Sunday, April 22, 2007
The Daleks oink oink!
Episode four, Daleks in Manhattan, of the new Doctor Who series was pretty entertaining again albeit a little shallow in places. This time apparently they actually did some location shooting in New York (although I'm not sure where! It looks all CGI and a bit like Wales again).
The Doctor this time takes Martha back to 1930, New York, Manhattan, where the Great Depression has just set in and there are slums everywhere. Meanwhile the Doctor's oldest enemy is back again and they are creating some diabolical experiments involving pig people, humans with pig faces that they use for slavery and other experiments which are altogether more chilling.
If you can forgive the cheesey New Yoirk accents from the cast this is a mostly enjoyable episode and seeing the Daleks back again is hardly surprising but its always a pleasure to see them get some more primetime viewing. The end of the episode (without giving too much away) provided a pretty creepy transformation which I'm sure would probably have the wee ones scurrying behind the sittee providing a whole now reason to be scared of the daleks. Should be interesting to see what next week's episode has in stall.
The Doctor this time takes Martha back to 1930, New York, Manhattan, where the Great Depression has just set in and there are slums everywhere. Meanwhile the Doctor's oldest enemy is back again and they are creating some diabolical experiments involving pig people, humans with pig faces that they use for slavery and other experiments which are altogether more chilling.
If you can forgive the cheesey New Yoirk accents from the cast this is a mostly enjoyable episode and seeing the Daleks back again is hardly surprising but its always a pleasure to see them get some more primetime viewing. The end of the episode (without giving too much away) provided a pretty creepy transformation which I'm sure would probably have the wee ones scurrying behind the sittee providing a whole now reason to be scared of the daleks. Should be interesting to see what next week's episode has in stall.
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Yeah, it was pretty good fun, and again I think I'm enjoying this season more than last. Daleks in Manhatten certainly seems better than last year's execrable Cybermen two-parter.
As for the location shooting, I think it was just a small unit sent to get establishing shots and the like. I don't think any of the cast got to go. Still, nice to see the Doc somewhere other than the UK. Why should aliens only ever invade London? Why not Australia or Egypt or Nigeria or Russia... ?
As for the location shooting, I think it was just a small unit sent to get establishing shots and the like. I don't think any of the cast got to go. Still, nice to see the Doc somewhere other than the UK. Why should aliens only ever invade London? Why not Australia or Egypt or Nigeria or Russia... ?
According to an interview quote on Wikipedia David Tennant said "everyone else went to New York but I didn't!".
Yeah I agree about the change of location being a good thing (even though they were already in New New York the week before). Funnily enough I was just thinking the same thing today too, why can't Doctor Who be set in Russia? Perhaps next series eh?
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Yeah I agree about the change of location being a good thing (even though they were already in New New York the week before). Funnily enough I was just thinking the same thing today too, why can't Doctor Who be set in Russia? Perhaps next series eh?
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