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Post by The Thinker on May 24, 2006 11:06:42 GMT -5
Well I rather enjoyed this one! 4 Star Gold! What's next? ;D
Oh yes one other thing, I don't start off another "Rate an Episode" poll until I get at least one reply or one other vote apart from mine.
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Post by davisonera on May 24, 2006 11:56:34 GMT -5
Very good but loses a mark because of all that Dalek turning good nonsence at the end.
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Post by Eryx on May 24, 2006 17:10:44 GMT -5
Yep. 4/5. Good episode... had me squeaking like a little girl when the Dalek appeared... but yeah, the Dalek becoming good/human was a little weak.
The biggest complaint I have seen online about the episode has to be that the Doctor went to get a gun to kill the Dalek, and thats not really in keeping with the Doctor.
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Post by The Thinker on May 25, 2006 9:52:43 GMT -5
Yep. 4/5. Good episode... had me squeaking like a little girl when the Dalek appeared... but yeah, the Dalek becoming good/human was a little weak. The biggest complaint I have seen online about the episode has to be that the Doctor went to get a gun to kill the Dalek, and thats not really in keeping with the Doctor. I think the Doctor with a gun scene was a way of saying "he's fallible as well".
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Post by Eryx on May 25, 2006 11:13:46 GMT -5
Yep. 4/5. Good episode... had me squeaking like a little girl when the Dalek appeared... but yeah, the Dalek becoming good/human was a little weak. The biggest complaint I have seen online about the episode has to be that the Doctor went to get a gun to kill the Dalek, and thats not really in keeping with the Doctor. I think the Doctor with a gun scene was a way of saying he's fallible as well. Maybe. I can see the point of saying that the Daleks have wiped out his entire race (though sometimes I wonder how much of that was the work of the Dalek's and how much was his own input?) and he's angry and resentful... but it doesn't strike me as a Doctor-ish thing to do. He always finds another way. Good episode though, so I can't complain.
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Post by Dominic Smith on May 26, 2006 15:06:06 GMT -5
I liked this one, four out of five. The Dalek for the most part did what it did best; exterminated and said very little.
The ending was a bit weak although I still enjoy it. Not too sure about the whole Dalek/Human thing but there you go.
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Post by The Thinker on Jun 2, 2006 5:27:29 GMT -5
Hmm, true. This episode was very good either way, even if the ending left something to be desired.
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Post by Massimo on Jul 4, 2006 5:05:27 GMT -5
4/5. With a better ending it could be 5/5 but in this case I found that the sympathy for the devil doesn't work particularly well. On the contrary I liked the Doctor wanting to shoot the Dalek because that makes him look like a person with feelings and not a cold machine.
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Post by The Thinker on Jul 4, 2006 10:00:29 GMT -5
Very good but loses a mark because of all that Dalek turning good nonsence at the end. So, did you vote?
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Post by jove on Jul 4, 2006 18:10:57 GMT -5
I give it 5 out of 5, because I think it was the best episode of the season. Eccleston really shows us what a good actor he is in "Dalek", showing emotions ranging from intense fear to murderous rage and physical suffering. I thought it was fun to see the Doctor lose his cool for once, and it was appropriate under the circumstances. I also liked the Dalek questioning his own existence. What was the point in going on if the race he fought for no longer existed? The only part I didn't like was what they did to the human villain at the end. He deserved some sort of punishment, but not getting his mind erased and left homeless in a city, that is just too cruel. This didn't spoil the episode for me, though. The Dalek was great, and Eccleston's performance made the show.
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Post by The Thinker on Oct 5, 2006 13:26:32 GMT -5
The ending was a bit weak although I still enjoy it. Not too sure about the whole Dalek/Human thing but there you go. I think the writer, Robert Shearman, wanted to get people thinking about all this "Dalek turning human" business. And about the self-destruct sequence too.
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Post by jove on Oct 6, 2006 14:15:54 GMT -5
I think the story for "Dalek" is very clever. War changes people. In this episode, we are shown how badly both the Doctor and the Dalek have been altered by their war. The Dalek has lost the very thing he was fighting for, the Dalek race. This was all he knew, so I think it fitting that he should question his existence. And the Doctor lost his race as well. Who knows how this might change a person? I think the Doctor's murderous rage was understandable given the situation. It is ironic that the war would make the Doctor more like the enemy he fought, the Daleks, and vice versa. That's what happens in war, the actions of the two sides become indistinguishable from each other.
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Post by Edd on Nov 29, 2006 9:55:39 GMT -5
If this is not the best episode in the series, thenit is by far the best story in the entire history of 'Doctor Who'! It's got a Dalek, kicking seven colours of s*** out of everybody! Good move from Rob Shearman, taking whats not scary about the Dalek and making it terrifying! And who can forget Eccleston's more-than-outstanding performance! There is nothing wrong at all with this episode, and it is, simply, fantastic!
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Post by Mark Senior on Feb 14, 2007 17:36:39 GMT -5
This was outstanding tv. It had action, empathy with the devil, chills, an inhumane human millionaire and a humane Dalek (and that was more than adequately explained in the script) I gave it the big 5
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Post by Nytik on Feb 15, 2007 10:48:23 GMT -5
I loved this episode. It was an excellent re-introduction to the daleks,v and it was great when it came to 'Elevate!'
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