@Joel Pickering
It doesn’t feel tired to me, and we haven’t all lost ‘faith’!

I think if you stack up these first three eps, against the first three eps from the previous four series, you’ll see that the start to this year, story wise, has been at least as good.

Too much talking, not enough action
Kids are bored and so am I

@pirko
Eurovision won’t postpone Doctor Who this year, unless the Beeb want a lot of people down their throats for sticking a gap between Episodes Eight and Nine, and I definitely can’t wait a week, let alone two weeks to find out what happens to the Silurians!

Oh, yeah: ratings! To be honest, I wasn’t expecting high overnight ratings given everything that’s been going on with the Icelandic Volcano and the fantastic weather outside.

However, the final ratings will no doubt be around 10 to 11 million considering this was one of the best Dalek stories of all time.

@TE
I’m not expecting as high as that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it went over seven, which would be ver respectable.

I like the Daleks as much as the next fan, but as someone pointed out this was the sixth Dalek episode in five years. There have been strong Dalek episodes (excluding Daleks in Manhattan, or whatever that was), but it’s time for a break! And I really hope they get rid of the Power Ranger colors. The white Dalek was quiet good but by the time the lime green one appeared I was wishing for the black and white DW of the ’60s

Judging by the trailer next week looks incredible, with River Song and the Angels! And remember, Moffat seems to do better with the two-parters. All of his two-parters have been my favorite episodes of the last five years

Been a Who fan since the 4th Doctor, and anyone who also has should know the ebb and flow feeling of a transitioning doctor. Everyone has their favourites, their ‘ok’ one and their unlikeables. Smith reminds me a lot of Troughton and Davison. Tennant was great but his era has past, and any long term fan should know that feeling. Remember that the reason we HAD such a massive hiatus was that fans weren’t warming to certain aspects, we don’t want that again.

Victory of the Daleks was a great episode, and the way i see it, Moffatt brought them back in the same ambiguous way RTD always did.. but for the last time, he’s finally (RTD never did it) given the Daleks a free opening to return. RTD always failed when it came to the whole “If you’re gonna reuse characters, don’t kill them off.. multiple times” routine, I’m just glad that the Daleks finally have a stage to launch from next time where we DON’T require a somewhat bad explanation as to how they’re back.

@Revenant
There was actually once when RTD didn’t kill off the Daleks: Doomsday. And then Helen used the same plot device to save Dalek Caan in Evolution of the Daleks. And then Russell brought him back as an annoying, yet awesome, mutant.

But, yeah, I totally agree. That’s why Victory was a fantastic episode: because the Daleks survived extinction and escaped from the Doctor and have headed back to the future/present day.

@TE
I too love the fact that the Daleks (failing to blow up the Earth aside) completed what they had set out to do; they won.

@TE
Amen.

I didn’t think this episode was as good as the others- it didn’t stay with me for very long and I forgot it quickly. It was good though, just not brilliant. I’m not too keen on the new design, I don’t think they look very scary, and I’m sad to see the end of the 2005-yesterday design.

I think this series overall is very good, but I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s miles better than the others. I think it’s very harsh to say RTD was terrible- he really wasn’t. If he was, there wouldn’t be half the amount of fans that there is.

@Chloe
RTD did a grand job.

And if anyone is worrying about the audience figures, just take a look at how much the first two eps of the series have jumped up from overnight figures to the actual official figures.

@TWWL
True, people don’t need to watch it all at once in this day and age. They can watch it on different channels and on BBC-iplayer. Keeping this in mind I think the numbers are looking pretty good!

@Chloe
Hear hear! Anyway, I very much enjoyed this episode. The best point of the story was certainly its very title: the Daleks won. But there were some great character beats in there, too; for example the Doctor used pain as a metaphor for humanity and Amy used love. And best of all, never commented on. I like the touch of subtlety.

Anyway, how could one not love an episode where a Dalek says “Would you care for some tea?”