The second instalment of Dalek Empire sees the plan to try and defeat the Daleks move up a gear. The events in this story take place around six months after Invasion of the Daleks and things have got even more desperate. Kalendorf and Susan’s relationship is starting to fall apart a bit. Kalendorf is with Susan to offer her hope however at several points during this story he’s distinctly not being supportive. It was nice the moment that Susan and Alby finally see each other on screen for the first time since the very beginning of Invasion. It had to happen sooner or later otherwise it would just become silly.
Susan’s development continues as she is known now as the Angel of Mercy. Bit of a curious title considering all she’s doing is to keep people alive so they can do the Dalek’s work and then will presumably be killed when its all done. For me the best part of this story involved Susan which sums up how she is someone that cant really be trusted to know who’s side she’s on comes when Morebi and his gang are exterminated by the Daleks after being ratted out by Mendes. She justifies this to Kalendorf by saying that if Morebi had survived then the Daleks would have got the truth out of him and their great big plan would have been found out. Its great working out whether she believes it in her own mind or that it is just a lie to Kalendorf to keep him on her side.
The Pellan/Alby partnership is quite a nice one. You could tell half way through that there is something quite odd going on with Pellan. However there isn’t much time to ponder on that as most of the action between the two takes place on Guria. A planet that with help from the music and sound effects makes it sound like a hopeless place to visit.
The main thrust of the story starts to come to the for front of this story as we learn that the Daleks are after Project: Infinity. This is what the Reinsburg Institute were working on before the Dalek’s attacked Vega 6. This episode was a brilliant one. It develops the characters and manages to portray the size of the Dalek Empire and how it has affected everyone. Nicholas Briggs continues to create an enjoyable story with characters that all have emotional baggage that you know will be instrumental of the main story sooner or later.
Susan’s development continues as she is known now as the Angel of Mercy. Bit of a curious title considering all she’s doing is to keep people alive so they can do the Dalek’s work and then will presumably be killed when its all done. For me the best part of this story involved Susan which sums up how she is someone that cant really be trusted to know who’s side she’s on comes when Morebi and his gang are exterminated by the Daleks after being ratted out by Mendes. She justifies this to Kalendorf by saying that if Morebi had survived then the Daleks would have got the truth out of him and their great big plan would have been found out. Its great working out whether she believes it in her own mind or that it is just a lie to Kalendorf to keep him on her side.
The Pellan/Alby partnership is quite a nice one. You could tell half way through that there is something quite odd going on with Pellan. However there isn’t much time to ponder on that as most of the action between the two takes place on Guria. A planet that with help from the music and sound effects makes it sound like a hopeless place to visit.
The main thrust of the story starts to come to the for front of this story as we learn that the Daleks are after Project: Infinity. This is what the Reinsburg Institute were working on before the Dalek’s attacked Vega 6. This episode was a brilliant one. It develops the characters and manages to portray the size of the Dalek Empire and how it has affected everyone. Nicholas Briggs continues to create an enjoyable story with characters that all have emotional baggage that you know will be instrumental of the main story sooner or later.
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