Day 91: The Nightmare Begins

This episode has an apt title, as The Nightmare does indeed begin today. The Daleks have now threatened to take over the Solar System, as hinted at in the previous Mission to the Unknown, and they mean business. These Daleks aren't the Daleks who are riding the wave of their own popularity that we saw on their last adventure, here they mean business. Their first appearance within the episode is striking, for instance. We encounter two space security agents, they spilt up, and one of them is terrified, he turns around, and a Dalek immediately kills him. What's striking is how swiftly this happens. You doubt for a brief second as to what has actually happened before your eyes, whether the Daleks really have come back. Indeed, most of this episode is spent with everything in the shadows. We know that the Daleks are going to dominate the Solar System, but we don't know how, and there's a mysterious character called Mavic Chen, in league with the evil metal creatures, and we don't know much about him either. Indeed, the one thing that we do know, is that the TARDIS has landed in a place where terrible things are about to happen. The nightmare, has indeed, begun.