Doctor Who: The Sound of Drums
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beccaelizabeth'Here come the drums' ... they really did that, didn't they...
The trouble is I was thinking that a *lot*. I mean I was as much *facepalm* as OMG.
This is really not my favourite Master ever. I mean... subtlety apparently became a dirty word at some point. He's a complete nutcase.
'Lunatic... makes him scarier because he's a lunatic with enormous power'
I have to disagree. It makes him a clown.
I love the background from Gallifrey. I love the meta jokes, 'secret brother / too much TV'.
... I love the two thumbs up to "you're insane". I have to admit that. That was just funny.
Everything individually was just funny. 'match [The Doctor] in one liners as well' says RTD. Which... okay, but...
I'm just not sold yet.
It's really difficult to take a screaming running threat to the Earth thing seriously while the Master and his wife are dancing.
I liked that be inspired / run away / go insane bit - Doctor runs, never stopped.
I don't quite like the form of the Master's insanity, because now he's a joke. I mean he's the kind of funny where you think he's funny not making a funny. It's... less fun.
The Confidential seems so proud of it. Look, we drove him nuts! Now he amuses eight year olds!
... *sigh* ...
How much older did the Lazarus zapper make the Doctor? I mean in Leisure Hive he got, what, five hundred years older and was still okay?
Flashbacks to Gallifrey - black time lord in the background. Someone carefully tweaking things.
'Followed script exactly / It's all Russell's fault.'
Yes, yes indeed.
The thing is all the Doctor/Master interaction... well I use the / advisedly. They even went there in the text. "Are you asking me on a date"!
Even watching Teletubbies... "Now that is evolution"... yeah, that's funny.
It's just a bit much all at once.
Okay, I'll try and stop complaining.
I love the Jack revelations continuing, saying he reshaped Torchwood in the Doctor's honour. Yes! We said so! Now... did he do that *before* or *after* Canary Wharf? Because TW suggests he's been there a while, but Jack stresses the thing where there's only half a dozen of them now.
Jack also said about establishing an identity using time travel. Nifty.
The Vortex Manipulator thingy... the way it works instantly and travels in space as well as time would be a problem BUT Jack said it worked as a teleport NOW, so maybe it was a time travel only thing before and he couldn't have used it to get away from the spaceship.
... or, you know, they don't worry about continuity as much as we do.
Jack trying to contact Torchwood / the Master sending them to the Himalayas... (and now I'm getting amusing images of Team Torchwood chasing around the mountains in the middle of nowhere) (though the killing one in ten thing could be, you know, a problem).
Other Jack thing... - 'Perception filter / like when you fancy someone and they don't know you exist' Jack and Martha share a look. "You too huh?"
a) hee
b) aw!
because it implies that what we saw is what he got! Sad!
Martha doing all that driving and charging around and her family being put in danger and everything is just great fun. Jack doesn't get the personal tie to the story, Martha and the Doctor do. Because it's their show.
Freema did the driving??? Outstanding! So cool.
Martha's family being put in danger on purpose, Tish being part of a trap, that's cool and makes it much less randomly coincidental for the win.
"because the Doctor's three steps ahead of him to really match him you need someone who can match that, who can match him intellectually, and who is one of his own, who is who the Doctor might have become if the universe had dealt him a slightly different deck of cards"
yes
this is the point
... matching him in clowning was never something I thought quite necessary ...
"it's actually he wants to look the Doctor in the eye and know that he's defeated him"
yup
got to know he's won
I want to know what the Toclafane are.
Would break the Doctor's hearts...
now how much could fit in that description?
Also - you know all that fic that got written because Jack had the Doctor's hand?
the Master had the hand.
... JB on the confidential is wearing his glasses and I get all distracted.
... I don't know why that's so cute ...
The Master's wife is just an odd idea... he got married! To someone just as nuts as he is!
And he calls her his faithful companion.
The compare/contrast is... fun.
She says she chose him, for better and for worse...
and yet she's having so much fun when things go boom.
I'm vaguely reminded of Drusilla, only she doesn't seem half as insane in the floaty way.
I like it that Martha's dad risked warning her, and I still like it that her mum thinks the Doctor is dangerous, because really she's right except for how she's wrong.
I also like it that the Master tells Tish to just stand there and look pretty. Because it's the evil guy who isn't valuing women properly.
So we know who's going to kick his arse.
Stuntman on the bullets and car bit: "I was face down in the car with my bum towards John."
... *lol* ...
I think I loved much more of this episode than I didn't like. But the cumulative effect of the Master is *facepalm* even when individual bits are all cool.
Offering jellybabies... that's just funny.
Oh, and they killed the President! And you could totally tell they were going to do that because he tried to take all the credit and edge out the UN.
Oh, and the coolest thing - UNIT have a flying air craft carrier. UNIT. Flying. Base.
OMG that's just soooooo cool.
If the Master designed it then it can't be more than 18 months old, probably a lot newer.
"It's your fault, all of you, you voted Saxon."
Is actually a pretty good comment to drop in a show. Vote for badness = get badness. Message!
Using CCTV to follow Team TARDIS around is nifty and logical.
Using the TARDIS keys to be personally as invisible as the invisible lift the TARDIS made... very nifty indeed.
And that the Master could see through it, entirely logical, and he ignores them because clearly what he wants most is an audience.
And Saxon stepped in to the gap when Harriet Jones got stomped, 18 months ago, meaning the Christmas the Doctor got rid of her, right? So the Doctor made the gap and the Master exploits it.
oops.
:-)
Toclafane have to have to do with either Utopia or Gallifrey. Right? Those are the high stakes heart involved places we've been shown in this story?
"laser screwdriver" = fun.
'His screwdriver is bigger than mine' = lol
I love that bit where Martha is all "mum" sad-head-tilt and in the background the Master is immitate/mocking.
Turning the TARDIS into a weapon = scary, because it's supposed to be the safe place and instead it makes the danger.
Paradox machine = really dangerous.
And making me think Utopia or Gallifrey still because either would involve time travel and making ended things not end which makes paradox.
But I have no idea and I'm avoiding spoilers like seriously. Nobody spoil. I mean it.
Still can't believe they used that music.
I admit I've been listening to it all week but I'm used to being the more insane one.
(ETA: Though taken as a politics joke it do get funnier. "Things can only get better" would have been most amusing...)
... basically that was a lot of fun. And if I play along it is fun for me too. And they did much coolness. So. I think I liked it.
Okay, time machine, next week *now* pls.
The trouble is I was thinking that a *lot*. I mean I was as much *facepalm* as OMG.
This is really not my favourite Master ever. I mean... subtlety apparently became a dirty word at some point. He's a complete nutcase.
'Lunatic... makes him scarier because he's a lunatic with enormous power'
I have to disagree. It makes him a clown.
I love the background from Gallifrey. I love the meta jokes, 'secret brother / too much TV'.
... I love the two thumbs up to "you're insane". I have to admit that. That was just funny.
Everything individually was just funny. 'match [The Doctor] in one liners as well' says RTD. Which... okay, but...
I'm just not sold yet.
It's really difficult to take a screaming running threat to the Earth thing seriously while the Master and his wife are dancing.
I liked that be inspired / run away / go insane bit - Doctor runs, never stopped.
I don't quite like the form of the Master's insanity, because now he's a joke. I mean he's the kind of funny where you think he's funny not making a funny. It's... less fun.
The Confidential seems so proud of it. Look, we drove him nuts! Now he amuses eight year olds!
... *sigh* ...
How much older did the Lazarus zapper make the Doctor? I mean in Leisure Hive he got, what, five hundred years older and was still okay?
Flashbacks to Gallifrey - black time lord in the background. Someone carefully tweaking things.
'Followed script exactly / It's all Russell's fault.'
Yes, yes indeed.
The thing is all the Doctor/Master interaction... well I use the / advisedly. They even went there in the text. "Are you asking me on a date"!
Even watching Teletubbies... "Now that is evolution"... yeah, that's funny.
It's just a bit much all at once.
Okay, I'll try and stop complaining.
I love the Jack revelations continuing, saying he reshaped Torchwood in the Doctor's honour. Yes! We said so! Now... did he do that *before* or *after* Canary Wharf? Because TW suggests he's been there a while, but Jack stresses the thing where there's only half a dozen of them now.
Jack also said about establishing an identity using time travel. Nifty.
The Vortex Manipulator thingy... the way it works instantly and travels in space as well as time would be a problem BUT Jack said it worked as a teleport NOW, so maybe it was a time travel only thing before and he couldn't have used it to get away from the spaceship.
... or, you know, they don't worry about continuity as much as we do.
Jack trying to contact Torchwood / the Master sending them to the Himalayas... (and now I'm getting amusing images of Team Torchwood chasing around the mountains in the middle of nowhere) (though the killing one in ten thing could be, you know, a problem).
Other Jack thing... - 'Perception filter / like when you fancy someone and they don't know you exist' Jack and Martha share a look. "You too huh?"
a) hee
b) aw!
because it implies that what we saw is what he got! Sad!
Martha doing all that driving and charging around and her family being put in danger and everything is just great fun. Jack doesn't get the personal tie to the story, Martha and the Doctor do. Because it's their show.
Freema did the driving??? Outstanding! So cool.
Martha's family being put in danger on purpose, Tish being part of a trap, that's cool and makes it much less randomly coincidental for the win.
"because the Doctor's three steps ahead of him to really match him you need someone who can match that, who can match him intellectually, and who is one of his own, who is who the Doctor might have become if the universe had dealt him a slightly different deck of cards"
yes
this is the point
... matching him in clowning was never something I thought quite necessary ...
"it's actually he wants to look the Doctor in the eye and know that he's defeated him"
yup
got to know he's won
I want to know what the Toclafane are.
Would break the Doctor's hearts...
now how much could fit in that description?
Also - you know all that fic that got written because Jack had the Doctor's hand?
the Master had the hand.
... JB on the confidential is wearing his glasses and I get all distracted.
... I don't know why that's so cute ...
The Master's wife is just an odd idea... he got married! To someone just as nuts as he is!
And he calls her his faithful companion.
The compare/contrast is... fun.
She says she chose him, for better and for worse...
and yet she's having so much fun when things go boom.
I'm vaguely reminded of Drusilla, only she doesn't seem half as insane in the floaty way.
I like it that Martha's dad risked warning her, and I still like it that her mum thinks the Doctor is dangerous, because really she's right except for how she's wrong.
I also like it that the Master tells Tish to just stand there and look pretty. Because it's the evil guy who isn't valuing women properly.
So we know who's going to kick his arse.
Stuntman on the bullets and car bit: "I was face down in the car with my bum towards John."
... *lol* ...
I think I loved much more of this episode than I didn't like. But the cumulative effect of the Master is *facepalm* even when individual bits are all cool.
Offering jellybabies... that's just funny.
Oh, and they killed the President! And you could totally tell they were going to do that because he tried to take all the credit and edge out the UN.
Oh, and the coolest thing - UNIT have a flying air craft carrier. UNIT. Flying. Base.
OMG that's just soooooo cool.
If the Master designed it then it can't be more than 18 months old, probably a lot newer.
"It's your fault, all of you, you voted Saxon."
Is actually a pretty good comment to drop in a show. Vote for badness = get badness. Message!
Using CCTV to follow Team TARDIS around is nifty and logical.
Using the TARDIS keys to be personally as invisible as the invisible lift the TARDIS made... very nifty indeed.
And that the Master could see through it, entirely logical, and he ignores them because clearly what he wants most is an audience.
And Saxon stepped in to the gap when Harriet Jones got stomped, 18 months ago, meaning the Christmas the Doctor got rid of her, right? So the Doctor made the gap and the Master exploits it.
oops.
:-)
Toclafane have to have to do with either Utopia or Gallifrey. Right? Those are the high stakes heart involved places we've been shown in this story?
"laser screwdriver" = fun.
'His screwdriver is bigger than mine' = lol
I love that bit where Martha is all "mum" sad-head-tilt and in the background the Master is immitate/mocking.
Turning the TARDIS into a weapon = scary, because it's supposed to be the safe place and instead it makes the danger.
Paradox machine = really dangerous.
And making me think Utopia or Gallifrey still because either would involve time travel and making ended things not end which makes paradox.
But I have no idea and I'm avoiding spoilers like seriously. Nobody spoil. I mean it.
Still can't believe they used that music.
I admit I've been listening to it all week but I'm used to being the more insane one.
(ETA: Though taken as a politics joke it do get funnier. "Things can only get better" would have been most amusing...)
... basically that was a lot of fun. And if I play along it is fun for me too. And they did much coolness. So. I think I liked it.
Okay, time machine, next week *now* pls.