DW: Episode 3.4

An exercise in futility thanks to a certain magazine.

Hey, look - Daleks! In Manhatten! Well, you can't say we didn't get what they told us they were giving us. Lots of impressive CGI shots of Manhatten (as opposed to the last time they visited America) and four Daleks to... bicker amoungst themselves and proclaim how wonderful the humans are. Eh? They make a big deal out of being the last of the Daleks, and see humanity as such a wonderful thing. I'm thinking someone is forgetting these are Daleks here!

(Although, interestingly, this could be where the human-based Daleks of Series 1 came from. We'll have to see who survives next week, of course, but this could be the birth of the Dalek Emperor Rose ass-kicks!)

Everyone loved the space pig of Aliens of London, didn't they? Well, I guess they did, because we get a whole episode of pigs. Erm, I'm thinking the "pig slaves" could have more economically have been created as something else. Robomen would be an obvious choice, but surely making the people think they were pigs would have been more efficient than actually making them into pigs.

At least we got a really bad dance number in this episode. Complete with a blond so stupid she couldn't work out what the audience realised half-an-hour earlier! ("Oh, no, she couldn't admit the truth to herself, and had to get Lazlo to confess so that she could finally accept it..." but not before earning extreme irritation points as the viewers scream out "it's obvious you stupid bint!")

Isn't it wonderful how everyone gets along in Hooverville. And so clean, just like the sewers. Gee, I don't in any way see them being used as an army against the Daleks. (With the fortunate side-effect of no-one caring, thus explaining why no-one complained about Daleks in 1930.)

And of course there's a big reveal of the hulek... the damen... the cyclops thing everyone's already seen thanks to the Radio Times!!! They really don't have a clue over there, do they? There are spoilers, and then there are promotions, and then there's giving away the fricking ending of the episode!! What's more... it just does look like a goofy make-up job!

This episode was all about set it. Problem is, they could just have played last week's trailer again, shown the Radio Times front cover, then skip straight to part two.

Next week: I think everyone saw that coming.