Comments | kilodalton: Asylum of the Daleks review/thoughts

kilodalton

Asylum of the Daleks review/thoughts

Sep 01, 2012 22:08

OK so since I haven't TOTALLY fallen off the face of the planet ....
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1. Daleks have prison camps???? Since when? The fake!Dalek is pretty cool, however ... Daleks are impenetrable master fighters. They survive basically anything. They don't need a Trojan horse, let alone one that looks like a human. Cool morphing tho. And the concept of "nanogenes ( Read more... )

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seasight September 2 2012, 02:13:01 UTC

Yay we are mind twins again. And I'm just going off of spoilers.

kilodalton September 2 2012, 03:04:29 UTC

That's really all you need to go off of in this case XD

wake_the_dragon September 2 2012, 02:24:11 UTC

I'm not as sure where they're going with the new companion.

It's my theory that he is going to meet either her sister or other family member (possibly an ancestor) because her name wasn't Clara in this episode.

seasight September 2 2012, 02:31:58 UTC

Or he's going to meet Clara and she's going to turn into a Dalek and it'll be typical Moffat OTT TRAAAAAAAAAGEDY.

kilodalton September 2 2012, 03:04:07 UTC

Eh ... Mels = Melody = River so I'm not sold on the name difference being significant. Plus I googled it - Oswin is a surname, so her name could be something like "Clara Oswin" since they haven't released her surname yet.

ericadawn16 September 2 2012, 02:50:14 UTC

Did you see Pond Life?

There were at least five months in between his seeing them then and this episode. They're all covered to an extent in the shorts. It doesn't really allude to the baby thing, I'll have to see it again to be sure.

Usually, the baby thing does annoy me but Amy has proven time and again how stupid she is with communicating with Rory and we did see the episode with the duck pond and the old people and Amy being pregnant and how happy they were under normal circumstances...

Actually, I find it really interesting that for all their hatred of humans, Daleks come back to them time and again. It made me think about their Manhattan experiment except more successful. Plus, I'm very curious about this theme of forgetting and remembering going back to the crack in the wall...

kilodalton September 2 2012, 03:05:50 UTC

It made me think about their Manhattan experiment except more successful.

That's a good point. I was thinking more of the Dalek/human hybrid things in "Dalek" and "Parting of the Ways" when they were so disgusted with themselves for being 'polluted.'

place_to_hide September 2 2012, 03:11:59 UTC

It didn't really occur to me that she might be a dalek. I'm a bit slow.

kilodalton September 2 2012, 03:18:35 UTC

You're not slow, I'm just jaded as all heck and like to ~think like Moffat~ while watching his eps - which then makes it super easy to figure out his plot twists XD

place_to_hide September 2 2012, 04:30:29 UTC

lol. After watching S6 so many times, I understood so much more. I asked myself, why didn't I understand this before? :P

I gotcha. When we found out she was a dalek, I was like...ooo that makes sense...

eloriekam September 2 2012, 03:54:25 UTC

Here because someone said you had a response post up and I think I've seen a couple of your other response posts.

but then they needed to go into all the whole "I cannot bear children for my man and therefore must be less of a woman, so I must allow you to go off and procreate with someone else" bullshit.

WHAAAAAAAT. Excuse me, need to ragequit. Is this DW or something else? Bring back SJ and Liz Shaw and Jo and Leela and Romana and we'll show you a real whole woman... grrr.

I'm concerned now that I won't be able to watch the episode without breaking whatever I'm using to watch it, because seriously? That takes the last Christmas special and turns it around to the other side and makes everything even more messed up.

kilodalton September 2 2012, 04:38:45 UTC

Welcome!! =D

WHAAAAAAAT. Excuse me, need to ragequit. Is this DW or something else? Bring back SJ and Liz Shaw and Jo and Leela and Romana and we'll show you a real whole woman... grrr.

Yeeeeeeeah. It was a short segment, but therefore a totally and completely unnecessary one, and with something that backwards thrown in there, it just made it very nonsensical and detracted from the ep as a whole for no reason. Plus, as amberfocus pointed out, there are other ways to have kids nowadays, especially when your BFF is an alien with loads of advanced technology at his disposal @.@

eloriekam September 4 2012, 19:34:44 UTC

Is that BP with DT? Guhhhhh.

Welcome!! =D

Thanks! Someone else pointed me in the direction of your comments on Clockwise Man a while back, as well. :)

It was a short segment, but therefore a totally and completely unnecessary one, and with something that backwards thrown in there, it just made it very nonsensical and detracted from the ep as a whole for no reason.Agreed, having now watched it. (There was also the thing with the wristbands and suddenly oh wait she has one again, but I like sleight of hand unless I've already had it shoved down my throat--LKH anyone...) Anyway, it was almost like there was an item in the ep outline that said "Item 5.A.2.b: Marriage angst between Amy and Rory so the episode doesn't completely ignore women's emotions and I don't get angry Twitters from those idiots who don't get my plots. Must make them happy somehow." It was more random than Christina de Souza's shovel and the Cybershades ( ... )