Well hello, flirty sailor. Welcome again to this - my half remembered account of Doctor Who stories with accompanying pictures.
Don't worry if you've never seen the stories. That's why I'm here. To make vague guesses at what's going on and make up the rest.
We're half way through season 11, which is from the 70s, when the world was young.
Death to the Daleks
Sarah Jane Smith goes into space and meets these guys - hooded monster things whose faces seem to be in a perpetual state of horrified surprise. Perhaps they keep catching themselves in mirrors? "Arrg! Oh, it's me."
The Hood guys take Sarah to see their magic fire. This happens a lot to Sarah. Aliens are always showing her their sacred stuff. Then, when she looks insufficiently impressed, they try to sacrifice her.
There are some Daleks on this planet too. They are having a crisis meeting. Everyone is looking at the one on the top left and shouting questions and doing a panic.
Why are they on this planet? It's horrible, and the floor is very hard to do 'gliding about' on. Why do they ever leave our own planet, where everything is metal and fun for sliding? Why don't their guns work? What if Doctor Who turns up? What if they get attacked by a giant metal snake?
The leader looks very sad. He does not know the answer to any of the questions.
If memory serves, they have run out of power, because this planet makes everything not work. This means the Daleks can't generally use electric power to move around, or they'd be totally stuck. They must have little pedals inside. to make them go.
I can't imagine they'd want anyone to know about that. It would diminish their gravitas.
Things have gone very badly indeed for this Dalek. The native Hood guys have decided to set him on fire, and are now doing a dance around his burning corpse. This sort of thing happens to Daleks quite often, because they are total space jerks and they have, at some point, annoyed everyone in the universe. That said, this kind of behaviour is unusually childish and weird.
This Dalek is accepting his fate with a kind of resigned stoicism. Yes, his head might be on fire, but on the bright side, he won't have to put up with Doctor Who laughing at him later on in the story and calling him racist names.
Amazingly, these Daleks carry tiny model TARDISes to shoot at. We're learning a lot about the Daleks this week, aren't we?
This does not reflect very well on them. It's one thing not liking Doctor Who, and wanting to shoot him in his stupid patronising face. But what's the TARDIS ever done to them? Maybe it's just easier to model. It can't be easy using a 3D printer with a big sucker hand.
Eventually the Hood guys capture Doctor Who and try to set him on fire. As usual, Doctor Who defeats them by mocking everything about their culture and calling their rituals pointless and derivative. This cuts them to the core, and Doctor Who is able to escape while they are having an emergency counselling session.
By this point in the story, everyone has been running round the planet for quite some time and it's becoming hard to work out why any of it matters, and indeed if there's any point to life in general.
The Daleks look quite alarmed here, and with good reason. Their guns don't work, people keep setting them on fire and - worst of all - Doctor Who is around somewhere, and he always says very hurtful things to them when they meet. Not to mention the fact that this story is called "Death to the Daleks", which doesn't bode well for them returning to their loved ones when the story is over.
The Daleks spend the rest of the story posing about as if for a fashion shoot. This is a bold choice, and plays to their strengths. They do look great.
The one in the middle is really pulling it off, dominating the shot. The one to the left has adopted a wistful stare into the distance, suggesting a sensitive soul beneath the metal exterior. The one to the right, however, just looks sad. Maybe he was friends with the one who got set on fire.
Doctor Who has lost Sarah somewhere, but isn't really bothered, as he's found a disgusting little alien to boss around instead. They go on a journey into a mysterious city, and work out the mystery behind the power drain. Whatever that is - I can't remember.
The whole story is quite tedious and everything takes too long to happen. It does, however, end with this cool skeleton guy, who had the good sense to die before any of this started.
That'll do for now, I think Come back soon, for more - and hopefully better - adventures with Doctor Who.
Season 11: Part one can be found here
Season 11: Part three is here.
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