Eve of the Daleks

The best Dalek story of the 13th doctors era, and a wonderful new take on a time loop story. ordinarily a time loop just makes the characters within the loop overpowered, they have infinite tries, anyone could beat a couple of Daleks if they had 7 billion goes, but this constricting timeloop, closing like a noose giving them precious few retries whilst the Daleks can also use the knowledge of the previous loop, now that is a far more interesting story to me. we get a slightly new Dalek design with the gatling gun, still not a fan of the claw, but the gun as a one off "if we just try shooting more maybe we'll actually hit her for once?" is fun, also leads to some instances of the Daleks clearly not being used to the weapon allowing for some fun gags, such as Nick ducking so they shoot each other, or Dan running around one of them. speaking of Dan, he stepped up to give the shippers what they wanted and earned himself the title of the biggest thasmin supporter. i also appreciated the gag of Nick making a pun and the Dalek just wordlessly shoots him in response, its funny how giving someone a few extra lives can make a death serve a gag. resolution of the episode is alright, nice bit of redirection, still not sure why karl the crane operator was here but i guess he got to see some nice fireworks?

In retrospect its funny this episode is about the tardis being repaired, 3 episodes before its changed but what can you do lol.

Really, really fun! A solid energy to it, it's got an infectious vibe that I find hard to resist and it's a great use of the Daleks, which long by this point, were maybe feeling a little bit stale. Big fan.