Victory of the Daleks.

Behold! A new Dalek paradigm. - Last of the Daleks # 1,349

What the fuck is this?!

Okay, the first 17 minutes are at the pace a good episode should be, not too much going on but it sets the scene nicely. Also the Ironsides, or Daleks to you and me are at their best, conniving and scheming silently, harking back to the days of Power of the Daleks, deception being their main role here. key element to the story was the Doctors unrestrained rage of the Daleks "YOU. ARE. MY. ENEMY. And I am yours. You are everything I despise", bringing back the fury the Ninth Doctor brought to the table and taking it that step further, it's no wonder the Daleks fear him. I'd fear anyone with a spanner that big.

Alas the biggest mistake with this one is making it a single episode. You cannot do a story with this much in it in such a limited time scale. After The Doctor's testimony is accepted Gatiss rushes to jam in as much as he can. Laser firing space faring spitfires anyone? What the fuck are you smoking Gatiss?! This said I've never been a fan of his work, League of Gentlemen being a second rate comedy and The Unquiet Dead and The Lazarus Experiment both floundering at the bottom end of their respected series. This time he's been handed a British icon, and if you were sick of the Daleks before, you'll be vomiting buckets now.

The Newly redesigned Daleks are an abomination to the god-given gift of sight and show in no uncertain terms the vastness of the mistakes you can make on a bad LSD trip. The new Daleks come fresh from fucking a bag of skittles and are shamelessly ready for a merchandising explosion. Indeed you too can have your very own Dalek, complete in yellow, orange, red, blue or white. Confidential's comments remind me of the design inspiration called on for the Sixth Doctor's costume. which is essentially he would marry a Hawaiian shirt if he could, so everyone else must love them. In the case of the new big-ass (and yes, they do have bulbous bottoms) Daleks, both Gatiss and Moffat quite like the 60's film Daleks (which ironically are considered an abomination to the continuity of the series)and so deduce that these things are a fitting successor to their vastly more visually appeasing predecessors. One thing that really gets me is the new Daleks are supposed to have real eyes in the socket. I'm sorry but did it look remotely like an eye? More like a bell-end with a pen torch jammed down it.

Revolting remakes aside, the story offers very little substance and merely acts to establish Gatiss has sinned against nature yet again and set up the Daleks for the series finale. Come on, we all know it's happening. The only good bit of the episode was the establishment the events of The Stolen Earth have been erased from Amy's memory, which is full of promise but given this they'll likely cock it up. The Daleks reveal they created their 'creator' was a nice touch, I was expecting some psychic shit. The Jammy dodger bit was good I suppose, but once again the Daleks prove they bring out the worst writing in anyone, with clichés and plot-holes aplenty, this is easily the weakest fare we've been given for the series so far.