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Full Length - Doctor Who | 8x2 "Into the Dalek" (Patreon)

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2023-01-31 22:49:03
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2023-02

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tom

Teachers, soldiers and Daleks. Like you said after a finale, multiple specials, and a big premiere, this episode feels like the first one in a while that can be held to a standard of representative normalcy for what this era will bring. I like it! It had always been a bit of a forgettable one for me, just another Dalek episode, and while I don't think the Dalek presence is used nearly as well as episodes like "Dalek", "Parting of the Ways", it contains a lot more than I remember. As for its representation of this era, I like the small quirky touches for the classroom stuff with the non-chronological writing/editing. The interactions between Clara and Danny feel very cute and quirky, and it feels very realistic in how there isn't this big narrative set up for them meeting - they're just introduced to each other in a shared setting and go from there. I'm also a fan of how, like you said, it's refreshingly new compared to a third installment in the Mickey Rory trilogy. Also, the consistency in Clara encouraging him to ask her out is a nice following-on from her asking the Doctor to ask her if she wants to travel with him again in the morning. You can feel that the character traits are a lot more fleshed out, and there's effort put into tying it to the glimpses of the traits from Series 7 that the writing decided to keep in this more clarified and three-dimensional version of Clara. ROT-13 spoilers for 8x4 V qvqa'g ernyvmr hagvy abj gung gur aba-puebabybtvpny rqvgvat jvgu Pynen naq Qnaal nyfb unccrarq guvf rcvfbqr, naq abg whfg va "Yvfgra". Gung'f ernyyl pbby! Vg'f n phgr cnenyyry. Guvf rc vf sebz Qnaal'f CBI ernyvmvat ubj ur shpxrq hc naq Yvfgra vf sebz Pynen'f CBI ernyvmvat ubj fur shpxrq hc. Now for the Doctor. It's more interesting than I'd remembered. It takes a different approach to last episode, but is still infused from every angle with thematic introspection, woven into this idea of morality and soldiers. If last episode explored the concept of the veil and how it can one day be lifted, this episode delves into what's left once the veil is gone. When you've been wearing a mask for so long, can you still recognize your own face? Can you still *identify* with your own face? Those are the sort of feelings and questions this episode makes me think about regarding the Doctor as he tries to find himself in this episode. Although Vastra in the premiere insists that wearing the veil constitutes no shame, but rather judgement, I think there is an element of shame to it, simply because of how shameless Twelve is. Him lying to the dying man without hesitation and not trying to hide that is emblematic of this. A previous Doctor might've either not lied so coldly, OR he would have continued the lie and kept it to himself out of guilt and not wanting to be confronted with others' judgement. But this Doctor has nothing to prove to other people, so he immediately explains his actions once hiding them no longer serves a purpose, indifferent to the moral consequences. He's a lot more solitary, but at the same time perhaps needing Clara more than ever. It's an interesting situation. ROT-13 Series 9 spoiler. Guvf vf ernyyl rzcunfvmrq va "Yvfgra" (frpbaq gvzr V'ir nyyhqrq gb gung rcvfbqr va guvf, unun. Vg'f fb tbbq). Guvf Qbpgbe'f bofrffvba fgrjvat va uvf gvzr nybar va uvf GNEQVF ernyyl znxrf uvz fb zhpu zber vagrerfgvat guna uvf cerqrprffbef. Naq bs pbhefr jr'yy riraghnyyl trg gb jung vf va zl bcvavba gur orfg rcvfbqr bs gur fubj, jura gur Qbpgbe, pbairavragyl gur fnzr bar, vf sbeprq gb or nybar naq jr frr jung gung zvaqfcnpr vf yvxr. Got a couple issues with the episode, of course. Clara slapping the Doctor feels unearned and a bit much. I do love Clara for all her faults, but Moffat's obsession with having female characters be 'fiery' by attacking male characters gets on my nerves a little. It's not off-limits, and there are situations in the show where it makes sense to me for a character to do that, but Moffat is very trigger happy with it. Another issue I have is the framing of the Dalek. It's odd how they keep referring to the possibility of it being "good" as though its current words and actions, if genuine, are accepted as a foregone conclusion for goodness. Rusty the Dalek is still raving about genocide, it's just targeted at Daleks instead of every other lifeforms. So it always sticks out to me that the point is supposedly that this Dalek is super "moral". The birth of a star is a nice impetus for it, but I would've liked more specificity on the nature of morality and ideas he developed.