Doctor Who: 3x12 "The Sound of Drums"
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kerravonsenOooh! That was good, it was.
Martha!!!!!
(hugs Martha)
"I'll be back!"
What can she do, though? I hope they'll actually let her be heroic and save the day. She's really been getting short shrift ever since Jack came back. Guess we'll see next week. (I have deliberately not looked at the previews (yet)). I will be really cross if they kill her off, though. Ropeable.
I was right, they used Jack's gizmo to get back! They got back a lot quicker than I expected, though. Gee, that sonic screwdriver is soooo magic.
Perky!Insane!Master is a delight to see. Along with his Perky!Homicidal death machines. The Toclafane, the "Time Lord equivalent of the bogeyman"? Hmmm. The Master seems to be channelling The Joker, only with a much better dress sense.
What is it with the "sound of drums"? Obviously something that didn't go away when the Master was re-awakened.
Theory #1: the drums are still there because Yana is still there somewhere -- though that begs the question of why Yana was hearing them.
Theory #2: the drums are still there because they were with the Master when he ran away from the Daleks.
Theory #3: the drums are a sign of something from the year 100 trillion that affected Yana and now the Master.
What is "the darkness" that the Toclafane seem to be so afraid of? If they're something from another dimension (as appears to be the case) then would not their "darkness" just follow them into this one?
Why do the Toclafane like the Master? How did he contact them in the first place? (Well, he's resourceful that way, we already know that.) Does it have something to do with the Angel Network? Have the Toclafane been "influenced" to like Saxon the way the British Public have?
What is a "Paradox Machine"? Obviously something really really nasty, and something that can rip holes in dimensions and/or space-time, but again, where did the Toclafane come from?
Does the "sound of drums" have something to do with the Darkness?
It makes sense that "they only resurrected me [the Master] because they thought I'd be the perfect warrior in a Time War"; he was, after all, the most practiced killer of all the Time Lords there have ever been. And for those continuity-geeks, that also sidesteps the "run out of regenerations" problem.
I love how the Doctor wants to help the Master. Love it, love it, love it. And his certainty that he can help, even though I'm pretty sure that he doesn't actually have a clue what the "sound of drums" thing is. Of course, it will Never Happen. (Why is it that nowadays, when I come across cool ideas that Will Never Happen, my fingers start itching for Alternative Universes?)
They have a Somebody Else's Problem field! I wasn't surprised that it didn't work on the Master, nor that he pretended not to see them. I liked the montage where the Doctor cobbled up the SEP fields, though. Nice to see him being painstaking for once, rather than just waving the sonic screwdriver. (Though I know that the Rule of Application of Sonic Screwdriver is "what the pace of the plot dictates".)
Oooh, we get Gallifrey!History! Not that we ever get the same story twice whenever Gallifrey comes up, but it was cool. However, though I was wondering what made the Master go bad, I'm not satisfied with "he looked into the Vortex and went insane when he was eight". Nup.
And I don't buy the Doctor's "And I've been running ever since" either.
When they teleported onto the Valiant, they must have skipped in time too, since they arrived not very long before the "8 o'clock tomorrow morning" time. Ooops. But when Martha teleported away by herself, there didn't seem to be a time-skip, since the massacre was still going on. Maybe the gizmo works better when it only has to transport one person.
Good, we got a Torchwood namecheck, and also a reason why they couldn't help. Good. I knew that we wouldn't get any help from the Torchwood gang, because that would be too many characters to keep track of.
Lucy Saxon. My, my, my. She loves him. She really loves him! Oh, the way the Master said "My faithful companion" (shudder). Doctor-envy, much?
I'm about 50/50 whether she actually loves him herself, or whether he mesmerized her to love him. But even if he mesmerized her, that's still a change of modus operandi; because before he was only interested in being obeyed, not loved. Some of Yana showing through, perhaps?
Interesting that there's now no point in playing "bell the cat" with the Master and the SEP keys, since the whole world now knows that he's a homicidal maniac.
I have to give the Master points for the correct usage of "decimate".
The aged-Doctor thing looked pretty fake. Oh well. He's been aged up before (4th Doctor) and it was reversed then, so I expect it will be reversed at some point in the next episode.
Then there's the whole Jones family thing. Wah! Hooray for her Dad saying "yes" and her Mum for telling her to run in the end. Yes, her Mum betrayed her, but she was doing what she thought was right; I mean, if you had the Secret Service knocking on your door, you wouldn't think they were being sent by an insane homicidal maniac, would you? (Don't answer that!)
I wonder if Martha will run to her brother? Thing is, since Saxon has control of the mobile phone network, the way he cut in when Martha was talking to her brother, it may not be the wisest thing for her to do. (Control of the phone network? Shades of Cybus corporation, don't you think?)
What resources does Martha have?
- Jack's gizmo
- the SEP key
- her brother? Probably not, she would want him to just run away and be safe.
She doesn't have:
- help from Torchwood (whom she doesn't know anyway)
- help from her fellow medical students (who don't seem that resourceful)
Even if they don't let Martha save the day, she's already kicking more ass than Rose did in "The Christmas Invasion", where all she could do was stand around and weep over the Helpless!Doctor. The Doctor is helpless now, too, but Martha isn't weeping, she isn't paralysed into inaction. Go Martha!
Mind you, I have a horrible suspicion that the only way that Martha will be allowed to save the day will be to rescue and un-age the Doctor, so that he can save the day. But I suppose that isn't too bad.
Martha!!!!!
(hugs Martha)
"I'll be back!"
What can she do, though? I hope they'll actually let her be heroic and save the day. She's really been getting short shrift ever since Jack came back. Guess we'll see next week. (I have deliberately not looked at the previews (yet)). I will be really cross if they kill her off, though. Ropeable.
I was right, they used Jack's gizmo to get back! They got back a lot quicker than I expected, though. Gee, that sonic screwdriver is soooo magic.
Perky!Insane!Master is a delight to see. Along with his Perky!Homicidal death machines. The Toclafane, the "Time Lord equivalent of the bogeyman"? Hmmm. The Master seems to be channelling The Joker, only with a much better dress sense.
What is it with the "sound of drums"? Obviously something that didn't go away when the Master was re-awakened.
Theory #1: the drums are still there because Yana is still there somewhere -- though that begs the question of why Yana was hearing them.
Theory #2: the drums are still there because they were with the Master when he ran away from the Daleks.
Theory #3: the drums are a sign of something from the year 100 trillion that affected Yana and now the Master.
What is "the darkness" that the Toclafane seem to be so afraid of? If they're something from another dimension (as appears to be the case) then would not their "darkness" just follow them into this one?
Why do the Toclafane like the Master? How did he contact them in the first place? (Well, he's resourceful that way, we already know that.) Does it have something to do with the Angel Network? Have the Toclafane been "influenced" to like Saxon the way the British Public have?
What is a "Paradox Machine"? Obviously something really really nasty, and something that can rip holes in dimensions and/or space-time, but again, where did the Toclafane come from?
Does the "sound of drums" have something to do with the Darkness?
It makes sense that "they only resurrected me [the Master] because they thought I'd be the perfect warrior in a Time War"; he was, after all, the most practiced killer of all the Time Lords there have ever been. And for those continuity-geeks, that also sidesteps the "run out of regenerations" problem.
I love how the Doctor wants to help the Master. Love it, love it, love it. And his certainty that he can help, even though I'm pretty sure that he doesn't actually have a clue what the "sound of drums" thing is. Of course, it will Never Happen. (Why is it that nowadays, when I come across cool ideas that Will Never Happen, my fingers start itching for Alternative Universes?)
They have a Somebody Else's Problem field! I wasn't surprised that it didn't work on the Master, nor that he pretended not to see them. I liked the montage where the Doctor cobbled up the SEP fields, though. Nice to see him being painstaking for once, rather than just waving the sonic screwdriver. (Though I know that the Rule of Application of Sonic Screwdriver is "what the pace of the plot dictates".)
Oooh, we get Gallifrey!History! Not that we ever get the same story twice whenever Gallifrey comes up, but it was cool. However, though I was wondering what made the Master go bad, I'm not satisfied with "he looked into the Vortex and went insane when he was eight". Nup.
And I don't buy the Doctor's "And I've been running ever since" either.
When they teleported onto the Valiant, they must have skipped in time too, since they arrived not very long before the "8 o'clock tomorrow morning" time. Ooops. But when Martha teleported away by herself, there didn't seem to be a time-skip, since the massacre was still going on. Maybe the gizmo works better when it only has to transport one person.
Good, we got a Torchwood namecheck, and also a reason why they couldn't help. Good. I knew that we wouldn't get any help from the Torchwood gang, because that would be too many characters to keep track of.
Lucy Saxon. My, my, my. She loves him. She really loves him! Oh, the way the Master said "My faithful companion" (shudder). Doctor-envy, much?
I'm about 50/50 whether she actually loves him herself, or whether he mesmerized her to love him. But even if he mesmerized her, that's still a change of modus operandi; because before he was only interested in being obeyed, not loved. Some of Yana showing through, perhaps?
Interesting that there's now no point in playing "bell the cat" with the Master and the SEP keys, since the whole world now knows that he's a homicidal maniac.
I have to give the Master points for the correct usage of "decimate".
The aged-Doctor thing looked pretty fake. Oh well. He's been aged up before (4th Doctor) and it was reversed then, so I expect it will be reversed at some point in the next episode.
Then there's the whole Jones family thing. Wah! Hooray for her Dad saying "yes" and her Mum for telling her to run in the end. Yes, her Mum betrayed her, but she was doing what she thought was right; I mean, if you had the Secret Service knocking on your door, you wouldn't think they were being sent by an insane homicidal maniac, would you? (Don't answer that!)
I wonder if Martha will run to her brother? Thing is, since Saxon has control of the mobile phone network, the way he cut in when Martha was talking to her brother, it may not be the wisest thing for her to do. (Control of the phone network? Shades of Cybus corporation, don't you think?)
What resources does Martha have?
- Jack's gizmo
- the SEP key
- her brother? Probably not, she would want him to just run away and be safe.
She doesn't have:
- help from Torchwood (whom she doesn't know anyway)
- help from her fellow medical students (who don't seem that resourceful)
Even if they don't let Martha save the day, she's already kicking more ass than Rose did in "The Christmas Invasion", where all she could do was stand around and weep over the Helpless!Doctor. The Doctor is helpless now, too, but Martha isn't weeping, she isn't paralysed into inaction. Go Martha!
Mind you, I have a horrible suspicion that the only way that Martha will be allowed to save the day will be to rescue and un-age the Doctor, so that he can save the day. But I suppose that isn't too bad.
