Doctor Who: The Last of the Time Lords

[vilakins]

Most of what I can say about The Last of the Time Lords has already been said.

Martha was great: walking round the earth raising hope and rallying support for the Doctor. I wasn't keen on the floaty glowy Doctor (or what he was preceded by) but Martha totally rocked, and I loved how she laughed while she was kneeling, expecting to die. The constant harping on the unrequited love she has for the Doctor I regard as RTD's fault; Martha has been a great companion otherwise, and could you ever imagine her blubbing on a beach? I cheered as she took her life back and walked away, I assume to meet Doctor Milligan.

Pity that doesn't work out. I hear that she's going to join Torchwood as possibly their first sensible member, though that still won't make me watch. At least they've left it open for her to guest-star next year.

The Jones family I regard as deliberately humiliated by the Master in their servants' clothes (I shall give RTD the benefit of the doubt) just as Lucy was exposed in her red dress and obviously beaten. Because if I thought RTD was that racist and sexist, I would get more angry than was good for me, and I'm still very pissed off about Harriet Jones. You know, I thought the bastard was leaving and I'm very disappointed to hear that was just a rumour.

Professor Docherty was wonderful. Maybe if I wished very hard, she would be the new companion? Nah, no chance.

The Doctor must have had his brains compressed when he was Gollum because thinking he could contain the Master on the TARDIS was plain stupid (what, as a prisoner? a pet?) As was ignoring a bloody great companion who stood by him in 1913 and spent a dangerous year on a defeated earth; he even said in front of her that the Master was the only one he could care for. As others have said, I don't think I like you any more, Doctor.

The Master is coming back. I'm guessing that's Lucy who picked up the ring (is it a significant ring?) but that could be deliberate misdirection. The Master is still around when the Face of Boe (see where pride in your prettiness gets you, Jack?) says that the Doctor is not alone. so he's around then--but hey, time travel is twisty and makes my head hurt.

The Titanic? Oh, that'll be a fun Christmas Special with all those doomed people. If it is the Titanic. I mean, how could an ordinary earth ship breach the TARDIS?

Comments

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing re the Prof. Definitely one of the best bits (and from the POV of the actor it was probably quite a good ep. No Gollum or Jesus-fairy!doctor or anyfin!)

I am 'oh dear'-ing over the Titanic thing, but perhaps they'll come up with something non-painful by xmas. Right? Right?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I felt a bit sorry for the kid who won the part of Creet though. A nasty ending for his hopeful little character.

Riiiiight. With RTD at the, um, helm.

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

I dunno. He might quite like the idea of being a flying Terrahawks thing. :)

What I didn't get was why we didn't see the kid. Did they think it'd be too traumatic? Instead we get 'oh, yeah, and btw I'm not him but we shared all our memories' uh, why not just use one of the existing characters?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

At least one of Saxon's balls (ahem) had a kid's voice; maybe that was him. But yeah, having a kid decapitated and shot was probably too much, even for British family TV.

I wonder if they deliberately had Creet talk of skies full of diamonds as a Lucy in-joke. :-P

[bah; had wrong icon]

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Apparently the actor was a child who won a Blue Peter competition. So maybe they thought it would be too traumatic for him, even though it's pretty clear he must have suffered the same fate.