This had to be the day to restart this blog, didn't it? I've been meaning to get on with it for ages. Sorry for the rather long delay to any faithful viewers. You newbies, in true time travel style, probably won't notice a thing!
"A dislike for the unlike."
This episode makes me tense. Our four travellers not only risk being caught by the Daleks, but then Ian can't get out of the Dalek casing. Great moments surround the lift shaft: the close-up of the Dalek shaking and moving as Ian says "I must escape"; the Daleks with real oxyacetaline torches burning through the metal door and firing upon the empty (phew!) Dalek shell which collapses deliciously; the clever lift cutaway which must have been complex back in the day and which is re-used to best effect when the Dalek fires at the wall next to Ian which blisters; the handy sculpture (Dalek art?) which plummets to great smoke and rubble trouble.
My favourite scene is as the Daleks await the arrival of the Thals. They half-hide in their doorways, guns twitching in anticipation.
I found it shocking and graphic and surprising when the Thals carry the body of Temmosus through their encampment; and then there's the awful realisation that the fluid link is still down in the city. No wonder I'm tense.
Next episode: The Expedition
