The fourth instalment of the DALEKS! animated adventure is "The Deadly Ally".
Last week's episode had ended with a rather underwhelming cliff-hanger, as the Dalek Emperor told the Mechonoid leader that it knew that the big green lighting effect had followed them to Mechanus. It was all a ploy to get the Mechonoids to help them. They deliberately wrecked the planet's defences last week just so, er, they could help them create planetary defences this week...
Getting your entire force wiped out just to get help to create something which you already had seems to me like a very stupid idea by the Daleks - or just very bad plotting by the writer. "We need an extra episode, so let's waste some time here".
The idea of the Mechonoids having personalities, talking like human beings, just seems totally odd. They may have done it in the comic strips years ago, but this bears no relation to the robots which actually appeared in the TV programme.
The Strategist and the red Mechonoid scientist turn the defence grid into a device for sending the big green lighting effect back to where it came from. The Mechonoids then kick the two surviving Daleks off their planet, threatening that someday soon they will come and destroy them...
Some of the animation in these episodes is actually quite good, but this is balanced with some very basic, cheap video game quality work.
There's only one more instalment to go in this series, so it will either be very rushed or simply leave things set up for other parts of the Time Lord Victorious saga. Will I be tempted to find out? No way. Anyone planning to experience TLV in its entirety will need to spend a few hundred pounds, what with all the books, comics and audios (and there are action figures, T-shirts and other merchandise). All this for something which has very little to do with the TV series.
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