Victory Of The Daleks

[poliphilo]

Oh no, the daleks are back. Yawn.

But actually this was the best use of them in ages- in fact since NhoWho began. Daleks in khaki with their old kit-bags fastened round their shoulders (or is it their waists? As with Humpty Dumpty one just can't be sure) are not only cute but somehow appropriate. As Moffat said, quoting RTD, daleks are so WWII.

And by the end of the show they'd been rebooted- and are now taller, bigger and colour-coded. I didn't think I'd ever say this, but I'm actually quite looking forward to seeing them again.

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I think I still believe that using WWII this way is... what words are good. In poor taste. It's still recent enough that there are people alive who remember it, if very few. It feels irreverent in a painfully bad way, rather than in a 'helps us get over it' way. To me anyway.

As the internet says: "Too soon." :P

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's any amount of British comedy that bounces off WWII. TV shows like Dad's Army and Ello Ello, Spike Milligan's memoirs, lots and lots of movies involving people like Will Hay and Norman Wisdom. Silly stuff about the war was going into production even while the war was being fought. We laughed at the Nazis, we laughed at ourselves. It helped raise morale. I think this episode of Who is in that tradition- at once silly and patriotic and proud. Being silly about the war was one of the things that got us through it- and once you've started laughing at something it's very hard to stop.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Perhaps if the episode had been written better I would have felt differently. But scenes wherein Amy looks at a sobbing woman and says brilliant things like 'I don't think she's okay'...

Well, no, dear. Crying women usually aren't okay. o_O

I thought the Beast Below was fun enough to ignore some of its problems, but this one was just painful.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I agree about the weeping woman. That was a mis-step. She seemed thrown in as an afterthought- as if someone had said, "Hey, we need to show the kids that war has its down side too."