Listened to Part 1 during dishes tonight. While I still enjoy this one (I find it the second best/second favorite of the first four Dalek releases), the gimmick of Daleks quoting Shakespeare wears off quickly. It doesn’t help that, despite multiple attempts, I can’t seem to get into Shakespeare’s works. Apart from that, it just seems like a repeat of the clock-and-mirror time travel plot of Evil of the Daleks which does it better.
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Listened to Part 2 today. I do think McGann’s the best part of this. We’re starting to get the bits of Day of the Daleks mixed in now with Rebels trying to avert a future/past Dalek-controlled Earth by using time travel, on top of using clocks and mirrors as in Evil of the Daleks. I think this had an interesting hook: Daleks and Shakespeare, but didn’t have enough story for the time alotted. I’m also not terribly found of the music in this one.
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I also noticed that the Daleks apparently use Timonic engines.
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Listening to Part 4 and it ties together Genocide Machine and Apocalypse Element. The Daleks gain “harmonic engines” from the Eye of Harmony specs from Gallifrey and the ability to cast it one second into the future from the temporal shields on Kar-Charat.
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Must have listened to each of those stories at least twice and never made that connection!
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Only 7 stories?
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There, finished this. I still don’t mind this one, though my favorite of these first four is still Apocalypse Element. I feel that this could’ve been better, but it’s not terrible. McGann and Fisher are the best parts and it still feels like a mashup between Evil and Day with hints of Revelation and then added Shakespeare. 4/5 I think.
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Can you suggest any others? Tropes are a huge work in progress so we’re always open to additions.
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Weirdly, I never have a strong opinion of this one. It’s just “the one where Daleks quote Shakespeare,” and every time I relisten to it I’ve forgotten most everything else.
This time, however, I had read the novelisation of Evil of the Daleks, and now I just feel like this is a weird stealth sequel to that story? Which explains why it was a free story in that issue if DWM…
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There is an interesting story in here, somewhere, but be damned if I can find it. For me, it just ends up being gobbledegook, in rooms, with Daleks quoting Shakespear.
Not terrible, but not good by any stretch. A real ‘meh’ story.
2.5/5
My rating system
5.0 Perfect/Fav
4.5 Excellent/Fav
4.0 Very Good
3.5 Good
3.0 Fine/Average
2.5 Meh
2.0 Bad
1.0 Very Bad
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Alas I haven’t heard every single story so can’t add them all myself but feel free to suggest others!
You can even add it directly if you get access to the Improved Suggest Edits form, give me a shout if you’d like that.
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Just finished my relisten and it was as boring as I remember it being. I was finishing up some side content on a game where I didn’t have to focus on the game that much so made listening easier, I don’t think I could have done this otherwise. There’s somw good ideas in here but they are not realised well, and I don’t think I will ever listen to this story again.
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