Resurrection of the Daleks is spectacular
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- A review of the first Dalek TV story to air in the 1980s. This episode is an epic with lots of elements that make for an exciting and action-packed Dalek classic.
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The scale of this episode really is perfect for Tegan and her exit. The death toll really helps us understand the emotional factors of her leaving. I find the best companions are written to question the doctor, and Tegan successfully did this by leaving the doctor.
It’s not an episode, it’s a story compromised of 4 episodes.
one thing I love about the story is that it's a downer ending for a companion departure, with Tegan leaving not because she's off to forge her own life inspired by the Doctor, not that she's found love or wants to help or save parts of the universe, but the fact that she can't take the Doctor's life that has been steeped in death ever since she joined the Tardis crew, from her Aunt Vanessa, to Adric and the whopping body count witnessed in "Resurrection" alone (76 if you're the viewer, which trumps "The Terminator" which had only 48) and she openly states "it's stopped being fun Doctor", and she leaves on a sad note and wishes she got a proper goodbye stating "oh Doctor I will miss you", before the credits roll.
I love those Dalek troopers. I really wanted to see more of them; those uniforms are really evocative.
This is my favorite Doctor Who episode. I love how dark it was, how the story was, Davros being crazy, the Doctor and Davros together and almost killing Davros, that opening, the beginning of the Dalek Civil War, the first time mentioning the eye piece, and especially that ending. I will always love this story forever and it's a masterpiece to me
It’s not an episode, it’s a story comprised of 4 episodes.
So I was 8 when this aired, and was glued to it. The most memorable bit being the dalek creature hunt. I remember being repulsed by the gas wounds. Their 'explosions' were good, revealing dead creatures, unlike the hollow, vacant 'pops' or generated visuals we seem to get in modern Who. The story does need to be concentrated on for sure, but the budget was used to the max here.
All of the 80s Dalek stories are brilliant! Does anyone else feel a great sense of irony when they read that quote from Gary Russell where he says that Eric Saward doesn't understand drama. This coming from the guy who wrote some of the most contrived Doctor Who I've ever read.
I remember this story to this day as one of the best but also darker Dalek stories I ever watched when I was young. Brought the video tape from the Dr. Who Experience in Llangollen, Wales years ago when it was still open (Now replaced by flats) and I watched it when I was on holiday in the hotel I was staying at in the lounge. Half the hotel came to watch it with me!
Resurrection holds a special place in my heart for it being the first classic who story I saw, remember watching it on christmas day before the end of time part 1 aired
I love this story. The 1984 setting in the abandoned roads/warehouses, the superb Davros performance, the twist involving the Dalek Agent, and Peter Davison's Doctor shines. Excellent stuff.
The plot of 'Resurrection of the Daleks' may have its faults, such as having too many Dalek schemes happening at once, but I still find there's a lot to be enjoyed in this story. The suspense and bleak tone of the adventure works really well, and there are lots of great action scenes. It's not perfect, but I do think it's better than a lot of people say it is. 😎
I love everything about this Dalek story, The Daleks are not only my favourite Doctor Who villian, but my favourite villian of all sci-fi, 2nd would be the Cybermen, 3rd The Borg. But in my opinion there are 2 things that would have made it better, first would have been to see some battle action from the black Dalek supreme, 2nd what really lets it down is the lack of CGI effects.
It's great. I love "Resurrection of the Daleks." It's got lots of scheming and plots going on. Lots of Dalek action. The beginning of the Dalek Civil War. It's all good stuff! There's a very good guest cast, some interesting locations, and some good moody incidentals as well. It was a good dramatic end point for Tegan to leave on.
one of my faves love the darkness of it and tegan's departure really hits home .
Best incidental music, true menace, full on battles. Always be one of my fave stories, along wirh Evil and Genesis.
The Dalek shootout lives long in my childhood memory. Royce Mills also the best voice after Hawkings/Skelton.
I rewatched this the other week and WOW I had forgotten quite what this episode is like.
It is absolutely jam packed from the opening moments, and doesn't slow down for an hour and a half, incredibly dark, and most notably is a 20 Xanatos Car Pileup of - depending how you count it - six factions, 7-9 plans/goals, 3.5 of them all by the Dalek Supreme, who hilariously recognises the plans all completely fucked by the 3/4 mark, and just decides to unceremoniously cut losses and kill everyone (only he does so whilst STILL SCHEMING) and honestly things probably would have worked out perfectly well, or at least a hell of a lot better, if he had just run his schemes in sequence rather than trying to do them all at the same time while on limited resources.
This one warehouse has more separate fights in it than Revenge of the Sith has lightsabre duels, more than half of them all in sequence as different groups transmat in to backstab the ones who just backstabbed the previous group that transmatted in.
It's all kind of glorious.
I mean we legit lost track of who was shooting who at one point in that bloody warehouse!
I'm also 70 percent sure the special effects guys lost track and started using trooper gun sound effects and no overlay when it was supposed to be daleks killing people
It’s not an episode it’s a story, comprised of 4 episodes.
@@tombaker8417 Good lord really? I *wondered* why it kept cutting away from the story to show Peter Davison's face flying through space - I *did* wonder how that fit into the plot, but assumed maybe it was forshadowing for something that would happen in a later episode.
I really like this episode and Malcolm Clarke does a fantastic music score especially Tegan's theme as we heard later in The Twin Dilemma, the end scene in which Tegan leaves is brilliantly acted as she says goodbye to the Doctor and Turlough before saying as she watches the TARDIS go "Braveheart Tegan, Doctor I will miss you".
Eric Saward wrote the story brilliantly.
It was actually the first time that I saw the Daleks(I would later catch the Peter Cushing films). I later bought the VHS release of this story. I have always liked it, like you mentioned there's probably a lot of story(a bit too much) to actually fit in - but it still manages it very well. There's excellent characterisation : the Doctor and Davros, Lytton, Stein, Styles, the army crew. I love the use of the derelict and drab Docklands landscape - and those creepy policemen. It does showcase Saward's writing very well - what with a bleak tone. It's a story that does use the Daleks well - as they are primarily about bringing death and destruction - and you really see as a credible threat(especially after "Destiny of the Daleks"). There's also Tegan's very dramatic exit - which is a little unusual for the show - but it's well acted and fitting given what had happened in the story. It began a run of decent Dalek stories in the 1980s, as I think both Revelation and Remembrance are also very strong tales.
I like it. I will say you’re spot on about the convoluted plot. It does take a bit to figure out what’s going on. Also Tegan’s departure at the end stands out as well.
Overall Resurrection of the Daleks is 50/50 for me even though I still do enjoy it yes, but the only thing that I didn't like was the companion departure because this Dalek story was the first time that I had gotten experience with the departure of the Doctor's companion and that is Tegan and this could have happened in a different story even though that I am a dalek fan.
This story gets the Daleks absolutely right. Even in their most desperate hour, defeated and dispersed, they still are plotting to defeat the Movellans, the Earth and the Time Lords. Ambitious, cunning and ruthless as ever.
hmm not sure I agree on the dalek gun FX as they look like they were done on Microsoft paint and half the time when they hit a target it's just a white glow rather then the negative effect. Also the human characters guns have no beams at all and look like their playing laser tag. I feel this story REALLY needs a new FX remaster like Day of the daleks
But not the voices, the Dalek voices are just beautiful
@dalekexterminae oh yes I have no issues with the dalek voices in this story. I remember one Guy making a video years ago were he added new effects to clips from this dalek story which was brilliant but he also felt the unnecessary need to add extra filters on to the Daleks voices which spoilt it
Wait... So there were 3 Dalek voice actors in Rememberance? Mad.
Brain Miller’s daleks can be a little stilted sometimes, but when he hits that sweet spot, he it. Him & Royce made a good Dalek duo.
Wish they had multiple voices in the sequel series to complement Nick Briggs (plus it helps convey daleks aren’t just clones).
_Resurrection_ is an odd one. As a kid I loved it, as a cynical ‘wow factor’-obsessed teen I disliked its ‘cheapness’ . . . As (I hope), a more discerning adult I simply adore it. Even that grim London dockside with its derelict warehouses in whose shadows the Daleks wait and lurk is superb, and the idea of a Dalek mutant scuttling around the abandoned crates and rags and stray cats is absolutely inspired. I also love the idea that a Dalek mutant can inflict a venomous bite or sting, maybe even with some kind of mind-control chemical (I remember thinking that’s where they were going with that later on when they left that attacked solider alone with Professor Laird but as far as I remember it didn’t pan out) . . .
This episode has the best dalek designs dont @ me
Agreed, the color scheme here is unparalleled.
@@nexus95 they are better then every other gray Daleks
The Day-Genesis are too simplistic
The Destiny ones are too light
The Renegades are too blue
The resurrection ones are just right
They look cheap
You know how the Daleks could've won here? In my opinion, they should've conducted their plans sequentially rather than concurrently. That said, it's a great story and the acting by everyone is top notch.
It's a shame it wasn't longer
"First appearance of a Black Dalek since the 1960s" - there was one in 1973, albeit with a gold dome.
@@josgibbons6777 aye the Black and Gold Supreme from Planet of the Daleks is often considered a different class of Dalek than the more standard Black Daleks
my biggest gripe has always been davros brain washing device, if he had that why didn't he use it in genesis of the daleks, to guarantee the scientist would be loyal and on his daleks in the first place
Maybe he didn't have it at that point? Maybe he created some time between Destiny and Resurrection. He was supposed to stand trial after Destiny so perhaps this occurred around this time before he was frozen again on the Space Station.
This makes me want to re watch the story. The ominous tone and high death count. Everyone but The Doctor, Tegan, Turlough, Lyton, and one of his fellows, and ultimately Davros are killed.
Loved this story very dark for 80's who, c'mon character options give us a dalek trooper figure 3pack.
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I must admit I actually prefer it over Revelation of the Daleks. Revelation of the Daleks was good but the dalek voices in that story really let it down for me.
Go the figure set of this story and it was the departure of Tegan
I like Resurrection of the Daleks
It’s not one that I usually chose as a favourite episode overall, even when restricted to Classic show only, but I’d be a fool to say that it is not a top tier Dalek story.
I knew the Doctor could not kill Davros evil as Davros, is the Doctor cannot kill in cold blood.
Interesting that the same people voiced the Daleks in both Resurrection and Remembrance. The voices are really good in Remembrance, but I think they are quite poor (relatively speaking) in Resurrection. The worst bit is when a Dalek on the space station tells two people to stop, they simply stand still, and it says 'Exterminate'.
a higher death count than the Terminator?! impossible it has to be
Love the three ‘80s Dalek serials.
REVELATION is my favourite, because of its ghoulish nature, and Davros was very well written.
RESURRECTION introduced Commander Lytton - whom was thankfully allowed to survive the ensuing carnage and appear in a sequel (ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN).
REMEMBRANCE was good, but ruined by the rubbish incidental music, all-videotape production and the little schoolgirl.
Overrated story. Messy plot. Only good thing about it is Davros, the visuals and the grittiness of it. But the 'plot' lets it down
Isn't the plot pretty much Earthshock recycled?
@@pertuk um much different
@@dalekexterminae both feature human traitors, both have Cyborgs the Doctor has fought many times before on the verge of extinction, the guarding of a concealed weapon and someone sacrificing themselves to blow the cyborgs up
I enjoy this episode but in full honesty, I think it’s kinda stinkyyy… idk it’s like I said with Chib’s stories, good ideas don’t make a good story overall for me and sadly I think resurrection drops the ball with the story pretty damn hard. It has great scenes in a vacuum, Molloy’s performance is so good that I didn’t even realise he’d been recast when I first saw this. But barely any of them connect, each plot point seems to be fighting for the spotlight and they never compliment each other. This story just doesn’t really have a meaning, plot wise or thematically, but it’s a fun ride regardless.
I still can’t take the humanoid Dalek Troopers seriously because of their helmets. The rest of their outfit is okay. But seriously, Dalek-helmets? What were the costume designers thinking!?
It was a weak story. Davros pointlessly dragged in for the ride again and..... Why did one of the Daleks have their heads not placed on properly. Amateurish stuff
Eh, i like Destiny of the Daleks better