YMMV / Doctor Who S22 E6 "Revelation of the Daleks"

• Angst? What Angst?: Peri kills a man at the beginning of this serial. She feels bad for about a second and then forgets about it for the rest of her tenure on the show.
• Base-Breaking Character: The DJ is either really funny or really annoying depending on who you ask. Or to Take a Third Option, he's annoying in the first part but becomes tolerable in the second thanks to his interaction with Peri.
• Critical Dissonance: The story saw mixed reviews from critics, largely due to its dark and violent tone, but is considered by many fans to be one of the best serials from the otherwise divisive Sixth Doctor era.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Orcini, to the extent that many consider him the true hero of the story.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The Doctor finding what he thinks is his grave becomes more poignant when he actually visits his own grave in "The Name of the Doctor".
  • Given what Michael Grade almost did to the series, the working title for the serial, "End of the Road" seems a little ominous... Fortunately, the show just went on hiatus... for now...
  • Davros using human corpses to make food out of was pretty grim to start with. But the Big Finish I, Davros audio dramas make it clear that the same was standard practice in Kaled society while he was growing up, due to the effects of the Hopeless War.
• He Really Can Act: This story is considered by many fans to be Terry Molloy's best outing as Davros after his performance in "Resurrection of the Daleks" was not very well received, due to the concentration on him as the villain rather than the Daleks, and Davros's Magnificent Bastard-ness and dark sense of humour being played up.
• Ho Yay: It's implied that half the reason Orsini is ready to go out with a bang is the loss of Bostock, especially when he caresses his dead friend's face just before he dies.
• Nausea Fuel: Arthur Stengos' head mutating into a Dalek creature.
• Older Than They Think: This story was actually the first time that a Dalek was explicitly shown flying unaided, not "Remembrance of the Daleks". Unfortunately, the effect was so horribly executed that it was near-impossible to tell what was meant to be going on, hence "Remembrance" is the one that most fans remember (the scene was later redone for the DVD release at an angle that more obviously indicates that the Dalek is airborne).
• Sacred Cow: The Sixth Doctor's run is divisive among the fandom, to say the least, but many agree that this is one of his best serials, along with "Vengeance on Varos".
• Special Effect Failure: The story makes the first attempt at showing a Dalek flying unaided on-screen; unfortunately, the end result makes it instead look like Natasha and Grigori get exterminated by a 15ft-tall Dalek which then turns into a fuzzy distortion for no obvious reason. In the DVD release there's a remastered version of the scene, which specifically shows the Dalek flying, exterminating the two, and then being blown up along with the whole incubator room.
• Unexpected Character: Davros, especially considering he was about to meet his maker in his last appearance.
• Visual Effects of Awesome:
  • The Glass Dalek.
  • The Gorn-tastic makeup on the human being transformed into a Dalek while begging for death is an interesting case — it's quite obviously done on the cheap (its cybernetic parts are represented by sequin-mesh), but its cheapness makes it a lot more organic and viscerally revolting to look at than the properly-made latex prosthetics used on later human Daleks were. It was almost certainly made at least partially out of real meat, and a small part of it throbbed pathetically to a heartbeat — again, had it been the whole mask throbbing, it would have come across as less sickly and fundamentally wrong. As it is, the scene is pure, childhood-destroying Squick.
  • Some of the laser effects are quite successful.
  • The explosion effect when Orcini does his Heroic Sacrifice is quite effective.

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