Day 7: The Escape

It's in this episode that we first meet a Thal. The Thal is a tall blond man, probably with blue eyes if we weren't restricted by the black and white medium. An Aryan, in other words. This is interesting because the Daleks are quite clearly Nazis, representing the fears of a post WW2 world, where the majority of the population can remember the Blitz, and other such concepts. So what are we, the audience, supposed to think here? In my opinion, this shows that, at this time, we're still afraid to show anything other than an Aryan hero on our screens, someone who is handsome and strong.

In other, happier, news, the Doctor and his companions are finally beginning to get along, as they escape from their prison cell. It is truly joyous to finally see these characters able to unite against a common evil, and indeed when we first see their plan being put forward into motion, it's notable that we don't actually know what we're doing, and instead we just assume that the Doctor and Ian are just having another argument, but instead they're creating a distraction! It's worth seeing these characters uncomfortable with each other, because it makes them becoming comfortable with each other more of an achievement, and something to be celebrated. But, as we acknowledge that it's been a week since we started, We've still Got Work To Do