Doctor Who: The Dalek's Master Plan
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| Also called 3/4 Reconstruction... |
Like most of the Season Three serials, this serial contains three full episodes and nine missing episodes that I'll be viewing as reconstructions, again courtesy of Loose Cannon Productions.
Six Hours Later...
Well... wow... this was a pretty dark serial of Doctor Who. Very dark. I was a little depressed already because my ferret is going into renal failure, but I suppose it's a good thing I watched it now when I have work in the morning than back when I was unemployed and depressed.
Anyhow... this episode begins with Steven still injured, Katarina thinking they're on a voyage through the underworld, and the Doctor trying to rectify both problems and failing miserably at it because he doesn't really know how to explain it to them. They materialize on the planet, Kembal, which we saw in Mission to the Unknown. On this planet, Brett Vyon and Kert Gantry are trying to figure out what happened to Marc Cory. Gantry is injured and forces Vyon to leave him behind. A Dalek kills Gantry shortly after and we start to follow the Doctor while he tries to find a city which may have medicine for Steve and Vyon while he tries to find a way off the planet to warn Earth about the Daleks.
Eventually they cross paths and Vyon takes the TARDIS key from the Doctor. He enters it and tries (and fails) to convince Katarina to take off without the Doctor. Obviously, she can't as only the Doctor knows how to fly the TARDIS and he hasn't taken to teaching people how to fly it just yet. Steve then wakes up and knocks out Vyon. Then the Doctor re-enters the TARDIS because Vyon is a BIG IDIOT and left the TARDIS key in the fucking door.
Really? How stupid can he be?
I mean... really? You steal a key but you can't remember to keep it on you at all times?
Well, the Doctor finds a way to magnetize Vyon to a chair where he finds out what's going on while Steven passes out again and Katarina remains confused.
The Doctor goes back outside to figure out what's going on and sees a spaceship (called a "spar") land that has the Guardian of the Solar System, Mavic Chen aboard. Mavic Chen is betraying all of us and siding with the Daleks even furnishing them with a power supply for a weapon called a "Time Destructor". Yeah.
The Doctor rushes back to the TARDIS to find it surrounded by Daleks who have not forgotten him. The Doctor runs off and finds Katarina and Steve and the stupid girl tells the Doctor about how Vyon gave her pills to help Steve and then they all ran off and hid when the Daleks showed up. Steve is still recovering however, and very weak. The Doctor looks him over and concludes that he'll be ship-shape in no time.
The Doctor and company meet up with Vyon and then the group find a delegate at the meeting, Zephon, knock him out. Then the Doctor dressed up in Zephon's robe and sneaks into the meeting. Meanwhile, the rest of the group steals Mavic Chen's spar and prepare for take-off. Zephon wakes up and sets off the alarm. The Doctor steals the power supply (called the Taranium Core) and barely makes it to the spar. Then the group takes off for Earth.
Meanwhile the Daleks and their allies debate over who's to blame for this incident and Zephon gets killed in the process. Then Mavic Chen returns to Earth to retrieve the Taranium Core and kill the Doctor and Company. The Daleks arrange for the spar to land on the prison planet, Desperus, but the Doctor and company manage to repair it just as some convicts to break into the spar. They take Katarina captive and then something shocking happens.
Katarina sacrifices herself by opening the doors to the spar and ejecting herself and the convicts from the ship. She is the first of many of the Doctor's companions to die to protect the Doctor and ensure that he can save the world. The fact that she didn't even understand what was going on makes the incident all the more poignant. She only knows that if she took her death into her own hands, the Doctor, Steve, and Vyon would be able to make it to Earth and warn people instead of being forced to return to Kembal.
Eventually the group arrives on Earth, but Mavic Chen (I really like his name for some reason) beat them to it and they are now all wanted as traitors. They evade capture until Sara Kingdom enters the picture and kills Vyon (turns out they're siblings). It's actually a sad moment because Vyon assumes she's in on the conspiracy to take over the universe and he says something along of "Not you too!" and then she shoots him in the head.
Really, Sara Kigdom is just the kind of person who follows orders and doesn't think about them. Her superior officer (Mavic Chen) gave her an order and she followed it.
Eventually Sara follows the Doctor and Steve into a test room for a sort of teleportation device (they call it something else) and they all get teleported to a planet with invisible monsters called Mira. Mavic Chen informs the Daleks (pretending he planned it when it was really an accident) because the Daleks are now close to them.
The Doctor and Steven convince Sara Kingdom that they're the good guys and Mavic Chen is the real traitor. They even convince her to think for herself. This is very detrimental to her life in the future. They should have kept her a mindless automaton.
Anyhow, the Doctor and his new company steal the Daleks' space ship, return to Kembal, and make a copy of the Taranium Core. Steve finishes it off using gravitation energy which puts him in a force field. They bluff the Daleks by giving them the fake core using Steve in his force field and then escape in the TARDIS. The Dalek's weapons destroy Steve's force field so he's now able to talk to people and stuff. Apparently the force field meant he couldn't communicate.
Then we have a comedy breather episode where the Doctor and company run away from the Daleks through time and space first in London with some very confused policemen and then in Hollywood with... insanity associated with actors, directors, and producers. They really want Sara to take her clothes off! It's also a Christmas episode that ends in the Doctor breaking the fourth wall and wishing all of us at home a Merry Christmas.
Then the Doctor and company land in the middle of a tennis match and then on a volcanic planet where it turns out the Meddling Monk has been following them the whole time. Not the Daleks. The Monk wants revenge on the Doctor for stranding him in 1066 last season. The Monk damages the TARDIS's lock, preventing the Doctor from entering his TARDIS and then brags about it to the Doctor.
Why are villains always so incredibly stupid?
Well, the Doctor repairs the lock in no time flat and then they land in Ancient Egypt where the Doctor finishes repairing the lock while Steve and Sara prepare for the arrival of the Monk. The Daleks arrive instead. Then Steve and Sara are arrested as looters by the guards of the nearby pyramid which is being built and prepared.
A bunch of stuff happens including the Daleks killing a bunch of guards, the Monk trying to play the Doctor and the Daleks against each other (with the Doctor not having it), the Monk handing Sara and Steve over the to Daleks, the Egyptians attacking and being killed by the Daleks, The Doctor breaking into the Monk's TARDIS and stealing something, and just a lot of nonsense lengthening this epic even further.
In the end, The Doctor hands over the Taranium Core (the real one this time) over to the Daleks. However, he stole the Monk's directional control so he can control where the TARDIS lands. They land on Kembal but the directional control burns out due to incompatibility between the two TARDIS models. The Doctor and company find the city abandoned and the leaders of the alliance (minus the Daleks) imprisoned.
The Daleks have betrayed everyone they were in alliance with and gone off to fight their own war against Earth and the rest of the universe. While looking around, Steve and Sara find a second, underground city the Daleks are using and encounter Mavic Chen who is still convinced he can rule the universe with the Daleks. The Daleks rob him of that notion by killing him. He was only useful as far as getting the Taranium Core for the Time Destructor.
The Doctor uses all of this stuff happening to break into the control room and set off the Time Destructor. The Daleks discover him, but are powerless when the Doctor can turn up the power to the Time Destructor and kill them all. He orders Steve and Sara back to the TARDIS and they go, but Sara gets worried about the Doctor and goes to find him while he's trying to make his way to the TARDIS so he can deactivate the Time Destructor. Everyone starts to age and Sara dies for her trouble. Steve leaves the TARDIS and manages to somehow reverse the Time Destructor so that he and the Doctor youthen to their previous ages, but Sara is still dead. The Daleks show up and shoot the Time Destructor to shut it down. This just makes the situation worse and the entire planet is reduced to a wasteland.
Steve and the Doctor take off in the TARDIS, mourning the loss of Sara Kingdom and their poor decision-making.
That was the Dalek's Master Plan, the longest serial I've seen so far. Six hours and a lot of it felt like filler and people acting a little daft. However, it was a lot of fun and I'm really sad that only three of the episodes are in tact. I'd love to see the full version someday... or even a cartoon version. That would be cool.
Next time is... The Massacre of St. Bartholemew's Eve.
Anyhow... this episode begins with Steven still injured, Katarina thinking they're on a voyage through the underworld, and the Doctor trying to rectify both problems and failing miserably at it because he doesn't really know how to explain it to them. They materialize on the planet, Kembal, which we saw in Mission to the Unknown. On this planet, Brett Vyon and Kert Gantry are trying to figure out what happened to Marc Cory. Gantry is injured and forces Vyon to leave him behind. A Dalek kills Gantry shortly after and we start to follow the Doctor while he tries to find a city which may have medicine for Steve and Vyon while he tries to find a way off the planet to warn Earth about the Daleks.
Eventually they cross paths and Vyon takes the TARDIS key from the Doctor. He enters it and tries (and fails) to convince Katarina to take off without the Doctor. Obviously, she can't as only the Doctor knows how to fly the TARDIS and he hasn't taken to teaching people how to fly it just yet. Steve then wakes up and knocks out Vyon. Then the Doctor re-enters the TARDIS because Vyon is a BIG IDIOT and left the TARDIS key in the fucking door.
Really? How stupid can he be?
I mean... really? You steal a key but you can't remember to keep it on you at all times?
Well, the Doctor finds a way to magnetize Vyon to a chair where he finds out what's going on while Steven passes out again and Katarina remains confused.
The Doctor goes back outside to figure out what's going on and sees a spaceship (called a "spar") land that has the Guardian of the Solar System, Mavic Chen aboard. Mavic Chen is betraying all of us and siding with the Daleks even furnishing them with a power supply for a weapon called a "Time Destructor". Yeah.
The Doctor rushes back to the TARDIS to find it surrounded by Daleks who have not forgotten him. The Doctor runs off and finds Katarina and Steve and the stupid girl tells the Doctor about how Vyon gave her pills to help Steve and then they all ran off and hid when the Daleks showed up. Steve is still recovering however, and very weak. The Doctor looks him over and concludes that he'll be ship-shape in no time.
The Doctor and company meet up with Vyon and then the group find a delegate at the meeting, Zephon, knock him out. Then the Doctor dressed up in Zephon's robe and sneaks into the meeting. Meanwhile, the rest of the group steals Mavic Chen's spar and prepare for take-off. Zephon wakes up and sets off the alarm. The Doctor steals the power supply (called the Taranium Core) and barely makes it to the spar. Then the group takes off for Earth.
Meanwhile the Daleks and their allies debate over who's to blame for this incident and Zephon gets killed in the process. Then Mavic Chen returns to Earth to retrieve the Taranium Core and kill the Doctor and Company. The Daleks arrange for the spar to land on the prison planet, Desperus, but the Doctor and company manage to repair it just as some convicts to break into the spar. They take Katarina captive and then something shocking happens.
Katarina sacrifices herself by opening the doors to the spar and ejecting herself and the convicts from the ship. She is the first of many of the Doctor's companions to die to protect the Doctor and ensure that he can save the world. The fact that she didn't even understand what was going on makes the incident all the more poignant. She only knows that if she took her death into her own hands, the Doctor, Steve, and Vyon would be able to make it to Earth and warn people instead of being forced to return to Kembal.
Eventually the group arrives on Earth, but Mavic Chen (I really like his name for some reason) beat them to it and they are now all wanted as traitors. They evade capture until Sara Kingdom enters the picture and kills Vyon (turns out they're siblings). It's actually a sad moment because Vyon assumes she's in on the conspiracy to take over the universe and he says something along of "Not you too!" and then she shoots him in the head.
Really, Sara Kigdom is just the kind of person who follows orders and doesn't think about them. Her superior officer (Mavic Chen) gave her an order and she followed it.
Eventually Sara follows the Doctor and Steve into a test room for a sort of teleportation device (they call it something else) and they all get teleported to a planet with invisible monsters called Mira. Mavic Chen informs the Daleks (pretending he planned it when it was really an accident) because the Daleks are now close to them.
The Doctor and Steven convince Sara Kingdom that they're the good guys and Mavic Chen is the real traitor. They even convince her to think for herself. This is very detrimental to her life in the future. They should have kept her a mindless automaton.
Anyhow, the Doctor and his new company steal the Daleks' space ship, return to Kembal, and make a copy of the Taranium Core. Steve finishes it off using gravitation energy which puts him in a force field. They bluff the Daleks by giving them the fake core using Steve in his force field and then escape in the TARDIS. The Dalek's weapons destroy Steve's force field so he's now able to talk to people and stuff. Apparently the force field meant he couldn't communicate.
Then we have a comedy breather episode where the Doctor and company run away from the Daleks through time and space first in London with some very confused policemen and then in Hollywood with... insanity associated with actors, directors, and producers. They really want Sara to take her clothes off! It's also a Christmas episode that ends in the Doctor breaking the fourth wall and wishing all of us at home a Merry Christmas.
Then the Doctor and company land in the middle of a tennis match and then on a volcanic planet where it turns out the Meddling Monk has been following them the whole time. Not the Daleks. The Monk wants revenge on the Doctor for stranding him in 1066 last season. The Monk damages the TARDIS's lock, preventing the Doctor from entering his TARDIS and then brags about it to the Doctor.
Why are villains always so incredibly stupid?
Well, the Doctor repairs the lock in no time flat and then they land in Ancient Egypt where the Doctor finishes repairing the lock while Steve and Sara prepare for the arrival of the Monk. The Daleks arrive instead. Then Steve and Sara are arrested as looters by the guards of the nearby pyramid which is being built and prepared.
A bunch of stuff happens including the Daleks killing a bunch of guards, the Monk trying to play the Doctor and the Daleks against each other (with the Doctor not having it), the Monk handing Sara and Steve over the to Daleks, the Egyptians attacking and being killed by the Daleks, The Doctor breaking into the Monk's TARDIS and stealing something, and just a lot of nonsense lengthening this epic even further.
In the end, The Doctor hands over the Taranium Core (the real one this time) over to the Daleks. However, he stole the Monk's directional control so he can control where the TARDIS lands. They land on Kembal but the directional control burns out due to incompatibility between the two TARDIS models. The Doctor and company find the city abandoned and the leaders of the alliance (minus the Daleks) imprisoned.
The Daleks have betrayed everyone they were in alliance with and gone off to fight their own war against Earth and the rest of the universe. While looking around, Steve and Sara find a second, underground city the Daleks are using and encounter Mavic Chen who is still convinced he can rule the universe with the Daleks. The Daleks rob him of that notion by killing him. He was only useful as far as getting the Taranium Core for the Time Destructor.
The Doctor uses all of this stuff happening to break into the control room and set off the Time Destructor. The Daleks discover him, but are powerless when the Doctor can turn up the power to the Time Destructor and kill them all. He orders Steve and Sara back to the TARDIS and they go, but Sara gets worried about the Doctor and goes to find him while he's trying to make his way to the TARDIS so he can deactivate the Time Destructor. Everyone starts to age and Sara dies for her trouble. Steve leaves the TARDIS and manages to somehow reverse the Time Destructor so that he and the Doctor youthen to their previous ages, but Sara is still dead. The Daleks show up and shoot the Time Destructor to shut it down. This just makes the situation worse and the entire planet is reduced to a wasteland.
Steve and the Doctor take off in the TARDIS, mourning the loss of Sara Kingdom and their poor decision-making.
That was the Dalek's Master Plan, the longest serial I've seen so far. Six hours and a lot of it felt like filler and people acting a little daft. However, it was a lot of fun and I'm really sad that only three of the episodes are in tact. I'd love to see the full version someday... or even a cartoon version. That would be cool.
Next time is... The Massacre of St. Bartholemew's Eve.
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