Project Classic!Who 2010: 060 - Day of the Daleks
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Day of the Daleks
Sir Reginald Styles, organiser of a world peace conference, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a combat-uniformed guerrilla who vanishes like a ghost. Later the guerrilla is attacked by huge, ape-like creatures called Ogrons and found unconscious by UNIT troops in the grounds of the house. The Doctor deduces that he comes from about two hundred years in the future and that a device found with him is a time machine.
While Styles is away, the Doctor and Jo keep watch. The guerrillas attack again, but the Time Lord convinces them that he is not Styles. One of their party, Shura, is later injured by an Ogron.
Jo meanwhile accidentally activates one of the guerrillas' time machines and is transported to the 22nd Century. When the guerrillas return there, the Doctor goes with them. He learns that the Earth of this period is ruled by the Daleks with the help of the Ogrons and human collaborators, whose leader is known as the Controller. Jo and the Doctor are both taken prisoner at the Dalek base.
The guerrillas rescue them and explain that they are attempting to kill Styles because he caused an explosion at the peace conference, starting a series of wars that left humanity vulnerable to Dalek conquest - a history that they wish to change. The Doctor realises that the explosion was actually caused by Shura in a misguided attempt to fulfil his mission.
Returning to the 20th Century with Jo, he has Styles' house evacuated. Daleks and Ogrons arrive in pursuit, but are destroyed when Shura detonates his bomb.
Episode Endings
The Controller reports to his Dalek masters that a time transmitter has been detected operating in the 20th Century and that the coordinates are being fixed. He is told that whoever is operating it is an enemy of the Daleks and must be destroyed. The three Daleks take up a chant of 'Exterminate them!'
The Doctor follows the guerrillas into a disused railway tunnel that acts as their arrival point in the 20th Century. The menacing form of a Dalek materialises nearby.
The Doctor is lying strapped to a table attached to a mind analysis device as the Daleks attempt to confirm his identity. Images of his two previous incarnations appear on a screen and the Daleks triumphantly shriek that he is the Doctor and an enemy of the Daleks who will be exterminated.
The Doctor urges Sir Reginald Styles to make sure that his peace conference is a success. Sir Reginald tells him not to worry as everyone knows what will happen if it fails. The Doctor confirms that he and Jo know too: they have seen it.
I love the Doctor and his hatred of the High Council. I don't want it to work for them, either.
TWO THREES! I'd watch a sitcom called "The Adventures of Three and Three" and they'd get into intense squabbles over the most inconsequential things and it would be amazing.
Obviously I knew Daleks would be popping up eventually, but I still got excited when I heard their beautiful voices. :D It's been too long since we've seen these guys.
Benton/Jo? I ship it. They're kind of adorable.
I still think of "disused Yeti" every time I hear the word 'disused.'
That was kind of an abrupt ending. I actually liked this one. There wasn't much to comment on, but I've always been a fan of the Going-Back-in-Time-to-Change-Something-Only-to-End-up-Causing-It story line. Even if they did actually end up changing it in the end... And the Daleks are always a good time. AND I LIKED JO! That was a change!
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