Actively working against his Companions, including his own granddaughter, is one of the things I love about The Doctor in these early episodes, as it certainly gives the character, and the show, somewhere to go. The tension built across the first two episodes is masterful, with actual stakes and menacing suspense served well by being in black and white. We haven't reached the slower part of the story yet, nor have I seen The Daleks in Colour, but the first two parts of this are fantastic. Some of the elements in the third episode were iffy, but it remains markedly better than the final three episodes of the previous story. By the fourth episode, you start to feel the stretching to make this story seven parts, though I did like the discussion with Ian's semantics. Episodes five and six I feel are the weakest of the story, or at least the most padded. The burbling noise Elyon makes at the end of one episode as he's sucked into the whirlpool is a nice touch, and the fact that we're treated to it a second time at the beginning of the next is just fantastic. Well, that's the end of the Daleks. They'll never show up again, right? While a little padded, this was still a very enjoyable story - 4.5 stars.