Here Comes The Master

[eumelia]

Friends tell me I wasn't the only one who flashed to John Barrowman in The Producers while watching Doctor Who: The End of Time (Part 1)?

I've been humming:
And now it's...
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay!

Tell me that doesn't encapsulate the entire ep!?

Don't know what I'm talking about? Don't want to know what I'm talking about? Here Be Spoilers:

First of all... it was so homoerotic I didn't know what to do with myself. Tennant and Simm have chemistry like whoa!

Wilf was lovely. There were two times during the ep that I got chocked up and started crying like the baby I am; once was when the creepy lady accused him of "not doing his duty" as a soldier - "You never took a life".
His reply:
"Don't say it like it's shameful".
That, right there, was just beautiful. This is why I love RTD, sometimes he misses, but his insight can be staggering in its depth - the whole ep revovled around Wilf's activity as a soldier - Humane and searching for answers.

The second time I burst into tears, was in fact the first time, was when the Doctor started crying. God, his loneliness and despair - is it any wonder he seeks out the Master.

The Drums are His Hearts beat! DUDE!

Was it just me, or was there a whole slew of implicit sexual kinks and taboos scattered throughout the episode?
Not just me and my kinks?
The Naismiths (anti-Smith!!!!) were incestuous, yes?
Just making sure.

Simm in bondage (a collar held by a guy in livery!) is a sight for sore eyed, really. RTD and the designers are naughty.

The Ood were great, I'm very happy they're central after being shown as nothing but a slave race to be used and abused.

God, the Master Race. I seriously began humming "Springtime for Hitler", sue me.

I'm not positive where they were going with this, it was cracktastic and there were lots of openings that were suddenly closed - also the dichotomy between the Coven of Saxon's women (I really hope RTD killed off Lucy simply for the Master the rise), which was a tad, um, how you say, sexist in it's portrayal, nay?
Especially when its parallel are the Time Lords coming to (maybe?) save the Human Race from remaining the Master Race.
The dichotomy between the two groups was vast.

The Obama jokes were hilarious.

Donna was lovely, so sad, lonely and indeed making due - god I love her attitude:
"Are you shouting... at the air?"

I'm still unclear about what exactly went on, maybe I'm slow. I read in one of the other reaction posts that this was a kind of reversal of what happened in The Empty Child and the The Doctor Dances, which is a very interesting view to take - considering I viewed Waters of Mars as a reversal, in a way, to Fires of Pompeii - because here is a malicious erasure of the human race, while in the 1st season eps the people were zombified by accident and fixed.

Jack! Where art thou!? God, poor man. It's established that this is happening after Torchwood:Children of Earth, so he's gallivanting god knows where, but if he's on Earth (which I suspect he is, because frankly the whole "Hitchhiker's Guide..." thing looked like a melodramatic show he put on for Gwen's benefir) he must think he's gone bonkers, that he's finally snapped, because that Year on the Valiant, 2000 years below ground, losing your brother, your lover, your daughter and grandson takes its toll.

I'm really proud of myself for mentioning the third season finale in my previous post, because I get the feeling that the same sort of thing is going to be necessary to save humanity.

The Doctor has also reached the end of his tether - despite being nominally pacifistic (no guns, but yes swords, he's got style!) the trailer indicated that a gun by the Doctor is going to be used.
Against who is unknown, but dude, the Doctor is going to use a gun!

That's all for now.
I can't wait for next week!

Comments

[ayalanetzer.livejournal.com]

I think (OR RATHER HOPE) captain jack will return in the next episode.

HERE'S COME THE MASTER RACE. Totally the producers.

Also, the Master in bondage is a reference to the silence of the lambs..

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know it's a reference to Silence of the Lambs.

It was still hawt!

[ayalanetzer.livejournal.com]

of course.

Also, John Barrowman was asked alot of times if he's going to be in the end of time, and eventually it was a yes.
There can't be such a dramatic doctor who special without captain jack.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I realised long ago that Jack will be there, I'm just wondering what he'll look like... I mean, I'm hoping for some cohesion when it comes to him, but I'm not expecting much.

There is consistency with the Doctor, with Jack, not so much.

[rm.livejournal.com]

For an episode that I thought was pretty much a miss (but possibly redeemed by the second half) it contained so much smartness. Good fandom fodder, not great TV though.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

And madness. I had a hard time following what was going on, because there were so many different plots that suddenly popped up - the woman in the television (Idiot's Lantern, but smart this time), the Cacti people, the Time Lords appearing, what's with the Ood!

It was smart and all that I mentioned were things that touched me specifically. D'oh! I didn't mention Wilf's Search and Recon team of elderly flirts, which were great!

I really do hope the second part is redeemable.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Also, what the Master did to the human race? Echos of The Doctor Dances. Which gives me great hope for the role Jack might play in this.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I'm really worried about Jack being on a planet of Masters! I'm convinced he hasn't actually left Earth, but that's just me - where is he going to go?

Did you read my previous post? I talk a bit about Jack and his role in the Whoniverse. I'm pretty sure the reason the Doctor is/was squeamish about Jack (I'm still bitter about Utopia...) is that he really doesn't understand what he is, just that he needs him in the future/past (wibbly wobbly).