Doctor Who is never really known for having season long arcs and yet for both the Russel T. Davies mark one era and the Steven Moffat era each season of the show had one long storyline running all through it. With the episode that i'm about to review for you all today doing something pretty stupid with it's series long storyline and so then join me as I review the episode that is pretty much The Power Of The Daleks but for the more modern era with the episode is question being called simply just "Victory Of The Daleks" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is The Doctor and Amy find themselves helping Sir Winston Churchill who has a new secret weapon to help England win the second world war one which The Doctor knows all to well. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad altho it was a pretty thin plot and is quite clearly not as good as it perhaps should or even as good as it perhaps could have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Matt Smith as The Doctor , Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Ian McNeice as Sir Winston Churchill. Also starring in this episode is Bill Paterson as Edwin Bracewell , Nina De Cosimo as Blanche , Tim Wallers as Childers , Susannah Fielding as Lilian , James Albrecht as Todd , Colin Prockter as The Air Raid Warden , Nicholas Pegg as Dalek 1 , Barnaby Edwards as Dalek 2 and Nicholas Briggs as The Voices Of The Daleks.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Which really isn't all that unsurprising given just how good this episodes cast members are but it's all the more surprising as this episodes script is pretty bad with the new actors given next to nothing to work with with interms of what their respective characters personalities even are and so they can't turn that good of a performance and that is something that does effect the overall quality of the acting in this episode.
Doing the CGI for this episode is Real SFX and of course we have the legends and the greats that are currently over at The Mill. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with this episodes CGI alot better then what I really thought that it would be and was easily alot better then the CGI that you'd expect to see on a low budget TV show from the early 2010's.
If your like me then you'll remember this episode for one meme only and that's the fact that someone on Youtube put in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers theme song over the scene where we get to first see the new Daleks. As yes the new Daleks do look like Power Rangers how the maker of this show didn't realise this when they were first making it is beyond me and while the overall design for these new Daleks isn't that bad it's also not that good with the new design having nothing really unique that makes them standout from all of the other Daleks and having them destroy the old Dalek designs to me just felt like a cheap way of saying "look aren't these new designs so much cooler then the old ones" when in truth the older designs still work really well and still look really good.
What I really loved about this episode was seeing The Doctor just get angry at The Daleks as that is something that we don't get to see all that often in the show. On top of all of that it also helps to sell you on just how much of a threat these villains are as we the audience know that they are up to something as does The Doctor but Amy and the rest of this episodes guest cast don't and so them especially to Amy seeing The Doctor go mad at these seemingly helpful characters for no apparent reason and the fact that for most of this episode this version of The Doctor isn't his usual childlike self and instead far more serious again just helps sell you on the fact that these are his most deadliest foes and that he is feeling alot of pain by just seeing them alone yet again whilst he is all alone in the universe.
There is something that I really hated in this episode ad that's the fact that even Amy gets a good clear look at the where the crack in the wall is she never mentions it. As don't forget the crack is behind the TARDIS and Amy is stood there when the TARDIS dematerialises so not only she but also Sir Winstone Churchill as well for that matter would therefor know that there's a strange crack in the wall and it's something that they never address in the episode which given that the cracks in the wall form not only this seasons season long arc but also form part of an arc for this version of The Doctor as well it is really something that should have been addressed at least once in this episode.
Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever episodes running time even was I do know that for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly forty one minuets. Which for this episode is far two short of a running time as you very easily could have made this episode a two part episode which would have not only have served the story even better as it would have had more room to breathe but it also would have served The Daleks themselves as well with the natural ending point for part one being when The Daleks reveal themselves as evil and I will admit that this episode does have some rather solid pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. However that's also the issue as the action that we got in this episode wasn't all that good either as there wasn't anything visually interesting happening during this episodes action scene while the music does help to make the action feel exciting there's nothing that makes the action in this episode feel all that exciting at all in the slightest in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this wasn't a bad Dalek episode as there are much more worse ones out their but at the same time this isn't a particularly good Dalek episode either as there are much more better ones out there in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page , Wikipedia and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.