Rest of my watching notes . . .
Awwww. Martha denies the importance of her legend or name, tells them about the Doctor. What he's done all these years, saving humans so many times, "you never knew . . . I know him . . . I love him". Awwwww!! Plus, I'll bet she feels a bit not noble after seeing that it was the humans from the future that they helped who are now causing all this.
Holy crap. "Lord and Master" walks among them. Martha should surrender or he'll hurt people. And the ultimate dirty pool, what would the Doctor do? Because, yes, he does tend to do that "give himself up so others will be spared" thing.
She's still got the TARDIS key thing, but the Master will still see her, even if the humans don't.
Oh! And the guy who was there, part of the resistance, I suppose, gets shot instead.
Aaaaand once again the Master doesn't kill her, brings her to hurt the Doctor and gloat, blah blah. Once again dude, this is how the villains always get caught! Pontificate, threaten, ya ya ya. And Martha is . . . laughing? Oh, they
so have a plan to get him, I know it!
Ha! Yes! She got caught on purpose. Huh. No real weapon, that was a fake, they knew the Scientist woman's sitch and expected her to call. "Faith and hope, is that all?" "No, I gave them an instruction." Ohhh! Use the same weapon that the Master used, the Archangel satelight system thingee that beams into everyone's head. Only now they're all beaming back the other way, because the Doctor has been using his proximity and time to worm his way into the network. "One thing you can't do, stop them thinking." Not sure how the science works on this, why that mental energy would actually revive the Doctor and so on, rather than just let humanity do some similar mental control thing in reverse, but then again, the actual science is never really something to look at that closely on DW, so I'll go with it.
And they also used what they knew the ego of the Master would require, a world-wide broadcast to tell everyone "Look at the thing I've done" as their timing. Hah! See, gloating is what does you in every time, fiendish villains!
Doctor says "I'm sorry." Just like we've seen before, he tried and tried to get the bad guy to listen, gave them every chance, and when they wouldn't listen, that's when he strikes. Wouldn't listen because you know what I'm going to say . . . I forgive you. Well, damn.
Jack running to paradox machine while the Doctor transports with the Master, still trying to launch his rockets. Oh, if they break the paradox machine, then the impossible thing it's allowing to happen can't happen? Ah, Captain Jack, they'll get slaughtered but "yeah, that happens to me a lot". I'm still really sad thinking about him being hurt and killed over and over and over.
Weapon after weapon after weapon - all you do is talk and talk and talk. (Calling him on his major flaws. Always about the technology and the gloating. Missing the holes in his plans because of that.) All these disasters and I've always had the greatest secret of them all. I
know you. (I'd say that it each other's greatest weapons. They each know each other very well. But because the Doctor played the long game this time, he fooled the Master. Also, the Master, while knowing him, judges the Doctor from his own perspective. Which makes him slightly off, I'm thinking. I'm thinking the Doctor can understand the Master's perspective better than the Master can understand the Doctor's.)
Zapped back to the airship and . . . ah! There goes all the stuff the paradox machine was holding in place, unraveling again. So, it really wasn't able to stick on its own, without assistance. Too wrong for the space-time continuum thingee, eh.
Back to when the orb thingees appeared. So, it corrected back only as far as it needed, did away with the main paradox. The large amount of humans dying that shouldn't because they need to produce the humans that become the orb thingees. But it won't erase anything else, so they still went up on the airship and the President was killed, etc. It sort of makes sense, if that kind of thing can possibly make sense . . .
And only they remember, because they were, sort of, within the area where the correction was being made? Like Angel being the only one to remember about Connor, or Henry and Jack remembering what happened because they were right there when the Artifact went boom.
Oh. That's sweet, in a warped way. The Doctor would stop wandering, take in the Master, "someone to care for". Can't/won't kill him, but then the worm turns, doesn't it always? The always stepped on worm that you felt safe turning your back on because it would never have the nerve to stand up to you and bang - his loony wife shoots him. "Always the woman."
Dork!
Dying in the Doctor's arms.
Telling him to regenerate, he won't. "Don't know me that well." "Spend the rest of my life imprisoned with you?" Doctor is losing it all again. "You and me . . . all the things we've done . . . there's no one else." So, we're back to two eps ago when the Master first remembered who he was and the Doctor pleaded with him because all the other Time Lords were gone. "How about that. I win." Oh. Wins because he's taking away the only thing left that he can from the Doctor, the one thing he wants most. The only other Time Lord. Leaving him all alone again. The drums "will it stop?". Well, since I figure you hear the drums because you're insane, yes I imagine they will when you die.
Funeral.
Ohhhh, sweet. Asks Jack to stay with him. But no, he needs to get back to his team. Yay! TW team! He loves them and won't leave them again, not even for the Doctor! All that time to think about what was really important and he picks his team and repsonsibility to taking care of Earth and so on.
Grrr! Why take away his teleporter thingee? It was his! I know you fixed it, but you could have just turned it back to working the way it always did. I mean, it is his.
Heh! Jack, impossible thing. And, of course, wondering about his vanity. So, he's aging very slowly? The odd grey hair he's noticed in the long long time he's been alive so far . . . oh! Face of Boe! Well, that's . . . . kind of oddly sweet. Considering he also dies in the Doctor's arms in the future. Or a future. Um. Not as far future as they've already been, only it's still in his future? I'm confused!!! Time travel, sheesh!
Looks like Martha's mum has sort of forgiven him, gives him a little smile. Doctor is leaving and Martha . . . won't go along. Ah! Spent years training to be a doctor. So, she's realised she needs to do what
she needs to do. I like when companions have their own lives too.
"Martha Jones, you saved the world." Yay! Love that she did all that! "I am good." Yes, yes you are, Martha. "You gonna be alright?" "Always am."
Wait, she comes back? Oh! Tells him the story of the woman who loved the guy and he didn't feel the same. Told her time and again, get out. This is me getting out. Nice! After hitting us with the "she loves him, he doesn't feel the same way" it's good to bring it right out. Have her flat out say that this is also part of her moving on to have her own life. Heee! But she leaves her phone and he better answer and come when called! Ha! Nice turn about from the way it usually is with companions. "I'll see you again, Doctor."
Ah, and then the obligatory shot of the ring and laugh and funeral pyre. No villain is every really really dead forever, eh? Especially not the Master. ;D
And then . . . Titanic? INSIDE the TARDIS? WTF?! How did something penetrate the TARDIS? Did the paradox machine or the Master mess it up that badly?
Whoa! Gotta wait for next season, I guess.
Hell of a ride with this one, that's for sure!