{"id":4509,"date":"2010-04-20T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T08:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2011-06-03T23:40:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T07:40:50","slug":"daleks-now-in-fruit-flavors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/2010\/04\/20\/daleks-now-in-fruit-flavors\/","title":{"rendered":"Daleks, Now in Fruit Flavors!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"d11s01e03_wallpaper_11\"<\/a>It’s the third episode of the new season of Doctor Who.\u00a0 In the first two episodes (reviews to follow), Matt Smith has proven himself to be the Doctor, and no one can dispute this taking the role.\u00a0 Karen Gillian, his new companion of Amy Pond, proved herself a worthy companion in the second episode.\u00a0 This episode hits it’s marks and follows the pattern first set up by Russell T. Davies with the revival of the series.\u00a0 And I guess I’m alright with it.\u00a0 Some consistency is good, but at the same time I’d hate for the series to get into a rut.<\/p>\n

Just like every season before it, this season is following the patter of first taking the new companion to the future, and then they taking them to the past to meet some historical figure.\u00a0 In this episode, it’s to meet Winston Churchill, during the blitz of London.\u00a0 Now, I wasn’t bother with the Doctor already knowing Churchill.\u00a0 It was a nice change to see him know a historical figure instead of always seeing him meeting them for the first time.\u00a0 He’s traveled throughout Earth’s history for a good amount of 900 years.\u00a0 You’d think he’d know some of the people of important.<\/p>\n

Like most Doctor Who episode with the past, there is a bit of the fantastical.\u00a0 This time it’s in the form of an old enemy that just won’t stay down. The Daleks.\u00a0 While I knew it was inevitable that the Daleks would be back, they are in the promo wallpaper the BBC released for the new season, I have to say I wasn’t really looking forward to it. The Daleks have gotten rather tedious, as they have been the big bads for 3 of the last five seasons.\u00a0 You can see them be destroyed only to come back again only so many times before you start rolling your eyes.\u00a0 This episode was a lot like that for me.\u00a0 The whole point of the episode was just bring the daleks back.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>And not only do they come back, they are back bigger, badder, and in fashion colors!\u00a0 As I watched them roll out, I thought, “It’s a rainbow of fruity flavors!\u00a0 The iDalek!”\u00a0 I can’t say I blame Steven Moffatt for wanting to bring the Daleks back.\u00a0 They are popular in Britain, and it is a British show.\u00a0 And with all the other reboots, the Daleks were sure to get theirs.\u00a0 What I do hope is that this is all we see of the Daleks for the rest of the season.\u00a0 Let them go wherever in time, and start to rebuild their fleets.\u00a0 There seems to already be an overarching story arc going, as the end of the episode showed.\u00a0 Just please, don’t let it involve the Daleks.\u00a0 Moffatt comes up with such great baddies on this own.\u00a0 Every episode he wrote in the 9th-10th Doctor seasons were the best and always had original monsters.\u00a0 The Weeping Angels, the Vashta Nerada, the Clockwork Men, all Moffatt’s creations and all fantastic.\u00a0 Even this season with the Smilers.\u00a0 Keep adding more great monsters to the Doctor Who pantheon, and let sleeping Daleks lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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