Review: Doctor Who Classic: Resurrection of the Daleks

To complete my Davros Story reviews, I present to you 1984's Resurrection, which was the first and only story of Davison's era. It's an Eric Saward script, and so is unrelentingly messy and complicated (For more examples of Saward doing this, see Attack of the Cybermen, Revelation of the Daleks) It saw the return of Davros after five years, this time played by Terry Molloy (who would go on to play Davros in his next two appearances.) This Davros was a much better send off to Michael Wisher, despite keeping some of Gooderson's ranting.
     The basic plot is that the Movellans have created a virus that kills Daleks, and are using it to win the war. They attack a prison ship holding Davros in suspended animation, and release him. He pretends to start work on a vaccine, but instead plots his revenge...
    It's some more of the JNT classic fanwank, taking ideas from all of the past Dalek stories. There's also a sense that it was a little thrown together; Davros seems to be holding the plot by a very thin string while random schemes are thrown about to explain stupid behaviour. For example, the Daleks are A.) Trying to find a cure for the virus via Davros, B.) Trying to duplicate the Doctor and have him assassinate the Time Lords, C.) Duplicating key world figures to collapse Earth's government, and D.) Fighting lots of wars. B.) and C.) are litterally thrown in, mere sentences that may have seemed tense but instead are paper-thin excuses. So, while the characterisation of Davros is sound, the rest doesn't make up for it.

Thanks.

P.S. The commentary's nice though.