Started (and finished) 17 July.There's a quite good animated version of this on Youtube.
There must be a generation of people to whom this must be like Star Wars 10 years early.
It's pure, hoary, Terry Nation space opera.
The way the script seems to mix up 'Galaxy' and 'Solar System' is possibly a stylistic problem,. I don't like it but I recognise that most viewers would not object.
The crass militarism of Cory, Garvey and Lowery is reminiscent of a familiar trope in 50's war movies (like a John Wayne or Gary Cooper movie...) People used to lap that up. There are modern antecedents of course.. JCVD and Rambo. They not real smart. They never were.
The Dalek war council is where this soars. It's the stuff that makes little boys squee. Obviously these days it looks kinda poor quality but the low budget and the passing of time haven't completely obscured the original effectiveness of this.
A gem but a cloudy one.
And with that, Verity was gone. Her contribution to Doctor Who was more than massive or huge. It was fundamental.
ABM Rating 3.00/4.00
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SPJ Rating 6.00/10.00
Peak Ranking No. 5 (out of 19)
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Love the Daleks Master Plan--- it must be the 8 yr old boy inside me that loves this episode and serial that starts 4 weeks after it. Works fairly well as a stand alone episode, flowed nicely. Also the ainmation looks good! Thx Ian Levine, now just HOW many more missing eps left to animate??
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LJM revised rating 4/5
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