Last of the Time Lords

[kalleah]

I'll cut everything except my excessive relief at finally having seen it.  :)

Hmm.

I think I liked it, but I'm not entirely sure.  Let me mull over my response in handy bulleted format.

• WTF was with the creepy chibi!Doctor?  I felt the overwhelming urge to smack Uncle Rusty on the snout with a rolled up newspaper and say "no" in a firm voice.
• John Simm was wonderful although not as cool as the last episode ... but really, he so completely rocked in the last one that I can't fault him for that.
• WTF with Lucy?  I got that she went batty, but why shoot him?  I mean, someone clearly needed to.  The Master as the Doctor's pet in the TARDIS is too squicky for words.  Now, there's a case to be made for Doctor/Master.  I'm not entirely opposed to that, either, but it seems like keeping the Master caged up in the TARDIS is a lot like what the Master did to him.
  
• I loved, loved, loved the Master's death scene.  Tennant is a superb actor and I just ached for him being all alone, again.
• Yes, the funeral pyre was a little Return of the Jedi.  No Ewoks though.  Look on the bright side.
• The woman's hand picking up the ring was a little wrinkly.  I don't think it's Lucy.
• I do love how they undid the Toclafane's arrival and still had Martha et all remembering what happened.  It would be a damn shame for the Joneses and Jack to go through that and then just forget.  The population of the Earth?  As usual, better off not knowing.
• Jack as the Face of Boe?  WTF?  (I seem to be saying that a fair bit.)  One assumes that as a time traveler that he'd have heard of the Face of Boe.  Seems like a weird thing for him to toss out then, but I guess it does answer the "does Jack die" question.  He dies in the year five billion as a big head in a jar with no penis.  (One assumes.)  I suspect for Jack, the whole lack of a penis thing is more awful than the whole unable to die thing.
• The Doctor invited Jack along.  Yay.  And of course he messed with the vortex manipulator.  He had to.
  
• Rose moment.  The Doctor didn't say "second best to whom?" either.  He's just rude enough to say that, too, if he didn't already know.
• The HMS Titanic busts through the wall of the TARDIS?  I guess a really big-ass boat is stronger than the assembled hordes of Genghis Khan.

I want to watch the Confidential, but I can at least get through for a day or so until I do so.