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Review of Day of Reckoning by dema1020

10 November 2024

I don't really get it.  If the Mechanoids were just going to attack right away why did they let what they thought were the last two Daleks just leave back to Skaro?  It felt like forced writing just to have the final episode take place their.  It took me out of the story a bit and blunted the excitement for this final battle quite a bit.  Plus, the animation was just barely okay for something this big and ambitious.  It probably looks better than if they tried something like this in live-action, but only just barely so.  It doesn't feel that satisfying, nor does it seem that tied into the Time Lord Victorious stuff.  It is really just setting up another story just at the end and otherwise only kind of vaguely incorporating other ideas into this story.  So Daleks! doesn't really work on its own nor does it really work as part of something bigger, as far as I can tell.

There are advantages to being one or another, but doing either made me feel that this doesn't even seem thematically relevant and I just struggle to get excited about something like that when the story as it stands alone, isn't all that great to begin with at the end of the day.  The first episode looked promising but the rest of the series just doesn't quite live up to that, and I don't think I would recomment this thing, even if it had so much potential.  This is likely my favourite take on a Dalek Emperor and the Strategist and Executioner were also both top-tier.  I wish the story and animation could have led up to the potential of their designs and characters because those and the Mechanoids were pretty entertaining.  I found this ending very underwhelming in practice, though.

Review created on 10-11-24 , last edited on 10-11-24