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Post by Queen E on Jun 22, 2007 23:08:58 GMT -5
Sounds ominous...
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Post by beccaelizabeth on Jun 23, 2007 15:10:24 GMT -5
Ominous, yet hilarious. They went to songvid. The Master went to songvid. The Master launched his evil plan to conquer the earth to a soundtrack. and also, he likes teletubbies. I am equal parts *facepalm* and  beccaelizabeth.livejournal.com/1088949.htmlPS also there was decimation. But they have a paradox machine so who knows how long that will last. Also Himalayas is an funny word |
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Post by Matthew on Jun 24, 2007 2:00:57 GMT -5
oh, good heavens, but that just ROCKED.
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Post by Queen E on Jun 24, 2007 17:14:30 GMT -5
Becca:
Read your comments and I get what you're saying...but I like the fact that the Master is so amusing. In that way, it's almost more scary than bombast and high drama.
Zapping the president. Oh, the thoughts I had on that one...
Still HUGE with the John Simm love. What else? "It would break your heart." So many places that could have gone, although (unspoiled), my brain went to Rose, especially since she was mentioned so many times in Utopia. And 18 months before she would have been around.
Don't know. Still thinking about it. I really did love the episode. And am now imagining Ianto trekking through the Himalayas...
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jun 25, 2007 16:44:36 GMT -5
Vote Saxon So they're back in modern day. Who is the Master's wife? What this country needs right now is a Doctor. Credits Gas mask. Boy, does that seem reminiscent of Lost. Who calls himself "the Master?" Hee, of course, that begs the question "who calls himself 'the Doctor?'" Sharon! Did the Master do the Jonathan-in-Superstar thing? 18 months ago, the Master inserted himself. To fill the void left by Harriet Jones. Archangel Network. Little globe thingies. With sharp knives. The rhythmic tapping. Subliminal messaging? A bomb! I do what I like! An attitude I like, except the Doctor's right in this case. Doctor! Master! Time for a heart to heart, you two. I like it when you use my name. Kinky. So, they both chose their names. The Master doesn't know about the Time War. Or rather he doesn't know about the destruction of Gallifrey and the Time Lords and the Daleks. The cruciform. The sound is in the Master's head too. He isn't in control of it. You must have been like God. Are you asking me out on a date? BWAH! I wasn't expecting them to get so textual. Terrorist suspects. Great. Torchwood went to the Himalayas? Running! With coats!  Let us all sit back for a little Gallifreyan history lesson. And they show Gallifrey! Beautiful. About Torchwood. Old regime was destroyed at Canary Wharf... and Jack's running things now? Archangel is a world wide cell phone network. Dastardly! The Doctor does his mojo. Perception shifting. That does explain why the TARDIS doesn't get noticed despite looking like an anachronism. It's like you fancy some one and they don't even know you exist. You too, huh? Nice. Like ghosts. UNIT. Wait, the US president comes to tell the Britain Prime Minister about UN policy? Huh? America is completely in charge? Since Britain elected an ass, yes. Um, I'm not sure how to take that. Now that sounds like Torchwood. Ouch. The Doctor's going to save the Master. He's going to try to exercise mercy, but he's going to probably exact excruciating justice, like in Family of Blood. Wow, an arial aircraft carrier. He's cannibalized the TARDIS. It's a Paradox Machine. What does that mean exactly? What's the Doctor's plan? Stereotypical American family. I will accept mastery over you, if that is God's will. BWAH! Oops. the Master's found them out. The girlie and the freak. Professor Lazarus. OK, this Doctor writhing in agony effect is really cheesy. As is the age make up on David Tennant. Here come the drums. Popular music? Huh? Invasion of sphere-thingies. 6 billion. One for each human on earth? Master of Destruction. |
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Post by Queen E on Jun 30, 2007 17:45:16 GMT -5
Anxiously awaiting the next episode to arrive online, but it occurs to me that the "drums" that the Master keeps hearing? Are to the same beat as the DW theme song.
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Post by Riff on Jul 3, 2007 12:46:10 GMT -5
Becca: Read your comments and I get what you're saying...but I like the fact that the Master is so amusing. In that way, it's almost more scary than bombast and high drama. Zapping the president. Oh, the thoughts I had on that one... Still HUGE with the John Simm love. What else? "It would break your heart." So many places that could have gone, although (unspoiled), my brain went to Rose, especially since she was mentioned so many times in Utopia. And 18 months before she would have been around. Don't know. Still thinking about it. I really did love the episode. And am now imagining Ianto trekking through the Himalayas...Are you? Well, different strokes for different folks, I suppose.  I dare say we'll be hearing about it in the next season of TW. Like the Doctor, the Master's incarnations should be all different, and I think that Simm's Master is wonderful. He captures the horrible combination of shrewd planning and random sociopathic cruelty inherent in the character. He's easily the best Master. Incidently, Simm is the sixth master we have seen ("Mister Saxon" being an anagram of "Master no. six"), but there have been more. The Master is on at least his seventeenth incarnation, and reliable fanon would put him at his seventeenth). |
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Post by Onjel on Jul 7, 2007 23:03:06 GMT -5
Becca: Read your comments and I get what you're saying... but I like the fact that the Master is so amusing. In that way, it's almost more scary than bombast and high drama.Zapping the president. Oh, the thoughts I had on that one... Still HUGE with the John Simm love. What else? "It would break your heart." So many places that could have gone, although (unspoiled), my brain went to Rose, especially since she was mentioned so many times in Utopia. And 18 months before she would have been around. Don't know. Still thinking about it. I really did love the episode. And am now imagining Ianto trekking through the Himalayas... Think of "The Mayor". He cracked me up and his very amusement value and hominess made him much more "scary" than if he was all overt evil. Evil behind the mask of the good citizen. Gah! I really loved these last episodes of this season. Now, I'm pining away for the next season! Hurry up and come back! |
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Post by Sara on Sept 28, 2007 19:06:32 GMT -5
Dude. That Mirror lady is the previous p.m. Harriet Jones, isn't she?
ETA: Whoops, guess not.
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Post by Lola m on Sept 28, 2007 20:45:08 GMT -5
Yes! They used Jack's wrist-band vortex thingee! Ha! I so called it. (Plus, they did it in a perfect classic "with one bound, Jack was free" manner. ) Ah, and here's why Martha knew the voice. Harold Saxon, the Prime Minister. So, he's been here for years now, and hiding from the other times the Doctor was here. So, when his agents were trying to use Martha's mom, that can't have been to find and stop the Doctor, because that was before he visited the end of the universe and freed the Master . . . so was he just trying to make sure the Doctor made it to then or . . . Time loops are such wacky things! "What this country needs, right now, is a Doctor!" Oh, he's going to be a very fun Master. So smirky and snarky! Hmmmm. He's got Martha's sister. Gonna use her somehow, to make sure the Doctor and Martha don't foil his evil plans, eh? "Funny is like this, not funny is like this."  ;D Oh! And here's where Erin's avatar comes from! "You're insane" and the thumbs up. Because, duh! Starts off his new government by killing them all off? Yes he's insane! Checking up on things . . . Captain Jack calling "friends" - calling Torchwood? I wish I knew how this fit in with the Torchwood eps . . . . where in that timeline do these events fall? Hmmm. Reporter is being a bit too smarmy with the "first lady". Ah. Trying to warn her. Is she from a resistance movement? From Torchwood? From the Doctor? And how is she so sure the wife isn't in on things? |
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Post by Lola m on Sept 28, 2007 21:09:33 GMT -5
His life is all a fake and obvious, but people haven't questioned it. So, he's got them thralled somehow, eh? And this is all since the fall of Harriet Jones (huh, I'd forgotten this other Jones connection). Ah, yep. The wife is in on things. Oooh, he's got scary "friends". With bladey things. Who don't like the silly lady, dead lady. Heee! OK, that's both creepy and silly, with him running out with wife and being all squeamsh and peeking in to hear the eeeks as the fake reporter is all sliced up. Hmmm. Wife is all worried, he's all "tomorrow morning, everything ends". Ah, Doctor knows that 18 months from now is the max - locked the coordinates. Oooh, and now we see how Saxon won. Both Martha and Jack liked him. But even as Martha is all defensive and "I liked him" and "I could trust him", she can't remember anything about him. And we get the tapping thing again, which must be how he thralled everyone. Interesting. So, his plan is to get these other aliens to take over for him? Introduce them as something good and then they, what, slice everybody up? What good does that do the Master? And why is he letting someone else in on things? Ah, he wanted them to know there was a bomb. Wanted them to get out, so he could hunt them. And of course you weren't going to get Martha to not run to save her family. Brave dad, warning her and telling her to run. "Condition red on the Jones plan. Take them in. All of them." Eep! Whoa! Guns!  Drive drive drive drive, Martha!! She listens more quickly to Jack, ditch the car, evade them. Because she's so mad at the Doctor. And yes, it is pretty much all because of him. But your family's entanglement is happening because you wanted to go traveling with him. Which she's probably also mad about. She knew she was taking a risk but hadn't thought that her family was. Oh, my. They really are just putting the slash right out there, aren't they? "I'll find you, Martha Jones." "I'm here." "Doctor." "Master." (All breathy and intense, aren't they? ;D ) "I like it when you use my name." Well, dang. Just hose them down and let them go at it, eh? |
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Post by Lola m on Sept 28, 2007 21:37:24 GMT -5
Nice visual, with the red background behind each of them. Oh, sure, now the Master wants to know what happened. Ahhhh! The Time Lords resurrected him, figuring he would be the best one to fight in the Time War. Um. Yeah, that's the same kind of logic that brought Angelus back to help them fight the Beast. Um. OK, that did sort of work, but still . . . So, the Master was there, saw it, ran and turned himself human. Which is how he was not destroyed with all the others. (I ran. I ran so far away . . . anyone else feel like singing along with him. ;D ) More sexy breathy intense voice stuff. "Tell me, how did that feel?" "Stop it!" . . . "All we've got is each other." "Are you asking me out on a date?" Heee! And no, less a date and like a proposal. I mean, you and me, flying around the universe together, we'll do whatever you want, stay together, just not here, etc.? Hmmmm. Master is still hearing the drumming. So, thats how he thralled everyone, but it's not really him? Something got inside him first? Something using him or working through him? Or is he just even more insane? And when he drums his fingers, other people do. He's controlling them? Or they're just picking up his vibe, or . . . ? He's watching you! Everyone is watching you. National manhunt for the "terrorists". Ah! And he send TW folks off hunting something else. But, wouldn't the news that aliens were going to be chatting with them bring them back? Maybe not enough time, and communication won't reach them, etc. Heeee! "Oooh, you public menace!" ;D "Run, Doctor! Run for your life!" Hmmmm. He wants to threaten / kill him, he wants to save him . . . Awwww. He like Teletubbies and TV and he's just as fascinated with humans as the Doctor. Maybe because of the Doctor, eh? OK. His scary "friends" are scared too? Waiting for the "machine" to be ready next morning. "We have to escape, sir. Because it's coming, the darkness, the never ending darkness." Um. That doesn't sound good.  Interesting. Martha gets Jack to ask the Doctor about the Master. Heee! Secret brother. ;D Ohhh, Galifrey flashbacks!!! **squees happily** Ooh, their wacky robe with backboard things! The headdresses! Ah, good times. Time Lords. Never to interfere, always to watch. Yeah, everybody ends up having some watching group, eh? Buffy. Highlander. SG1. Staring into the vortex, some are inspired, some run away, some go mad. Sums it up nicely. |
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Post by Lola m on Sept 28, 2007 22:11:14 GMT -5
More excellent visuals - the scenes with Doctor and Martha and Jack all washed in blue, to contrast the red before. What about the Doctor? "The one who ran away, I never stopped." That was a nice little moment, that was. Jack comes clean about being with Torchwood. It's different, changed. After the "old regime" was destroyed, "I rebuilt it, I changed it". Did it for the Doctor, in honor of him. Archangel. The phones! The rythm plays over the phones, all the time, layers of code buried underneath. It's like the Fruity Oaty bars! Cool! Using the keys to the TARDIS as perception filters. Like we've seen at TW in Cardiff. Nice connections there. You see him, but you don't want to see. Heeee! They're doing some nice jokes about the American prez and so on. Hee! "You know what it's like, new job, all that paperwork." And the stuff about losing the protocol in the back of the settee and miming his mouth shut. "Are you taking this seriously?!" His goofy nod. ;D Hmmmmm. Are they sure the Master can't see them . . . Jack saying he'll break the Master's neck. "Now that sounds like Torchwood." Ooooh, Doctor's still got some issues there. Ah. Master is his responsibility to take care of. |
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Post by Lola m on Sept 28, 2007 22:20:31 GMT -5
Teleport onto ship - air ship platform thingee? Eww! He's canabalized the TARDIS? How dare he!! Ah, the machine is a "paradox" machine? What kind of paradox? Heeeeeeeeee! He's eating Jelly babies! How are they going to stop the Master? "Oh, I've got a way. Sorry, didn't I mention that?" Hmmmm. Slowly walk in, they use the keys to somehow stop the Master? If they stop the Doctor, then Jack or Martha needs to do it. Love the responses. Jack goes back to his military "yes sir" and Martha is positively scary with her "I'll get him". OMG, that is just too funny! "I will accept mastery over you, it that is God's will." They're really sticking it to the American president idea, aren't they? Good for them! "Is it the smile? Is it the aftershave? Is it the capacity to laugh at myself? I don't know. It's crazy!" Ah, the perception filter didn't work on him. Stop the Doctor, spot the "girly and the freak". Which one is which. And of course he's got a laser screwdriver, because he'd never want to settle for old fashioned sonic, like some people. You know, you're not fooling anyone about your Doctor obsession, mister Master! Whoa! Lazurus machine, gone the other way. Age the Doctor, keep killing Jack, and terrorize Martha with danger to her family. You know, it's these complex plans and long winded gloating that always brings down the bad guy. Somehow, I gotta think that will be true for the Master as well. |
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Post by Lola m on Sept 28, 2007 22:23:54 GMT -5
Heeeeee! The drums are pop music? Oh that's just too . . . . freakily cute. Ooopsie. Big ol' rift in space(time?) and 6 billion slicey machines head on down. That's looking seriously eepsome. Decimate? Oh, and he's gonna take that literally. Kill every tenth person. Jack gets Martha to transport . . . so, she's going to be part of what brings the Master down, I'm betting. Well, that is one hell of a cliff hanger!! Even more eeepsome than the last one. I am soooo looking forward to the season ender next week! |
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;D Oh! And here's where Erin's avatar comes from! "You're insane" and the thumbs up. Because, duh! Starts off his new government by killing them all off? Yes he's insane! 
Drive drive drive drive, Martha!!