Classic Doctor Who 2x08 "The Chase" eps 3-4 full reaction
Added 2021-09-30 10:12:21 +0000 UTC"Understand? Of course I understand, my dear fellow. Don't fuss so. I am to infiltrate and kill. Infiltrate and kill."
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The Chase is an enjoyable, if at times rather silly, story arc. The stop-offs at various points in time are fun, though of course incidental to the overall plot of being pursued by the Daleks. They do play those scenes for all their worth, though. I like how the extras playing the tourists in New York take full advantage of their couple of minutes - the old woman with the feathered hat, the pushy obnoxious fat man, and even the sexy brunette, who you only glimpse from behind, distracting the tour guide. The cheekily named Morton Dill (from Alabama) is played by Peter Purves, and if you look closely you will recognize him again very soon, though thankfully without the faux Alabama accent. And yes, the Mary Celeste is a very famous maritime mystery, or at least it was to me and my like minded school mates in the 60s and 70s. Barbara’s expression when Ian tells her the ship’s name is priceless. As a history teacher with a love of sailing ships she would know exactly what that meant, and is probably feeling somewhat guilty thinking they’d led the Daleks to that ship - putting 2 and 2 together as to the consequences. As for the haunted house and the automaton Frankenstein’s Monster attacking the Daleks, it only really did that after being zapped by the Dalek, which leads me to think it’s programming likely got scrambled by the blast.
Lloyd B
2021-10-01 04:28:07 +0000 UTCIts fun enough this but its also fluffy and empty. Its really just one and a half episodes of filler, Doctor Who the comedy show, as its basically just a series of short sketches; The Empire State Building Routine, The Marie Celeste and Doctor Who meets the Universal Monsters. The actual plot, the Daleks in pursuit of the Doctor is merely used as a framing device for the sketches. In terms of main plot all that happens is Vicky becoming seperated and stowing away on the Dalek ship, the reveal of the Doctor duplicate and the TARDIS crew deciding to finally make their stand. About ten minutes of the whole. This is the first time we see Daleks creating a humanoid duplicate, it wont be the last as you saw in the 11th Doctor story Victory of the Daleks and the Bracewell robot. And you are right about Daleks having more individuality and personality in Classic Who. I think the slow change you are noticing towards the more modern version is just down to how their voices were done. They have the benefit of being distinct and instantly recognisable as a Dalek, but its difficult to have long extended conversations when they all have a simalar rather harsh on the ears grating voice. They tried to compensate for this it seems to me by giving them more individual personality, but it was still hard on the ears with long conversations, so over time they just reduced the amount of dialogue Daleks had to shorter more barked orders and chanting in unison, and reduced the interactions between individual Daleks, and in doing so lost much of the feel of individual personalities in the shells with it. Which I think is a shame as there is no reason Daleks should all be alike in personality. The extended media, Big Finish audio, the books and comics tend to keep the more original individual style of Dalek than the modern TV show does. But we do occasionally still get an individual Dalek with a unique personality in NuWHo, Dalek Caan in the 10th era and Rusty in 12's being examples.
BobBob
2021-09-30 17:27:38 +0000 UTC
