Its such a shame that Time of the Daleks features an incredibly interesting idea for exploration but completely wastes it. There's a fantastic commentary on the power and subjectivity of art with the notion of Shakespeare, forgotten by most the world, having his works decontextualised and their powerful language utilised as political rhetoric and propaganda by a totalitarian leader. Unfortunately, the story as a whole is unengaging and it wastes its potential on Dalek shenanigans. The Daleks feel completely unthreatening, despite the fun novelty of them quoting Shakespeare. This would have been so much better if it either ejected the Daleks, or made their role simpler, so as to focus much more on the themes of art and language and their abuse by those in power.

Unfortunately, despite game performances, I also failed to feel invested in any of the supporting characters or their motivations, and their decisions didn't always make sense.

Whilst by no means terrible this is still an unengaging story made worse by having so much potential. As it is it's difficult to tease out much that I enjoyed. I'll also add that whilst I'm aware that this is part of a wider Dalek arc, I don't feel knowledge of the other stories would have improved my feelings towards this one.