Review of The Deadly Ally by MrColdStream
16 October 2024
This review contains spoilers
📝6/10 = MIDDLING!
Time Lording through time and space, one victory at a time! This time: showtime of the Daleks, part IV!
Part 4 sees the Daleks and the Mechanoids join forces against the Entity. The Dalek Emperor and the Mechanoid Queen assess the situation while the Mechanoids gather their forces, and we finally hear the Entity address the Daleks. The Strategist keeps playing his own game. There’s a bit more tension and action present in this episode, but it doesn’t do much in terms of narrative development.
The Emperor is finally feeling some heat as the Mechanoids decide to give him over to the Entity, only for the Strategist to banish it back to its own reality, after which the Mechanoids declare war on the Daleks.
It's a pity the Entity remains so ambiguous and is never properly seen or encountered in this series, as it seems to be the strongest link this series has to the wider Time Lord Victorious event.