Unfortunately, I don't feel part two of Blood of the Daleks quite lives up to part one. Part one, I feel, nicely set up a mystery, a new setting, and some ideas for a part two. I had kind of assumed were were dealing with Daleks posing as saviours only to turn out to be villains like in Victory of the Daleks, or maybe we were going to deal with Daleks wiping out lesser versions of themselves, like we've also seen in Victory or a few other episodes in the New Series.

Instead, Blood of the Daleks Part 2 is doing both of these things and much more. So not only are the Daleks false saviours, but they are also mutants created from humans like in the Parting of the Ways, and ALSO are powerful enough to stand up to the real Daleks and provoke a full blown civil conflict on the Red Rocket planet.

It's a pretty cool idea, but somehow, even with two very long parts to it, I don't think any of these ideas are given enough justice, or explored thoroughly enough to pay off. None of these plot elements are fully fleshed out, and instead we get a bit of each idea, all of which is pretty compelling, by the way, but not explored enough to really work. It becomes clear quite quickly to the humans the Daleks can't be trusted, the mutant Daleks have a pretty cool relationship with Hayley Atwell's character but I don't think we get enough of that (she's great though), and the civil strife ends in a bit of a muddled mess of a battle that was a little hard to follow in an audio-only format the way they went about it.

Finally, Lucie and the Eighth Doctor are both a bit of a problem here. On their own, they are fine and quite powerful performers. But writer Steve Lyons puts way too much animosity between these two characters for them to be enjoyable. I know this improves over time and reflects, to a degree, character development in progress, but it takes away from the mystery of Lucie's character writing her like this and it does no favours to Blood of the Daleks.

It sucks, too, because were it not for these faults, Blood of the Daleks could have been intensely amazing. There's a lot of great moments with the Doctor and the Daleks here, and the Red Rocket setting and situation, along with the idea of a Dalek civil war, all had so much potential. It feels wasted, all things considered.