Dr. Who -The Last of the Time Lords

[hazelk]

So the continuity porn was triple X-rated from the call back to the ‘power of words’ Shakespeare episode all the way to Captain Jack as the face of Boe. John Simms remained delirious and Martha done good but…

I’m not made of stone. I read Peter Pan so long ago I can’t remember whether I wanted to clap or hiss in the original Tinkerbell scene but still weep copiously every time the crowd begins to applaud at the end of Strictly Ballroom. It doesn’t always work though. Buffy getting the pink umbrella of public affirmation in The Prom errs just on the side of eye rolling, the plain people of Noo Yawk throwing rocks at the Green Goblin in Spiderman errs a little further. The whole world converting to Doctoranity runs screaming off into the void of “who died and made you Jesus?” And on behalf of us he forgave his evil insane misogynist ex-boyfriend for pulling a Davros on the last humans, decimating their predecessors once more with accuracy and covering the world with little pointy penis substitutes. As a mere human person I’d like to thank The Master for winning that round even if his victory was later undercut for the sake of a Flash Gordon shoutout.

Rant over, the hell, it was a big ambitious mess of a finale but like the Toclafane still able to have fun and God only knows what the kids made of it.

Comments

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the "I believe in fairies" thing was totally over the top. I had a really hard time with it.

That said, I felt like even though the plot was basically a massive failure, there was emotional truth in the episode which seemed to make up for it. Or possibly I'm just too much of a fangirl to think clearly.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

I have a very conflicted relationship with new Who, nostalgia battling with all kinds of other factors and mostly it works itself out in cheap snark :-)

This arc in particular, it does have the whole words/faith versus weapons that selenaK pointed out in her review but faith in what? Who is old enough that the Doctor began with left over Empire issues, why does faith have to be channeled through the representative of a more 'advanced' civilisation? Why does Martha have to love him so unconditionally almost from the day they met? Against which I genuinely like/love all the characters, Ten, Nine, Rose, Jackie, Martha, Martha's mum, the Master, Sally, Mickey, even Lucy Saxon is intriguing.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Ooh, must go read selenak's review.

I am increasingly disgruntled about the race and sex issues in the show, and it makes me sad. I used to have such squee for it, and now I just...don't.