Doctor Who 3x13, The Last of the Time Lords
Blow-by-blow commentary and review, or, the usual.
I have to admit that I was prepared to rain down the haterade, going into watching this episode, based on things I'd seen and read (why yes, I am a spoiler whore, though in this case spoiling myself for the ending was entirely unintentional). But over the course of watching it, the haterade ending up turning into this weird mix of dread, mere unhappiness, and confusion. In other words, not a whole lot got answered, and a hella lot more got raised and then unanswered. Though--and there will be much more on this later--I can't fucking wait for the Christmas ep. Damn you, Russell T. Davies.
Anyway, on with the show:
Have I ever mentioned how much I love Murray Gold's arrangement of the main theme? It's so wonderfully huge. Also, they better not wait until after season 4 to release another soundtrack compilation.
I found the real beginning of the episode, with the voice warning all space traffic to steer clear of Sol 3 and fading to the shot of Earth with the legend "ONE YEAR LATER", with the underlying guitar music, to be extremely effective. Very bleak.
Though, with it saying it's a year later and Martha saying she hasn't been in Britain for 365 days, does that mean she literally hightailed it elsewhere after leaving the Valiant? (Now there's an episode I'd like to see...)
Loved Martha's tired bitterness while talking to Milligan.
Obviously, the Master has been having a shitload of fun as Earth's Lord and Master. Loved the morning address voiceover with the shot of the Valiant--made me think of Radar's announcements on M*A*S*H.
And here we get my first WTF moment of the episode--Lucy's reaction to the snogging from the Master. She looked rather limp, slightly disheveled, and as soon as the Master couldn't see her face--stone cold. The hell? Guess it's been a long year for her, too. Maybe, even if you're as batshit as your alien megalomaniac husband, the constant grandstanding gets to be a little too much? I dunno. Just wearing my shipper's tin hat here.
LMAO OMFG THE DOCTOR LIVING IN A TENT IN THE CORNER.
Also, someone please explain why there was conveniently a big-ass bell on that dude's desk for the Master to grab and ring to his music? Maybe it's part of his morning ritual. Man, that could make for some awesomely hilarious cracktastic fic--"One Day In The Life of the Valiant".
I loled when he pushed the Doctor's wheelchair off and it hit whatever that was and bounced, and the Doctor just sat there like a statue. Talk about stone cold.
Jack = so much damn love. Adored his upbeat attitude when Tish came in to feed him. Too bad she didn't crack a smile at him (though I can't say I blame her for not). Also, how much you wanna bet Saxon goes back there and kills him at least once a day?
That enormous statue of the Master is HILARIOUS.
Random question to ask, "is there a Mrs. Milligan". Probably only so we could have Martha wibbling over the Doctor. And Milligan is totally already in love with Martha. Martha/Milligan FTW. Fuck the Doctor, she's way too good for him.
WTF #2: Lucy's got a bruise under one eye, and we're probably supposed to infer the Master slaps her around? I don't buy it. I agree with what another review said--if he slapped her around, would he still parade her around and show her off? Also, she doesn't look stone cold anymore. And oy suggesting she "get to know" Tanya. Don't think Lucy was exactly kosher with that idea.
Sweet that the Jones family and Jack and the Doctor all had a plan to try and take the Master out. Though, with their combined mental powers, shouldn't they have come up with that a while back?
Lucy seemed a bit too sympathetic to the Doctor getting slapped down by the Master. FUCK YOU, RTD. (In my own personal canon, Lucy will have gotten that black eye via, I dunno, being in the middle of a melee by some of the Valiant personnel trying to take control of the ship. Hey, there's a fic idea! Write, my fellow Saxonites, write!) Also had no love for her running to hold his coat out for him like a trained pet. HATE HATE HATE.
Hooray for the return of the eerie "Brother and Sister"-esque music.
"Say hello, Gandalf." I loled, will continue to lol every time I see that moment.
Whoa with the organ music. And Jack's palpable "oh shit" expression.
Weird that the Master shared a look with Lucy before he bent down to get a good look at mini!Doctor? And speaking of that--the shot where the mini!Doctor is revealed was really excellent. Good CGI, very haunting and low-key music.
Again, with the shot of the Valiant's bridge at night and the mini!Doctor in the cage--very haunting. Murray Gold's got my kudos again.
WTF #3: When the Master and Lucy come back to the bridge and the Master says "tomorrow they launch", Lucy is having obvious trouble walking. She doesn't look disheveled anymore, there aren't any more bruises, but she's having to hold on to the Master's arm and he's letting her. When he moves forward, she's leaning onto a chair, though she appears to have her poise back. Me = extremely baffled.
Also, cue yet another random close-up of Lucy. They do a lot of these in the final two episodes, though she almost never says anything in them. I don't get it.
Holy shit the thing in the Toclafane ball. Some damn good practical effects there. My sister observed it looked rather like Davros.
Okay, wait, what? The Master took Lucy to Utopia? What the fuck for? Did he know what it was going to be when he took her? When did he take her? It had to have been before he built the paradox machine, wouldn't it? For some reason I think the timing of when he took Lucy might be crucial to understanding her, because as my sister commented, "something is very wrong with her". I mean, she was obviously at least half out of her gourd in "The Sound of Drums", but it's really apparent in this episode, especially in this scene. When she speaks her speech seems slightly off and disconnected, there's something weird about her eyes, and her bottom lip does that weird curly fierce thing same as the look she gave the Master right after President Winters got atomized. I think I read someone commenting that seeing the end of the universe drove her mad. Guess it did. Which is why when she saw it would be important. I mean, her speech wasn't this odd last episode.
Also the Master still seems to have affection for her... called her sweetheart (though you could argue it was mocking), says he took her to Utopia to see the stars, has his arm around her and rubs her back as they walk out... I think my brain is melting.
All in all, I found the sequence where the true identity of the Toclafane is revealed to be very chilling.
WOOT UNIT MENTION.
I can't say I blame Doherty for selling Martha out.
John Simm mincing onto the bridge wearing nothing but a robe, slippers and massive bedhead = batshit sexy.
Yup, Milligan's got it bad.
Hooray for the return of the Swirly Music of Doom!
Oh, John Simm's Master is so awesomely batshit. (I know I use that word way too much when describing him, but it just fits so well.)
Okay, Milligan running out to needlessly get lasered down just screamed "stupid" at me. What was the point, other than to kill the character? He could have gone out in a much more awesome (and befitting) way. My sister and I were figuring Martha had given him her TARDIS key since they showed her taking it off. Guess not. Or maybe she did and now it's a waste. Either way, stupid way of offing Milligan.
LOL the morning-address shot again. I would totally watch a series that was strung together by those.
Hey, the Master's still wearing his wedding ring. (And my shipper heart rejoiced.)
Is it wrong that the bullet holes in Jack's shirt made me LOL?
Thanks for the blatant Rose shoutout, Uncle Rusty. *yawn* Martha's made of more win than her, IMHO. (Just can't see Rose going hardcore commando and walking the Earth for an entire year without the Doctor.)
Also, Lucy looks like she's back to her cool observing self.
Okay. The whole "everyone clapping their hands and saying 'I believe in you' at the exact same moment all across the world restoring the Doctor to full size and health and making him God"? LAMEST FUCKING LAME THAT EVER LAMED. I felt really sorry for John Simm having to act against that. Everyone else for having to act to it, too, I guess. Besides, wouldn't the Toclafane have been doing some mighty slaughtering of all those people gathered in public places? Wait, they're in formation up in orbit. Damn.
Semi-WTF #4: Lucy taking up the chant of "Doctor". It sort of looked to me like she couldn't help it--I think someone was theorizing somewhere that it had something to do with the Archangel's telepathic network? I don't think she was willingly saying it, what with the little shudder and all.
Oh well. At least the music was good. And it's nice to see hawt young!Doctor again.
What's with the Master being so violently against hearing the Doctor say "I forgive you"? The Doctor made it sound like it would be the punishment of all punishments. And again, I feel sorry for John Simm having to do the whole "NO THIS CAN'T BE ITS NOT FAIR" schtick.
LOL what the guards are suddenly on Jack's side?
HOORAY THE AWESOME ROCK-RIFF-AS-YANA-OPENED-THE-WATCH MUSIC FROM "UTOPIA"!
Liking the washed-out filter on the shots of the Master and the Doctor facing each other down on the Rock of Showdowning. And the shot of all six billion Toclafane converging on the Valiant.
LOL the Doctor saying the one thing the Master could never do is kill himself. Gonna show him in a couple minutes, isn't he.
Damn John Simm looks hot when he's all handcuffed and windblown with his tie loosened. John Barrowman looks hot even when he looks like he's been repeatedly dipped in hell. *is shallow*
HOLY SHIT MOMENT NUMERO UNO: Lucy shoots the Master. This was what I accidentally spoiled myself for, and I just went, "WHAT?" Even so, my jaw hit the floor when she did it, especially when we saw the expression on her face. She looked so... broken. Horribly sad. Just staring at him, and then closing her eyes as Jack took the gun away from her. Fuck, I've got sadness filling my chest just watching it again. And I have my theory regarding this, leaping off something that was suggested at thesaxons: Lucy did it out of love. Rewatching it, you notice she's standing perfectly still until the Doctor says "if that's what I have to do [keeping the Master on the TARDIS]", and then she starts to move right before the shot cuts back to the Master. It was theorized that perhaps he and Lucy had discussed a plan for what to do if everything should go to shit as it ended up doing. I mean, the last thing the Master would want is to spend the rest of eternity cooped up in the TARDIS. Lucy set him free from that fate. Plus, as someone pointed out, the Master looked pretty happy about the fact he was dying, and then flat-out refused to regenerate. It was almost like he'd planned on it. (NO THEY CANNOT TAKE MY OTP AWAY FROM ME.)
I am a little ashamed to admit I shed a tear at the last shot of the Doctor hugging the Master's body to him.
Hey, Luke Skywalker called, he wants his funeral pyre back. (Unfortunately, I didn't think of that joke first.)
Martha running to give Doherty the flowers and saying she didn't blame her, even though Doherty didn't have the faintest clue what she was talking about--too sweet.
HAHAHAHA the Doctor making Jack's vortex manipulator broken again so he couldn't go around places twice and to apologize. He knows him too well. :D Also the Doctor is totally crushed Jack turned him down, he really is. Also, Jack being the Face of Boe? Really kinda dumb, but the way it got revealed cracked me up. Though, how does he end up just being a large face with tentacles? Weren't there supposed to be other Boekind out there? What about the mention of Boe being pregnant?
O hay thar Leo! Where was your ass hiding out during the year that never was?
Guess Francine doesn't hate the Doctor anymore, from the look she gave him while he was standing outside watching the Jones house. She looked like she kinda felt sorry for him. And you know what? WE NEVER FOUND OUT WHAT THAT SAXON LACKEY TOLD HER IN "THE LAZARUS EXPERIMENT". Goddamn you Uncle Rusty, you really didn't answer much of anything this episode, did you? Fucker.
Hey, the Doctor's in his blue suit again. Didn't someone snark something about blue being the color of mourning once? And the TARDIS is all back to normal, and he's got his hand back. D'aw.
MARTHA CALLED MILLIGAN AT HIS HOSPITAL JUST TO HEAR HIS VOICE OMG. I am so telling you, Martha/Milligan for the win. Though was there a reason they seemed to focus for a second on the Accidents/Emergency sign above the (damn, what do you call it) call board? Didn't he say he was in pediatrics?
Doctor is being manic to deflect his emo man pain. Yup. AND COULD YOU SOMEHOW FIND IT IN YOUR HEARTS TO SAY MORE THAN A FUCKING "THANK YOU"?! Holy crap, Doctor, you are a bastard and I hope Martha hooks up with Milligan and they have a dozen Babies of Awesome just to spite your stupid ass. You know what, if he ever mentions Rose one more time I will find a way to insert myself into that universe and punch him in the throat. You drove away Martha, who is Made of Win, with all your emo shit, and you KNOW why you drove her away because she came back in and told you. Shoved it in your FACE. Go emo over THAT, why don't you.
Good on you, Martha Jones. You know you're so much more than the Doctor deserves and you left with dignity rather than clinging on even when told to go away.
OMG MOMENT NUMERO UNO: The red-fingernailed hand picking up the Master's ring with the LazLabs/Gallifreyan-symbol ring out of the ashes of the funeral pyre. It HAD to be Lucy, I mean, she had on red fingernail polish throughout the episode. And the echoing laughter sounded rather like John Simm, and reminded me of Anthony Ainley's laughter that was played over Professor Yana's looking at his Pocketwatch of Plot Doom. It screams "backup plan" to me but I'm fairly miffed as to what it could be.
Which brings up a question I'm surprised RTD didn't address, and since he didn't I'm surmising it must come up in series 4: What happened to Lucy after everything was over? What did she do? Where did she go? Whatever the answer is, I don't think we've seen the last of her.
And now, we reach the megaLOLs.
Despite the obvious (to me, anyway) historical inaccuracies, I will forgive the DW team them because OMFG THE TARDIS HIT THE TITANIC AND THIS MEANS THE CHRISTMAS EP MUST BE SET ON IT. Seriously, my geekometer overloaded and broke. Two of my favorite things getting mashed together! And the episode will be called "Voyage of the Damned"! I CAN'T WAIT I CAN'T WAIT I CAN'T WAIT! There better be deck officers and Marconi operators and at least one other Doctor onboard if you can't get Ecclescake and omfg. *keels over*
Anyway, here are the inaccuracies I caught for anyone who cares:
- The ship's horn would not have been blaring out in the open ocean, but the effect of the Doctor flipping a switch and immediately being blasted with a basso profundo brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn was just too hysterical
- Paint job on the bow doesn't look quite right to me... the scale's a little wonky but I think the white strip would have been bigger. Guess they might have wanted a little of the yellow strip to show for contrast.
- The Titanic's life rings did not have the name of the ship printed on them, and the one the Doctor picks up looks way too old and dirty to be on a brand-new ship. However, I don't mind the name being there because it's being used for dramatic purposes--telling the audience what the TARDIS just hit.
And that's all, folks.
I have to admit that I was prepared to rain down the haterade, going into watching this episode, based on things I'd seen and read (why yes, I am a spoiler whore, though in this case spoiling myself for the ending was entirely unintentional). But over the course of watching it, the haterade ending up turning into this weird mix of dread, mere unhappiness, and confusion. In other words, not a whole lot got answered, and a hella lot more got raised and then unanswered. Though--and there will be much more on this later--I can't fucking wait for the Christmas ep. Damn you, Russell T. Davies.
Anyway, on with the show:
Have I ever mentioned how much I love Murray Gold's arrangement of the main theme? It's so wonderfully huge. Also, they better not wait until after season 4 to release another soundtrack compilation.
I found the real beginning of the episode, with the voice warning all space traffic to steer clear of Sol 3 and fading to the shot of Earth with the legend "ONE YEAR LATER", with the underlying guitar music, to be extremely effective. Very bleak.
Though, with it saying it's a year later and Martha saying she hasn't been in Britain for 365 days, does that mean she literally hightailed it elsewhere after leaving the Valiant? (Now there's an episode I'd like to see...)
Loved Martha's tired bitterness while talking to Milligan.
Obviously, the Master has been having a shitload of fun as Earth's Lord and Master. Loved the morning address voiceover with the shot of the Valiant--made me think of Radar's announcements on M*A*S*H.
And here we get my first WTF moment of the episode--Lucy's reaction to the snogging from the Master. She looked rather limp, slightly disheveled, and as soon as the Master couldn't see her face--stone cold. The hell? Guess it's been a long year for her, too. Maybe, even if you're as batshit as your alien megalomaniac husband, the constant grandstanding gets to be a little too much? I dunno. Just wearing my shipper's tin hat here.
LMAO OMFG THE DOCTOR LIVING IN A TENT IN THE CORNER.
Also, someone please explain why there was conveniently a big-ass bell on that dude's desk for the Master to grab and ring to his music? Maybe it's part of his morning ritual. Man, that could make for some awesomely hilarious cracktastic fic--"One Day In The Life of the Valiant".
I loled when he pushed the Doctor's wheelchair off and it hit whatever that was and bounced, and the Doctor just sat there like a statue. Talk about stone cold.
Jack = so much damn love. Adored his upbeat attitude when Tish came in to feed him. Too bad she didn't crack a smile at him (though I can't say I blame her for not). Also, how much you wanna bet Saxon goes back there and kills him at least once a day?
That enormous statue of the Master is HILARIOUS.
Random question to ask, "is there a Mrs. Milligan". Probably only so we could have Martha wibbling over the Doctor. And Milligan is totally already in love with Martha. Martha/Milligan FTW. Fuck the Doctor, she's way too good for him.
WTF #2: Lucy's got a bruise under one eye, and we're probably supposed to infer the Master slaps her around? I don't buy it. I agree with what another review said--if he slapped her around, would he still parade her around and show her off? Also, she doesn't look stone cold anymore. And oy suggesting she "get to know" Tanya. Don't think Lucy was exactly kosher with that idea.
Sweet that the Jones family and Jack and the Doctor all had a plan to try and take the Master out. Though, with their combined mental powers, shouldn't they have come up with that a while back?
Lucy seemed a bit too sympathetic to the Doctor getting slapped down by the Master. FUCK YOU, RTD. (In my own personal canon, Lucy will have gotten that black eye via, I dunno, being in the middle of a melee by some of the Valiant personnel trying to take control of the ship. Hey, there's a fic idea! Write, my fellow Saxonites, write!) Also had no love for her running to hold his coat out for him like a trained pet. HATE HATE HATE.
Hooray for the return of the eerie "Brother and Sister"-esque music.
"Say hello, Gandalf." I loled, will continue to lol every time I see that moment.
Whoa with the organ music. And Jack's palpable "oh shit" expression.
Weird that the Master shared a look with Lucy before he bent down to get a good look at mini!Doctor? And speaking of that--the shot where the mini!Doctor is revealed was really excellent. Good CGI, very haunting and low-key music.
Again, with the shot of the Valiant's bridge at night and the mini!Doctor in the cage--very haunting. Murray Gold's got my kudos again.
WTF #3: When the Master and Lucy come back to the bridge and the Master says "tomorrow they launch", Lucy is having obvious trouble walking. She doesn't look disheveled anymore, there aren't any more bruises, but she's having to hold on to the Master's arm and he's letting her. When he moves forward, she's leaning onto a chair, though she appears to have her poise back. Me = extremely baffled.
Also, cue yet another random close-up of Lucy. They do a lot of these in the final two episodes, though she almost never says anything in them. I don't get it.
Holy shit the thing in the Toclafane ball. Some damn good practical effects there. My sister observed it looked rather like Davros.
Okay, wait, what? The Master took Lucy to Utopia? What the fuck for? Did he know what it was going to be when he took her? When did he take her? It had to have been before he built the paradox machine, wouldn't it? For some reason I think the timing of when he took Lucy might be crucial to understanding her, because as my sister commented, "something is very wrong with her". I mean, she was obviously at least half out of her gourd in "The Sound of Drums", but it's really apparent in this episode, especially in this scene. When she speaks her speech seems slightly off and disconnected, there's something weird about her eyes, and her bottom lip does that weird curly fierce thing same as the look she gave the Master right after President Winters got atomized. I think I read someone commenting that seeing the end of the universe drove her mad. Guess it did. Which is why when she saw it would be important. I mean, her speech wasn't this odd last episode.
Also the Master still seems to have affection for her... called her sweetheart (though you could argue it was mocking), says he took her to Utopia to see the stars, has his arm around her and rubs her back as they walk out... I think my brain is melting.
All in all, I found the sequence where the true identity of the Toclafane is revealed to be very chilling.
WOOT UNIT MENTION.
I can't say I blame Doherty for selling Martha out.
John Simm mincing onto the bridge wearing nothing but a robe, slippers and massive bedhead = batshit sexy.
Yup, Milligan's got it bad.
Hooray for the return of the Swirly Music of Doom!
Oh, John Simm's Master is so awesomely batshit. (I know I use that word way too much when describing him, but it just fits so well.)
Okay, Milligan running out to needlessly get lasered down just screamed "stupid" at me. What was the point, other than to kill the character? He could have gone out in a much more awesome (and befitting) way. My sister and I were figuring Martha had given him her TARDIS key since they showed her taking it off. Guess not. Or maybe she did and now it's a waste. Either way, stupid way of offing Milligan.
LOL the morning-address shot again. I would totally watch a series that was strung together by those.
Hey, the Master's still wearing his wedding ring. (And my shipper heart rejoiced.)
Is it wrong that the bullet holes in Jack's shirt made me LOL?
Thanks for the blatant Rose shoutout, Uncle Rusty. *yawn* Martha's made of more win than her, IMHO. (Just can't see Rose going hardcore commando and walking the Earth for an entire year without the Doctor.)
Also, Lucy looks like she's back to her cool observing self.
Okay. The whole "everyone clapping their hands and saying 'I believe in you' at the exact same moment all across the world restoring the Doctor to full size and health and making him God"? LAMEST FUCKING LAME THAT EVER LAMED. I felt really sorry for John Simm having to act against that. Everyone else for having to act to it, too, I guess. Besides, wouldn't the Toclafane have been doing some mighty slaughtering of all those people gathered in public places? Wait, they're in formation up in orbit. Damn.
Semi-WTF #4: Lucy taking up the chant of "Doctor". It sort of looked to me like she couldn't help it--I think someone was theorizing somewhere that it had something to do with the Archangel's telepathic network? I don't think she was willingly saying it, what with the little shudder and all.
Oh well. At least the music was good. And it's nice to see hawt young!Doctor again.
What's with the Master being so violently against hearing the Doctor say "I forgive you"? The Doctor made it sound like it would be the punishment of all punishments. And again, I feel sorry for John Simm having to do the whole "NO THIS CAN'T BE ITS NOT FAIR" schtick.
LOL what the guards are suddenly on Jack's side?
HOORAY THE AWESOME ROCK-RIFF-AS-YANA-OPENED-THE-WATCH MUSIC FROM "UTOPIA"!
Liking the washed-out filter on the shots of the Master and the Doctor facing each other down on the Rock of Showdowning. And the shot of all six billion Toclafane converging on the Valiant.
LOL the Doctor saying the one thing the Master could never do is kill himself. Gonna show him in a couple minutes, isn't he.
Damn John Simm looks hot when he's all handcuffed and windblown with his tie loosened. John Barrowman looks hot even when he looks like he's been repeatedly dipped in hell. *is shallow*
HOLY SHIT MOMENT NUMERO UNO: Lucy shoots the Master. This was what I accidentally spoiled myself for, and I just went, "WHAT?" Even so, my jaw hit the floor when she did it, especially when we saw the expression on her face. She looked so... broken. Horribly sad. Just staring at him, and then closing her eyes as Jack took the gun away from her. Fuck, I've got sadness filling my chest just watching it again. And I have my theory regarding this, leaping off something that was suggested at thesaxons: Lucy did it out of love. Rewatching it, you notice she's standing perfectly still until the Doctor says "if that's what I have to do [keeping the Master on the TARDIS]", and then she starts to move right before the shot cuts back to the Master. It was theorized that perhaps he and Lucy had discussed a plan for what to do if everything should go to shit as it ended up doing. I mean, the last thing the Master would want is to spend the rest of eternity cooped up in the TARDIS. Lucy set him free from that fate. Plus, as someone pointed out, the Master looked pretty happy about the fact he was dying, and then flat-out refused to regenerate. It was almost like he'd planned on it. (NO THEY CANNOT TAKE MY OTP AWAY FROM ME.)
I am a little ashamed to admit I shed a tear at the last shot of the Doctor hugging the Master's body to him.
Hey, Luke Skywalker called, he wants his funeral pyre back. (Unfortunately, I didn't think of that joke first.)
Martha running to give Doherty the flowers and saying she didn't blame her, even though Doherty didn't have the faintest clue what she was talking about--too sweet.
HAHAHAHA the Doctor making Jack's vortex manipulator broken again so he couldn't go around places twice and to apologize. He knows him too well. :D Also the Doctor is totally crushed Jack turned him down, he really is. Also, Jack being the Face of Boe? Really kinda dumb, but the way it got revealed cracked me up. Though, how does he end up just being a large face with tentacles? Weren't there supposed to be other Boekind out there? What about the mention of Boe being pregnant?
O hay thar Leo! Where was your ass hiding out during the year that never was?
Guess Francine doesn't hate the Doctor anymore, from the look she gave him while he was standing outside watching the Jones house. She looked like she kinda felt sorry for him. And you know what? WE NEVER FOUND OUT WHAT THAT SAXON LACKEY TOLD HER IN "THE LAZARUS EXPERIMENT". Goddamn you Uncle Rusty, you really didn't answer much of anything this episode, did you? Fucker.
Hey, the Doctor's in his blue suit again. Didn't someone snark something about blue being the color of mourning once? And the TARDIS is all back to normal, and he's got his hand back. D'aw.
MARTHA CALLED MILLIGAN AT HIS HOSPITAL JUST TO HEAR HIS VOICE OMG. I am so telling you, Martha/Milligan for the win. Though was there a reason they seemed to focus for a second on the Accidents/Emergency sign above the (damn, what do you call it) call board? Didn't he say he was in pediatrics?
Doctor is being manic to deflect his emo man pain. Yup. AND COULD YOU SOMEHOW FIND IT IN YOUR HEARTS TO SAY MORE THAN A FUCKING "THANK YOU"?! Holy crap, Doctor, you are a bastard and I hope Martha hooks up with Milligan and they have a dozen Babies of Awesome just to spite your stupid ass. You know what, if he ever mentions Rose one more time I will find a way to insert myself into that universe and punch him in the throat. You drove away Martha, who is Made of Win, with all your emo shit, and you KNOW why you drove her away because she came back in and told you. Shoved it in your FACE. Go emo over THAT, why don't you.
Good on you, Martha Jones. You know you're so much more than the Doctor deserves and you left with dignity rather than clinging on even when told to go away.
OMG MOMENT NUMERO UNO: The red-fingernailed hand picking up the Master's ring with the LazLabs/Gallifreyan-symbol ring out of the ashes of the funeral pyre. It HAD to be Lucy, I mean, she had on red fingernail polish throughout the episode. And the echoing laughter sounded rather like John Simm, and reminded me of Anthony Ainley's laughter that was played over Professor Yana's looking at his Pocketwatch of Plot Doom. It screams "backup plan" to me but I'm fairly miffed as to what it could be.
Which brings up a question I'm surprised RTD didn't address, and since he didn't I'm surmising it must come up in series 4: What happened to Lucy after everything was over? What did she do? Where did she go? Whatever the answer is, I don't think we've seen the last of her.
And now, we reach the megaLOLs.
Despite the obvious (to me, anyway) historical inaccuracies, I will forgive the DW team them because OMFG THE TARDIS HIT THE TITANIC AND THIS MEANS THE CHRISTMAS EP MUST BE SET ON IT. Seriously, my geekometer overloaded and broke. Two of my favorite things getting mashed together! And the episode will be called "Voyage of the Damned"! I CAN'T WAIT I CAN'T WAIT I CAN'T WAIT! There better be deck officers and Marconi operators and at least one other Doctor onboard if you can't get Ecclescake and omfg. *keels over*
Anyway, here are the inaccuracies I caught for anyone who cares:
- The ship's horn would not have been blaring out in the open ocean, but the effect of the Doctor flipping a switch and immediately being blasted with a basso profundo brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn was just too hysterical
- Paint job on the bow doesn't look quite right to me... the scale's a little wonky but I think the white strip would have been bigger. Guess they might have wanted a little of the yellow strip to show for contrast.
- The Titanic's life rings did not have the name of the ship printed on them, and the one the Doctor picks up looks way too old and dirty to be on a brand-new ship. However, I don't mind the name being there because it's being used for dramatic purposes--telling the audience what the TARDIS just hit.
And that's all, folks.