, A very strange and unhappy episode
First of all, the last of Tegan? Maybe she was tired of wearing the same outfit? I quite liked it...
Anyway, a battle between Davros and the Daleks? The Doctor, almost Killing him? Again, not quite...
Not one of my favorites but still was fun, and watching the end, was an unhappy moment
Resurrection of the Daleks is some kind of masterpiece. Brutal. Cynical. Nihilistic, even.
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First of all, the last of Tegan? Maybe she was tired of wearing the same outfit? I quite liked it...
As said above it's unrelentingly grim and violent but I think it's well made. I can remember being freaked out by the killer policemen and the Dalek creature killing the soldier.
And while I was never a big fan of Tegan, her leaving scene is a real tearjerker and provides an approporiate end to the story.
I found it unhappy, but that was more because it was unrelentingly crappy, at least in terms of production values.
Maybe if I'd been 8 or 9 in 1984 and seen it when first broadcast I would have had fun, but as it was I was somewhat older (enough to find Davros catching the virus fun in a "Hey check it out Butthead, he's like, spoodging and stuff" kind of way) and so the crappy effects and downright awful acting (even by Who standards), along with the plot that simply didn't make much sense really took their toll. Now that I'm older the acting and effects are more easily swallowed but the plot has if anything gotten even worse, and while in theory I appreciate any show that like this one seems to have been made especially to annoy Mary Whitehouse, it really has to have more going for it than that alone.
Take them to the security kitchen!
I've said it before, there is just slightly too much going on here. The prison station guards facing off against the daleks who have come to grab davros, who then betrays them... that would be a pretty good story right there, but instead you also get everything happening on earth and all the stuff with the clones... and if that wasn't enough, then there's this plot to clone the doctor and have him assassinate the high council of gallifrey (though I guess in the big picture that now feeds into the whole time war thing) which doesn't entirely make sense, the daleks are there to grab davros, why would they waste time and risk compromising that mission to muck around with the doctor... you'd think they'd want to do a hit and run mission with davros and then try to trap the doctor later... as it is that plot point kind of feels half-baked and doesn't go anywhere... the doctor is left to escape easily and the daleks aren't sitting there going "aw man... but what about our plan to assassinate the time lords?! maaaaan"
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It's basically the Saw 7 of Doctor Who.
Paul McGann IS the War Doctor in my fic
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while in theory I appreciate any show that like this one seems to have been made especially to annoy Mary Whitehouse, it really has to have more going for it than that alone.
Eric Saward went all out with increasing the violence and fatalism in this story which would continue for the next season after this. The production and direction does look tatty at times and it's impossible to know what the Daleks plan is since they have about five plans going on at once. Lovely continuity though.
shareI do quite enjoy Terry as Davros too, his rant (think it's at the end of ep 3) is brilliant!
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Resurrection is a masterpiece and the last Saward story that i really liked.
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apparently Trump never said that, it's a bit of a falsity that has been doing the rounds... don't get me wrong, Trump has said many horrible and/or stupid things, but that isn't one of them
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