The Last Time Lord - Initial Reaction

[fangrrl_squees]

Okay...

I liked some aspects - the validation of faith as a theme of the season, Martha leaving on her own terms and telling the Doctor why, Martha actually being useful and non-emo, the Master's death¹, the Doctor's reaction to same (which completely fuckin' gutted me), redemption, and why Jack returned to Torchwood²

Of course, there were bits I didn't like. Some bits had me rolling my eyes and groaning come on!. RTD's fascination with weird CGI beasties, the too messianic playing-out of faith as the season's theme (geezus, why not give him a halo and wings while you're at it?), and the face of what?? *grumble* I mean, it's kind of cool, in a way, but rpg!Jack's vanity is not happy about it...

And, please, oh please, let's have Elizabeth Moen playing the Master next season. Please? I want this because a) I've always been a part of the Time Lords can choose their gender school and b) Lucy was so beautifully, beautifully broken by the end of the episode that she'd clearly make a wonderfully nihilistic and insane-beyond-your-sad-comprehension-of-the-term Master. That girl is gone, daddy, gone - and I love it. (Stop being jealous, Trish). Honestly, I think that this was planned by the Master all along, heh - and talk about raising narcissism to new heights!

In other news, my utterly shameless Mary Sue character is having a fine time discussing (er, that's it, discussing) boot fetishism with rpg!Jack, for which I blame the local branch of the Discount Shoe Warehouse, entirely. Man, those boots were gorgeous and if it wasn't for a serious manufacturing defect in the only pair they had in my size... *mutter* But that's another subject entirely...

More thoughts when I've seen the eps again. For the moment, I don't think it was as good as The Sound of Drums but, truth is, that was a hell of an episode to follow, y'know?

PS. Have already laid dibs on the lj comm jackinajar

PPS. And once again, the whole effin' I'm sorry thing came up. Must think on this more, particularly in the light of that final¹ convo between the Doctor and the Master...

¹ - so-called. Btw, I need a good screencap of that ring. You can guess why.

² - dude. Completely called that with rpg!jack, in the AU-ish thing he has going on with genius_mind. Lo, I am rife with smugness.

Comments

[snuffkin.livejournal.com]

Oh God, the Dobby/10 Mix was so awful... it really spoiled a lot for me :(

[fangrrl-squees.livejournal.com]

Dobby! That was what it was reminding me of. Thank you!

*shudder*

Yeah, it kinda grated on me, too. Why not just keep piling on the extreme-old-age look, y'know? *sigh* RTD will have these little weaknesses...

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

The only thing that bugged me about DobbyDoc^TM was the eyes. In 900 years, I could perhaps see shrinking and extreme frailty, but if so, the eyes were too big. As for JackInAJar, I think (especially having heard that RTD mentioned in commentary that he doesn't know if it's true or not, that he "threw it in there") either Jack's nickname came from his friends knowing of the real FoB and/or Jack was pulling their legs.

This ep was proof of the danger of spoilers for me as well - having read about a lot of what happens beforehand, I watched with trepidation only to discover it played out much better than anticipated with spoiler knowledge. I enjoyed it, and like you I want to see Lucy Master. :-)

(And if you want to look, I have minireviews/rankings of series 3 here.)

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

DobbyDocTM

ROTFLMAO!

...was the eyes.

Yeah, but have you seen *Tennant*? I thought that was *hilarious*!

[fangrrl-squees.livejournal.com]

I'll admit, I thought that was one saving grace, as far as it went, they eyes were spot on... ;)

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think that this was planned by the Master all along, heh - and talk about raising narcissism to new heights!

It was pretty clear to me that his "death" was all a set up, but it didn't occur to me that he might inhabit *Lucy*... That would be so freakin' AWESOME!

Damn it! I had a really, really good scan of that ring and now I can't find it! It was from one of the groups - A scan of the Radio Times cover, I think... Augh!

[fangrrl-squees.livejournal.com]

It's overreaching, I know, but I like to think that the Master shifted his awareness, so to speak, to Lucy *between* TSOD and TLTL - but leaving the worst, more unmanageable aspects of himself behind, which was why he was even more OTT than before, in TLTL and why Lucy's contempt was so obvious, but ignored by 'The Master' - it was one part "Oh dear god, did I really get *that* bad?" and one part "gotta set up the premise to kill myself, yes siree" - and, also, Lucy's sheer brokenness can be attributed to the Master sliiiightly overdoing it when trying to pretend that Lucy Saxon was as she always had been.

As I said, I'm overreaching, but that's one of the joys of being a fan: fanon.

Of course, watch those red fingernails be one big red herring... *grins*

I've heard about that Radio Times - I really hope someone scans it!

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

I see what you're saying... But I don't think so - It seemed pretty clear to me that what the Master did was position Lucy to kill him if the going got rough, then he fed himself into the ring, and then Lucy had orders to go get him. We'll see - I suspect they won't go anywhere with it for quite a while and who knows if the actress will be available?

BTW: Here is the scan I was talking about: http://cane-tie.livejournal.com/21199.html

[fangrrl-squees.livejournal.com]

Indeed, we'll learn more next year, I'm sure. :)

Thanks for the link to the scans!

[neko-san.livejournal.com]

There's a macroed screencap of the ring at the bottom of the post here.

Oooh, do any of those symbols look suspiciously like those on the watch?

[neko-san.livejournal.com]

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