I really like this story. It could have benefited from being a bit shorter but all the characters are really great. I think it is smart to have a human villain along with the Daleks. It makes them more relatable. Sara is fantastic, I would have loved to have her in the show longer than we got, but I also like that this story has consequences. Both Katarinas and Saras feel sad in a good way.
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I watched the 3 surviving episodes and finally ginished reading the novelisation today, and I greatly enjoyed them!
I thought I must have watched the episodes on the Lost in Time boflx set years ago, but having watched them I don’t believe I had. The fact that one surviving episode was a monk one was a wonderful surprise to me, I don’t know how I’d never watched it before. Really hope this gets the animation treatment in the near future, it’s a story with such a grand sense of scale and getting more of Katarina and Sara on screen would be lovely.
I can see why people think the Monk section drags the story down but I love it myself. A character that deserves another screen appearance. The hat the Doctor wears in this part is great too!
I like Mavic Chen but the yellowface is distracting and one of the main issues I have with the story.
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Easily the worst Part of it, I am sure when they animate it, they will probably find a Way to make it well… better, similarly as they did with the Tibetan Monks in the Snowmen Animation
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I watched the reconstruction…that final episode ending and what Sara goes through is a bit harrowing.
Episode was a bit of a long hurdle, and then the weird middle episodes happen and I started wondering if the finale would deliver and I’m glad it did!
Edit: and poor Katarina 
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This is why I want this story returned so badly. I want to see what that entire, intense sequence looked like! It’s probably my favourite missing sequence in all of Doctor Who.
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Watched episodes 1-4 today. I love the tone of this one, it’s proper space opera. I love Sara’s introduction too - them talking about her as ‘Kingdom’ then revealing her as a woman feels like an exciting subversion of expectations for a 60s space cop. I <3 brutal women in 60s DW 
And she is brutal! The way she guns down Bret without hesitation… ouch. And poor Katarina too - it’s been aaaaages since I watched this but even knowing it was coming, it’s still a heart wrencher
This story is really banger!
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Another Day passes, another Soul converted to the greatness that is Masterplan 
Good.
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Only thing I really remember from this one is The Feast Of Steven. But that also might be my favourite single episode of the classic era that isn’t An Unearthly Child, so just for that, this one ranks high for me.
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I know it never will but I desperately wish The Feast of Steven would show up 
it’s too funny, and though it is a tonal whiplash in the middle of DMP, I don’t think it is unfitting. Maybe I just like silly too much but I love it
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But hey, there’s the IL reconstruction! It’s as close to the original we’ll ever get! /j
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be quiet you 
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Had a day of deskwarming to look forward to at work today, so decided to spend the full day watching this at long last. Only been about fifteen years since I first seen Day of Armageddon. Woops.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of the story, from parts 1 through 6. It really is paced extraordinarily well. Not a lot of six-parters keep you quite on the edge of your seat as this one, so it really did surprise me. Bret Vyon is probably my favourite character of this section, although I do enjoy the world-building scenes involving Mavic Chen and the Galactic Council. It helps make the world feel more real, like a lot of time and preparation has been put into this rather it being the scheme of the week.
Probably unsurprisingly, it lost me a fair bit during the Christmas episode and the romp with the Monk. Its fun to have to Butterworth back again, but his cheeky and mischievous demeanour is just completely out of place in this very serious and high stakes game of cat and mouse between the Doctor and the Daleks.
Things thankfully picked back up again during part 11, and we got a pretty tense finale with the aforementioned superweapon that the story has been building up to, the Time Destructor transforming the dense jungles on Kembel into barren wastelands. I especially enjoy seeing Mavic Chen become more deranged over the course of the story, making it all the more humourous when the Daleks give him the boot.
Overall, yeah, a pretty fantastic tale that unfortunately sags in the middle, but starts and finishes very strongly. I can see why this might be an intimidating watch for anyone pondering about it however, but it is worth it. Despite the grand scale of it all, Daleks’ Master Plan certainly is one of the more gritty and harsh stories of the 60’s.
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Currently on episode 8. I will say I really do struggle with the recons, and any I’ve done (barely any) I rated very low. I do hope one day we get animations for all of Classic Who so I can rewatch and see if I like them better that way. I’ll just do the soundtracks for the other ones, seeing as they’re shorter. I just didn’t want to do 5 hours of soundtrack for this
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