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Hell Bent Reaction and Discussion Post [SPOILERS!]

Dec 05, 2015 20:01

Well, I don't know about any of you, but I thought last week's Heaven Sent was one of the strangest, and at the same time, most fascinating things I have seen in Doctor Who in quite some time indeed. A masterclass from Capaldi...and what a payoff... How on Earth are they going to top that? Well, let's find out this week in the hotly anticipated ( Read more... )

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dbskyler December 6 2015, 07:36:00 UTC

Lots and lots of feelings, and I thought it was great. I'm not quite ready to articulate all my thoughts, but I do have a bit of a random question that I'm hoping this comm can help with:

I noticed they referred to the Doctor as Lord President at one point, and now I'm trying to remember when he first became Lord President. I want to say it was way back in "Deadly Assassin." Has he really been Lord President ever since then? I'm kind of remembering something in "Invasion of Time" about how there could be no other legal president after the Doctor pulled that delaying tactic of declaring himself a presidential candidate in "Deadly Assassin."

I kind of like how it was such a random, throwaway line, though. In fact, I'm not even 100% sure I caught it correctly, but it is the kind of thing Moffat would do.

persiflage_1 December 6 2015, 08:14:35 UTC

AFAIK it was The Deadly Assassin. And Romana's been President since then - also Rassilon once they resurrected the mad bastard.

(And I did love Donald Sumpter as Rassilon's most recent incarnation.)

jjpor December 6 2015, 13:54:40 UTC

Rassilon the Redeemer! Rassilon the Resurrected! Yes, I liked the way he was simultaneously an extremely nasty piece of work and also a bit ridiculous and pathetic. Very much in line with the classic Robert Holmes portrayal of the Time Lords as a bunch of corrupt old politicians/academics ( ... )

persiflage_1 December 6 2015, 16:12:19 UTC

TBH I have no idea - the whole thing's so bloody convoluted (and the existence of Big Finish's Gallifrey series doesn't help, I suspect - well, doesn't help me!)

dbskyler December 6 2015, 18:49:04 UTC

Yeah, I was trying to figure out if he really is still Lord President, or if they fixed that somewhere along the line. Or did they resurrect Rassilon because no one else could be Lord President with an absent Doctor, and they really needed a President during the Time War? (Ack, I kind of wish now that I hadn't thought of that.)

I like your POTUS explanation, though.

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