tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8262218.post3539222052948219342..comments2023-06-11T13:03:29.777+01:00Comments on Diary of an old cheeser: First, we take ManhattanOld Cheeserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17871751335676050949noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8262218.post-4414699115552707932007-05-10T08:48:00.000+01:002007-05-10T08:48:00.000+01:00I can't argue with anything you've said. But I wo...I can't argue with anything you've said. But I would like to add:<BR/><BR/>Mr Diagoras was HOT!Mingehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16690119444596624935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8262218.post-34660674824817888832007-04-29T20:36:00.000+01:002007-04-29T20:36:00.000+01:00Tim - Yes we obviously share different views on th...Tim - Yes we obviously share different views on this one - interesting that you really liked it. But now having watched "Evolution" my opinion has changed - the second part was pretty damn magnificent and my overall estimation of the story has vastly risen as a result! <BR/><BR/>I didn't mind about the Daleks breeding with humans concept. I mean it's good to take them in a new direction and it made sense logically too. And as we also saw, it didn't sit easily with the original Daleks themselves - they saw the risks that it entailed. And there are always going to be whinging fans (and sometimes I can be one of them!)<BR/><BR/>Certainly "Evolution" contained a lot of horror with so many people killed - and highlighting the Daleks' ruthelessness yet again. <BR/><BR/>Matty - Oh darling, they're the Daleks! I'm surprised you didn't know about them...or are you just winding me up? Besides which you'll soon know more about the pepperpots when your Dr Who DVDS arrive! Watch the Season One story "Dalek" with Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper if you can - it's brilliant.<BR/><BR/>Steve - Ha ha. I don't actually think they're the worst monster ever in Dr Who, far from it - there have been some appallingly unconvincing aliens over the years. But the piggies just don't really convince as strong, physically threatening baddies. <BR/><BR/>Andrew - I have to disagree a bit there, although the mask was obviously artificial I don't think it looked that bad. Being part human/part Dalek, the guy's performance was never going to be conventional - he probably came across as "odd" as he was torn between his Dalek side and his human Mr Diagoras side and this kind of effected his personality...oh I'm being generous aren't I?Old Cheeserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17871751335676050949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8262218.post-8596950870025309912007-04-28T22:22:00.000+01:002007-04-28T22:22:00.000+01:00I enjoyed part 1 and part 2 but hated that Human/D...I enjoyed part 1 and part 2 but hated that Human/Dalek mask, it was a crummy design and I thought Neil Gorton's team could have done much better, plus I thought the performance of the guy in the mask was awful. Otherwise it was all good fun.Andrew Glazebrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10561008286443964427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8262218.post-53293682922197499552007-04-28T11:26:00.000+01:002007-04-28T11:26:00.000+01:00I must admit you're right about the pig-men... the...I must admit you're right about the pig-men... they looked like the children of Miss Piggy. And not in a good way... HIII-YAAA!Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8262218.post-87790573232501586092007-04-28T04:06:00.000+01:002007-04-28T04:06:00.000+01:00Hey, what's R2D2 doing on Dr. Who!?!!? color me co...Hey, what's R2D2 doing on Dr. Who!?!!? <BR/><BR/>color me confused!<BR/><BR/>kisses,<BR/>mattymattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13792716037555018912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8262218.post-46151427595250110002007-04-28T02:48:00.000+01:002007-04-28T02:48:00.000+01:00“Doctor Who” is so vast, covers so many different ...“Doctor Who” is so vast, covers so many different areas, it’s inevitable that different stories are going to strike different resonances within different people. For me, “Daleks in Manhattan” is easily the best episode of the season, thus far, by a long chalk. It’s so completely traditional, harking back to both “The Evil of the Daleks” and “Genesis of the Daleks”, that I couldn’t help but fall in love with it straight away! I’ve heard some die-hards complaining it’s wrong that the Daleks would sully themselves by breeding with humans thus diluting their purity. Fans in the Seventies whinged that “Genesis” rewrote Dalek history, as indeed it did, as did “Remembrance of the Daleks” to a degree in the Eighties, and now “Genesis” is regarded as THE “Doctor Who” story. “Manhattan”, in years to come, will be seen as the new series equivalent of that original Davros story, as long as “Evolution” maintains the standard.<BR/><BR/>In the “Radio Times”, even RTD admits it’s the first proper Dalek story they’ve done and I know exactly what he means. I actually thought that myself before I read the interview. In fact, the Daleks are even more cunning than usual. The Dalek taking Diagoras to his fateful meeting with Sec didn’t bark “move” impatiently as they exited the lift, as it might once have done, but bided its time, assuredly, in the complete confidence of total control. Now that is scary! I think the story has brought the horror of the Daleks back to “Doctor Who” just as James Strong brought horror itself back to “Who” in last year’s “The Impossible Planet”. Strong’s episodes are the new series equivalent to the Eighties’ episodes of Graeme Harper and I only hope he is rehired next year.TimeWardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853837867256272087noreply@blogger.com