Doctor Who (TV Series) Destiny of the Daleks: Episode Two (1979) User Reviews

Seek, locate, Exterminate. You get the idea....

[Sleepin_Dragon · 6/10 · 25 September 2015]

I think you can see funds were possibly tight, the Daleks look so bad, I never want to see them looking pristine, but they look very dirty, scratched and battered. The main problem here with them is some of their dialogue is really bad, 'seek and locate, exterminate,' would they really say that? they have become so repetitive and dare I say a bit dull, their behaviour seems at odds with how it was in Genesis.

The Dalek control room looks rather good, I love the sound you always get with the Daleks too. I'm glad they've stuck with that after all these years.

I always love seeing Tim Barlow (Tyssan,) he is such an interesting actor, with a truly interesting face, so charismatic. His performance is made all the more impressive by him losing the best part of his hearing in the 50's.

One of the most irritating lines in the show's history, when Tom climbs up the shaft and shouts 'if you're supposed to be the superior race of the universe, why don't you try climbing after us?' Now I class Tom as my favourite Classic Doctor, but that line was just terrible.

I don't understand the bit about the Daleks not knowing about the shaft leading to the bottom level, why wouldn't they know of its existence? They live there, it makes no sense.

Part 2 is a fairly strong continuation in terms of story, I don't necessarily think they knew what they were doing with the Daleks, they're a little bit dim, a bit underused, somehow they aren't menacing. it is great to see Davros again though.

Part 2 6/10

The Perpetual Pensioner...

[Xstal · 8/10 · 13 July 2022]

The Daleks burrow down like desperate moles, looking for a creator, who initially made them whole, but the Doctor beats them to it, finds immortal dormant cruet, who starts to wake, removes the brake, from his cockpit.

Dalek episodes are always good, but this one had some issues.

[mluinstra · 5/10 · 29 May 2024]

Greetings from the other side. I love Doctor Who, at least up until Jodie, and this Gatwa person is just brutal to watch. Anyways, there were some issues I had with this episode.

The big issue was the dialog for the Daleks. They typically repeat a word once, maybe twice, but here they went crazy at times. One line was, "Don't move, Don't move, Don't move, Don't move, Don't move, or you will be punished". That is just terrible to hear, and they do this in other places as well.

The is a scene where the doctor and others are in the Dalek control room, when a lookout comes in saying that Daleks are coming, so the doctor says to hide. One of the scariest, most brutal creatures in the universe is coming, and these people very slowly find a hiding place. They were so casual about it, that I laughed out loud. Then to top it off, when two Daleks roll by, the Doctor and company start running (in the direction the Daleks came from) and for some stupid reason, the Doctor yells out "Come on, let's go! (or something to that effect). Obviously, the Daleks hear this, and turn around to chase after them. If this isn't bad enough, the Doctor and company enter a ventilation hatch, and the Doctor says something like, "If you're the most technologically superior race, then why don't you climb in her after us?"

Another scene was a Dalek ordered two others to go search an area that had tresspassers, and they reply "We obey". A bit later, the Dalek beep the Dalek in charge, and when he asks what do they have to report, they reply something like "We are in sector 7 and starting our search for the trespassers". They two Daleks were ordered to seach sector 7 already, so why bother to inform the main Dalek that they were about to start searching? Not very efficient if you ask me.

Another stupid thing, was when the Doctor first arrived on the planet. They exit the Tardis and he mentions something about this planet appears to have quakes frequently. The Tardis re-materialized just inside a cave, so you would think that he would move it, just in case. However, he doesn't, and there is a quake later, and it gets buried. He is suppose to be super clever, so how did he not consider this? I'm sure everyone clued in as soon as he talked about frequent quakes, but not him. Lazy writing.

I suppose that is the main problem I had with this episode, which is Lazy Writing! There was just too many obvious issues, and I don't understand how nobody noticed any of these glaring problems.

Anyways, it's still a fun episode. It's Doctor Who and the Daleks, so what's not to like? Hehe.