DW: Destiny of the Daleks

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• "One for casual, one for best." ♥ ♥! I had seen this on icons and such but hadn't realised it was an actual line! I also love how casual Romana was at this point, especially compared to her reaction to being interrogated by the Daleks. (About Time theorises that she was trying to fool the lie detector, and succeeding, since it says she's telling the truth when she says she knows nothing about the Daleks, though later it turns out that she does.)


• There seemed to be lots of women and non-white actors in this, hurray! Unfortunately they were all playing evil robots or background type people, boo. Actually, I was a little surprised that the people Romana meets in the mine weren't more important to the story.


• I loved the Doctor and Romana discussing their escape plan under the cover of scissors paper stone. And the idea that two completely logical races would hit stalemate very quickly was good, though I am a little surprised that neither of them had managed to invent a random action generator. Even my calculator has a random number generator! Also, the big flaw in their plan: an illogical move might be a stroke of genius, but it could just as easily be a terrible mistake. I'm not sure I quite buy the Doctor beating the Movellans every single move!


• The Doctor describing the Movellans as just another race of robots, like the Daleks, struck me as somewhat out of character. It was a bit of a narrowminded thing to say: surely there are some nice robots out there?


• Excellent use of the BBC quarry, I thought. It looked really good.


• Also looking good: the Dalek base set. All those angles and reflections gave some lovely shots.


• On the same subject: there were some beautiful shots of Romana, especially in the mine in part one. She's so elfin! ♥


• And of course I loved her dressing up as the Doctor! And her pink version of the Doctor's outfit! Brilliant.