The Doctor Who New Year’s Day special was meant to give Jodie Whittaker’s ‘historic’ first series the grand finale worthy of its status.
It did prove fairly fitting too, but for the wrong reasons, - epitomising what had gone with last year’s re-boot.
Even when show-runner Chris Chibnall (belatedly) resorted to a story about the Daleks, it was merely a pale imitation.
Historic: The Doctor Who New Year’s Day special was meant to give Jodie Whittaker’s ‘historic’ first series the grand finale worthy of its status
Exterminate: It did prove fairly fitting too, but for the wrong reasons, - epitomising what had gone with last year’s re-boot
You wouldn’t have thought it possible to mess up any episode with the Daleks, let alone a ‘special’, but Chibnall managed even this.
When you thought back to previous festive specials, vintage/different Daleks, Whittaker’s predecessors’ incarnations as the legendary Time Lord, or what Doctor Who used to be like in general... it was not as good.
Much of Doctor Who is demented scientific nonsense of course. But the thing that made the least sense in the New Year’s Day special was how/why Ryan, Yazz, or Bradley Walsh knew what Daleks were. Neither did the police officer who was told ‘you are an enemy of the Daleks!’ and replied: ‘how you spelling that?’
Didn’t any of them watch Doctor Who?
Enemy: Even when show-runner Chris Chibnall (belatedly) resorted to a story about the Daleks, it was merely a pale imitation
If the BBC and Chibnall are not careful, this could be an accurate prophecy of what the future looks like.
Most of the problems/mistakes that plagued the launch of the Chibnall-Whittaker re-boot had been obvious (as my review of Episode One predicted) and were still there.
It was cripplingly PC (‘not bad for a kid with dyspraxia right?!’), peppered with patronising CBeebies-style history lessons (‘so Iraq invented New Year’), and prone to gratuitous bits of politics (the Unified Intelligence Task Force had been suspended following funding withdrawal by the UK’s international partners’).
We were also subjected to endless speeches full of Positive messages and Life Lessons - about how to be a good dad or ‘fighting back.’
Above all it was Just Not Scary Enough.
Fear: But the thing that made the least sense in the New Year’s Day special was how/why Ryan, Yazz, or Bradley Walsh knew what Daleks were. Neither did the police officer who was told ‘you are an enemy of the Daleks!’ and replied: ‘how you spelling that?’
Written by Chibnall himself, ‘Resolution’ was feeble fare, like everything about the Whittaker/Chibnall era.
If one thing summed this all up, it was the Daleks - or rather, the Dalek.
‘Resolution’ featured only one Dalek, which being on its own, never seemed to pose a real threat to The Doctor or the people of Sheffield (where it had appeared) - let alone to the whole planet (as it announced, and then insisted repeatedly).
When the Recon Dalek droned ‘all humanity is my prisoner now!’ even The Doctor didn’t take it seriously, scoffing: ‘in your dreams mate!’
A single Dalek can be sinister enough of course, or original.
Different: It was cripplingly PC (‘not bad for a kid with dyspraxia right?!’), peppered with patronising CBeebies-style history lessons (‘so Iraq invented New Year’), and prone to gratuitous bits of politics
But whereas the creatures Rose Tyler, Oswin Oswald, or Matt Smith encountered were insane or dying or Super-Daleks, the ‘Recon Dalek’ here just wasn’t special.
Its voice for a start was, like the Transformer-style creatures in Chibnall’s very first episode, beyond clichéd – like a six year-old’s idea of what ‘scary’ sounded like, completely lacking imagination or sophistication.
The Dalek’s dialogue too was woefully limited.
‘You are my prisoner! You are my puppet! Nothing shall halt the mission!’
As for the horrendous rock music that accompanied the ‘exciting’ car chase, it was a blatant copy of the Jack Shoulder film ‘The Hidden’ and so bereft of any subtlety it was an insult to the Doctor Who series of the past.
Positive: We were also subjected to endless speeches full of Positive messages and Life Lessons - about how to be a good dad or ‘fighting back.’ Above all it was Just Not Scary Enough
‘Reconnaissance scouts have capabilities beyond the normal Dalek soldier!’ revealed The Doctor, which seemed a surprise given none of the previous Time Lords had mentioned it – and unlikely on the evidence of this one which was never impressive.
On the contrary, typically feebly, for the most part it resembled a ragged, rusty, tin can - the casing the ‘squid’ constituent of the Recon Dalek had cobbled together using bits of metal and spare parts of a farmer’s tractor.
It turns out Daleks are masters at metalwork.
But even when the ‘Recon’ was complete, the Chibnall-Whittaker axis still managed to suck the danger out of the Daleks – as they had been with the various other monsters and creatures through out the entire series.
‘So if it was there and we assume is now roaming around here should we be worried?’ asked Bradley Walsh.
‘Probably,’ The Doctor replied, although ‘Probably not’ was more a better answer, given the way this series had been.
Explosive: Written by Chibnall himself, ‘Resolution’ was feeble fare, like everything about the Whittaker/Chibnall era
Oh dear: If one thing summed this all up, it was the Daleks - or rather, the Dalek. ‘Resolution’ featured only one Dalek, which being on its own, never seemed to pose a real threat to The Doctor or the people of Sheffield
Despite the ‘squid’ wrapping itself around a female archaeologist, becoming her ‘pilot’ and using her as its mode of transport, Lynn managed to escape its clutches eventually – although how wasn’t very clear. She just shook it off apparently.
Then, when the Recon knocked up its casing, the Dalek’s famous lethal plunger again proved feeble and misfired.
Although the Reconaissance Daleks weren’t ‘especially advanced from the basic Daleks’ according to The Doctor, this one still let the Time Lord (somehow) talk to Lynn independently from her ‘pilot’ and distract the Dalek enough to re-boot the TARDIS’ systems.
It didn’t detect that The Doctor wasn’t human.
Beware: But even when the ‘Recon’ was complete, the Chibnall-Whittaker axis still managed to suck the danger out of the Daleks – as they had been with the various other monsters and creatures through out the entire series
The first part of The Doctor’s plan to defeat it was embarrassingly simple (like something from Rent-A-Ghost): simply running behind the Dalek, dodging its blasts, and pulling it about like a wheelie bin, then sticking a bomb on it.
In the end, The Doctor easily destroyed it by pulling a level to a trapdoor that sucked the Dalek out into the lethal heat of ‘a sun going supernova.’
But if the Dalek was feeble, The Doctor proved to be too.
‘How did it go? Did you get rid of it?’ Ryan asked when The Doctor returned from the show-down with the Dalek.
‘Not quite. Not at all. I slightly riled it and let it get away. And now it’s trying to summon the fleet.’
The Time Lord was too busy congratulating herself/itself on ‘my best skid ever’ to realise the Dalek had escaped being obliterated by The Doctor’s make shift bomb – and taken over the body of Ryan’s dad.
Drama: Although the Reconaissance Daleks weren’t ‘especially advanced from the basic Daleks’ according to The Doctor, this one still let the Time Lord (somehow) talk to Lynn independently from her ‘pilot’ and distract the Dalek enough to re-boot the TARDIS’ systems
Nice work Doc !
In contrast to Peter Capaldi, David Tennant, and even the cherubic Matt Smith, one of the problems with Jodie Whittaker is she is about as authoritative as a netball teacher.
This tends to make her threats to all the aliens/monsters The Doctor is up against (especially Daleks) rather hollow.
“I want you to see just how serious my face is right now!’ she told it.
Not very.
When she declared: ‘Get off this planet! This is now my final, final, FINAL warning - because I’m nice,’ she summed it up (the reason why her incarnation as The Doctor and this series doesn’t work).
It was terrific to finally have a woman playing the role but in the next series she really needed to MAN UP.
Fury: When she declared: ‘Get off this planet! This is now my final, final, FINAL warning - because I’m nice,’ she summed it up (the reason why her incarnation as The Doctor and this series doesn’t work)
Time Lord: It was terrific to finally have a woman playing the role but in the next series she really needed to MAN UP
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Main photo article The Doctor Who New Year’s Day special was meant to give Jodie Whittaker’s ‘historic’ first series the grand finale worthy of its status.
It did prove fairly fitting too, but for the wrong reasons, – epitomising what had gone with last year’s re-boot.
Even when show-runner Chris Chibnall (be...
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