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Victory of the Daleks
Gaaaaaaahhhh why so slow. Seriously. Speed up those episodes. All everyone did all episode was stand around and talk. And then show people push little figures around a battlefield table. And talk some more. And introduce the new iDaleks (sponsored by AppleTM). And talk some more. And, yeah, maybe talk some more then.
No surprises, no tension, no interesting scenes. Good God, the lights went out! Show me some people being actually affected by that. Make British intelligence pick up a German air squad on their way to London while the lights were blazing. Make people panic, show me some emotion. An old dude in front of what was clearly a green screen isn't going to do. Get some movement in your scenes.
Speaking of movement--in the first four seasons, wasn't the Doctor all about the running? Donna said it; there's an awful lot of running involved. The first thing Nine said to Rose was "run". Both Nine and Ten had a bajillion scenes where they were just running like maniacs, towards danger, away from danger, whatever. They were moving.
Eleven doesn't run. He stands around and talks. He's awfully static. I saw him stumbling/running away from the Dalek firing at him and went, oh look! The Doctor's running again. It lasted only about a second, but I think it was more running than he did in the first two episodes. Which is just kind of--un-Doctor. It's what the Doctor does, he runs. Or at least it's what he's been doing in New Who in both previous regenerations. You're never going to get the same dynamic in the new season if you let your Doctor just stand there all the time.
I have to say, I do like the idea that Eleven's sort of going, phew. My tenth regeneration was just me getting hurt, all the time--I think I'm going to hang back a little for a while, try to get myself sorted out a little. But he needs to get over that eventually, because nobody likes a static, inactive main character. He needs to get his act together and start taking action again. And stop talking. Seriously, the next episode that consists to 85% of exposition talk I'm going to stab with an ice pick.
As for the actual plot of the episode; I don't quite understand why this had to be Winston Churchill and WWII. If you're going to do WWII, do it the way Human Nature did WWI--address the human tragedy that any war represents, and don't try to glorify it and make it into some noble sort of adventure that had to be overcome to save the Empire. I see this tendency in Moffat; having recently rewatched Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, I remember that in that episode, Nine had this stupid speech he gives to the kid about how Britain wins the war and defeats the Nazis--as if there were something noble or patriotic or honorable in getting your country bombed to pieces because you didn't agree to contribute to global war and genocide. I'm not saying that the victims of the Blitz shouldn't be honored, I'm saying that writing nostalgic and sentimental television episodes about it isn't honoring the dead, it's trivializing their deaths. And yes, I know that Moffat didn't write this episode, but he's still setting the tone of the show. And I didn't like the tone of this episode.
In conclusion, I am getting really impatient with this season. Get some action in there, will you? Right now, I'm feeling like I'm watching a string of filler episodes like Fear Her and The Idiot's Lantern--just another Who, not completely unpleasant, but nothing to write home about. Sigh.
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