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I know everyone is probably sick to death of seeing those words on their f'list, but I need to get out my two cents [g]
Overall, I enjoyed it, though there were parts I liked less than others. Floating glowing Tinker Bell Doctor? Not so much. That was probably the silliest part of the episode for me. Made me think of 'flying Nick face' on Forever Knight. And Gollum Doctor in the bird cage? Okay. Then the Master was doing his song and dance routine, I was thinking of Hugh Grant in Love Actually, dancing and singing around Ten Downing Street.
But on to the stuff I liked! Martha is made of awesome! I loved her before, now she's an official 'girl crush'! when she comes back next series, it would be cool if a few years have gone by and she's an actual doctor. and maybe the cute pediatrician can tag along!
Jack! Jack was pretty cool for a guy that was in chains most of the episode. And I like how he decided to take responsibility for his dysfunctional and socially maladjusted team at Torchwood. Good for him! I wonder how different he'll be when Torchwood comes on again? And the Face of Bo thing? Errr... I'm not so sure I'm down with that, but it's so far in the future, even show wise, that I've decided not to dwell on it. Some other producer could take on the series and change it again, so...
The Master. Other than the Hugh Grant bit, he was much more Mastery for me than he was last week. He had that underlying layer of cruelty that I expect the Master to have. I thought that him smacking Lucy around was an interesting choice. We never see it, but we see the bruises on her face. Now what I'm trying to figure out is if he 'made' Lucy shoot him, and if Lucy's body is what he's using to fake regenerate and then the rest of him in the ring like the watch before that. Unless they're ignoring the fact that the Master can't regenerate anymore, which they might be since the Doctor told him to regenerate. I'm going to have to think on that a bit more. But a female Master would be kind of cool!
Cosmic reset. If everything was set back to just before the rift opened, shouldn't everyone who'd been on the ship be back there? Just asking!
Overall, I enjoyed it, though there were parts I liked less than others. Floating glowing Tinker Bell Doctor? Not so much. That was probably the silliest part of the episode for me. Made me think of 'flying Nick face' on Forever Knight. And Gollum Doctor in the bird cage? Okay. Then the Master was doing his song and dance routine, I was thinking of Hugh Grant in Love Actually, dancing and singing around Ten Downing Street.
But on to the stuff I liked! Martha is made of awesome! I loved her before, now she's an official 'girl crush'! when she comes back next series, it would be cool if a few years have gone by and she's an actual doctor. and maybe the cute pediatrician can tag along!
Jack! Jack was pretty cool for a guy that was in chains most of the episode. And I like how he decided to take responsibility for his dysfunctional and socially maladjusted team at Torchwood. Good for him! I wonder how different he'll be when Torchwood comes on again? And the Face of Bo thing? Errr... I'm not so sure I'm down with that, but it's so far in the future, even show wise, that I've decided not to dwell on it. Some other producer could take on the series and change it again, so...
The Master. Other than the Hugh Grant bit, he was much more Mastery for me than he was last week. He had that underlying layer of cruelty that I expect the Master to have. I thought that him smacking Lucy around was an interesting choice. We never see it, but we see the bruises on her face. Now what I'm trying to figure out is if he 'made' Lucy shoot him, and if Lucy's body is what he's using to fake regenerate and then the rest of him in the ring like the watch before that. Unless they're ignoring the fact that the Master can't regenerate anymore, which they might be since the Doctor told him to regenerate. I'm going to have to think on that a bit more. But a female Master would be kind of cool!
Cosmic reset. If everything was set back to just before the rift opened, shouldn't everyone who'd been on the ship be back there? Just asking!
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Date: 2007-07-02 08:01 pm (UTC)From:Oh, you're definitely right - I rewatched and there are times it's quite noticeable. If you should read anything about this in interviews or something, please let me know. I wonder if there was a scene that wound up on the cutting room floor where there was a one-off smack* or if it's the much more insidious option: Implied spousal abuse. I think it's a really important distinction (character building-wise) and if it's a spousal abuse thing, I just really really want to be clear about it. Not to mention, people have really big issues about that - I wouldn't want to speak inappropriately around certain friends.
* The episode was so non-stop... I could easily see them cutting some sort of scene (for time reasons) where the Master was telling Lucy to do something that she may have hesitated about and he might have hit her (just the once) - A scene like that cut for a hundred reasons... Wait a minute - I just talked myself out of that scenario - It's a kids show, they could never show him hitting her. Which makes the implied abuse all the more strange... This is driving me crazy. If it weren't for the hand-to-face thing, I'd be more inclined to think the actress had an accident with a door and it wasn't part of the show at all.
I hate to get all political about this but it seems really, really important.