Yeah, I meant fanficcy as a bad thing - there's a tendency in a lot of the fic I've read to start "wouldn't it be cool if...", and episodes which pander to that tend, IM, to be the weakest ones. Also this was the first episode that relied on you knowing the canon to be remotely interesting, which for a teatime BBC1 show is fatal. The idea of doing Enemy Mine with Daleks was cool, but they needed to re-establish them as unstoppable relentless killing machines before they did it. If you'd never seen a Dalek before this episode - and the target audience wouldn't have - then you don't understand why they're so scary and why humaniing them is interesting. Plus the Dalek voice, when used for anything other than ' I WILL EXTERMINATE!" sounds bloody daft.
Anya ,'Sleeper'
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Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
I'm just thankful that they didn't resurrect Davros yet again for this episode.
Give it time... he's the #2 recurring villain after the Master, isn't he ?
Yeah, if one Dalek fell through a rift in space-time who knows what else could.
Jim, I think it's highly likely that, despite being of a previously non-Who-watching generation, I've done more background research than the target audience, which would indeed tend to make this episode more interesting to me. Fair point.
Daniel, since the Radio Times summary of episode 11, "Boom Town", says "The Doctor comes across someone he thought was long dead", I think it's so likely as to be almost certain that something else got through from either the Dalek destruction or Gallifrey's destruction. taraljc on lj had a nice essay related to that, actually.
So episode 5 may also set a precident for furure eps. Interesting.
Um, where are all the USians watching Dr. Who? Is it on BBC-America already?
Um, where are all the USians watching Dr. Who? Is it on BBC-America already?
No, it's not. AFAIK, all the USians who are watching are downloading it.
Or, know somebody who has tivoed it from CBC.
Or live close enough to Canada to get CBC.
(DH is watching it. I have no time for TV beyond TDS and Robot Chicken anymore. DH is all, "You'll love it! It's like Buffy!" I respond, "No time! No time at all!")