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SFX has just posted the first 3 episode details from the new Doctor Who series for 2010.

Episode 1: "The Eleventh Hour" (by Steven Moffat) to be shown 3rd April 2010

Episode 2: "The Beast Below" (by Steven Moffat)

Episode 3: "Victory of the Daleks" (by Mark Gatiss)


Personally, I think Gatiss + Daleks = great episode.

LukeM wrote:
Old
> school Daleks can't feel mercy. Davros removed anything human (or
> should I say Kaled) from the Daleks during their creation.

Yes, but the Dalek realised that humans feel mercy and urged River to express it.

Butch wrote:
> Alfoncy wrote:
> Pretty bad. I did like the part where Song killed the Dalek.
> MERCY?
>
> I disliked this bit more than I can put into words.

I sunk deep into my seat at this point cringing to the max. Old school Daleks can't feel mercy. Davros removed anything human (or should I say Kaled) from the Daleks during their creation. I guess you could try explaining it all, but it just sucks.

RoughStuff wrote:
> Hi cant agree more, its all become a bit vague and can someone
> please tell me what the daleks would want with custom paint jobs?
> Dont make me laugh, historically the Dalek is a cold cruel
> unfeeling beast, somehow I cant imagine them being worried about
> how they look!!!

The game explains it better, they're colour coded as to the job they do, basically designated jobs from the moment they are created.

Hi cant agree more, its all become a bit vague and can someone please tell me what the daleks would want with custom paint jobs? Dont make me laugh, historically the Dalek is a cold cruel unfeeling beast, somehow I cant imagine them being worried about how they look!!!

Alfoncy wrote:
> Pretty bad. I did like the part where Song killed the Dalek.
> MERCY?

I disliked this bit more than I can put into words.

The whole episode felt like a trailer for season 2 (or, more likely the season 2 finale). The only part of the episode I enjoyed was The Doctor coming back at the wedding thanks to the story he was telling Amelia, however obvious and cheesy. It was also a nice touch to replay the scene in the 'forest on a ship' and the realisation that at the time we were seeing 'future' Doctor.

Let's hope the Christmas story is better than this...

Pretty bad. I did like the part where Song killed the Dalek. MERCY?

After having watched confidential, those questions will apparently be answered next season.

I feel like I'm watching Lost, and as I recall, I hated the end of that show :P

Is it just me or have the writers dumbed down dr who, the previous seasons of the revamp with davis as head had very few loose ends, more or less everything was explained. In the latest ones there are many loose ends like why couldnt amy remeber the daleks? whose voice was that, etc, never answered.

All felt a little bit rushed tbh.

Dreadful.

Just once, just once, I wanted an ending that didn't use a metaphorical reset button resulting in everyone forgetting everything that happened in the last 90 minutes.

What do we get? A literal reset button in the form of the impenetrable ultra secure, dead locked Pandorica being opened by a single flick of a screwdriver. Ultimately leading to Big Bang 2 with no one having any memory of what just happened.

It's the kind of lazy story writing you'd criticise kids doing their English Lit. GSCEs for.

Second game episode downloadable on Saturday, right after the series finale.

Cybermen this time and they're promising a foe that hasn't been seen since the Tom Baker days...