On its own - the 'big secret' aside - Utopia is a good, exciting episode of the best British science fiction show on television, but taken as part of the greater whole, I appreciated, more than I did in the last two seasons, what Russell T Davies and his team of writers had been building to. Nothing is wasted, everything means something. And I genuinely get a knot in my stomach thinking about what could go down in the next episode:
- how will The Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack escape from the End of The Universe, now that the TARDIS has been hijacked (my money's on The Doctor rewiring a bit of Jack's old Time Agent kit and 'bouncing' them back to 2007);
- what's going on with Martha's family in the 'coming next week' trailer (they seem to be under arrest in the back of a police van);
- will we ever find out what Utopia really is (I noticed that Professor Yana pocketed a disc from the computer that was monitoring the Utopia beacon and have my own theories on that)?
And there's probably a million other plot threads, even from earlier episodes, that I haven't even considered (for instance, Russell said in Doctor Who Confidential that we haven't heard the last from The Face of Boe).
My personal Theory is the the Toclafane are actually the next generation of Dalek...created by the very last Dalek using the human refugees from Utopia as genetic material.
ReplyDeleteSo it would break both of The Doctor's hearts...
1) The Daleks have survived
and
2) The Dalek was only able to do this using the human refugess that The Doctor helped to reach "Utopia"...ergo making him partially responsible
I think creating a new generation of Daleks in this new form breathes new life into an old Doctor Who nemesis.
They may not be as powerful as the original Daleks but they are more plentiful, more maneuverable and -- most importantly of all -- less hard on the ears. ;)