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Post by matthewsee on Dec 30, 2020 22:51:25 GMT -5
TV WEEK (Australia) of January 2-8 2021 has a piece on Revolution of the Daleks.
It came under the headline, "Guess Who's back for Christmas" and the subtitle, "When A Dangerous Enemy Resurfaces, The Doctor Needs Help".
It states that it has John Barrowman back as Captain Jack Harkness and has guest stars in Chris Noth as Jack Robertson and Dame Harriet Walter as Jo Patterson and it ends with showrunner and the special's writer Chris Chibnall saying:
"Crammed with an explosion of acting talent. And things will explode. Promise!"
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 1, 2021 0:24:39 GMT -5
New Year's Message from the Doctor:
A promotion of Revolution of the Daleks.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 3, 2021 9:23:19 GMT -5
Written by showrunner Chris Chibnall.
Surprised that it started with a text of that statement made famous by Star Wars.
Revolution of the Daleks serves a three-way purpose, as a sequel to the 2019 New Year's Day Special Resolution, the return of Chris Noth as Jack Robertson from Arachnids In The UK and resolving the cliffhanger to The Timeless Children when the Doctor was taken prisoner.
After that text it has a reprise of Resolution and then setting it 367 minutes later. Why that figure. I mean why not 360 minutes therefore making it a complete six hours as it sets the immediate consequence to this.
As well as Noth, this also guest stars Dame Harriet Walter as Jo Patterson who ultimately becomes Prime Minister here and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Leo.
Walter had previously worked with Jodie in the 2014 mini-series The Assets but they don't get to have a on-screen reunion here.
In fact this is not the first time that Walter had done a Doctor Who as she was in The Boy That Time Forgot, a Big Finish Fifth Doctor story in 2008.
The first time I saw Stewart-Jarrett was as a principal cast member in Misfits (2009-13).
The Dalek machine that was the menace and disabled in Resolution has now been repurposed in something that would eventually known as a Defence Drone.
In a demonstration witnessed by Robertson, Patterson and Leo, the Dalek deals with role-playing rioters by shooting a water cannon (as preferable to a laser cannon), expelling gas and playing loud sound.
Patterson, who at this point is a government minister, is impressed with what she sees and requests the building of more of these Defence Drones.
Notwithstanding seeing the Doctor in her prison in between, we then go to Graham, Ryan and Yaz and a time jump as it is now ten months since the Doctor sent them home without her.
Yaz was in the house TARDIS thinking she could work out a way to get back to the Doctor when Graham and Ryan came by.
Worried by Yaz's preoccupation with what she is doing, Graham got Yaz's mind on something else when he showed her leaked footage of the Dalek footage and Jack Robertson.
Among the Doctor's fellow prisoners are some surprising cameos with a Weeping Angel, an Ood, a Sycorax, Pting and a Silent.
Another fellow prisoner is Jack as he finally gets to meet 13 as he and her breaks out with the use of a time bubble.
13 asked Jack whether he had an upgrade and he said that she could talk. This is similar exchange that Jack had when he first met 10 in Utopia with 10 asking whether Jack had work done and Jack giving the said same response.
In Utopia, Jack has a vortex manipulator when he met 10.
The vortex manipulator also turned up in Revolution of the Daleks as Jack and 13 used it to teleport to the TARDIS.
On Earth, Patterson has now become Prime Minister and Leo expressed concerned to Robertson on the speed they are making the Defence Drones.
It is here that Leo showed the Dalek creature that was found in the original machine to Robertson.
Robertson is horrified by this creature and instructs Leo to incinerates it.
Leo was about to throw it into the fire but the creature jumps to him and has him under its control.
The Doctor and Jack finally meets up with the fam with Yaz giving the Doctor a big shove for being gone this long.
The Doctor and Jack are brought up to speed about the Dalek and Robertson with the group being divided in two with the Doctor, Graham and Ryan going to see Robertson while Jack and Yaz goes to Osaka after the Doctor detected Dalek DNA there in the TARDIS.
Very good Jack mentioning Rose as he explains how he became immortal.
When the Doctor, Graham and Ryan went to see Robertson he showed them the production line.
Horrifying seeing the number of Daleks that were made there.
In Osaka, Jack and Yaz have a heart to heart talk of what it is like being with the Doctor with Jack saying of not being able to choose when it stops and the joy is worth the pain.
What a surprise on Jack producing the squareness gun when he and Yaz got into that facility.
Further surprised that when Jack and Yaz were later attacked by the Dalek creatures in what we learn from Jack is a clone farm, Jack killed the attacking creatures with the squareness gun!
Prime Minister Patterson unveils the Defence Drones but there are no creatures inside as we learn from Robertson they are control by artificial intelligence.
The Doctor, Graham, Ryan and even Robertson reunites with Yaz and Jack in Osaka.
It was funny seeing Robertson's incredulity in seeing the inside of the TARDIS and seeing Chris Noth in the TARDIS is not something I thought I would ever see.
The clone farm's purpose is to make the creatures and there is a reason why the colour of the lighting keeps changing resulting in the creatures teleporting in the machines becoming the Daleks they are feared to be and all this done by the creature-controlled Leo.
The Daleks sparks mayhem with Prime Minister Patterson among their victims and Leo is killed by the creature controlling him with Leo having fulfilled his purpose.
With the Defence Drones Daleks continuing its slaughter, the Doctor is forced in doing something extreme and what a shock it is for her to summon another breed of Daleks which the Doctor nicknames the S.A.S. Daleks about the Defence Drone Daleks and without letting them know that she had summoned them.
The S.A.S. Daleks will get rid of Defence Drone Daleks because they are not what the Daleks considered as purity.
However with the Defence Drone Daleks being dealt with that leaves the problem of the S.A.S. Daleks themselves.
Funny with the S.A.S. Daleks flying down to Earth they didn't notice the TARDIS on top of the bridge.
The Doctor and Robertson stepped out of the TARDIS to see the sight of the Daleks when Robertson runs off to make a deal with the S.A.S. Daleks.
Jack, Graham and Ryan go to the S.A.S. Dalek ship to place explosives to blow it up.
Robertson is also there and reveals that it was the Doctor who summoned them.
Jack witnessed Robertson's treachery and let the Doctor know about this.
The Doctor realised that blowing up the Dalek ship would not be enough. There is still the Daleks outside which is made complicated now that they know about her.
Robertson makes a getaway when the Daleks got distracted when the last surviving Defence Drone Dalek teleported to them and it gets exterminated.
Jack, Graham and Ryan soon rescues Robertson as they teleported back to the TARDIS and the Dalek ship explodes.
The Doctor lures the Daleks that weren't in their ship when it exploded into the TARDIS.
Shocked the Doctor allowed the Daleks to come in the TARDIS because surely she should have put up the shields when talking to them including calling them pets!
It turns out however that this isn't our TARDIS but the other one and the Doctor was there by hologram.
Watching it the second time I realised the significance of seeing the other TARDIS earlier on as it sets up on becoming a weapon against the Daleks with this TARDIS folding in on itself and destroying the Daleks in the process.
With this crisis over, Robertson says to the Doctor that he acted as a decoy (yeah right) and is presented as a hero to the world afterwards. Oh dear.
In a call to the Doctor in the TARDIS, in a delight Jack mentions Gwen Cooper and she now has a son in addition to daughter Anwen.
Jack says that Gwen fought off a Dalek with her son's boxing gloves, as well as a moped!
Boxing might be a reference to Eve Myles' starring role in Keeping Faith where she does a lot of boxing there.
In the TARDIS, Ryan told the others that he decided to stay and Graham then decides to stay with him.
An emotional end to Ryan and Graham's time travelling with the Doctor and Doctor as parting gifts gives them psychic papers.
We then last see Ryan and Graham the same way we first saw them with Ryan trying and failing on a bike.
Their first scene together in The Woman Who Fell To Earth also had Grace and Chibnall also included Grace in Ryan and Graham's final scene as they see a vision of her and providing a bookend to this.
Throughout this Davros did not turned up at all making it the first Re...of the Daleks story not to have him.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 6, 2021 10:06:02 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 10, 2021 12:37:27 GMT -5
The Sydney Sunday Telegraph The Binge Guide of January 3-9 2020 has a feature on Revolution of the Daleks, with this coming just after its TV screening and now streaming on iview, and an interview with Jodie Whittaker.
It came under the headline "Doctor's Orders" and the subtitle of "Jodie Whittaker Has Well And Truly Settled Into The Iconic Role of The Beloved Doctor Who" and written by Katie Ellis.
In Ellis' introduction says that while Jodie would love a sonic screwdriver of her own in real life, Jodie is more than happy with what fantasy and Doctor Who has brought her so far.
Ellis says that while the return of the Daleks will thrill diehards, Jodie says that The Master has been her favourite villain so far.
Jodie:
Just because the writing and the length of scenes for me and Sacha (Dhawan) were just brilliant. We would have four or five pages of stand-offs. I love this trickery, his revenge and how he is so quick to switch on you. I found all of that incredible.
Playing the Doctor, with all of these classic villains and monsters, is amazing but The Master and I have our own relationship and our own experience."
Jodie recalls her first days playing the Doctor:
"I remember my first big speech on a bloomin' crane. [she reveals this with a laugh]
I was completely obsessed with the health and safety of the crane. Once we went and we realised it was alright and me and Tim Shaw weren't going to fall off, we got into it."
Afterwards she says that it was raining too, really Welsh weather and everything about it was epic.
She also talks about her fan encounters:
"Do you know what happens to me?
It's brilliant ...people make things for me. I love stuff like that and I love how creative the fans are. In every walk of life, there's Whovians.I love the unexpectedness of it all, the unexpected warmth and how uniting it is. We have this forever connection because of what the show means to them, to me and everyone on the show."
Ellis brings up David Tennant as Tennant had said the most gut-wrenching scenes he filmed as The Doctor were his last ones.
This leads to the prospect of Jodie doing the same one day with it being too emotional for her to face and this was published before rumours had surfaced that the next season will be her last.
Jode:
"If I even think about leaving, it makes me cry.
When it happens, I can pre-empt that it will be my most devastating moment."
Ellis says that Jodie still regards her first episode [The Woman Who Fell To Earth] as the most special in her career.
Jodie:
"It was an incredible way to jump into this adventure. The way the character enters through the train but also continues in Peter Capaldi's Doctor costume until the end is how my Doctor arrived as part of the family.
Emotionally, that is the episode that is the most special to me."
Ellis wraps up her feature by asking Jodie her greatest lesson from the Doctor.
Jodie:
"That love and hope transcends time and space.
That's a big lesson to learn in these challenging times. I think that is the thing that is a wonder to play and I hope, the older I get, that I don't lose that in life - that light at the end."
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 16, 2021 23:17:45 GMT -5
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