Review: Doctor Who New Season 5 Episodes 1, 2 and 3

Five years ago, when Doctor Who franchise was rebooted with nice CGI and Christopher Eccleston, most of the fans were delighted to see it again. Now, with the season 5, there are questions about Doctor Who franchise. For example, why new sonic screwdriver? Why does interior of the TARDIS look like inside a fairytale dream or acid trip? Why does the time vortex look like hell? And the most of all, why the hell new Daleks? Let's find out, for this is The First Three Of New Season Five of Doctor Who.

Episode 1: The Eleventh Hour
Your standard action episode. The Doctor crash lands in some girl's backyard, then looks for food - and yeah, he actually makes that joke: "You're Scottish. Fry something". Then, after a montage of him spitting out various foods, he eats fish fingers with custard - just look at the picture on the right.

Then, after few other jokes ("I'm the Doctor. I'm worse than anybody's aunt"), he jumps into the TARDIS and runs to the future, but instead of five minutes, he travels ten years. HA!
Hey! It's a Doctor Lame episode!Of course, before he leaves, he seals the crack between dimensions, and be ready for those cracks, because that's the arc for this season. In the meantime, some alien eyeballs want their prisoner zero back or they'll destroy the world. So, using the plot device called "multiform", the alien transforms himself into people who are in coma, and apparently, also what they're dreaming about, and thus when the alien takes over Doctor's new companion Amy, he makes her dream about the alien's real shape - and that brings the eyeballs to the earth.
Well, at least he had balls to call them after they left. "I'm the Doctor. (...) Basically, run" was the tagline of this episode - and boy, it was accurate.
NEXT EPISODE!

Episode 2: The Beast Below

It just begs for that joke...

This one's kinda more Doctor Who than the previous one. We get Starship UK, creepy bad-ass clown robots, and... glasses filled with water on the floor... OK, this might be just something to do with general weirdness of the starship. So before TARDIS lands on the Starship UK, we see a boy who got bad marks in school, thrown out of an elevator into the pink hell. Interesting. Then, the Doctor and Amy have a chat with boy's girlfriend/sister/it wasn't explained, and then there is some plot of polling stations that make you forget stuff, Elizabeth the Tenth, or, as she likes to call herself, Liz 10 - and she kicks ASS!, and some creature called "Star Whale" - because we need some plot devices.
People call this episode "a dark fairy tale". I kinda agree with this one, because it surely is dark, and follows most of the fairy tale principles. This episode is OK, but not as good as many episodes from the same writer.
Next...(!)


Episode 3: Victory of the Daleks
Now this is the big one. The shit-stopper. The rage-inducer. The most failed episode of New Doctor Who ever. I'm of course talking about the humiliation to one of the most intimidating Doctor Who villains. Are you ready?

Yup, that's it. Daleks got repainted. From traditional black, gold and dark-red, they went primary. And whenever there's something new, people want to buy it, and thus, new Daleks will scare you with high prices in the toy shops nationwide. You almost want to EXTERMINATE the writer. Overall, the episode isn't that bad, but the plot is kinda odd and hard to follow. This is that kind of episode you watch because you want entertainment. But the rainbow Daleks... unforgivable.
See also: More on Rainbow Daleks


This concludes the reviews of three first episodes of new Doctor Who - Season 5. See you next time in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull review.


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