I usually don't do these, but...
Dec. 26th, 2009 03:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmic_celeryEnd of time Part One reaction post. (plus a bit on the clip from next week)
So, lets start with the required: what the fuck was that? Did I hallucinate this? No? Okay, carrying on...
GALLIFREY. I am so so incredibly excited that we might have Gallifrey back, or if not, an on screen look at pieces of the Time War. Though, from that clip from part two, I get the impression that we're seeing Gallifrey after (or just before?) the end of the Time War...which would fix up some loops like: If Gallifrey was wiped from all of time, how can it still have existed in the past and be constantly referred to? If this End of Time business is somehow related to the end of Gallifrey (timey wimey) that would...bring things together? I don't know. I'm not completely sure any of that made sense.
And that gauntlet thing he has...very Rassilon and/or Omega of you, Mr. Dalton!Time Lord dude.
The Master, back. Okay, I knew that was coming. Although I generally prefer the Master to be more the gentleman criminal than deranged madman, I can say that his crazy hyperactivity was actually scary. Especially that bit where he rubs the food on his face. O_o. I'm not sure what the point was of giving him weird superpowers. I think I might have preferred if he was just himself (but, y'know, fucked up).
The Doctor and the Master can apparently....smell each other? I'm not sure if that's creepy or not. Mostly because it seems to just apply to them, as we haven't seen other Time Lords sniffing around each other's butts before now. And it's a new development, because they definitely didn't have it during LotTL. Mostly it was just odd. Couldn't they just mind-sense each other like before?
I was a bit disappointed at the lack of Valeyard-esque Ten in this. I thought that Waters of Mars might be building up to him making a fatal mistake, hero's hubris, but instead it's leading up to the return of the Time Lords to reel him in? I'm not sure. Maybe it's both.
...and, uh, everyone on Earth turned into the Master, except for Donna and Wilf. I'm not sure about this "Wilf and Donna are important for an as yet unknown reason" thing. It always bugged me a bit when Ten was talking about how he kept running into Donna, and how it must mean something, that nobody's thought of how he kept running into Tegan as well. But maybe nobody cares about Tegan. D:
...and why does the Doctor not turn into the Master as well? Mental shielding? Or because he's an alien? Did the spiky green people stay spiky green people?
I'm still wavering on whether or not I actually like the Master's ridiculous scheme (which, by all accounts, amounts to "Doctor, you love the Earth? Well, now I'm the Earth!"). I do like a bit of cheese in my programs, but that's...a fair bit of cheese. He looks surprisingly good in heels, though.
Also, Tennant does a good pout.
I'll reserve the final vote till part two, but I'm cautiously optimistic.
So, lets start with the required: what the fuck was that? Did I hallucinate this? No? Okay, carrying on...
GALLIFREY. I am so so incredibly excited that we might have Gallifrey back, or if not, an on screen look at pieces of the Time War. Though, from that clip from part two, I get the impression that we're seeing Gallifrey after (or just before?) the end of the Time War...which would fix up some loops like: If Gallifrey was wiped from all of time, how can it still have existed in the past and be constantly referred to? If this End of Time business is somehow related to the end of Gallifrey (timey wimey) that would...bring things together? I don't know. I'm not completely sure any of that made sense.
And that gauntlet thing he has...very Rassilon and/or Omega of you, Mr. Dalton!Time Lord dude.
The Master, back. Okay, I knew that was coming. Although I generally prefer the Master to be more the gentleman criminal than deranged madman, I can say that his crazy hyperactivity was actually scary. Especially that bit where he rubs the food on his face. O_o. I'm not sure what the point was of giving him weird superpowers. I think I might have preferred if he was just himself (but, y'know, fucked up).
The Doctor and the Master can apparently....smell each other? I'm not sure if that's creepy or not. Mostly because it seems to just apply to them, as we haven't seen other Time Lords sniffing around each other's butts before now. And it's a new development, because they definitely didn't have it during LotTL. Mostly it was just odd. Couldn't they just mind-sense each other like before?
I was a bit disappointed at the lack of Valeyard-esque Ten in this. I thought that Waters of Mars might be building up to him making a fatal mistake, hero's hubris, but instead it's leading up to the return of the Time Lords to reel him in? I'm not sure. Maybe it's both.
...and, uh, everyone on Earth turned into the Master, except for Donna and Wilf. I'm not sure about this "Wilf and Donna are important for an as yet unknown reason" thing. It always bugged me a bit when Ten was talking about how he kept running into Donna, and how it must mean something, that nobody's thought of how he kept running into Tegan as well. But maybe nobody cares about Tegan. D:
...and why does the Doctor not turn into the Master as well? Mental shielding? Or because he's an alien? Did the spiky green people stay spiky green people?
I'm still wavering on whether or not I actually like the Master's ridiculous scheme (which, by all accounts, amounts to "Doctor, you love the Earth? Well, now I'm the Earth!"). I do like a bit of cheese in my programs, but that's...a fair bit of cheese. He looks surprisingly good in heels, though.
Also, Tennant does a good pout.
I'll reserve the final vote till part two, but I'm cautiously optimistic.
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on 2009-12-26 01:19 pm (UTC)Btw, the spiky green people did say the Master restricted the template to humans. Wilf was shielded and Donna is apparently still Time Lord enough to be safe. XD
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on 2009-12-26 05:14 pm (UTC)Also, I want Lucy back. =(
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on 2009-12-27 09:23 am (UTC)If Gallifrey was wiped from all of time, how can it still have existed in the past and be constantly referred to?
Before the S4 finale, I would have said "metatime." But RTD's brain can't handle stuff like that apparently, so the answer is that it was never wiped out of time, it was "time locked" (which seems to be a magical force-field of some vague sort). This of course destroyed every interesting idea the fans had come up with.
Strangely enough, I am also disappointed at the lack of dark!Ten. And usually I find dark!Ten annoying. We could have used him here, though.
GL w/ cautious optimism. Hope you're right.