Doctor Who: Dalek - REVIEW - Dalekcember

[@MrTARDIS]

"This is not life. It is sickness!" To celebrate the revised series, be sure to like, comment and share this video to appease the almighty algorithm!!

[@SoundsSarcastic234]

MrTARDISreviews The thing I really appreciate about these videos and you as a content creator is your positivity. Even in the more negative reviews like Evil of the Daleks, you always find something to be positive about after saying something negative. Tbh, I was kind of dreading this review because of the appearance of Rose Tyler and your well known dislike of the character. And as a huge fan of that character, I was worried this would become a tirade about her (I’m still expecting one with Doomsday). However, I was pleasantly surprised by the exclusion of one here. TL;DR - you’re great and I love ur vids.

[@russelltietjen4407]

Out of interest, have you listened to Jubilee? If so, what did you think?

[@shearrob]

Thank you so much for your kind review - that's really put me in the Christmas mood!

[@AllThePiecesMatter_]

Dalek is my favourite of all Dalek stories.

[@harryrees627]

“Are you frightened, Rose Tyler?” “Yeah” “So. Am. I.” That’s the line that kills me

[@robertmcghintheorca49]

Harry Rees Never thought I'd cry for a Dalek before.

[@meatwoodflacmedia]

I love that there’s not just a cyberman head in the museum, it’s a cyberman head from The Invasion, which makes sense that VanStatten would find it cause it’s an earth invasion story

[@jbear4433]

That would make sense but the handlebars on the head are made out of tubes which means it’s from Revenge of the Cybermen. The two heads do look similar though.

[@Via_The_Void]

It's not a Cyberman head from The Invasion. The head is from Revenge of the Cybermen, as denoted by the four little tubes sticking out of it's forehead. BearEight is right about this.

[@spencerhjalseth7288]

Tobias Vaughn, the archetype for the evil genius in this episode

[@SkepticalChris]

5:44 the way Eccelston (doctor)'s smile just fades away during the second "fantastic" reveals in that very instant, the tables have turned and he realizes it, and written all over his face, is a testament to great acting.

[@jonathanskiner4405]

You know, Dalekcember is one of the best things you've ever done and it's amazing how you remain sane with so many episodes in such a short time. Can't wait for Cybanuary :)

[@Lumibear.]

“You Would Make A Good Dalek” - that’s the line that kills me in this episode, it says look at yourself Doctor, with that spittle of hate dripping down your chin, who are you to judge? It not only makes for a great scene, but invites everyone at home to consider, ‘Wait, are we on the wrong side?’

[@mayotango1317]

Years and years of experience on the evil of the Daleks?

[@HardCorePoration]

To me the Daleks were at their best in the new series during Eccleston's run, and that was mainly due to how the Doctor actually treated them. Whilst every Doctor after treats them as a joke, you can seriously buy from Eccleston's performance that the Daleks are a force to be reckoned with. Despite openly mocking them in front of the Emperor in Parting of the Ways, you can tell that was all an illusion from the scene afterwards, where he is resting his head in defeat against the TARDIS door, realising that he killed his own race almost for nothing.

[@DalekTheSupreme]

I partly agree, but I do feel Eleventh Doctor has a bit of that fear and hatred of the Daleks. He immediately goes into serious mode as soon as the first one appears and beats one up when no one else takes their menace seriously in Victory of the Daleks, and is shouting in fear when locked in a room with several Daleks without guns in Asylum of the Daleks.

[@elliotcrossan6290]

The Tenth Doctor treats them with just as much fear. See how terrified he is when Davros addresses the Subwave Network in The Stolen Earth

[@kiarash608]

The fact that this is Rob Shearman 's only TV story, is a sin. Please fix this oversight Chibs!

[@benw4409]

I think Shearman's the only writer to really, *really* get the Daleks. Chibnall actually did a decent job with Resolution IMO but Shearman is one of the best writers of the Daleks ever.

[@theknightsofawesomeness2701]

@@benw4409 outside of Terry Nation of course.

[@SoundsSarcastic234]

Don’t forget RTD :) .

[@mayotango1317]

@@SoundsSarcastic234 RTD only likes the Rose Tyler soap opera.

[@BH-98]

& David Whitaker

[@benw4409]

Honestly one of the best written and directed episodes of Doctor Who ever. And this isn't even Shearman's best work for the franchise (Jubilee or Chimes of Midnight to me)! Stubagful's summary of it in his best revival episodes made me appreciate the meta aspects of this episode a lot and made it even more genius than it already was.

[@WikiPeraX]

I often wonder about the world where Shearman not Moffat became showrunner. It’s probably one where we complain about how obtuse and clever-clever the storylines are, while we wonder what would have happened if the Blink guy became showrunner.

[@mayotango1317]

Both have the same problem: their stories are overcomplicated and terrifying. This episode is nothing compared to his work in Big Finish.

[@WikiPeraX]

@@mayotango1317 As I and my bank balance know too well.

[@JackChristmas]

OK, this might be a bit out of left field, but Dalek has possibly my favourite 'Next Time' trailer (that's the one for it, not the one for The Long Game). The way that trailer showed so much discussion and build up to the Dalek as a terrifying and powerful creature without actually naming or showing it until the very end of the 30 seconds was superb. It made me, as someone whose fandom started with NuSeries 1, excited to engage with such a huge part of the show's mythology. I still get a few goosebumps watching that today. Compare and contrast the Next Time trailer for Bad Wolf, which did the same thing of showing Daleks at the end, but that time it sucked because it spoiled their reappearance, which was an end of episode twist in Bad Wolf, unlike here where obviously the episode is literally called Dalek.

[@DalekTheSupreme]

Dalek is one of my top three Dalek stories with Genesis of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks. I think you truly touch on why, under Russell T Davies, the Daleks were handled better than under Steven Moffat. Despite what the Doctor says, the Daleks express clear emotion and are manipulative, truly conveying a sadistic intelligence as well as the power to kill. Only Victory of the Daleks under Moffat's run really felt like it treated the Daleks as cunning masterminds in addition to fascist death machines. After Series 5, the Daleks are just grunts with Davros or the Dalek Prime Minister occasionally barking out orders. As much as I enjoyed Moffat's tenure as showrunner (particularly the Eleventh Doctor's run), Resolution is the first Dalek story in nine years that has really portrayed the Daleks as intelligent thinking creatures as well as killing machines.

[@samuelbarber6177]

I love how this episode goes out of its way to rebut many of the points against the Daleks’ usefulness. A sink plunger, you say? That’s going to crush your face. Oh, you’re thinking of pulling up behind it? Well it’s just going to turn it’s Death Ray around. And you think you can taunt it because you can climb stairs (obviously you missed Remembrance?) Well, it’s just going to hover.

[@lancehall7020]

Dalekcember is currently my favorite show. Thank you for the work you've put into this!

[@gunnerdavidson7287]

I watch these every December! Thanks for making such great content!

[@SegaNintendoGuy64]

‘You would make a good Dalek!’ Dalek 2005.

[@joeconyers7288]

I loved this episode as a kid, i remember seeing the “next time” for it and being so excited

[@JamesBrophy]

Everyone I knew who wasn't a fan of who, took it seriously after Dalek. It really did change everything for the perception of the show across a generation.

[@Doctor699]

Watching this back in the day, a lot of it went over my head. But coming back to it now, i'd say through Eccleston's whole run were some of the best episodes ever made. And the performances he and the supporting cast put in, it just brought it so down to Earth. "You would make a good Dalek" after the Doctor's outburst is simply chilling. Making the Doctor flawed was awesome and made him the hero he needed to be, learning to rise above himself more than anything else.

[@jackryan8736]

To this day, this is still my favorite Dalek story, as it not only hits you in ways you still may not expect, even on a rewatch, but in a way it showed just how much the Daleks had broken the Doctor at this point, and just how much more alike in subtle ways The Doctor could be in regards to his hatred for the Daleks.

[@Xenon7567]

I just love hearing lines from the intro in these episodes for some reason, like THE DALEKS MUST SURVIVE! I love Dalekcember

[@royalewithcheese9291]

This is the first Dalek story I saw and it still holds up as one of, if not the best Dalek stories. Its such a shame that Rob Shearman never wrote another televised episode. Will be interesting to see what easter eggs he'll include in the upcoming Target novelisation.

[@mahfuzurchowdhury2765]

Ah still remember when you first reviewed this back so long ago. Your videos were some of the first "Who-tubing" I had ever watched.

[@christianpeterson1832]

My favorite episode from the 9th Doctor's era.

[@AdamJasper18]

My one nit-pick of this episode is something I noticed on my most recent viewing. Why is the Dalek taking the stairs when chasing Rose and Adam? The gap in the middle of the staircase is definitely big enough for the Dalek to move straight up.

[@naiario4814]

Amazing video, so excited for tomorrow’s!

[@ftumschk]

3:32 "outshone", not "outshined" ;) And that's the only minor criticism I can make about this otherwise splendid review.

[@spencerhjalseth7288]

This review is why i decided to watch Dr who. I watched all 26 seasons of classic to give this episode context. Balled my fuckin eyes out. Thankyou so much 😢😢😢😊

[@frazzlesreviews5379]

One of my personal favourite moments in this story is when the doctor is confronting the dalek for the last time and he drops the gun and says to Rose: oh Rose... they’re all dead. As if it has only just really hit him that the time lords are dead and there really is no coming back from that.

[@AlexAnteater]

I watched this episode when it aired and it was my first experience with a Dalek and I instantly love it. This episode did for me what The Daleks must of did for people who first watched it back in the 60s

[@FatSnorlax]

Dalek is just an incredible story. I can watch that reveal scene countless times. The way the Dalek is portrayed both as this unstoppable killing machine and as a living creature is just brilliant. As much as I love Stolen Earth and Journey’s End, this is certainly the better story.

[@MichaelHickerson]

This may be my favorite episode of the RTD era.

[@russelltietjen4407]

My favourite Doctor Who story of all time (and that includes Classic, NuWho and Big Finish)

[@DomoftheDoctor]

My first encounter with a Dalek, and still one of the best. Mad to think that they nearly had to put a different alien in as the enemies in the Time War. What other race could it really be?

[@KnightRaymund]

This was a great episode.

[@josephryan362]

I love daleks it is amazing

[@theshadowdirector]

The key component that causes ao many inter-Dalek conflicts is the ability/inability to process and acdept those genetic differences. While this Dalek commits suicide, you have those like Dalek Sec, Rusty, even the Emperor's human-made Daleks (albeit still filling with self-loathing). Considering Also worth noting that Davros appears to take a slightly mote flexible stance on genetic purity, particularly if it serves and benefits him. Also, love the Ninth Doctor's scathing description of him in this episode.

[@TGM_Productions]

Ah, yes. I can’t wait for Tomorrow!

[@jaydentroeger980]

Can I get the link for the Dalek mockery they’re funny

[@RiainRamblez]

Woah woah, is the TV Movie being covered???

[@IsaacWhittakerDakin]

The biggest question plaguing us all now is when will Rob Shearman write another Doctor Who episode?

[@rtex2020]

I appreciate your Dalekcember reviews, and I'm enjoying them. I watched Doctor Who as it came back, and I wasn't terribly happy with some of the changes they made to the show. At the time, I thought Christopher Eccleston was OK; I wasn't terribly happy on the focus on Rose and her issues, nor did I like the Doctor/Rose relationship that seemed to be developing. However, looking back at the series, I still don't like some of the changes they made, but I do think that Christopher Eccleston was terrific in his role as the Doctor, and I'm sorry that he left after only one season. Interesting how that the Daleks were what made the classical series popular, and (per your review), made a big change here in the new series as well.

[@Fragile_Media]

The 1st series of the nuwho really was perfect wasn't it?

[@mayotango1317]

No

[@HarbingerOfBattle]

I love the pov shot of the doctor when he says “I MADE it happen!” You get this nice distortion effect where for just a moment the doctor becomes as ugly as them.

[@eddherring3088]

One decent Dalek episode in Nu Who. Simple reason is when there's hundreds or thousands they are easy to kill. When one has to last the whole episode then it becomes an invincible killing machine.

[@brokentardis]

This is not life. This is sickness. Same, Dalek. Same.

[@declansargent7813]

Awesome Video :) hugs

[@JuniDebonaire]

I think its important to point out that the daleks elevate and can fly above stairs in the 7th doctor dalek episode. This bit of misinfo keeps on getting spread.

[@59rlmccormack]

Oh my god!

[@BooneBluemel]

Whose the guy at 2:25?

[@matthewbolitho-jones]

I like Dalek

[@gatts205]

Unpopular opinion I always liked the slitheen (in all their flatulent glory) I did actually like them :)

[@Ianlowrie-z6n]

Dalek is cool

[@Mark-nh2hs]

It made me laugh when NuWho fans beat on and on about how this is the first story when a Dalek overcame the stair issue..... Go watch Remembrance and it was solved on screen there and also flying Daleks was sort of poorly pulled off in the 6th Doctor story.

[@michaelgillespie9112]

You know I can't bring myself to hate the Dalek's, because they only do what they were designed to do. I can get angry at their actions, but can't truely hate the Dalek race itself.

[@DanniDerpy]

Just here to make sure jamesthebrony commented at least twice XD

[@dancingman1983]

The trouble is it gets ruined by other episodes. a few episodes later it's proved its not the last Dalek there's a general and a whole bunch of hybrids converting a space station into a whole bunch of popular tv shows.

[@davidbanan.]

257 and 258th

[@SegaNintendoGuy64]

I still like Jubilee over Dalek.

[@DarthAzabrush]

And so it began... I'm not opposed to the idea of a fourth Time War but they could have at least picked a foe that was actually a threat to Gallifrey. Daleks are a joke, barely a time faring species who the Time Lords could D Mat in about 2 minutes flat on a bad day.

[@DarthAzabrush]

@@DrWhoFanJ Easily refuted by the next 4 stories where the Daleks are totally unable to match even the humans for threat level and launch a series of increasingly desperate Bond villain schemes before being wiped out by the 7th Doctor. Extinct races 4 development levels below the Time Lords are not a threat to them.

[@DarthAzabrush]

@@DrWhoFanJ Only according to one CIA agent who is flat out proven wrong by how easily the Daleks are dispatched leading up to their extinction in Remembrance.

[@DarthAzabrush]

@@DrWhoFanJ As I said, Genesis is the only canon episode to imply the Daleks are any sort of a threat to the Higher species and it does it in such a way that its clear they're a threat to the lesser species and thus the task of monitoring the universe rather than a direct threat to Gallifrey itself.

[@DarthAzabrush]

@@DrWhoFanJ Not a lie, a legitimate evaluation of the text. The line is that the Daleks MAY pose a threat to the universe not that they DO pose a threat to the Time Lords. The first is acceptable the second is laughable.

[@DarthAzabrush]

@@DrWhoFanJ In the universe being the key phrase. Gallifrey is outside of the normal flow of space time and thus is not in the universe. Same with Mona, the Thrail Empire and Nekistan

[@samuelbarber6177]

By the way, the Daleks could climb stairs, even in the classic era. Don't believe me? Watch the cliffhanger to the first episode of Remembrance of the Daleks.

[@MrTARDIS]

I reviewed that story and pointed that out in the previous review.

[@Jedi_Spartan]

@@MrTARDIS also did Davros hover in the Revelation of the Daleks or did I just hear that from some unreliable source?

[@MrTARDIS]

@@Jedi_Spartan that is correct, though it was only in 1 shot.

[@rickyred001]

Rose's mum was so annoying in the new canon

[@mikewhiles4635]

Simply brilliant - it's just a shame to see the trash that now claims to be Dr Who. What a shame. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@MrTARDIS]

Oh....you're not gonna like my review of 'Resolution'...

[@mahfuzurchowdhury2765]

Ah still remember when you first reviewed this back so long ago. Your videos were some of the first "Who-tubing" I had ever watched.