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TARDIS Guide

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Released

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Written by

John Dorney

Directed by

Ken Bentley

Runtime

28 minutes

Time Travel

Unclear

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Gallifrey

Synopsis

A crash in the vortex leads the Doctor to the source of all his troubles, and to the Daleks. The answers are here. If he can live long enough to find them.

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The culmination to a surreal genre-hopping epic spanning two entire releases comprising 8 parts in total and it was... underwhelming. I wouldn't say it was bad, but nothing involving the Daleks could realistically live up to the strangeness and novelty of these two anthologies.

I like the resolution, I'm just not that fond of the explanation for these events. Not that there could even be a better explanation, this is probably the one that makes the most logical sense and yet I can't say I was as wowed by it as I was the rest of these anthologies.

The Daleks undoing themselves and foiling their own plan was very in line with Daleks though, very much enjoyed that. While I can't give this particular part of the story too high a rating I can safely say that Shadow of the Daleks as a whole is a 5-star story. You get so much range and diversity from both the cast and the plot itself, it's just really good fun and one of the few Dalek stories that I can say is genuinely outstanding (probably because they didn't really appear until the last part!)


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