Doctor Who Series 7 Episode 1 ‘Asylum of the Daleks ‘
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Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams
Jenna-Louise Coleman as Oswin Oswald
Review:
THE DOCTOR IS FINALLY BACK!!!!!!!!
The long awaited series 7 premiere of Doctor Who has finally aired, and I couldn’t be happier about it.
From the Pond Life webisodes, we saw that Amy and Rory split, and she kicked him out of the house. That directly leads to this episode. At the start we see a desolate planet, with Dalek statues and whatnot. A woman gives a voice over telling us about the Doctor. And then we finally see him and the woman turns out to be a Dalek. And the Planet turns out to be Skarro. We then go back to earth to see Amy modeling and Rory comes with the divorce papers and at that moment, they are taken by the Daleks
We then see them in space and the Doctor arrives. They are taken to another large room, which is filled with Daleks, which turns out to be the parliament of the DALEKS. . They ask for the Doctors help. They actually say Save us! The Prime Minister tells the Doctor about the Asylum of the Daleks. And then he is beamed into the planet to take down the force field, so that the Daleks can destroy the planet.
Save us!
The episode was so much fun. I was happy to see almost every type of Dalek here. We also see Jenna-Louise Coleman play a role in the episode as Oswin. She helps the Doctor and his companions to safety. I was quite surprised to see Coleman play a role in this. But given that Karen first role on doctor who was in fires of Pompeii and Donna first role was in the Christmas Special. The Daleks looked awesome in this episode. There is apparently a new Dalek i.e. the human Dalek, which are also awesome. Coleman’s role was nice, but it was shrouded with mystery with the milk and who keeps getting in to her lodging and why hasn’t she shown her self to the Doctor.
In the end, we see that she is actually a Dalek. She doesn’t know that. She continuously repeats ‘I am Human’ which was quite strange for a Dalek. What Oswin also does is that she erases all traces of The Doctor from the minds of the Daleks. So now they do not know that they fear the Doctor.
We see many of the older Daleks in this episode. I remember seeing Special Weapons Dalek from the 1988 story, Remembrance of the Daleks. This episodes makes references to many of the previous episodes. The voice over given by Darla at the start refers to the Time War and also states “and then [the Doctor] died” referring to The Impossible Astronaut and The Wedding of River Song, episodes from Series 6. Some of the Daleks are survivors of previous encounters with the Doctor on Spiridon (Planet of the Daleks), Aridius (The Chase), Kembel (Mission to the Unknown and The Daleks’ Master Plan), Vulcan (Power of the Daleks), and Exxilon (Death to the Daleks). The Doctor refers to himself as ‘The Oncoming Storm’ which is from the novelization of Remembrance of the Dalek.
All in all it was a very good episode. It was a nice way to kick off the season. Can’t wait for next week. This episode also marks the introduction of the new title sequence, which I quite like. Also the episode ends with the Daleks asking Doctor Who, as they have forgotten their archenemy. And to the very end, the Doctor himself repeats Doctor Who. This episode has an awesome story and great acting as usual by the team. It’s going to be a very sad ending for Amy and Rory in the 5th Episode.
Final Verdict:
9.5/10
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