Resolution

No more Christmas specials, this is a new years episode.

A lone dalek invades Earth in the past and is defeated beings buried in 3 parts across the globe until the part in England is found and it is reformed.

Two plots, Ryan's dad returns and gives Ryan and Graham character progression. While that happens a dalek is being built out of scraps, it's obviously defeated. We also discover UNIT doesn't exist anymore, because the government sucks and didn't provide enough funds which makes sense seeing as many UNIT HQs have been destroyed.

This was probably one of my favorite dalek episodes, I adore the idea of a dalek taking over someone's body and the build up to the reveal was perfect. It was also really cool to see a dalek being resourceful and trying to survive, rebuilding it's casing with it's old parts and whatever it can find. This was just such an interesting idea to explore and overall this was a very fun one to watch.

I feel that Resolution has a really strong concept behind it and I love the design, effects and cinematography. However, the story is really let down for me by what feels like increadibly clunky dialogue. There are also a few pacing issues in my opinion. Overall, it is by no means terrible, but I would be extremely hesitant to call it good.

Pretty epic. Love the episode's  snazzy Dalek redesign, the extra weaponry and just how cunning the recon scout Dalek is. Its new abilities are amazing too; I was genuinely horrified when it took over Lynn - much better than the Moffat era Dalek puppets.

And then when you thought the Dalek had been defeated with the microwave (what would typically be the RTD era Dalek solution) but the Kaled mutant had actually taken over Aaron Sinclair's body - possibly one of the best fake resolutions in any Doctor Who episode ever.

Chibnall wrote a belter of a Dalek story here.

It’s actually properly really good, but I have several really low hanging criticisms, which unfortunately is a theme for the Chibnall era. Mainly, I think the way UNIT was written out is frustrating, the wi-fi cutaway is extremely cringe and I get secondhand embarrassment watching it, and I also think this episode reinforces the black absent father stereotype.