Pirates of Dark Water... [SPOILERS! FOR DOCTOR WHO SERIES 8, EPISODE 11]

Nov 04, 2014 22:49

...was a fairly whacked-out cartoon they used to show on Children's BBC back in the early 90s. It was about this alien planet (I assume) where there was, well, a lot of ocean. A bit like Earthsea or somewhere. And pirates. And "dark water", which was like this Lovecraftian abomination from the Beyond, one part oil slick one part The Blob, which was ( Read more... )

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clocketpatch November 5 2014, 01:14:50 UTC
1. When she said, "I'm the Time Lady you abandoned." My first thoughts were Evil!Romana? Nooooooo.... though I suppose it could've been done okay if she was working to restore Gallifrey/wasn't actually evil/was secretly fighting the 3W people. My next thought was Susan, which, after the kiss, made me gag quietly for a bit. I was glad when the Master reveal which everyone was expecting happened ( ... )

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dbskyler November 5 2014, 01:26:49 UTC
the Master's immediate switch to female pronouns.

Well, to be fair, we don't know how long the Master has been female. Perhaps she's had a few centuries to get used to it.

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clocketpatch November 5 2014, 01:59:43 UTC
Good point. And, like I crack!theorized above... I think Missy and Clara have some connection.

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justice_turtle November 5 2014, 04:35:26 UTC
The only time I've written a Time Lord/Lady (the Doctor, in my case) who regenerates into a body of a different physical sex than all their previous bodies, I think I headcanoned that Gallifreyans seldom or never have any innate gender identity -- it would be such a pain to deal with, if you had a fifty-fifty chance of acute gender dysphoria after every regen. Much easier to be agender or genderfluid as the norm.

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jjpor November 5 2014, 21:52:34 UTC
That seems a very reasonable take on it, tbh. I know different people have different opinions on this aspect of Time Lords, but to be honest the onscreen evidence is so patchy that it supports more than one interpretation.

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jjpor November 5 2014, 21:48:57 UTC
1. The Master was, under the circumstances, the least worst option, I agree. Susan?! Ewwwwww.... O.o I know what you mean about Moffat's attraction to femmes fatales - I think the most annoying thing about just about every Sherlockian adaptation featuring Irene Adler apart from the 80s ITV series with Jeremy Brett is that she wasn't even a femme fatale in the original Conan Doyle story - her and her fiancé are the only goodies in that story, and that includes burglars-for-grubby-money Holmes and Watson! ;D ( ... )

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