#victory of the daleks

[notyoujamie]

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #cwedit #doctor who #classic who #modern who #my gif #** #*dw #seventh doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #the happiness patrol #the age of steel #victory of the daleks #the doctor's wife #death in heaven

[thefiresofpompeii]

sleeper is so fucking heartbreaking. not even the sex jokes balance it out. the ‘murderous alien desperately wants to be human/believes they’re a human until they discover that they’re not and haven’t been for a long time’ trope has been done like 7 times in doctor who but it gets me EVERY TIME!!!

the scientist from victory of the daleks. dalek oswin. cyber-bill. auton rory. sleeper beth… and, in a way, john smith, ruth, and professor yana. they just want to be human. they just want to be able to love. they just want to help… tragedy in its purest form. the universe had other plans

#sleeper #torchwood #torchwood lb #doctor who #dw #bill potts #rory williams #victory of the daleks #oswin oswald #asylum of the daleks #world enough and time #human nature #professor yana #jamie.txt #doctor who meta #jamie catches up #torchwood meta

[huntressofartemis001]

i have a history exam tomorrow on the world war two but i dont need to study bc i know everything about the london blitz (a nazi bomb fell in a church and kickstarted a romantic night for an angel and a demon) (a little kid was looking for his mummy while a blonde girl and an immortal dude met a 51st century guy for the first time) (an exterminator alien race took over and tried to control london while becoming ‘pure’ again)

#good omens #1941 #good omens 1941 #are you my mummy? #the empty child #doctor who #forgot the name for the dalek episode in s5 #victory of the daleks #(<- someone said it in the notes. thanks) #captain jack harkness #ninth doctor #eleventh doctor #aziraphale #crowley #rose tyler #fucking daleks #me watching doctor who

[badxwolf]

My favourite thing about the Paradigm Dalek reveal is that the white one comes out first so you could be thinking “Oh, have they redesigned them to look more like the classic series? That’s neat!” and then the blue one comes out next and you think “I guess they had blue bits on them as well…?” and then the orange one comes out and you realize that you are in a lawless land and have just watched the commercial for the New 5-Piece Collectible Dalek Toy Set Available Now!!!

#to be clear this isn’t paradigm dalek hate i think they are very silly and i enjoy that #doctor who #dalek #victory of the daleks #paradigm daleks

[dumblesbiansworld]

That one scene in Doctor Who where this guy turns out to be a robotic bomb made by the Daleks and then the Doctor searches for reasons that him human rather than a machine so he wouldnt explode.

And the Doctor starts to try to make him feel suffering by encouraging to talk his dead parents and his grief attached to that and it clearly makes him sad and he suffers and he cries but the warning lamps are still becoming red and the bomb is still about to explode and the Doctor has no clue what to do. And I think the Doctor even says sth like "Suffering is what makes people human" before.

But then Amy steps in when almost all warning lamps are on and she just asks him: "Have you ever loved someone that you know you shouldnt, but you do?" and he says yes and talks about the woman he admires. He still cries, but he also genuinely smiles.

And thats when the warning lamps disappear one by one.

Because its not suffering that makes us human.

Its love. Hurt is just naturally attached to it.

#i dont know how to explain this plot cuz come on its 'doctor who' #but i did really love that scene #doctor who bbc #doctor who #amy pond #11th doctor #eleventh doctor #victory of the daleks

[justahumblememefarmer]

Ultimate Doctor Who Poll Round 1 - Matchup 2

Episode Summaries under the cut

110: Fear Her - Season 2, Episode 11: The Doctor and Rose land in 2012 in time for the Olympic games, but find a neighborhood where children are disappearing. They discover they are being trapped in drawings by a child possessed by an alien that craves love and family and hates being alone. She starts to take more and more people, including the Doctor, an Olympic stadium, and eventually begins working on the entire world. Knowing that the aliens ship is powered by heat and love, she throws it into the Olympic torch, which allows the alien to escape back to the stars and release all the people trapped in drawings.

147: Victory of the Daleks - Season 5, Episode 3: After receiving a call from Winston Churchill, the Doctor takes Amy to London during the London Blitz of World War II. A scientist working for Churchill has claimed to invent war machines he calls "Ironsides" that the Doctor recognizes to be Daleks. He tries to convince Churchill, Amy, and the scientist that the Daleks are evil, but it turns out to be a trap by the Daleks. Their mission is to activate a device that contains pure Dalek DNA to revitalize the Dalek race. Being mutant Daleks they were unable to activate the device, so they tricked the Doctor into confirming that they were Daleks. They confirm that the scientist is actually an android created by them. The Doctor allows the Daleks to escape after being forced to diffuse a bomb hidden in the android. He and Amy leave, but the Doctor knows that the Dalek empire is now being rebuilt.

#doctor who #ultimate doctor who poll #my post #polls #10th doctor #rose tyler #11th doctor #amy pond #david tennant #billie piper #matt smith #karen gillan #fear her #victory of the daleks

[billdecker]

Doctor Who Rewatch | Victory of the Daleks

#doctor who #nuwho #victory of the daleks #the doctor #eleventh doctor #11th doctor #matt smith #amy pond #amelia pond #karen gillan #tv #i made a thing #dwedit #mine: dw #flashing gif warning

[thematrix-theuniverseofdoctorwho]

“Doctor Who - Victory Of The Daleks”

#doctor who #victory of the daleks

[angry-pole]

Doctor Who - S5xE3 - (Victory of the Daleks) ~ Original Air Date: April 17, 2010

#Doctor Who #DWEdit #Victory of the Daleks #Eleventh Doctor #Winston Churchill #New Who #Matt Smith #Ian McNeice

[nortism]

doctor who liveblog pt 26

s5 ep2 the beast below

- i miss the old opening credits i won’t lie

- i do not believe the uk will still be together by the 29th century

- since when did the doctor not get involved in the places he’s visiting? you are a liar!!

- i knew it

- scotland getting their own ship sounds about right

- uh oh they’re going to hell

- she’s the queen?!

- yayay star whale

- fucking winston churchill

- uh oh there’s a crack

s5 ep3 victory of the daleks

- quite excited for another wwii episode though it will be impossible to beat the masterpiece that is the empty child/ the doctor dances

- oh they are trying to team up with the daleks uh oh

- this is going to be interesting considered the ways in which the daleks have previously been used as nazi allegories

- not the dalek with the union jack

- they gotta stop cutting the dalek pov, it really takes away the seriousness from a scene

- that’s a big ass spanner

- this has gotta be the lamest fight scene i’ve ever seen

- wow who could have seen that coming

- i could go for a jammy dodger

- wow daleks in new exciting colours

- “master race” they’re really leaning into the nazi allegory

- uh oh dalek civil war

- cracks again

- that was alright but it mostly made me wanna rewatch the empty child

#norton’s liveblogs doctor who #doctor who #doctor who liveblog #doctor who s5 #doctor who series 5 #dw #new who #11th doctor #eleventh doctor #amy pond #the beast below #victory of the daleks

[emilyjzero]

Today I got reminded of the Power Rangers colored Daleks and I still don't know why they're colored like this.

#doctor who #victory of the daleks

[notyoujamie]

It's a noble, honourable tradition to come back to Doctor Who.

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #doctor who #modern who #my gif #** #*dw #mark gatiss #the lazarus experiment #victory of the daleks #the wedding of river song #twice upon a time

[thefiresofpompeii]

imagine being amy pond. you’ve just identified unconditional kindness as one of the standout traits of this autistic superhero of a childhood imaginary friend who came to whisk you away the night before your wedding and then suddenly he’s bashing a helpful serving robot with a wrench flying into a rage screaming yelling at it calling it a creature of pure hate and malice with no conscience or mercy begging prime minister winston churchill to ‘exterminate’ it . all you know is that this friendly little metal guy is capable of destroying the nazis once and for all and ending the second world war. it’s also offering you a cuppa. meanwhile your pet time traveler is going fucking berserk at the very idea of its existence. just batshit insane, threatening it, talking of doom and devastation. which one of these people are you more likely to start believing is the volatile unstable one

#it’s a funny scene but it’s also really really not #jamie catches up #victory of the daleks #dw #jamie.txt

[variousqueerthings]

okay I didn't go into Victory of the Daleks whilst watching cos I think it's trash, but let's do the Measurement on it!

sexism rank objectification (female character is ogled/harassed/turned into a sex joke by the doctor and/or a lead we’re supposed to root for and/or the camera): 9/10

sexism rank plot-point (lead female character is only there to serve plot, not to have her emotional interiority explored): 3/10

interesting complex or pointlessly complex (does the complexity serve the narrative or does it just serve to be confusing as a stand-in for smart, this includes visually): 6/10

furthers character and/or lore and/or plot development (broader question that ties into the previous ones, at least two of these, ideally three should be fulfilled): 5/10

companion matters (the companion doesn’t always have to be there, but if the companion is there, can they function without the doctor– and overall per season how often is the companion the focus or POV of the story): 5/10

the doctor is more than just “godlike” (examines the doctor’s flaws and limitations, doesn’t solve a plot by having it revolve entirely around the doctor’s existence): 6/10

doesn’t look down on previous doctor who (by erasing or mocking its importance, by redoing and “bettering” previous beloved plotpoints or characters, etc.): 7/10

isn’t trying to insert hamfisted sexiness (m*ffat famously talked a lot about how dw should be sexier multiple times, he sucks at writing it): 8/10

internal world has consistency (characters have backgrounds, feel rooted in a place with other people, generally feel like they have Lives): 3/10

Politics (how conservative is the story): 1/10

FULL RATING: 53/100 (if I can count….)

Christopher Eccleston I hope you never watched the last two episodes, in which the Doctor was personal friends with various members of the royal family and supports its structures, and the Doctor is personal friends with Winston Churchill....

also I've gotta be honest, Matt Smith's acting isn't giving it in this in terms of the Dalek Trauma, but then none of the episode is

I liked the Doctor going "Amy- Amelia!" when worried for her safety

OBJECTIFICATION: At least there's none of that really. Second miniskirt, but youknow. that's Amy's wardrobe most of the time.

PLOT-POINT: nothing is really explored about Amy in this episode, but I guess not every episode needs to be doing that. I think her relationship with the Doctor continues to be written a bit to the left of what makes sense for them, considering the past, but I'm willing to consider that she just wants the adventure and not to think too much about things

COMPLEXITY: I mean, it's not complicated at all. if anything it's a bit simple. bringing the Daleks back like this, in a way that previously was reserved for Very Special Episodes. marks the beginning of the end of the Daleks as serious villains....

CHARACTERS/LORE/PLOT: because the Daleks make very little sense in this, it's kind of dumb lore, but way more interesting is the tidbit that Amy doesn't remember the events of previous seasons

now I've previously disliked this plotpoint, because I feel like it never properly gets resolved despite the cracks in time later on being... uncracked. however it is cool when it's first mentioned!

COMPANIONS MATTER: Amy does mostly one thing, which is remind the guy who's actually a robot what it is to be human, so he doesn't blow up, and she does it by reminding him... that he was in love once.....

“hey Paisley… ever fancied someone you know you shouldn’t… hurts doesn’t it… but kind of a good hurt…” <- look I’m biased but I’d just explode if I were a secret Dalek bomb RIP to all of us aros, but we're not really human

this wouldn't needle so much, if I didn't know that this is so much of M*ffat's thesis. romantic love is better than any other forms of connection

“GODLIKE” DOCTOR: the Doctor is kind of the point of this episode in that they needed his voice to make the plot work, and then he's badass, and then it ends. it's not "godlike," but it's just. not a good episode. the end.

PREVIOUS DOCTOR WHO: So this also ties into the lore -- I kind of like right now how it definitely does acknowledge the previous narratives and it's weird that Amy doesn't know that it happened... highly suspect

“SEXINESS”: we're fine on the sexiness overall. minimum trying to be sexy outside of the general weirdness of the miniskirts as a Choice

INTERNAL WORLD: it's not good folks. it's trying to be so big and impressive and so we've got random planes in space and Churchill is Personal Friends With The Doctor and it's got this whole wink wink we know we're going to beat the Germans, because we know the Future

vs, say, M*ffat's last foray into WWII (which, granted he didn't write this episode, but this is his show now) in which you really got a sense of the fear and the unknown and the Deeply Human, because we're not just hanging out with the Most important people

it's just not recognisable as a Place and Time, beyond the need for some kind of coolness factor

and speaking of The Most Important People--

POLITICS: uuuuuuurghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh okay

I have seen someone say that this episode is actually a critique of Churchill, and honestly I was this close to skipping it, and then that dragged me in to actually give it a go and

no it is not. I mean, yes, Churchill is characterised as someone who will try to win however he can, but he's actually trying his best in a difficult situation and as the Doctor says: “the world doesn’t need me. The world’s got Winston Spencer Churchill.”

UUUUUUURGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OKAY

the doctor personal friends with winston churchill

the fucking. Hey-Ho Britain Propaganda! We'll Beat The Bally Germans Ey Lads!

FULL RATING: 53/100 (if I can count….)

It loses on the politics of course, and on the internal world-building (again related to the politics), and Amy isn't really much of anything in this episode beyond... there

it does well on... not doing the sexy sexism I guess. and it's not terrible towards other Doctor Who stories, although maybe it deserves less on that because fuuuck the shit it does with the Daleks is an insult in and of itself

it's just not a good episode

#victory of the daleks #im watching dw #im watching elevens who #the measurement

[livepoultryfreshkilled]

i like that when the daleks were restored they were fun colors

#aries.doc #dw #doctor who #victory of the daleks

[cleowho]

“You are inferior.”

Victory of the Daleks - series 05 - 2010

#doctor who #eleventh doctor #matt smith #victory of the daleks