Excellent episode, very well done, excellent acting job all around…
yes, even the Dalek was a good actor
I never thought i’d see the day i actually began to feel sorry for a Dalek, but they characterized “One of One” quite well, starting off as the classic “one track mind” “Exterrminate, Ex-ter-mi-NATE!” Dalek, then evolving into a lifeform actually questioning it’s place in the universe and what it’s purpose really was, and ending on a truly sad note…
i actually felt sorry for the little Toaster-Oven…
this one’s a 10 out of 10, i’ll enjoy watching the replay at Midnight…
Nice to see they finally addressed the “get away from it by climbing a flight of stairs” issue.
I gots me a question about this series. Is it supposed to be a continuation of the previous Doctor Who mythos, a “re-imagining” of some sort or what? What’s the continuity of the previous incarnations of The Doctor?
Though there aren’t that many references to original-series continuity, this is considered a continuation of the original rather than a reboot or reimagining. Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor is styled by the BBC as being the Ninth (Paul McGann’s Doctor from the Fox movie being the Eighth).
I just watched the show, I was a little disappointed. Little things like “The Dalek just downlaoded the internet” and its gaining emotions and sitting in sunshine.
I liked this the least of the new series so far. But on the positive side my 6 year old exclaimed “Oh No” when it looked like Rose would be exterminated. So I guess the show worked for its real audience better than a me.
Adding a new companion should be interesting. I await future episodes.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one feeling sorry for the poor little Dalek. My husband was making fun of me.
I thought it was one of the better episodes. I had to laugh when the Doctor said that the Dalek had downloaded the Internet. We both were like “Hey, do you think he finally got the Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe? Or he figured out how to forward email so Bill Gates’ll send him a million dollars?”.
The new companion strikes me as a bit of a weenie, but we’ll see if I like him better next week.
It was cool that they made Daleks scary again. I can see why What Exit thought it was a little too much, but I think they needed to show how a Dalek could go from 0 to Extreme Badass in nothing flat. It also wouldn’t make much sense that they destroyed the Time Lords if they weren’t pretty amazingly powerful.
What I didn’t like was the character of the collector. Total stock character, nothing interesting in the way he was written or performed. He was just a nuisance, and it annoyed me that the Doctor had to put up with him, even briefly.
Can I ask, what did you think of the US characters’ accents? I remember wincing at some of the “American” accents, and I’m English. Particularly the woman playing the bad guy’s assistant. Did you even get that she was supposed to be American?
She was pretty bad - honestly, I was guessing that the guy who played Van Staten actually is American, while the woman was British pulling off a bad American accent.
Is Eccleston really only the ninth regeneration? I was under the impression (from my Doctor Who-crazed husband, who’s a HUGE fan and got me hooked on this series) that he’s the 11th regeneration, and David Tennant’s Doctor is the 12th, with the “Evil Doctor” regeneration imminent.
Anyhow, it’s strange how suspension of belief works. I had no trouble with an alien with a Northern accent who travels through space and time in a blue police box. But I winced at the notion that you can draw enough power through a computer terminal to bring down the power grid of half the country. I kept thinking, surely there’s a breaker somewhere? I know, it’s a silly nitpick.
One thing I was curious about:why did the Dalek need cells specifically from someone (Rose) who had traveled in time, in order to regenerate it’s injuries?
I thought it was a decent episode. I didn’t like the collector character much…too flat…too one sided. I liked the idea of him…evil overlord type who collects alien artifacts, but they could have done him better. I thought the woman assistant who took over was a pretty good, maybe we’ll see her again. I did not know she was supposed to be doing an American accent. I thought she was supposed to be foreign, but not British.
I’m hoping the new companion is an asset. I always liked the episodes in the past where there was more than one companion. I’m also hoping that more of the upcoming episodes will take place on other planets and in other times than modern Earth.
Huh. I thought she was doing the generic English (i.e. not British) used in international relations. It doesn’t really peg you as being from anywhere.
I’m not really sure what an “American accent” is supposed to sound like, though. “It’s like the people on the telly.”… which is the aforementioned generic English, usually… not an accent.
Who knows what kind of power lines are laid to the super-secret underground lair of the owner of the internet…
:dubious: I’m 38 and I consider myself the shows “real” audience. The network puts it on at 9pm so I don’t think they believe that 6 year olds are the real audience either.
I’ve had a passing familiarity with the show over the years (over the decades, actually). But obviously I’m no expert: I had no idea the Daleks were biological entities inside machines. I thought they were entirely cybernetic.
