Effect and Cause

This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: Castle Hydra

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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