I pretty much agree with @BillFiler here. Solid enjoyable fun and, oh what a joy to have the Daleks back. Some nice ideas that, yes, could have been fleshed out a little more but were still interesting early in the range. It’s good fun and, most crucially for theor first Big Finish story, it really feels like a Dalek story to me.
Also, I heartily agree with your assertion, Bill, that the Seventh Doctor can do outrage like no other Doctor. There are others who can match him (the Fourth Doctor’s disgust at the Captain’s acievements [Pirate Planet], the Third Doctor’s contempt for the Controller [Day of the Daleks] or Chinn [Axos]), but stylistically different. I love McCoy’s delivery in moments like this!
Really enjoyed your animation, even if as you say the story is quite mid. Watching it along with the audio certainly helped keep me focused on the story, as otherwise I tend to end up looking elsewhere and reading and then I get totally lost.
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I think it’s the very classic, proper old school feel of The Genocide Machine as a Dalek story that appeals to me so much. Although themes were different, the aural aesthetic and general sense took me back to the good old fashioned Terry Nation rollicking good adventure with the Daleks style stories (before the rise of Davros). At the time of first release, this was a joyous thing. Since then, of course, we’ve had Davros free Dalek stories aplenty back on TV (although that old fashioned Nationesque feel is seldom revisited).
