The Sound of Drums
Jun. 23rd, 2007 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlAnother cliffhanger, sigh. How do they get out of this one?
I cannot believe they actually used that song—it must have been in-universe and not just a soundtrack, because Lucy was tapping her feet to it. So far she seems to me to be a bit of a pointless character. Saxon's taking over the world, people are dying left right and centre and she just stands there smirking and looking pretty. Actually the Saxons are a bit Darth Ten/Rose, he's on e numbers and she's blonde and giggles.
So as far as the Jones are concerned, four days ago they were trying to organise Leo's birthday party. Even for the stuff that happened on their end it seems a little rushed. And it's 18 months after the fall of Harriet Jones, so they're still running real-time except for Rose's missing year that they seem to have completely forgotten about. Oh, and I suppose it would have taken a few months for Harriet Jones to actually go, so say summer 2008. Oh, I do like that Ten bringing down Harriet left room for Saxon. Hubris again.
Martha's background is being destroyed in a way Rose's never was. Her home's just been blown up and her family are hostages, and there are enough of them to make one nervous. Jackie got chased around by Peril of the Week, but she and the flat kept turning out all right. Actually, if the Joneses just operated off a basis of 'Tish's new boss is criminally insane', they would have a much easier life.
There were a couple of moments in this when I went, 'oh, Sam Tyler'—when Saxon threw all the folders into the air, for some reason, and when he was standing in front of the drawn blinds. But mostly I wasn't. The Master is delightfully insane. I loved the jelly babies, and the Teletubbies, and sending Torchwood off to the Himalayas, and knowing what 'decimate' really means (dictionary geek!), and 'I think it's down the back of the settee', and his demonstration of 'funny' and 'not funny', and his cheeking the President was lovely. First Harriet tells the President to back off and then Saxon mocks him and has him chewed up. I think the DW team don't like him.
I am not convinced by a flying aircraft carrier. How was it staying up, anyway?
Why does this season keep swapping pretty David Tennant for aged wrinkly? We're not paying our TV licenses to look at Methuselah, you know, Rusty. And I thought Time Lords didn't really age, how come he didn't just regenerate instead? Oh, dear, I do hope that isn't how we end up getting rid of aged Doctor. And is he going to start turning into a cannibal lizard now? See, Doctor, that's what you get for leaving Jack behind so he has to track you down using your hand.
I was a bit disappointed that we learned no more about the Futurekind and Utopia. Now we have the floating balls and whatever the Master's done to the TARDIS (no!!) to be explained. I suppose the paradox generator was causing the rip in the sky? And that whatever name the Master gave the aliens was the Gallifreyan equivalent of Jabberwocky or something, because the Doctor definitely reacted to it.
Oooh, creepy baby Master. And actual Gallifrey, bit of a change from it never being mentioned in series one—did Nine even tell Rose he was a Time Lord?
I love that the Master is shooting off one-liners and for once in his life Ten is deadly serious. "Are you asking me out on a date?", lol. When the Master asked what had happened to Gallifrey it put shivers down my spine—was he getting a kick out of imagining it, or is he sorry, even a little?
Oh, and he has a cape! With red silk lining! And so he was using the phones, that's a bit like the Cybermen in Pete's world, isn't it?
What's Martha planning to do at the end? Okay, she looks like she's trying to choose between the Doctor and her family, or at least she keeps looking between them, and then she teleports back to earth, but what's she doing? And when did it get off Jack's wrist? I hope it wasn't nobly getting the females to the lifeboats again.
I cannot believe they actually used that song—it must have been in-universe and not just a soundtrack, because Lucy was tapping her feet to it. So far she seems to me to be a bit of a pointless character. Saxon's taking over the world, people are dying left right and centre and she just stands there smirking and looking pretty. Actually the Saxons are a bit Darth Ten/Rose, he's on e numbers and she's blonde and giggles.
So as far as the Jones are concerned, four days ago they were trying to organise Leo's birthday party. Even for the stuff that happened on their end it seems a little rushed. And it's 18 months after the fall of Harriet Jones, so they're still running real-time except for Rose's missing year that they seem to have completely forgotten about. Oh, and I suppose it would have taken a few months for Harriet Jones to actually go, so say summer 2008. Oh, I do like that Ten bringing down Harriet left room for Saxon. Hubris again.
Martha's background is being destroyed in a way Rose's never was. Her home's just been blown up and her family are hostages, and there are enough of them to make one nervous. Jackie got chased around by Peril of the Week, but she and the flat kept turning out all right. Actually, if the Joneses just operated off a basis of 'Tish's new boss is criminally insane', they would have a much easier life.
There were a couple of moments in this when I went, 'oh, Sam Tyler'—when Saxon threw all the folders into the air, for some reason, and when he was standing in front of the drawn blinds. But mostly I wasn't. The Master is delightfully insane. I loved the jelly babies, and the Teletubbies, and sending Torchwood off to the Himalayas, and knowing what 'decimate' really means (dictionary geek!), and 'I think it's down the back of the settee', and his demonstration of 'funny' and 'not funny', and his cheeking the President was lovely. First Harriet tells the President to back off and then Saxon mocks him and has him chewed up. I think the DW team don't like him.
I am not convinced by a flying aircraft carrier. How was it staying up, anyway?
Why does this season keep swapping pretty David Tennant for aged wrinkly? We're not paying our TV licenses to look at Methuselah, you know, Rusty. And I thought Time Lords didn't really age, how come he didn't just regenerate instead? Oh, dear, I do hope that isn't how we end up getting rid of aged Doctor. And is he going to start turning into a cannibal lizard now? See, Doctor, that's what you get for leaving Jack behind so he has to track you down using your hand.
I was a bit disappointed that we learned no more about the Futurekind and Utopia. Now we have the floating balls and whatever the Master's done to the TARDIS (no!!) to be explained. I suppose the paradox generator was causing the rip in the sky? And that whatever name the Master gave the aliens was the Gallifreyan equivalent of Jabberwocky or something, because the Doctor definitely reacted to it.
Oooh, creepy baby Master. And actual Gallifrey, bit of a change from it never being mentioned in series one—did Nine even tell Rose he was a Time Lord?
I love that the Master is shooting off one-liners and for once in his life Ten is deadly serious. "Are you asking me out on a date?", lol. When the Master asked what had happened to Gallifrey it put shivers down my spine—was he getting a kick out of imagining it, or is he sorry, even a little?
Oh, and he has a cape! With red silk lining! And so he was using the phones, that's a bit like the Cybermen in Pete's world, isn't it?
What's Martha planning to do at the end? Okay, she looks like she's trying to choose between the Doctor and her family, or at least she keeps looking between them, and then she teleports back to earth, but what's she doing? And when did it get off Jack's wrist? I hope it wasn't nobly getting the females to the lifeboats again.
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Date: 2007-06-23 09:21 pm (UTC)I am bored with them getting their money's worth out of that prosthetic too.
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Date: 2007-06-27 09:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-28 10:33 am (UTC)I think she's either there to push home the point that Time Lords pick up companions, no one's very sure why, they just do (though in that case the Master definitely has a fawning Type) or as a sly joke about the Master being mad as a cake, but more functional than the Doctor in some psychological areas.
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Date: 2007-06-27 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-23 09:44 pm (UTC)It was designed by a Time Lord. It's magic.
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Date: 2007-06-23 09:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-24 06:53 am (UTC)It would have to be between November 2008 and January 2009, as the President of the United States introduced himself as "President Elect of the United States"...indicating that he won the election of Nov. 2008, but was not in office yet. (Though it seems highly unlikely that Dubya would miss stepping in to
mess up everythingrun the show, as a "lame duck" President, he really would not have much power or anything).no subject
Date: 2007-06-24 09:51 am (UTC)More timey-wimey stuff?
She's behaving in the same way that she did in the bows and arrows sighting.
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Date: 2007-06-23 09:40 pm (UTC)I've been tapping out that rhythm since and throughout watching it. I'm scared.
But the TARDIS!! NO! It's just... criminal and evil and just shows HOW EVIL he really is. The Tardis!