I can't believe they missed out on the golden opportunity to force the re-built Dalek into using an actual sink plunger as its arm. ;)

Stuart, thank you for mentioning the Scrap Dalek being able to fly and shoot rockets. That was the moment I was shaking my head, because it was too much for me to take. That standoff idea you had would have been so brilliant; to see a Dalek act like an animal backed into a corner. Imagine the tension! Oh well...

No matter your opinion of the episode, the Daleks killed someone. For the first time in 4 years. That's an improvement

This is what my mate from Canada said about it. I take no credit for it "Seriously that was super cheesy. I don't understand criticising a story like Planet of the Daleks when you got this past the drawing board. I don't even use that word often to describe media because it's a little lame and disingenous, but yeah. The whole business with the guy and his dad. And the dad clearly should have died at the end, I mean come on, what was the Doctor even thinking?I love the fact that hand holding somehow kept him from being sucked into a black hole or whatever that shit was. yeah, it was totally throw away and a "blink and you'll miss it" moment" (guy mentioning doing dirty things to his bf) Seriusly guys, if you liked this episode just cause the Dalek killed people, i suggest you look back cause i think Chibnall has made you drop your standards to the underground

That stupid no internet cutaway became an in joke between me and some friends. Someone simply says “suppose we’ll have to have a conversation” and the rest of the group screams “A WHAT!?!?”

I still remember my reaction when the rockets came out of the casing..."ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!"

Atleast the Dalek actually killed people for a change. Unlike almost all of Moffats Dalek stories.

This should have been called: 'Resolution Of The Daleks!'

Flaws aside this was one of the funnest episodes this series.

What annoyed me about this episode was that it's established that UNIT is dismantled so why didn't we see the Dalek go a UNIT warehouse where items were being sold to other governments to cover costs. It was also shown that the Dalek could interact with the TARDIS meaning we could get a cool scene where the Dalek uses non-Dalek tech to rebuild itself, then just as the Doctor arrives the Dalek disables the TARDIS forcing the Doctor to have to use Bessie that was being kept in storage to chase the Dalek down. Also when they said 'the first Dalek to leave Skaro' why didn't we have a scene where this Dalek still thought it was fighting the Thals and had never heard of the Doctor, that would of shaken things up and not of made the second half feels like a redo of 'Dalek', it was bad enough that the first half felt like Chris had watched the trailer for 'Venom' and decided that's what he wanted to do whilst giving the Dalek a bunch of unnecessary extra abilities.

I wrote this episode when I was 8.

The beginning of the episode was Justice League

I really liked this one. The Dalek kicked ass, it felt cinematic and whilst it took a while to get going the second half was wonderful. Chibnall actually did something new with the Daleks and that was impressive.

Two words really stood out for me on the second viewing of this one. Pace and Tone

This was almost my favourite episode of the season. The story with Ryan's Dad could have been executed better, but the Dalek stuff was so fun I didn't care. Briggs evil performance, the body hijacking, and the junk casing, and throwing the damn thing into the sun was a blast! The impression I got is that the Dalek stole multiple alien artefacts from the vault to rebuild itself, so it was a mixture of scrap and alien tech (like how the Doctor did with her screwdriver). So I didn't have an issue with it rebuilding too quickly or the rockets and stuff.

6:35 The director dropped a bit of a bollock there. It's supposed to be New Year's Day and there are no Christmas decorations or cards to be seen; not even a box of chocolates.

Will you do some more: 'Big Finish,' reviews, please?

Ryan impression on point

The couple at the start were more interesting in five minutes than Yaz and frowny boi were in the entire season!

I found this the best Dalek story since Doomsday. Like damn, for THE iconic baddies of the show, it’s been well over a decade since they actually got a decent showcase. I personally never felt much of a whiplash between the Ryan’s dad stuff and the Overblown Dalek stuff. I was just with the episode from beginning to end. I guess I just don’t have a problem jiving with Chibnall’s approach to tone.

There were good things in Resolution but they were quite drunkenly assembled with a lot of shit that didn't need to be there and the end result was rather poorly paced and dull. The Dalek possessing the archaeologist was good, and taken on their own the scenes with Ryan and his dad were alright. The Dalek prop was really terrible and unconvincing, and the scene where it kills the platoon with a ludicrous array of hidden weapons was so overblown it just felt silly. Also there was the whole subplot where the Dalek had been split into three and buried around the world by a secret society that went nowhere.

I can't believe Jon gave up his dreams of animation to join the army.

My main problem was the way they resolved Ryan and his dad. The fact that Ryan had to be the active party in mending their relationship in the big climax of the episode completely undermined his character. His dad had done next to nothing to earn that sort of reaction from his son. The dynamic would have been a little bit better if it was Ryan who was infected and his dad actually had to step up for once, but the way it is, making Ryan suddenly flip completely destroys an semblance of hope for my interest in their relationship going forward. It just feels super cheap.

I just hope that Chibnall does a Torchwood season 2 again and improve things. This wasn't the worst series for me (series 7 still takes the bottom spot) but it was easily the most disappointing. There was so much potential to be had here. A female Doctor played by a great actress, a good companion dynamic with Graham and Ryan, a whole new writers team, brand new monsters meaning that there isn't as much needless fanwank as there was in Moffat's era, a new production team, no convoluted story arc. This should have been a great season. Alas, it turned out that Chris Chibnall was not the best head writer despite being a halfway decent showrunner (like it or not, it hasn't had this big of an audience since 2008 so he knows how to get people watching it with good press). He never capitalises on potentially good ideas and instead plays things way too safe. Some episodes I liked e.g. Rosa, Demons of the Punjab, Kerblam, It Takes You Away and Resolution, but it was mostly a string of meh. It didn't even have peaks and valleys like with Davies and Moffat's eras. It was just one string of meh with the occasional blip into something interesting. But the worst part is how badly the fanbase has acted. If you liked series 11, you're an SJW PC Police Officer and your opinions are wrong. If you didn't like it, you're a sexist bigot and your opinions are wrong. And if you're indifferent, like I am, then you don't exist unless you choose a side. Despite not even liking series 11 all that much, I've somehow become a champion of the Chibnall era because of how insufferable the fanbase, the haters, in particular, have acted. But they still somehow won't shut up about it despite it ending nearly three months ago. And I fear it won't end until either Jodie Whittaker or Chris Chibnall leaves the show and honestly, I wouldn't mind if Chibnall left and someone more interesting like Toby Whithouse was brought in instead. Keep Jodie though, I do like her even if the scripts constantly let her down. *Sigh* Chibnall, please do better so I can have fun with Doctor Who again.

Probably the most unforgivable part, was when the show shut down U.N.I.T. The Unified Intelligence Taskforce is an incredibly significant part, in the show's history. Having been around almost as long as the Brigadier, one of the most important characters in the show, as well. (R.I.P. Nicholas Courtney) The Doctor, has depended on U.N.I.T. since his Second incarnation, and when he was exiled by the Time-Lords, in his Third incarnation, they took him in, and let him stay there, as home. I would expect the character to be a little bit more upset, then just moving on.

I really liked the episode. Finally a Dalek that creeped me out again.

6:09 At first I thought you were gonna talk about the UNIT joke

It's a crying shame they didn't cast Charlotte Richie as the Doctor. She would be a darn sight more convincing than Whitaker

I love this one, I admit it, easily the best Dalej story since the RTD era and a lot of fun. Also the best special we've had, though yes that is a low bar indeed. Seriously, though, I really did like this story and I can't help but feel that we got more like this in series 11, I'd have been more positive about it overall (and I liked it more than most people, anyway).

I love the way you say, "Shut up hater."

Good episodes? Please? Chris? There's real potential but that's all I see Chris!

The Dalek should have definitely killed a companion. They haven't done that in who knows when? And I think they missed an opportunity to make the scrap Dalek look actually intimidating. Instead they went for that strange skinny, chrome look.

It made the Daleks threatening again. The past few series used the Daleks under obligation, this felt earned.

5:23 Ironic that the visceral and dangerous dalek story is ruined by...… the actual dalek.

Can we talk about how this story is basically I AM A DALEK

The thing is the Dalek should have died without its casing. The casing is its life support system as was shown in the very first Dalek episode ever. Its not just a suit of armour. Just goes to show that for a fan of Dr Who Chris Chinballs doesn't seem to understand it at all.

You're missing the point: Dalek VS tank. Those 5 seconds were all we needed. Scrap the rest, it's even better if you do

Time line of alternative story : Dalek creature takes over that person. Normal scenes of the dalek from the episode. No real need for the doctor to know of it at this point. Knowing that the doctor has no idea any of this is happening would really build tension. Dalek builds casing but it isn't OP like in episode. Slowly charging towards a largely populated area to get to the communications place. The two archeologists team up to attempt to get help maybe from UNIT to stop the dalek and get people to safety. Army trying to fight it off but failing all the same. The doctor is called near the end when situation gets too serious. Doctor has an actual emotional scene with the dalek with real anger and fear. Concludes with a solution that does NOT involve a microwave oven.

Whilst I really like this episode, and I really like what they did about the Dalek, (apart from the whole ‘destroy the internet’ thing) the Story itself is fractured like a broken egg, and there is a lot of clear transparent stuff that kinda means nothing. However, if you do look at it, there is a golden yoke in the middle... an undercooked, raw yoke, but a golden yoke all the same. On a personal tangent, I vote to call this new Dalek “rusty 2, electric boogaloo.”

Also, here's the problem with this New year's special... It's set after New year's. So it's an ugly day where everyone is tired and bored. What a fucking holiday. At least with Christmas episodes, you have these beautiful visuals of snow and decorations. This could've been really awesome if the climax of this episode took place at night, as the people are counting down to the midnight, and then when the doctor saves the day, all the fireworks go off, while she's at the top of Big Ben or whatever.

Can you do a Doctor Who Big Finish: Monthly range review series of the best ones? That'd be really cool and i'd watch the shit out of that.

Alternative titles for Series 11 episodes: 1 - Person Nobody Cares About Falls to Earth 2 - The TARDIS it's the TARDIS like cmon 3 - Blonde White Woman Starts the Civil Rights Movement 4 - Don't Vote Trump 5 - Warriors of the Deep: Part II 6 - ERROR 404: Doctor Who Not Found 7 - An Ad for Amazon 8 - Dr. Seuss Sues for Copyright Infringement 9 - Worse Than Jimmy Savile 10 - Tim Shaw Is an Idiot 11 - At Least It's Over

I’m surprised someone hasn’t uploaded a version of this episode to KZfaq without all the dad & ending stuff

Charlotte Ritchie is on my list of "people I'd go YES! if I found out they'd been cast as the Doctor list", which pretty much means she'll never be cast as the Doctor - it happened once when McCoy was cast

The dalek stuff was all fantastic!

I was thinking this episode was a prime missed opportunity for the unused Spider Dalek to reappear

The entire season 11 have three major problems (and I am not even going to point on political bs): 1. Too rushed passing. 2. Too much exposition. 3. And just weak pay offs. To create a interesting story as a writer must always priorities plot, characters, message and etc. But when writer have only 45 min mark and you have 4 characters to develop AND also give us though provoking or interesting moral... you must be a very skilled writer. Three companions is too much. Even OG Doctor Who had problems with writing three companions in to the stories. At least OG had time to develop characters, villains and lore, but in season 11 the only way to develop tings is through expositions. And pay offs is just non existent. At the end of the stories I just felt nothing. There is no achievement after too many uses of “sonicplotdivice”. All in all, the entire season 11 was a disappointment, like TLJ and STD. I think I liked season 22 from OG with Colin Baker, then 11 season.

this episode was slapdash and emotional whiplash

Charlotte Ritchie would make a great Doctor or companion. She’s great in Dead Pixes!

Well, I feel like it was a good episode. But if they didn’t destroy the dalek and let it join with the fleet, because it threatened to kill Ryan’s dad or something, we could have a buildup for a Dalek invasion for series 12.

I loved it pretty much till the last ten minutes. While I'll acknowledge that it was not shown very well I got the impression that the flashier elements of the dalek casing came from other alien tech that it stole from the warehouse. The flight capability and rockets. Since the dalek had to deflect a missile and it had bullets bouncing off its casing instead of being stopped by forcefield it was clear this Dalek didn't have the same protection as the ones we are familiar with. I do wish it had been made more clear in the scene what she took from that company and how it was integrated into the new casing cause it really did look like the woman built everything from the way it was shot.

This episode perfectly symbolises everything wrong with series 11. Overambitious, unfocused, forced character/emotional moments and most importantly interesting concepts wasted by awful execution or just lost under a pile of mediocrity

I actually liked Resolution less than the previous episodes. The body horror stuff I agree was great. But as soon as it was time to build the new casing, it was all over for me. It was back to the same emotionally-manipulative "fun" action scenes, complete with faux-epic soundtrack score. Hearing the new composer trying to channel that Murray Gold vibe was stomach-churning to me. It had great ideas that it squandered so that it could return to the very stuff I was happy to leave behind.

completely agree with you here AND YAY! A different ending of a stubagful review!!!!

They probably could've done the Ryan and his Dad stuff in Series 12, but after that this episode was alright. One of the best so far.

Would've preferred this episode if it stuck to being in the tunnels. It could've stayed as a horror piece where the Dalek takes over the split-up characters one by one to learn more about the time period and the Doctor. Maybe it could use them as hostages and as vessels to steal the TARDIS / kill the Doctor. That would've had so much more emotional weight to it than Ryan berating his dad who we never see again...

Best Dalek story since The Stolen Earth/Journey's End despite all it's flaws. This Dalek was actually evil, arrogant and psychotic, which is exactly what a Dalek is.

I felt the Dalek and Ryan's Dad did tie in a little nicely since it's about people coming together, like how the three opposing factions of 9th century people united to stop the Dalek.

While I really enjoyed the dalek at the time, it doesn’t make any sense. Which dalek had missiles ? Why doesn’t the dalek look like it’s been made from spare bits of other Daleks ? How every time a dalek doesn’t use missiles it won’t make sense

The biggest issues I have with this episode is how did a group on horse back with spears defeat the Dalek when it arrived yet it hard no issues killing solders with Guns and Armour vehicles.

I’d forgotten how ugly the TARDIS interior is now

This is my second episode that I liked in series 11. Better than most of series 11. When will u be reviewing Ravnous 1

Nonnatus House Dalek speaking

I will admit Resolution left me in more positive spirits for the conclusion of Series 11 than The Battle of Ransack Av Whatever the fuck did. The episode had a good run for the most part, Nick Briggs was fantastic as ever and the thriller-esque style it went for in regards to the Dalek out of its casing made for some decent intrigue and build up, but unfortunately like all things in the Chibnall era it came down with a case of "Interesting ideas? EWWW GET IT AWAY FROM ME!!! Ah! There we are. Boring subplots about Ryan's Dad coming back! Bizarre cutaways to some random family who's a * Ahem * social commentary on how fake our lives are and how we should get together around Christmas- ERR I mean New Years Day" Aside from that I do like how the Dalek was indeed a proper threat again even in its patchwork state although the design feels very... Fan Made. The Dalek design seen here kinda reminds me of those old "Fake concept" designs I remember seeing posted up on Deviant Art back in 2004 before Series 1 with Eccleston aired and they had a bunch of mock up designs of what they thought the Daleks would be redesigned to be for the 2000s which is really what this Dalek design reminds me of. Granted I know people were getting tired of the Time War era Dalek design but I would've rather it stuck with a broken down variant of that than what we got. Other than that my only major problem with the episode itself is the fact that it treated UNIT as a fucking gag reference and dismantled the organization pending 'budget cuts'. I just... I don't get it? The joke wasn't funny and if you really needed to write UNIT out of the plot you could've easily had the Doctor make a comical remark that they're busy fighting the Sentient Moss Creatures from Necros who've invaded Earth to eat all the bees on Earth. Also bit of a nerdy nitpick but the goddamn Dalek laser sound effect sounded generic as hell compared to the past series where it had a distinctive sound effect to which I blame modern day film and television for providing inadequate COOL laser sound effects. So there, I give Resolution 6/10 Rubber Chickens. It almost could've been good if it had cooler laser sound effects and Sonic Sunglasses.

It was terrible. Watching the Dalek get unceremoniously destroyed with SPARE MICROWAVE PARTS was the worst thing ever. Why can't the Daleks actually be a credible threat?

Hey look, its ANOTHER problem Star Wars is facing right now: the villains are unrealistically over-equipped.

I'm surprised you never mentioned the dalek's dialogue in this episode. So much of it felt clunky and didn't really fit a dalek. Like the moment it laughed? Has Chris not seen a dalek story before? They're not big on emotions. The only time we've ever seen a dalek laugh before was to show us something was wrong with it.

I love this story. For me its the best Dalek story since Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways. It simplified the Daleks and made them threatening again. It showed the Dalek creature as a threat rather than the casing which was a Brilliant idea. Even at it's most vulnerable it was the most dangerous creature in the universe and I really enjoyed the personal conflict with Ryan and his Dad even if I understand why some felt it was out of place. I made a review on my channel if anyone wants to check it out

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Would've loved to have heard your thoughts about Unit getting shafted by the government. That's the only thing any hardcore whovian talked about as soon as the episode aired.

Jodie is just not meant to be the doctor and this whole season proves it.

Why would the army send in ground troops first, knowing they have a tank coming in??

I love your reviews, Stu, but I really think that you need to stop imagining hypothetical better versions of the episodes because with almost every series 11 episode review so far you’ve been like “It would have been so much better if the episode and the series had these big and drastic differences” and I feel like your habit of doing that is causing you to compare these episodes to your own personal fantasies that they would never be able to live up to

What did you think about the unit scene and the fact many think its a brexit joke. I did find the episode fun and liked the rough look dalek but yeah it seemed to have more firepower than a normal dalek and yet was destroyed with an oven

You should have brought up the scene where Jodie tried to inimidate the Dalek and told it to leave, but it said no and then she turns to the "Fam" for support showing that she's so unfit to be the Doctor and the "Fam" are a bunch of Yes-Men.

I just wish i can like this show again. Wish the writers weren't so hellbent on killing it.

I still don't get why such an early Dalek model is so advanced.

I'm amazed at how in sync Stu and I were while watching this series. He even took the month-long break at the same time as I did, although he was a few episodes ahead.

They should've done the "heavy sh**" in arachnids in the UK.

Yikes haven’t watched it, this was it for me first story I hadn’t watched in ten years of being s fan, battle of whatever it was even called left me angry,l

Good writing is rewriting! Does Chris even rewrite his scripts?

I also honestly feel The Tsuranga Conundrum receives too much hate. It's fine. It's fun. The juxtaposition between the cute little monster and how serious they treated it was hilarious. A good story too to show Ryan and Graham getting closer. The story felt like an adventure that wouldn't feel out of places as a Second Doctor, Jamie, and Zoey short trip. Still ranking the series an 8/10, Spiders in the UK being the ultimate low point. I don't mind Yaz being "underused". She was used fine enough and is way more memorable that Clara was at the start. This is Ryan and Graham's season. Definitely felt the effect of the shorter season which doesn't help when the show also has only a 50 minute run time. Fingers crosses BBC has more faith to extend the season and they're hiring a wider pool of riders so it's not just Chibnall doing a majority of it. It would be lovely to finally get a longer run time, but I'd just be happy with a couple two-parters.

It's interesting you bring up the character of Lin. According to director Wayne Yip, the original plan was to have one of the companions possessed by the Dalek, and then the Doctor herself. I wonder if the story would have been better/worse if that had come to pass.

No comments on the UNIT scene?

Who has had that problem before. Just watched Kinda and one minute it's going for scary and the next people are just acting silly.

I don't understand even the limited appeal a lot of people seem to have found in this one - I thought it was worse than anything in Series 11 except Arachnids in the UK, and given the mediocre quality of most of the season that's saying something. It immediately undermines itself at every turn, from the 'Dalek scattered across three continents' angle (it just magically summons them back) to, as covered in the video, basic tonal cohesion (whiplash between 'family drama' and Dalek plot, the most tired joke in history about the internet being down coming at just the right time to kill any lingering tension, characters rarely actually seeming all that bothered by the magnitude of the threat...). And I usually have a high tolerance for poor visual effects, but the CGI Dalek draws attention to itself by being so obviously not physically real/looking like something from a video game (especially when you devote runtime to an effects showcase - the Dalek/army battle - that adds literally nothing to the plot). It felt aimless and pointless, something even most sub-par Who stories don't sink to. I'd like to hope Series 12 can rectify the many issues with Series 11 and this special, but I'm certainly not confident...

I am a season 11 defender swimming alone in a sea of messy discussion, your's was not so messy...

So Now that we are through How does series 11 compare with the rest of NuWho? Because series 11 has dethroned series 7 of worst NuWho series for me personally

I thought Daleks die when they are outside of their casing. The Dalek's casing is both a war machine and a life support system. The actual creature can only live for a short while outside of its vehicle. In which case, how did the Dalek creature live for so long with no machine? Or did the writers forget that detail

To be honest apart of the glaring flaws that prevented this from being a future classic, I quite enjoyed it and thought it was better or at least more fun than some of the previous specials.

So happenstance I listen to “Order of the Daleks” Spoilers . . . . . The monks in that story give there blood, larynxes & keep the dalek mutants in the stomachs of space buffalo That’s body horror

But Ryan's dad had to be there because at the end it's all about family

its just a boring dull episode imo took way too long for the already reveled dalek edit: yaz nothing intresting ryan only here cause graham arc (sort of) 2 arcyologysts best amazing characters the girl (fogot her name cause aint watched it in a while reminds me of tegan when she got taken over by the mara and the guy was just a realy fun character hell why werent they given a little buissness card to find kate stewert and help unit if sarah can give 1 to a cleaner in s5 of sja why cant the doctor

You said you were gonna review miracle day with your mates from snuggly chibnall time. Please can you review children of earth first and release it before that as many of the reasons why miracle day doesn't work are due to its differences to children of earth

I have to say I think this is a misread of the episode's intentions. I think that the intention here was, that the dalek is the closest the Whoniverse has to irredeemable villains. No matter how weak or vulnerable the dalek is it will always strive to evil. That would be intended to be juxtaposed next to...uh..."the dad". That no matter how irredeemable people in our lives may SEEM, they are still human, they are still worth giving a second chance, and they aren't nazis or monsters or what have you. Whether or not it was tonally consistent, called for, or what, is a different matter, but I felt that was pretty obvious the intent it was set out to prove. It might have been better served if the episode called to attention that, say, the dalek TARGETTED the dad as the...most morally compromised or weakest willed person in the room, and have him triumph over that selfishness in the end. But you can string the metaphors between the scenes of how the guest stars are interacting with the dalek and the family drama, in an admittedly rough sense. I think it's a rough call, myself, because I consider this just as good a reintroduction to the daleks as "Dalek" was, legitimizing it in a way that we haven't seen for a long time, but perhaps that was something they didn't notice at the time, and couldn't shift the focus to in the end.

LOL,,,

No reference to the fucking UNIT thing.

I think it would have been really cool if Ryans dad was an older Orson Pink who kept popping in and out because he was a time agemta after the events of Listen

6:16 was actually quite accurate and I hope it teaches some of this little brats that the whole world doesn't just resolve around sitting on the internet all day....And being nicer to your parents.

Can we talk about terrible joke with 'talking with each other'?