Utopia
I was going to do this much earlier today, but many family-based distractions found me first.
Spoilers for last Saturday's episode of Doctor Who
I'd been looking forward to this ep ever since I saw the teaser on Wossy a little while ago, and I was not disappointed. Ok, so the plot itself could have been a little better, but it was more than made up for by the awesomeness of the return of Jack (and his flirting) and by a certain character I wasn't expecting to turn up till next week.
I already knew John Simm would be playing the Master because I was weak and could not resist being spoiled for this. And I'd heard the Sun had reported Derek Jacobi would be regenerating into Simm, but because it was the Sun I though they were lying and completely ignored every clue that the Professor was the Master. When they showed the watch, Martha was convinced it was the same watch we'd seen before, so I thought this must be a future incarnation of our Doctor, deciding to live out his last regeneration as a human. I was pretty glad for the misdirection caused by the Sun cause it made the episode a bit more exciting.
But YANA = You Are Not Alone? Cheesiest. Moment. Evah.
I thought it was really interesting that the Master made a better human than the Doctor. He was helping the human race to survive, and being a bit of a genius. The Doctor on the other hand was teaching boys to shoot at people with nothing but spears, and encouraging these boys to beat each other up, and being a bit rubbish. This makes me think that the Master is not inherently evil, but the things that happened to him before we ever met him made him that way, then all that being defeated by the Doctor just made him more bitter.
And finally, FINALLY! A villain has paid attention to The Evil Overlord List:
"Why don't we stop and have a nice little chat, while I tell you all my plans and you figure out a way to stop me. I don't think."
In short, I cannot wait for next week :D
Spoilers for last Saturday's episode of Doctor Who
I'd been looking forward to this ep ever since I saw the teaser on Wossy a little while ago, and I was not disappointed. Ok, so the plot itself could have been a little better, but it was more than made up for by the awesomeness of the return of Jack (and his flirting) and by a certain character I wasn't expecting to turn up till next week.
I already knew John Simm would be playing the Master because I was weak and could not resist being spoiled for this. And I'd heard the Sun had reported Derek Jacobi would be regenerating into Simm, but because it was the Sun I though they were lying and completely ignored every clue that the Professor was the Master. When they showed the watch, Martha was convinced it was the same watch we'd seen before, so I thought this must be a future incarnation of our Doctor, deciding to live out his last regeneration as a human. I was pretty glad for the misdirection caused by the Sun cause it made the episode a bit more exciting.
But YANA = You Are Not Alone? Cheesiest. Moment. Evah.
I thought it was really interesting that the Master made a better human than the Doctor. He was helping the human race to survive, and being a bit of a genius. The Doctor on the other hand was teaching boys to shoot at people with nothing but spears, and encouraging these boys to beat each other up, and being a bit rubbish. This makes me think that the Master is not inherently evil, but the things that happened to him before we ever met him made him that way, then all that being defeated by the Doctor just made him more bitter.
And finally, FINALLY! A villain has paid attention to The Evil Overlord List:
"Why don't we stop and have a nice little chat, while I tell you all my plans and you figure out a way to stop me. I don't think."
In short, I cannot wait for next week :D