Hell Bent Reaction and Discussion Post [SPOILERS!]

[jjpor]

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

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[jjpor]

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.

Regarding the Doctor's Presidency, didn't they sort of quash it at some point after Invasion of Time due to him not being on Gallifrey often enough to actually do the job? That was when Borusa took over as depicted in The Five Doctors and (I think without looking it up) Arc of Infinity. And then the Chancellor (Flavia?) tried to get Five to take up the Presidency again at the end of Five Doctors, but he did a runner. So I don't think he necessarily was actually President when Seven was claiming to be in his showdown with Davros in Remembrance, but Seven could bluff with the best of them.

I suspect it may be a bit like being POTUS: people still call you "Mr President" as a sign of respect even when you've long packed it in and your successor's successor is actually doing the job.

Yeah, I think about Gallifrey and its political shenanigans a bit too much, I think...

[persiflage_1]

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]

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.