Eve of the Daleks notes
It’s also the extended version like Flux 1
I like that you can obviously see that three should be an S
on the sign but we don’t find that out until later
Nick is very happy to hear she hates Jeff. That’s an efficient way to establish he has a
crush on her
Sara
Is it actually possible to not be able to silent your phone?
Sara is really selling Nick being an old customer that she
finds vaguely exhausting
Nick’s attempts to prolong their conversation are both creepy
and sweet
Sarah clearly hates her work. Is Nick really her ONLY customer?
Nick: Won’t be
long. See you next year.
Sarah: Ugh. Have you been practicing that?
Nick: (Sadly) …Yes.
I like that they’re dealing with lingering threads from Flux
RE: The TARDIS being trashed and still having all the doors. It would be nice if they’d given us a hint
they weren’t just dropping that
I’d love to play chess with a fish.
Shouldn’t there be a safer way to trigger this reset without
having to be inside? Still, the cisuals
of the walls turning is really cool.
Yaz and Dan are united in their contempt for Manchester
Wow those are huge storage units. Not very efficient use of space either. Sarah must have very reasonable rates
Honestly startling to see Nick killed this fast
I have questions regarding Sarah and her mom’s relationship. Her mom’s uncle left the storage pplace to
Sarah? OK
They’re setting up the importance of her mom’s later phone
call quite well.
I’m not sure they ever reallyt pay off the annoying text
alerts thing
It’s so rare that they can afford to show the Daleks just
instantly killing everyone
I don’t like the Daleks’ new machine gun
Nice close to the clod open with them dying. Good hook.
And we’re back at the start of the time loop. But wait, everyone realizes they’re in a time loop, not just one of them.
Nice use of dutch angles
Nice that everyone knows they’re in a loop. Also sweetr that Nick’s instinct is to go
rescue Sarah
Nice effect covering the front doors from escape
What does it say about Jeff that she assumes Jeff will have
weapons?
And everybody has total free will every time to do different
thingsm which is a nice twist
For never appearing, Jeff is quite a presence
The montage of Jeff breaking literally every storage role is
cute. Is it wrong that Beef and beans
sounds good to me?
They keep reestablishing that a call between Sarah and her
mum needs to happen at midnight. Nicely
seeded.
Refreshing how quickly they all are to figure out and accept
that they’re in a time loop.
The number after 11:50 qorrespondes to the number of loops,
which is helpful
The Doctor: Time
loop.
Yaz: Time loop.
Dan: Groundhog day. (awkward pause) Same difference.
Sarah: No no no. Were stuck in a time loop. With killer robots.
Nick: OK, that makes
sense.
Sarah: Does it?
Cute that Nick assumes the best motivations for what Sarah
was doing, when she was just looking out for herself really.
I’m not sure what building control from the council is. I can in fer from context well enough for it
to not matter
Sarah’s mad that it might be the Doctor’s robot just because
she knows its name. That’s a very funny
response to the situation
Very funny gag where Sarah tells Nick to stop being
patronizing and he responds by using her as a shield. That’s solid comedy
LOVE that Sarah addresses how serial killer Nick’s stprage
looks.
Yaz: You have a lot
of ex-girlfriends. They’re… aline still…
aren’t they?
Nick: Oh, God, Of
course. Of course.
It’s kind of sweet that Nick is going to the effort to not
trhrow ex girlfriend’s stuff away.
Sarah: You’re the
reason I’m trapped here with a…a..a robot…
Everyone: Dalek!
Sarah: With a
stupidly named robot!
*** Just Throw Stuff Away!!
Sarah being cruel literally drove Nick to suicide.
She said my Giddy Aunt.
Troughton shoutout.
Callback to resonating concrete
Love that the Doctor decides to use the loop as a tool.
Very nice twist that the loop is one minute shorter each
time
Yaz: Is that a good
thing or a bad thing?
The Doctor: Not
sure. Definitely one of those.
The Doctor’s plan is that none of them should come back to
Nick’s space on the next loop, but guilt drives Sarah to save him anyway
4th time around – starts at 11:54. This time they establish that if they get out
of the building they’ll be clear of the loop.
Dan: You saved the
entire universe last week. I think I owe
you one.
Sarah’s willing to abandon the Doctor, Yaz and Dan. But
cares enough about Nick to rescue him. Mostly
guilt, but it’s progress.
Dan is pretending to be a customer who thinks that the Dalek
is a computer employess
Sarah hasn’t spoken to her mother since August. That’s kind of dark and sad.
Good on Sarah for coming clean about not having tried to
save Nick
Sarah’s trying to be a better person. Sweet
Sarah says that even close friends and family wouldn’t have
bothered to save her. That some seriously
dark implied backstory.
Yaz is still waiting for the moment on the beach when the
Doctor tells her everything that’s happened.
She just wants reassurance that the Doctor feels close to her
It’s nice that the rule here absolutely is that if the Dalek
finds you, it kills you
Sarah isn’t apparently against Nick having a crush on her
Sarah: That is so
stalker-y.
Nick: I prefer unrequited.
And now on loop four, a second Dalek. Who confirms that the time loop is a result
of the TARDIS reset. Which we’d kind of
assumed but is nice to have confirmed.
The Daleks monitored the time loop and sent a soldier to
kill the Dalek in retribution for all the Daleks dying in the flux. But.. if they all were destroyed, who’s
taking retribution exactly?
Dan’s simple pleasure at being alive again is sweet. He’s very Jamie.
The fifth loop starts at 23:55
The Doctor upbraids Sarah for not following the plan, but
Sarah didn’t because she wanted to save Nick instead.
**** My friend Lauren says that good hearted weirdos are
actually the keepers.
LOVE the twist that the shrinking loop means that if they
don’t save Nick in this iteration they wont be able to go back far enough to
save him and he’ll really be dead.
Such a good twist on the format
Have we ever seen someone trick the Daleks into shooting
each other like that before? It’s such a
sci-fi cliché but I don’t think it’s ever been used against them before.
The Doctor’s appreciatuion for Nick’s simple plan of ducking
is sweet
So who put the force field on the front door? Was that the Daleks or the TARDIS? They don’t really say.
SO great that Sarah’s first thought is to talk to her insurance
carrier.
Yaz and Dan have such a nice bond at this point.
Sarah feels so believable as a flawed person
And now there are three Daleks
Loop six starts badly.
The Dalek knocks out the power and kills Sarah right away
And Nick dies right away
GOD BLESS DAN for noticing Yaz’ feelings an supporting her
Oh yeah. Dan had
known her for four years now, hasn’t he
Yaz has never come out to herself. That’s real.
And Yaz and Dan got smoked right away in this loop as well.
Loop 7 – The Doctor is pissed and Jeff keeps fireworks in
the basement.
The Doctor is admitting that this is her fault.
Is it cool for Dan to tell the Doctor about Yaz’
feelings? Good that he refuses to let
Yaz or the Doctor lie to themselves.
The S fell off. That’s
just classic.
Loop 8 will be a decoy loop
Sarah goes upstairs and shows change by being the one who
calls her mum instead of the other way around
Not a fan of Sarah’s sweater
The Dalek just destroyed all of Nick’s Ex-Girlfriends
stuff. ‘Ex. Terminated.’
Cute.
Sarah basically just said ‘call me in 50 seconds’
This is the perfect structure for a COVID production
The Doctor tricked the dalek into firing on the explosives
and blowing things up by having a videochat of Sarah’s mum show up. Nice.
Dan’s really rooting for Yaz and The Doctor.
Is that the guy from Woman who fell to Earth?
It’s sweet that Mary and Nick like one another.
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