Part 2 of this epic is great. The characters find themselves in even worse dilemmas than before. This script is solid with some great twists. Sarah Mowat, Gareth Thomas, and Mark McDonnell give powerful performances that fire the listener's imagination.

This is the Dalek story the BBC never had the ability to tell.

Better than episode 1, I can't wait to hear part 3.

10/10

An excellent, but somewhat disjointed opening to an epic story.

With the exception of BAD WOLF and PARTING OF THE WAYS, we've never experienced the Daleks as the rolling blitzkrieg of death and destruction that their reputation has always made them out to be. Until now.

To hear the accounts of survivors of a Dalek holocaust add so much more weight and menace to the villains and is a great setup for future stories.

Over all, this production is a great listen and more than worth the $5 price tag that Big Finish has on it!

The final part of this story is not the highlight of the series. If you brought this alone then you would feel very disappointed. Instead of carrying the story on, it changes to 2,000 years onto the future, into a time where the dalek conquest is over, but the universe hasn't recovered. The story skips between both times, but the plot that we've been following for the last 8 CD's feels skipped over and not really utillised well. The main plot of this installment seems to be a big lead into the next set of stories. Alby is quickly forgotten and doesn't get the send off he deserves, Susan just ends up another pawn in another dalek plot, which could have run a lot more and Kalendorf is just annoying. The whole episode just doesn't feel needed and lacks the punch that the first series finale had. In the end, the whole of DE II is one to miss, stick to DE I