And another thing...
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beccaelizabethYes, I'm still poking at holes in Doctor Who...
Why were there humans with guns?
Not the resistance dudes, that made sense. They've got guns cause they're naughty/heroic.
The guys on the Valiant. There was one guy guarding Jack in his room, the guy Jack got a gun from in the 1500 escape attempt. Then there were a bunch of other guys that shot him because it wasn't a very good escape. And then the Master was surrounded by humans again when he went to get Martha.
Why?
I can think of a writer reason. Toclafane probably cost money. And they don't make very good menace because they're omnidirectional and without eyes. When someone is pointing a gun at you then you see it, but when Toclafane get their spikes out they just get vaguely scary looking, you can't see where they're pointing so the threat doesn't get specific. And if Toclafane were guarding Jack then he couldn't steal a gun. And if there were no human guards on the Valiant then there would be no one for Jack to tell to follow him when they go to blow up the paradox machine.
Which, from a character standpoint, is rather the point. I mean, I can see why he had the Joneses and the massage lady and his wife. All kinds of fun.
Are the guys with the guns just there for his fun?
Because then you have to wonder (a) why they side with him yet switch sides so quick and (b) what precise kinds of fun.
They aren't there for security in any logical sense. The Master had a few invisible Toclafane friends around, made him damn difficult to kill because you never knew what his invisible bodyguard were up to. And then One Year Later they just disappear. There's a random floaty Toclafane around, yeah, but they aren't doing the work on the Valiant that they're doing on the rest of the world. The one place that needs to be most secure is the easiest to find traitors in because there's all those humans but no Toclafane until the last minute. That's just... bloody ridiculous.
Maybe they get bored. That's plausible. And they're a good threat all the time because they might be there when you can't see them.
But... and this is important... why give *any* humans guns?
Toclafane would be up for a bit of slave slaughter any day. So the Master should have had a floaty escort, not a booted one.
Doesn't make any sense.
And it shouldn't be he's crazy and doesn't have to make sense - that's why crazy is such a lazy writing choice.
Why were there humans with guns?
Not the resistance dudes, that made sense. They've got guns cause they're naughty/heroic.
The guys on the Valiant. There was one guy guarding Jack in his room, the guy Jack got a gun from in the 1500 escape attempt. Then there were a bunch of other guys that shot him because it wasn't a very good escape. And then the Master was surrounded by humans again when he went to get Martha.
Why?
I can think of a writer reason. Toclafane probably cost money. And they don't make very good menace because they're omnidirectional and without eyes. When someone is pointing a gun at you then you see it, but when Toclafane get their spikes out they just get vaguely scary looking, you can't see where they're pointing so the threat doesn't get specific. And if Toclafane were guarding Jack then he couldn't steal a gun. And if there were no human guards on the Valiant then there would be no one for Jack to tell to follow him when they go to blow up the paradox machine.
Which, from a character standpoint, is rather the point. I mean, I can see why he had the Joneses and the massage lady and his wife. All kinds of fun.
Are the guys with the guns just there for his fun?
Because then you have to wonder (a) why they side with him yet switch sides so quick and (b) what precise kinds of fun.
They aren't there for security in any logical sense. The Master had a few invisible Toclafane friends around, made him damn difficult to kill because you never knew what his invisible bodyguard were up to. And then One Year Later they just disappear. There's a random floaty Toclafane around, yeah, but they aren't doing the work on the Valiant that they're doing on the rest of the world. The one place that needs to be most secure is the easiest to find traitors in because there's all those humans but no Toclafane until the last minute. That's just... bloody ridiculous.
Maybe they get bored. That's plausible. And they're a good threat all the time because they might be there when you can't see them.
But... and this is important... why give *any* humans guns?
Toclafane would be up for a bit of slave slaughter any day. So the Master should have had a floaty escort, not a booted one.
Doesn't make any sense.
And it shouldn't be he's crazy and doesn't have to make sense - that's why crazy is such a lazy writing choice.
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