S8E2: Into the Dalek (SPOILERS)

I'd love a well done Ian cameo. Could be the Doctor thanking him for finding a spot for Clara and Ian staring at him trying to figure out if it really is the Doctor.

Yep. Ian would be amazing. I have been hoping for him to pop up in the show since his name appeared on the sign!

After recently watching all of Hartnell's run, I absolutely love the original TARDIS team. We've never got the same depth of companion characterisation since Ian and Barbara.

I really liked this one.

I'm enjoying how this Doctor's attitudes have become a little more dispassionate and more focused on the problem at hand from a more pragmatic point of view...like say, the Third or Fourth Doctor would do in a crisis.  His line about Clara being his "carer...she cares so I don't have to" was a great example of this.

I also liked seeing the Daleks be proper, threatening, exterminating, relentless Daleks again.  Its been a long time since they have been "scary."  When Rusty declared "malfunction repaired" I just knew that meant bad news, and sure enough - the episode suddenly turned.

There's a very classic feel to the episode. They feel like proper fearsome Daleks for the first time since "Doomsday."

TinDogRory wrote:

There's a very classic feel to the episode. They feel like proper fearsome Daleks for the first time since "Doomsday."

I'd even go so far as to say "Parting of the Ways" since the Daleks on "Doomsday" were more interested in the Cybermen than anything else, really.

TinDogRory wrote:

There's a very classic feel to the episode. They feel like proper fearsome Daleks for the first time since "Doomsday."

that's how I felt as well

Was Danny Pink being harrassed by everyone a shortcut to getting viewers to like him?