Day of Reckoning

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.

📝7/10 = SLIGHTLY ENJOYABLE!

Time Lording through time and space, one victory at a time! This time: showtime of the Daleks, part V!

The fifth and final episode of the Daleks! series sees the Daleks battle the Mechanoids on home soil. The animation allows for an epic battle between the two races, with countless Daleks and Mechanoids firing at each other while explosions destroy Skaro around them. While this is happening, the Dalek Strategist decides to play his own game and go against the Emperor, working with the Mechanoid leadership to send the Emperor back to the Dark Times. This leads to the next part of the storyline, told on the pages of Titan Comics.

Wow, this one was really cool. Daleks v Mechanoids on Skaro! What more could you ask for? Also: the Dalek Emperor is a total badass, and has fast become my favourite Dalek of them all.