Vague thoughts on Last of the Timelords
Jul. 1st, 2007 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafDear Doctor. You are not the Messiah. You're a very naughty boy.
And yes, Jack, same goes for you. Only with more force (though hey, at least you're the right species for it).
I watched LotT with some people from Taurithorn and Doc Soc, thanks to the kindness of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
parrot_knight, which certainly added to the enjoyment.
I must think further on it; the whole idea of story-telling saving the world is good, Martha is generally fabulous, though I wish she hadn't gone back to burble on about her crush. I half expected her to turn back to see the TARDIS dematerialise, a la Tegan in Revelation of the Daleks, actually. Rusty's theology is on crack (not the incense-flavoured brand I go for, either!), and so is his grasp of plotting. I could live with Mini-Doctor (the image capture work was certainly fabulous), but honestly, the rejuvenation and resizing sequence... Debate as to what colour the Mystic Glowing Effect of Dea Ex Machina-iness would be next year. My money's on purple. Bonus points to whoever countered the reasonable question as to why the Master's psychic transmitter had a reciever in it which allowed the system to be overloaded with the argument that 'But in Doctor Who, all polarities can be reversed!' ('Sounds like a slasher's manifesto' said someone else). I do feel deeply for Jack - annoying though I often find him - there's a deep and sad irony about someone that, er, tactile and approachable ending up as a head in a jar (though how, if he just keeps physically recovering from trauma?)
Lucy - well, the actress played it well, but it would have been nice if she'd had the odd line or too (and was the misogynistic jibe really necessary?). I'm currently of the opinion that the Master possesses her before his body dies; hence the scene where she picks the ring from the pyre.
And oh, those final scenes between the Doctor and the Master were brilliant, and sad - and though I've just been slagging Rusty's theology off, the Master's "I will die because it's the only way I can stop you winning (and evade your love and forgiveness)" is as good, and terrifying a depiction of the mentality of damnation as you could ask for, really... Though it's rather undermined if my theory about the Master surviving is true after all.
And yes, Jack, same goes for you. Only with more force (though hey, at least you're the right species for it).
I watched LotT with some people from Taurithorn and Doc Soc, thanks to the kindness of
parrot_knight, which certainly added to the enjoyment.I must think further on it; the whole idea of story-telling saving the world is good, Martha is generally fabulous, though I wish she hadn't gone back to burble on about her crush. I half expected her to turn back to see the TARDIS dematerialise, a la Tegan in Revelation of the Daleks, actually. Rusty's theology is on crack (not the incense-flavoured brand I go for, either!), and so is his grasp of plotting. I could live with Mini-Doctor (the image capture work was certainly fabulous), but honestly, the rejuvenation and resizing sequence... Debate as to what colour the Mystic Glowing Effect of Dea Ex Machina-iness would be next year. My money's on purple. Bonus points to whoever countered the reasonable question as to why the Master's psychic transmitter had a reciever in it which allowed the system to be overloaded with the argument that 'But in Doctor Who, all polarities can be reversed!' ('Sounds like a slasher's manifesto' said someone else). I do feel deeply for Jack - annoying though I often find him - there's a deep and sad irony about someone that, er, tactile and approachable ending up as a head in a jar (though how, if he just keeps physically recovering from trauma?)
Lucy - well, the actress played it well, but it would have been nice if she'd had the odd line or too (and was the misogynistic jibe really necessary?). I'm currently of the opinion that the Master possesses her before his body dies; hence the scene where she picks the ring from the pyre.
And oh, those final scenes between the Doctor and the Master were brilliant, and sad - and though I've just been slagging Rusty's theology off, the Master's "I will die because it's the only way I can stop you winning (and evade your love and forgiveness)" is as good, and terrifying a depiction of the mentality of damnation as you could ask for, really... Though it's rather undermined if my theory about the Master surviving is true after all.