Rewatch Discussion Post: The Sound of Drums

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The Sound of Drums

Favourite moment?
Anything upon rewatching you've noticed that you didn't notice before?
Anything you didn't like about this episode?

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Comments

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Oh boy! Not one of my favourite episodes ever (although not my least fave either!)

I love Martha's "I'll do what I like" and "I don't care" (about it being a trap) comments to the Doctor when she's worried about her family. Already she's become the woman who's going to walk out of the TARDIS door, once this current insanity is over, to go and care for her family rather than continue jaunting around through Time and Space with the Doctor. I love the subtle way she asks Jack to get the Doctor to talk about the Master when Ten's already blown her off about it when they were in her flat. (And I love the way Jack's instantly at home making them all tea in her kitchen.)

The Doctor's recollection of Gallifrey with the superb visuals and the really gorgeous "This is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home" gets me emotional every time.

Martha's expression when Ten says "Oh, I know what it's like. It's like - it's like when you fancy someone and they don't even know you exist. That's what it's like." makes me want to smack him, and Jack's sympathetic understanding makes me want to hug him and Martha.

Ten's irritatingly blithe when he tells Martha and Jack that he's got a plan to stop the Master (when they're inside the Paradox Machine TARDIS)...

Martha's farewell looks towards her family before she teleports are heartbreaking.

And the look Ten gives Jack after Martha teleports conveys his determination to try to give Martha the chance to save them all.