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Best thing about this two parter:

Cyberman/Dalek trashtalking. Honestly.

"Our species are similar, although your design is inelegant."
"DA-LEKS HAVE NO CON-CEPT OF EL-E-GANCE!"
"This is obvious."

"Daleks be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen."
"THIS IS NOT WAR! THIS IS PEST CON-TROL!"
"We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?"
"FOUR!"
"You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?"
"WE WOULD DES-TROY THE CY-BER-MEN WITH ONE DA-LEK! YOU ARE SU-PE-RIOR IN ON-LY ONE RES-PECT!"
"What is that?"
"YOU ARE BET-TER AT DY-ING!"

Date: 2006-07-10 08:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] querldox.livejournal.com
I'm just saying, for a group that the Doctor supposedly destroyed completely, there sure seem to be an awful lot of Daleks popping up in these series (not seen any of the Tennent eps yet, but had heard the Daleks popped up yet again after two appearances in the Eccleston eps).

Date: 2006-07-10 09:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khaosworks.livejournal.com
Well, it's a function of the entire Dalek iconography that the Daleks can only be delayed, never defeated. So no matter what, they keep coming back and you've never seen the last of them. It's only a matter of time, like Doc Doom.

In this case, they explained it by saying there was a bunch of them that literally got taken out of time and space prior to the final battle of the Time War. Also, I think the proudction team realises the ludicrousness of having so many final fates keep being reversed so they actually have an out for their return at the end of the season finale.

Date: 2006-07-10 12:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mscongeniality.livejournal.com
That scene was pure, unadulterated fun.

Date: 2006-07-10 09:04 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I was just delighted that the rubbish tin soldiers got their backsides well and truly kicked. Surely none but the most hardcore Troughton era baby would have wanted it any other way?

Paul H

Date: 2006-07-11 01:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khaosworks.livejournal.com
I was thinking that Terrance Dicks would be so pleased that "blood Saward"'s Cybermen got their comeuppance at last.

Date: 2006-07-10 10:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zanda-myrande.livejournal.com
I'd have liked it to be a leetle less one-sided.

Of course, you realise the Daleks actually won the Time War...their survivors, of which there remains at least one and almost certainly more, are fully capable of replicating themselves, reorganising, rebuilding their armaments and mounting another assault. The survivors of the Time Lords? Well, he bops around in a police box doing the intergalactic equivalent of rescuing kittens from trees...

The universe is conquered, I tell you. They just haven't got round to us yet.

Date: 2006-07-10 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pbristow.livejournal.com
Bet you a fiver there's another void ship out there with Romana in it. =:o}

Of course, the Doctor can't be allowed to discover it until he's in his last body. Then at last he can retire from being ever-so-lonely, and raise baby Gallifreyans to his hearts' content.

How does that old proverb go, now?
"Save a planet, and you've fed and sheltered it's children for a generation.
Teach your own children to save planets, and...?"
Or something like that. =:o}

Date: 2006-07-11 01:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khaosworks.livejournal.com
It's like the line I cooked up for a (as yet unwritten) Doctor/Auton adventure, The Auton Imperative.

"So that's your diabolical plan to conquer the world? Isn't all that getting a bit old?"

"You don't understand, Doctor. We've already conquered the world. It just hasn't noticed, yet."

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