weight to it. The action is quick and the cinematography is great, has some great shots. The Visualls are great too, especially the night time. Then the leader of the Daleks doesn't want the daleks to kill, he proceeds to say that he wants the Doctor. "KILL ME" says the Doctor before the Dalek master says this. The first 🔟 minutes this story is great. The Action goes so fast, with emotional scene with the Doctor makes the first part of the story great.

After that the episode seems to miss important information out, the story goes way to quick it's like your watching a Marvel movie. There's opportunity to make the story more interesting, but they get sidelined for a quick run of the mill Dalek story with a few interesting ideas at play. It feels as if it's montaging through the story, just to get it finished. Which means it feels a little rushed.

However with that said the episode is shot well. Lots of different angles of the Daleks. Plenty of Action. With great acting from David Tennant who steals the show. Puts in so much effort, and you can really see that in his performances. Which are always a delight tobehold watching David Tennant play as the Doctor. The Music by Murray Gold will never be topped, he brings his all to the role. The Music was eerie and quick which set the tempo of this episode. Now time for the Verdict,

Verdict,

7/10 Under-rated Episode.

Dalek Sec is far too clever for his own good as far as the other members of the Cult of Skaro (Jast, Thay & Caan) are concerned and he certainly is not what they had anticipated, but it gives the Doctor time to escape where...

He clambers aloft the Empire State, ripping off panels of Dalekanium plate, then harnessing gamma rays, off to where actors play, mutant forms start to congregate.

It's keep your fingers crossed time as two cunning plans play out in the theatre of dreams (or nightmares, depending on your perspective), please take your seats.

The conclusion of this two-part episode was actually a little better than I was anticipating given the underwhelming first half.

With Dalek Sec (Eric Loren) now in his combined human/dalek form, his plan for spicing their genomes together is at fruition. However, he begins to see a value to diluting the Dalek genes a little, which the rest of the Cult of Skaro rebel against. The Doctor (David Tennant), then desperately tries to foil the plan, before an army of pure daleks in human for can arise.

Of course, some of the aspects I didn't like from the first half remain, the patchy accents and the effect of Dalek Sec still is a bit underwhelming. The story problems though are sorted out here, into the semi tragic tale of Dalek Sec, who imagines a better future for the Daleks, only for one of his zealoted underlings to screw him over. Much like the Dalek moments that I enjoyed in the Doomsday episodes, the visuals of the gossipy daleks checking to see they were alone before sniping at their boss was both relatable and amusing.

I did think it got a little sloppy scientifically towards the end, when it went to great lengths to explain about solar flares and gamma radiation, which transitions into a lightning bolt and electricity - presumably when someone figured out that the original idea wasn't very visual.

Though I'm still a bit underwhelmed by the whole storyline of this two part episode this second half was a slight improvement.

It is a very generic episode that concludes generic story about Daleks. But what irritates me is not the script or actors, the science is just wrong. It would ok if they just made up some gibberish, but they used gamma radiation yet showing lightning.... Those tiny errors spoil the exitement.

This is the second part of the 'Daleks in Manhattan' storyline, that didn't exactly get off to a great start.

This sadly isn't much better, and it's only a good performance as ever from David Tennant that holds it all together, but even then it's only just.