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Overview

First aired

Friday, January 1, 2021

Written by

Chris Chibnall

Directed by

Lee Haven Jones

Runtime

71 minutes

Time Travel

Present

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Companions meeting, Earth Invasion, Prison Planet

Inventory (Potential Spoilers!)

Squareness gun

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Earth, England, Japan, London, Space

UK Viewers

6.36 million

Appreciation Index

79

Synopsis

As the Thirteenth Doctor marks her days in prison, back on Earth the Daleks are presented on national television. They are the new Defence Drones, designed to protect the British public.

Left behind on Earth, Yaz, Graham and Ryan need their friend more than ever. Now with Daleks on the assembly line, and a familiar face behind their production... What would the Doctor do?

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Overall enjoyed this special but felt like time could have been spent better. For instance, I don't need ten minutes of explanation up top about how the Dalek casing was resurrected. That time could have been better spent with Ryan and Graham seeing as its their last episode. Also maybe give Yaz more time to process why The Doctor leaving her behind affected her so much!

I'm pointing these things out because the rest of the special is fun. For once, Chibnall comes up with a solution to fighting the big bad that is both clever and not completely out of left field.

Also Captain Jack telling The Doctor how Gwen is doing and that he's going to spend time with her on earth now made me grin like a madman.


zachbot3000

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Revolution of the Daleks

Too much happens in this episode, it's still a good episode though.

Thirteen is in jail after what happened in Timeless children the previous year. We see some cool monsters from the past like a silence. Jail doesn't last long as Captain Jack just breaks her out.

"The fam" are on there own, the TARDIS they stole, disguised as a house is where Yaz is spending her time after Thirteen was arrested.

Daleks are being produced by the dozen as Defence drones to protect Britain. This fails because they're daleks and want to kill the human race. Pure daleks appear and the guy from Arachnids in the UK wants to help them for some reason.

"The fam" breaks up, Ryan and Graham leave Yaz and the Doctor leave at the end  to have real lives.

 


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how does every single episode with a huge plot like this feel so stupid. Like i cant even express how flat everything about this is. The daleks were actually a high point of the episode BUT everything else just brought it down. I dont even feel like jack being here really added much of anything to the episode at all. Spyfall was so good but evidently those will be the only 2 episodes chibnall can write that will get a positive response out of me. Also I don't get why this one was titled a "festive special" but there was nothing festive about it. No new years or christmas or anything. Honestly the only positive of this beyond the daleks is Jodie's acting which really carries it after the awesome reveal of the timeless child (that also, somehow, had to take place between really stupid annoying boring plot!) as far as series 12 goes I'd dare to say the only actually consistently good aspects are the doctor (would be concerning if not) and the master (why did he get barely anytime at all here... Like he seriously got the least screentime in 1 season I've seen from any incarnation of the master who got a place in any seasons overall plot). Sure the companions are nice. I'm a little sad to see Ryan and Graham go. But 3 companions is so bloated and evidently chibnall couldn't handle it. He can barely handle writing one character, the main one everyone watches the show for! Insane they brought back some dude from series 11 here who I did not remember at all, looked up, and realized hes from one of the most god awful episodes I've sat through. The fact I have stuck with the show through all of this has proved I have genuine brainrot from not getting over the absolute peak of moffats era. Every new episode is a disappointment (except spyfall, that was genuinely good). Why even bother to show yazmin having feelings for the doctor when she's the companion who got the least characterization. Like she literally does not have any character traits that I can name of beyond the fact she has family and apparently struggled with being bullied. And she's a cop (YAWN). It's really impressive how Chibnall can show how little he truly cares about writing this show, or is the production team behind him just truly incompetent. I honestly think it's a mix of both. The timeless child was absolutely genius on paper but that might've been a stroke of luck from him that he even was capable of thinking of that (I could've thought of it too though if i was in that studio immediately after i finished playing xenogears). I'm honestly just flabbergasted this show has been allowed to be this terrible for 2 straight seasons and they let chibnall on for a third one. Genuinely BBC I have beef with you and you need to get your s**t together I literally volunteer to get in there and fix everything because you need help.


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Another good Dalek story. I really liked how this episode handheld the 'loss' of the Doctor, and the effects on the companions, as well as Graham and Ryan's exit.


whitestar1993

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Captain Jack, yay! That american guy again, boo! The Silence, the Ood, the Weeping Angels and the Sycorax getting cameos, yay!


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DALEK: Daleks are not pets of the Doctor!

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A long time ago... (2019) far, far away... (Cheltenham)

[Government Communications Headquarters]

(A Dalek descends through a hole it has blown in the roof.- see Resolution)

DALEK: Exterminate! The Doctor must be destroyed!

(The TARDIS and her crew are there.)


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