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.

Comments

[starlightmoonla.livejournal.com]

WTF was with the creepy chibi!Doctor?

And here I was thinking that the 100+ year old Ten Doctor was bad the chibi!Doctor...showing his full 900+ years of age was definitely... creepy. But at least The Doctor was alive... :)

WTF with Lucy?

In her review of the episode, teskafuture, brought up the issue of whether Lucy was out for revenge or if it was something that she and the Master had previously discussed. I'm not entirely sure of this one because although we see her joining in with the rest of the world and thinking of the Doctor at 0 seconds, we later see someone picking up The Master's ring... First thought was that it was Lucy but there's nothing concrete.

I loved, loved, loved the Master's death scene. Tennant is a superb actor and I just ached for him being all alone, again.

I started tearing up at the fact that the Master was leaving the Doctor all on his own... as the last of the Time Lords anyway. In the end, the Master did win. And I agree Tennant is superb in this scene.

Jack as the Face of Boe?

I started cracking up at that point! Because honestly as much I didn't see that coming now I can be happy to know that at least Jack...sometime in the future will see Nine/Rose and Ten/Rose again.

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.

LOL. Exactly my thoughts! And I thought the Doctor had already been on the Titanic. Seriously Ten has to work on his driving skills... this is getting ridiculous.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

And here I was thinking that the 100+ year old Ten Doctor was bad the chibi!Doctor...showing his full 900+ years of age was definitely... creepy.

In thinking about this again ... the chibi!Doctor had a tiny pinstripe suit. That really disturbs me.

In the end, the Master did win.

He did, he did. ::sniffles::