'The Daleks' (Ep 2 'The Survivors')

Musings on ep 2;

• The 'singing metal' sound effects in the city corridors are very effective and creepy.
• The lift and door movements are pretty smooth. Some solid design work.
• Worst boom shadow shot ever from around 1m25s to 1m35s. You can see every detail of it; pole, muffler, cable etc. The shadow lands on William Russell's face at one point, you see him clock it and wonder if they'll stop, but he marches on and they of course don't.
• Computers and a Geiger counter straight out of 60's Physics Lab with handy English labels. Hmmm. Skaro Upon Avon anyone?
• Great level of tension from Ian after the radiation poisoning reveal, "how much? how badly??" 
• Good that Doctor admitted his culpability for the fluid link ruse, but I suppose he had to to explain that the TARDIS would actually still work and that they could immediately leave the city. So it wasn't a prickle of conscience after all.
• Ian holding the fluid link captive when The Doctor tries to leave is great.
• Another nice Doctor/ Ian face-off;  Doctor: "you stay and look for her if you wish", Ian: "it's time you faced up" etc.
• Barbara really isn't terrified slash relieved enough as she is reunited with the others when they are chucked in the cell with her. It's more like she's opening the front door with vague disinterest for a disliked sibling after school.
• The Doctor kneeling on one knee in the beam of light and being grilled by the Daleks looks great; lovely composition.
• The first proper Doctor/ Dalek stand-off is pretty good. Less histrionic Dalek wise and more effective for it than later Dalek nasties.
• Billy fluff, billy fluff: "anti-radiation gloves...drugs".
• William Russell's "falls" while testing out his paralysed legs are dreadful. 
• The Dalek control room is fairly impressive. I don't remember it looking this good. I thought this design came later circa 'The Chase' or 'Masterplan'
• The tone and mood are great in the scenes in the cell. The stakes seem shockingly high; Ian can't walk and is in torment for not being able to save them, Susan's shit-scared at having to make the drug run, Barbara can't stop the room spinning to string a sentence together or open her eyes and The Doctor is just about comatose. It's pretty well played by all and the sweat and dwindling hope seem all too real.
• Great camera shots to suggest Susan running through the jungle; not the 'face being slapped by twigs' shots, rather the camera looking ahead into the jungle ones with a quick zoom and focus pull.
• Lovely last shot through the TARDIS doors out into the stormy jungle as Susan heads back to the city after collecting the drugs.