The Chase
All in all, The Chase is probably the most frustrating edit I`ve worked on yet. Some of that comes from the limitations of the material [the production values are pretty shoddy, which is a shame] and partly from having a narrative that takes a heck of a long time to get going and feels like Marinus 2 in places. And variours recent upload issues haven’t helped either!
We start with the coda from the previous adventure The Space Museum, which references the Time Space Visualiser we see later on and works much better as a dramatic pre-credits sequence than the end of a story. Again, I`ve changed the title for this edit as 1] The Chase is a bit shite and 2] as you might expect, there`s not quite so much chasing being done in this version so “Revenge of the Daleks” is a much better title to go with.
Truncating a mediocre six part story into a fast paced forty minutes or so means a lot of omissions and the first significant one is the sandstorm, which we get round pretty easily before the Dr & Babs get captured by the fish heads. Ian`s knock on the head doesn`t have much of an, er… impact on the story [ouch!] and they make it back to the Tardis without too much trouble either.
There`s lots from the original that`s missing here, from the Mary Celeste to the Empire State Building, those incongruous Movie Daleks minus their bases [wtf?] and especially the Doctor`s robot double who looks nothing like him! But it moves along at a fair old lick now and it’s much better for it I think.
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- - January 11, 2012
Wheee! Glad your Fan Edits are back. This one was a nice one.
Cheers Sean – my PC decided to play funny buggers!
So much better than the original one. No more invincible Frankenstein. No more easily subdued different looking duplicate and old man stick fight. No more retarded guy in New York. Why aren’t Barbara and Ian satisfied with New York in 1966? I doesn’t matter because it never happened.
The only thing that threw me was Ian’s knock on the head. Vicki clearly mentions it but what I didn’t get, was how the hell did he get back in the TARDIS?
Regardless, the episode is a vast improvement to the original.
When Vicki and Ian climb down into the tunnel, if you notice he loses his footing. The idea was that he slipped, fell and bashed his bonce. Maybe that wasn’t clear enough, but I didn`t want all that rubbish with the Fish Heads blowing up tunnels.
They pick up Ian on the way to the TARDIS – Vicki knows where she left him – and they escape off-screen without the pepperpots getting in their way. Mainly because the scene where they lure the Dalek into their beartrap is bad beyond words!
Also, why Revenge of the Daleks? I get the need for a new title as their is no chase but did you consider calling it “The Executioners”? It seems like an appropriate and canonical name for the story? I’m not complaining mind you this is just a curiosity?
1] Like I said, there`s not much actual chasing going on 2] Dalek stories are usually The Something of the Daleks 3] It`s a great title
4] The Daleks are after him, and seeking revenge, for him
nobbling their Master Plan, even though it hasn’t happened yet for the Doctor. He probably thinks they’re after him for all nobbling their Planet With A Bloody Great Big Engine Inside It Plan…
It is a great title. I’m warning you, its too great. It’s only a matter of time before they actually release an episode with that name