While not as annoyingly aimless as last week's entry, we're still getting an absurd lack of bang for our buck. This week, the Doctor is summoned to the Blitz by Winston Churchill himself, for no spectacular reason, only to find that a scientist in his cabinet has "created" a new breed of robotic soldiers -- Ironsides -- that look suspiciously like drab & khaki Daleks. Fascinating premise that immediately goes by the wayside when the Doctor acts totally insane and throws a huge tantrum which results in him explaining that he is the Doctor, and they are the Dalek.

Which is apparently all the proof they needed to prove that no amount of screwing around by RTD et al could make them "tainted" enough to be denied the option of making more Daleks. Their "Progenitor," a flashing pyramidal object about the size of a baseball, believes the Doctor and starts cranking out new candy-colored Power Ranger Daleks whose voices are not as cool and who immediately take out the previous generation for being inferior. Just like kids these days, but with lasers.

Speaking of kids: "Hey, kids! The old Daleks are stupid! Throw away all your old Dalek crap and buy some of this new Dalek crap! Doctor Who is a vibrant and necessary participator in the European economy!"

The mysterious scientist buddy of Churchill is actually a robot produced by the Dalek to precipitate this ridiculous mockery of a story. So after Amy spends the entire episode pretending this version of Winston Churchill isn't a cartoon, by turns boring and offensive, and impressing him with her cardboard spunk, she realizes that robot science guy is the key to stopping them. She's not exactly right, because even though he can turn WWII bombers into Vipers right off the Galactica -- spawning an annoying Star Wars ripoff even less soulless than the Flight of the Cribbens -- he's more importantly some kind of bomb that can destroy the entire world.

The Daleks maneuver the Doctor into letting them go, rather than detonating their scientist/bomb, but then of course detonate the bomb anyway, but it's not actually a problem, because this show is dumb and obviously the scientist is not going to blow up. But first we have to sit through some egregious bullshit about how the scientist isn't a bomb but a man, because once he loved a lassie back on the cliffs of Dover, so memories of her sunflower hair and the scent of her armpits makes him not be a bomb anymore.

The Doctor takes their escape as a huge failure -- just like every single fucking time they show up -- which not only gives this episode its title, but also leads into the next thing, which is: Why doesn't Amy remember the fifty billion times the Daleks invaded Earth over the last four (much less the last ninety) seasons? And what's with the crack appearing every single time?

I must admit, these questions hold some amount of interest for me, because they're obviously important, but mainly are interesting because: What if this show doesn't suck? What if Masturbating Jeff is essential to global security, and the duck pond is important, and Liz 10's mask is a parallel of something to come, and all the rest? Because you know, four years ago we were just hitting the farting Slitheen, Suntanning Daleks and Dickens Ghosts, and I still thought this show was beyond retarded. We hadn't hit "The Long Game" yet, and there was no point at all. You know what I mean?