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tencrushI liked Wilf?
That was essentially 60 mins of buildup to a really bad pun about the Master race, Inorite? And women are all batshit when there's pretty, charismatic, powerful, evil mens to be resurrecting. Kind of like a coven. Crazy wimmins, they're all the same.
The Confidential is now telling me how wonderful Trinity Wells is. I think that's to distract me from the Evil Black People what were in the episode.
I didn't like it much, can you tell? It made no sense. At all. And I still don't understand why the Master can fly.
If this is spoilers then, yeah, sorry dudes.
That was essentially 60 mins of buildup to a really bad pun about the Master race, Inorite? And women are all batshit when there's pretty, charismatic, powerful, evil mens to be resurrecting. Kind of like a coven. Crazy wimmins, they're all the same.
The Confidential is now telling me how wonderful Trinity Wells is. I think that's to distract me from the Evil Black People what were in the episode.
I didn't like it much, can you tell? It made no sense. At all. And I still don't understand why the Master can fly.
If this is spoilers then, yeah, sorry dudes.
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Date: 2009-12-25 07:41 pm (UTC)Lori
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Date: 2009-12-25 08:38 pm (UTC)HOW WAS ANYTHING ABOUT THE MASTER MEANT TO MAKE SENSE?
Why were we introduced to 3789378923 characters only to render them pointless within about five minutes?
Did Timothy Dalton really have to spit everywhere and will he be doing that next week too?
What the hell?
(All of the above are rhetorical.)
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Date: 2009-12-25 08:48 pm (UTC)Around half of the new characters introduced to us could have been done without, leaving us with less expositional speeching for 45 minutes and tighter and possibly more coherent plot. Thought I doubt it. Russell has completely lost it.
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Date: 2009-12-25 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-12-25 09:14 pm (UTC)That thing with the Master laughing went on for so long, that I expected it to fizzle out like Dr. Evil's laugh in Austin Powers, with the Master suddenly turning to the other ones and going "okay, that's enough."
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Date: 2009-12-25 09:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-25 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-25 11:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-25 11:03 pm (UTC)despite everyone else being fictional, they mention Obama - fail for not keeping everything fictional.
So we're left with Donna, Wilf & the Doctor the only ones on earth that aren't the Master. So Gwen Cooper, Sarah-Jane Smith, Luke Smith, are all Masterised. Oh dear.
The Timelords look like someone's dad who's going to step in and go "Now boys, play nice!".
Comedy old people, evil black people, man!pain in the cafe, timelords appearing out of the woodwork... clutching at predictable straws Mr Davies, pedestrian and confusing.
And I was a bit bitter when Mr Naismith explained where he got the McGuffin from. "After the fall of Torchwood, I aquired it" and I thought "Which one? London or Cardiff?"
And where was unexpectedly Naked!Jack?
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Date: 2009-12-25 11:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-25 11:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-26 01:07 am (UTC)Oh I think not.
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Date: 2009-12-26 01:40 am (UTC)am i the only one who was surprised by timothy dalton?
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Date: 2009-12-26 02:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-26 02:17 am (UTC)Pausing with 10 minutes to spare to weigh in so far...no, I'll type this now, finish watching, then hit "send."
The opening was shit. RTD still doesn't get scope, but I do love the idea of the ood/ Donna connection. That was good. That also sets up Wilf. For once, Rusty actually justified something. It's a start. I really liked the Noble clan all around this time. Actual good comedic timing. Who knew?
The BS resurrection of The Master was made up for by Simm, IMHO. I'm now convinced he could sell me beachfront property in Nepal, cause he's selling it like no one else. I mean that literally, of course.
The Obama stuff was such horrible BS. The one thing Obama never promised was an easy solution, so it looks ridiculous. Especially since US=/=UK, and we all sit home on Christmas, including the President. No one would be happy about a Christmas address. Especially all those non-Christians who voted for him. Bad, bad political move in a secular country like ours. Rusty is an idiot. And he knows he has an international audience, and I can't believe at least a few Brits wouldn't get that, so no excuses that it's a British show.
Okay...remember what I said about Rusty not understanding scope? Seriously, why would the Master want a bunch of humans? He's never respected them or cared. Wouldn't he just want Gallifrey back? One he could control? Makes a much better story, and a lot more plausible. Especially after the childhood reminiscence. All that to mess with the Doctor? His insanity didn't justify it, IMO.
All that good set-up, and then drops the ball completely with Donna's memory. That never happened in front of Donna before, so why would she be triggered by it? Wouldn't it just make her remember that first adventure with The Doctor that she still has? Too much too soon.
Yet again, some things right, but way too much horribly wrong. And it was showing potential too. *sigh*
Also, John Simm should have gotten first billing after all that character work he had to do in those costumes and CG. That must've taken a week, at least!
I love Timothy Dalton, and Yay for Gallifrey's return (I thought might Moffat would want it back, if nothing else), but why exactly do the peaceful Gallifreans care about victory and ending time? I'm so sick of RTD taking on things to big for him to understand. Unless he suddenly brought back the Daleks they were fighting off, and I missed it, Gallifreans are a lot bigger than "victories." I have to say, I do want to know what he means by "end of time." Probably won't be as interesting as it could have been, but I do want to know.
And wasn't there a little too much Star Wars prequel Senate to that chamber? Way to rip off an idea there. Any guesses on the ones with hands over their faces? I'm saying Matt Smith is one. Who's the other?
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Date: 2009-12-26 02:19 am (UTC)But mostly what I took away from this episode is an intense desire to discover why the master can fly. And why he has bleach blond hair. And why Rusty hates black people all the time.
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Date: 2009-12-26 02:20 am (UTC)The lightening skills/ jumping thing bugged me at first, but like I said below, Simm sold it. Okay, his resurrection was dodgy...but what would cause that, and why wasn't the Doctor surprised by it? If you're going to exposit, why couldn't it be more on that instead of pointless BS? I don't care about horny older women when there's a story to tell.
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Date: 2009-12-26 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-26 02:24 am (UTC)Who directed this? It was pretty terrible. Good CGI, shitty direction.
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Date: 2009-12-26 02:28 am (UTC)