Asylum of the Daleks.

my first doctor who review.

and i'm doing this mostly because i love it. this episode was so awesome. really good.

note : this is NOT spoiler free. basically, go watch it first because it's so mindblowing.

so the episode begins with a giant dalek on Skaro, where the doctor meets this random woman.

I think it's good that those of us who only watched the revived series get to see Skaro. and yes as the doctor rightly states, it's a complete mess.

thanks to him..

and she turns out to be a dalek human.

basically they are human shells which the daleks hollow out and then live inside. makes sense?

oh well, it's quite a bad plot device to be honest. but it does allow the emotional part of it to come out.

and oho. amy and rory have joined the party.

and it's the parliament of the daleks.

"What do we do?"

"Be brave. Make them remember you."

that's the dalek PM, by the way.

and.....behold the entrance of the new companion!

Jenna Louise Coleman :D

basically in the story she's Oswin Oswald, who's stuck in the asylum because her ship crashed there a year ago and she can't get out.

and all she's been doing is...making souffles.

yup.

that's the asylum. it's a whole planet, where they dump all the daleks that go wrong : the battle-scarred, the insane ones. and it's protected by a force field which can only be deactivated from the inside. so the grand plan is to send the doctor, amy and rory there to deactivate the field and then the daleks will blow up the planet.

by firing them into the planet, yes..

i just realised i'm telling you the whole story.

here comes the most action-ish bit in the whole episode.

yay dalek remains.

how fun.

this just reminds me of the scene in Journey's End, where he practically blew them all up.

and then he goes to save Oswin. but, (and here it comes), it turns out that,

yup. she's a dalek.

and everything that she's imagined isn't real. it's just a real because the truth was too terrible for her to bear.

but she lets the doctor go. and....

another reference to the scene in The Big Bang, where the two of them are, well to put it plainly, making out while they're being threatened by daleks.

and then the tardis comes into play and they all go home.

this wasn't even a review.

i basically just spoiled every single person who will ever read this.

conclusion : brilliant episode, but would have liked to see more use of the tardis. I miss it.

i'm not doing episode 2 because it sucks.

like really sucks. humour is good though. and there's a kiss.

okay bye haha