Thursday, April 12, 2012

'The Daleks' (Ep 4 'The Ambush')



Musings on ep 4;
  • "The lift scene looks good", I wrote that scribbled note while viewing this last night, I can't remember which lift scene, but there you go, it was good.
  • The Daleks oxy cutting is surprisingly effective.
  • Ian sounds like he's doing something else entirely as he struggles to "open the hatch" and clamber out of the magnetised Dalek; ooh er!
  • The moving camera shot with Daleks trundling through into the empty room after cutting down the door and the empty Dalek imploding looks superb.
  • Clever effect of the melty wall after a Dalek tries to shoot Ian, but misses.
  • Ian & Alydon meet for the first time around the corner after the Dalek/ Thal stand-off and stand enticingly close as they make acquaintance; 'shippers...start your imaginations.
  • Nice little moment where the Doctor pulls up a pugh, turns on the charm and looks at the star charts with Diony.
  • Ian's 'dislike for the unlike' speech is well played.
  • Interesting discourse on pacifism that says more about the writer than the regulars and feels a bit out of character for them.

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