506 – Doctor Who – Revolution of the Daleks
January 9, 20211h 25m
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Show Notes
Daleks are revolting. Does that make it a revolution?
Simon and Eugene look at the 2021 New Year’s Doctor Who Special, Revolution of the Daleks.
Synopsis:
That idiot from Arachnids in the UK is back and, with the aid of a corrupt politician with ambitions to be Prime Minister, steals the dead Dalek from a previous New Year’s special and, with the help of a whiz kid, turns its design into AI-powered security drones, called Security Drones.
What could possibly go wrong?
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The Doctor has been put in prison, but, as every Doctor Who fan knows, the Doctor can trivially escape from any prison, unless they don’t. Instead, Capt. Jack Harkness breaks her out of prison with trivial ease.
Oh, Jack’s Back.
On Earth, Yaz has a chronic obsession problem. Graham and Ryan have recognized the design of the new Security Drones and convince Yaz to help investigate. They confront that idiot from Arachnids in the UK but get nowhere.
The Doctor and Jack arrive and everybody’s all pissed at the Doctor for being gone 10 months. It’s nice to know that the Doctor’s so-called fam don’t give one passing thought for the decades that the Doctor has just spent in prison. It’s all about THEM THEM THEM.
Meanwhile, whiz-kid was a stupid whiz-kid, and cloned the Dalek creature from cells he found in the original casing. Of course, it turns him into a puppet. Luckily for the Dalek creature, a Daleks entire memories are stored in every tiny fragment of the DNA. ‘Cause that’s how memory works.
With TARDIS magic, they discover Dalek DNA in Japan at one of that idiot from Arachnid in the UK’s factories so they go visit both the idiot and his factory. He didn’t even know about the factory ‘cause Daleks are clever.
The factory is a clone farm for more Dalek creatures.
Corrupt political gets elected to be Prime Minister and deploys the Security Drones in the name of security to the cheers of all the citizens of the UK craving a little bit more fascism.
It might be a bit awkward that the Security Drones look pretty much like the Daleks that invaded Earth a few years ago, but luckily, no one remembers that, and UNIT’s apparently still disbanded.
Doctor chats with Daleks creatures, and then, using a sunlamp, all the Daleks teleport – somehow – out into their waiting bodies, and Security Drones come New Generation Daleks start killing everyone.
Doctor calls real Daleks to come kill the impure human-tainted Daleks. Which they do, because there’s nothing the Daleks like more than a little ethnic cleansing.
Idiot from Arachnids in the UK betrays the Doctor to the Daleks, but nothing comes of that. Impure Daleks are wiped out by the pure Daleks. Dalek spacecraft wiped out by Jack and the boys. Remaining Daleks destroyed in the most criminal fashion possible by destroying the last-remaining good-looking TARDIS in the universe.
Jack buggers off. Ryan buggers off. Graham buggers off. There’s a little boo-hooing and it’s all over.
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