Doctor Who/Recap/S21/E04 Resurrection of the Daleks: Difference between revisions

On the TARDIS, however, the Doctor and our companions are [[Doctor Who/Recap/S21 E3/E03 Frontios|right where we left them]], busy shaking around and clinging to the TARDIS as the Doctor exposits that they're being dragged along a time corridor for some reason. He doesn't know where they're going, but it turns out that the TARDIS lands on the exact same street that the massacre just occurred on. But that's certainly never going to be significant.

Meandering around the streets of London, the Doctor and companions run into that lone survivor: a terrified, stuttering man named Stein. Since the Doctor is totally caring for the man's situation, the Doctor immediately recruits Stein into helping his party search for the right warehouse which has the time corridor in it. However, before they can go much further, the Doctor and crew stumble across a bomb disposal squad. As it turns out, they've been called in to dispose of several things that are supposedly unexploded bombs, despite looking like naff props from a 1980s science fiction show. Turlough, for his part, stumbles into the time corridor - winding up on the alien ship.<ref>To his credit, he decides to hide rather than be captured in seconds.</ref> The rest of the crew are updated soon enough, however, as the time corridor activates again... revealing a Dalek! Good golly gosh, it certainly would be fantastic to have a companion who [[Doctor Who/Recap/S20 E6/E06 The Kings Demons|is a robot, probably couldn't die easily and can generally be awesome]], wouldn't it? Keeping his cool, the Doctor orders the ''(magically fully-armed)'' bomb squad to shoot wildly at the Dalek before getting miffed at nothing actually happening and... [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|throws the Dalek out a third-story window instead]]. Yeah.

Back on Earth, however, a massive battle is going on between the Daleks and Davros' Army. The Doctor, back on Earth, figures out those 'bombs' are really giant capsules holding more samples of the virus. and sets them off, killing all the Daleks off instantly. Lytton, for his part, escapes and puts on a cop's uniform - wandering off into the sunset, [[Doctor Who/Recap/S22 E1/E01 Attack of the Cybermen|to...somewhere.]]

Back on the space prison, Davros himself begins to escape until he also begins to spray shaving cream from his wheelchair - [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|he too is vulnerable to the virus]]. Stein activates the self-destruct with his dying breath - taking out the remaining Daleks and pretty much tying up the plot in a neat little bow.

Finally, due to the 1984 Olympics, this serial was presented in ''two'' parts rather than the typical four - with episodes 1/2 and 3/4 being joined into episodes nearly an hour in length. This format would be reused for Season 22. <ref>Although it is ''not'' true that the decision to have season 22's episodes at 45 minutes was a result of the success of this story - the decision had already been taken when this episode needed to be re-edited.</ref>

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=== Tropes ===

* [[Distressed Dude in Distress]]: The Doctor, once again.

** [[Writer Onon Board]]: A possible explanation for the above. With the exception of [[Doctor Who/Recap/S19 E4/E04 The Visitation|The Visitation]], Eric Saward's serials always have [[Does Not Like Guns|the Doctor]] using a gun to fight the villains.

* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]: {{spoiler|Davros is apparently killed by the Movellan virus, and his body blasted to oblivion when the space station self-destructs. This was intended to kill off Davros permanently, but Terry Nation kicked up a stink, and so he got better for the next story.}}

* [[Kick the Son of Aa Bitch]]: On the one hand, it's Davros. On the other hand - serious [[Moral Dissonance]]. {{spoiler|Oh, and Davros ''talks'' [[Hannibal Lecture|his way out of it]]}}

{{quote| '''Davros:''' ''You hesitate Doctor. If I were you, I would be dead.''<br />

'''The Doctor:''' ''I lack your practice, Davros.''<br />