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beccaelizabethThis was a funny one, but by that I mean both amusing and peculiar.
The Doctor finally gets called back to Gallifrey to be President, and shenanigans ensue.
Leela is there, and Tegan. Tegan has some problems with immigration, so Leela suggests (often) she should just marry the Doctor, since immigration was much easier married to Andred. Neither Tegan nor the Doctor appreciate this suggestion. leela is like "It would not have to be a real marriage," and the Doctor is like "it would not".
So the problem gets resolved by making Tegan ambassador for Earth, which she enjoys thoroughly, and tells everyone about. And she reads up on things so she has Knowledge and Will Tell You So. Is funny. Also her imigration quiz is just Time Lord trivia ala DW pub quiz, and there's one where she's all 'ah, I'm pretty sure this is a trick question' and it's just the sort of stuff no one can ever agree on a single answer for, which is funny.
But then Plot happens and Tegan has a cunning plan that works, but leds to a line like "I didn't mean to do a genocide."
And I personally think there's no such thing as a funny genocide.
It leaves me somewhat concerned when that plot thread wraps in like two sentences wherw the Doctor apparently reckons it was okay cause they made their choices and chose Bad.
I mean, I would have thought the Doctor was very much against genocide, you know?
But they just go home and have more Funny Japes, including reminiscing about that time the Doctor made a food machine make mercury and nearly cost someone a regeneration ie killed them, a funny student prank such as anyone could have done, obviously. His old room being in stasis no one can figure out how to break actually is funny, since it only messes with his stuff whilst having the kind of quirked scale one associates with the Doctor. Also we find out what kind of posters he had up as a student, I think a fusion physicist singer? Which seemed very him.
But then the Doctor enables a 'protest' which involved flooding the Academy by punching a hole in time, which is of a scale one feels might be A Bit Much.
... and I'm skipping whole plot threads, but it kept on mixing the funny and the near extinction, and it's just an odd mood.
Also there was a bit where a newborn TARDIS got looked into a time loop and that was just sad. I mean they make a point of this ship being a new person, and then they do that. Not a funny.
Mixing consequences on this scale with seemingly trivial motives gives a neat view of Time Lord society, and how potentially terrifying they are, but mixing funny with consequences that do not feel at all funny leave one rather at a loss how to react.
So it is an amusing story that seems well told, but I'm not sure what to make of it.
Which kind of works.
Living on this Gallifrey is something you can well imagine letting a TARDIS steal you away from.
but it is interesting to visit.
The Doctor finally gets called back to Gallifrey to be President, and shenanigans ensue.
Leela is there, and Tegan. Tegan has some problems with immigration, so Leela suggests (often) she should just marry the Doctor, since immigration was much easier married to Andred. Neither Tegan nor the Doctor appreciate this suggestion. leela is like "It would not have to be a real marriage," and the Doctor is like "it would not".
So the problem gets resolved by making Tegan ambassador for Earth, which she enjoys thoroughly, and tells everyone about. And she reads up on things so she has Knowledge and Will Tell You So. Is funny. Also her imigration quiz is just Time Lord trivia ala DW pub quiz, and there's one where she's all 'ah, I'm pretty sure this is a trick question' and it's just the sort of stuff no one can ever agree on a single answer for, which is funny.
But then Plot happens and Tegan has a cunning plan that works, but leds to a line like "I didn't mean to do a genocide."
And I personally think there's no such thing as a funny genocide.
It leaves me somewhat concerned when that plot thread wraps in like two sentences wherw the Doctor apparently reckons it was okay cause they made their choices and chose Bad.
I mean, I would have thought the Doctor was very much against genocide, you know?
But they just go home and have more Funny Japes, including reminiscing about that time the Doctor made a food machine make mercury and nearly cost someone a regeneration ie killed them, a funny student prank such as anyone could have done, obviously. His old room being in stasis no one can figure out how to break actually is funny, since it only messes with his stuff whilst having the kind of quirked scale one associates with the Doctor. Also we find out what kind of posters he had up as a student, I think a fusion physicist singer? Which seemed very him.
But then the Doctor enables a 'protest' which involved flooding the Academy by punching a hole in time, which is of a scale one feels might be A Bit Much.
... and I'm skipping whole plot threads, but it kept on mixing the funny and the near extinction, and it's just an odd mood.
Also there was a bit where a newborn TARDIS got looked into a time loop and that was just sad. I mean they make a point of this ship being a new person, and then they do that. Not a funny.
Mixing consequences on this scale with seemingly trivial motives gives a neat view of Time Lord society, and how potentially terrifying they are, but mixing funny with consequences that do not feel at all funny leave one rather at a loss how to react.
So it is an amusing story that seems well told, but I'm not sure what to make of it.
Which kind of works.
Living on this Gallifrey is something you can well imagine letting a TARDIS steal you away from.
but it is interesting to visit.