Day 306: Day of the Daleks Episode 3

As hinted at by the title of this story, this story features the return of the Daleks. There is one very obvious reason for this: a hook is needed in order to bring the audience in for the new series. There is one very obvious result of this: a villain that doesn't quite work. The entire story of Day of the Daleks is actually rather good. It has an engaging hook and some very interesting characters. But it also has the Daleks, who have been obviously shoehorned into the story to try and get some more viewers. This is to the detriment to the story as it means that we now have a handful of completely useless scenes in every episode featuring the Daleks, when it is plainly obvious that scenes with any other character would be more engaging.

But this is all bearable because for every bit of pointlessness in each episode, we get some remarkably good scenes. And that will make the Day of the Daleks something to look forward to as we approach the conclusion to this story.