Doctor Who - 3.5 - Evolution of the Daleks Reviews

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Average Rating 5.4
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The Daleks have begun their transformation to humanoid form however the human-Dalek hybrid, Dalek Sec, is raising doubts among the remaining three machine Daleks. He is showing human traits and emotions: he changes his mind, shows compassion by sparing some of the transients in Hooverville and to the consternation of the machine Daleks, suggests their old ways were wrong. When Dalek Sec asks for the Doctor's assistance in relocating them to a new planet, the other Daleks rebel.

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6.0

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5.8

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5.1

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10th Doctor

Martha Jones

Daleks

Cast

David Tennant

Freema Agyeman

Miranda Raison

Ryan Carnes

Eric Loren

Nicholas Briggs

Director:

James Strong

Writer:

Helen Raynor

Writer:

Terry Nation

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Reviewed By: NewWorldreviewsReview Date: 9/29/17 10:17 pm

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Evolution Of The Daleks continues the mess that Daleks In Manhattan started, and brings it to a pretty limp conclusion. It doesn't build upon the ideas that the first part presents: rather, it just continues to juggle several ideas, and fail to bring them to a satisfactory pay-off.

The idea of a human/Dalek hybrid is a great one, but that's all tempered by one major flaw in the story: the design is terrible. It just looks awful, and I'm genuinely amazed bits of it were allowed on television. It doesn't help that Raynor doesn't do anything novel with this concept. Sure, it's novel to be doing it at all with the Daleks, but it's clichéd to the point of impotence. 'The human-Dalek starts to feel emotion things, and the other Daleks betray him'. Oh please. And, at the end of the story, we're back where we started. Sure, the Daleks are now even closer to extinction, but neither the Doctor nor the Daleks have learned anything. And nothing's changed. For a story that seems like it planned to revolutionise and change the Daleks, nothing really seems to have changed by the end.

Sure, the same problems from the first part persist (poor plotting, structure and character development, terrible CGI, a flat performance from David Tennant), and doesn't build on the few elements that could have made this story work. The Daleks really should have been rested in 2007 - if only to prevent things like this happening.