God, I Love Television
Jun. 30th, 2007 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Okay, Doctor Who finale. Good lord.
So, the usual mess of squee and 'analysis' to follow, basically in the running order of the episode, with reveals and whatnot as my slow brain picks up on them...
I still get a kick out of seeing John Barrowman's name in the opening credits.
Ooh, ONE YEAR LATER?!!!! I deliberately didn't read spoilers for this ep, but I'd sort of assumed that she'd nip back 18 months into the past and sort it out that way.
Ooh, It's Claude from Much Ado! Stubble. I like it.
And Martha's all rebel like Ricky/Mickey! and Ben from Byker Grove...! She is 'the famous Martha Jones'! She is finally the absolute BADASS we always knew she was! She's FINALLY got a functional yet sassy hairstyle and wardrobe! She's a 'legend'!
"She's going to save the world!"
Johns Simm is beyond sexy as The Master. I think I want to be Lucy Saxon a little bit, with the raunchy kissing and the dancing... Ooh, and if anybody can Name That Tune (the one with the dance routine of awesome) I would be eternally grateful...
Further proof that the Master's mind is as filthy as my own... He's had a dirty, sweaty Jack chained up all sexual like. For a year.
"I've met shakespeare." Oh, Martha. I loves thee.
Aww, kiss flashback!
Um, it appears the Doctor's been living in some sort of creepy floor teepee.
Here we go, covert stuff! Rebellion and so forth. Oh, they've failed. Curses. Although, Jack's even grubbier now. This is a good thing.
Okay, I realise that my overwhelming Saxonlust has overshadowed my perception of the last few episodes (sorry Louise!), so I should probably just clarify that The Tennant is still rocking my socks with the acting and all that jazz. Especially with the old man make up, where so much of it is done with his eyes. Those beautiful, beautiful eyes... Anyway, up until the point where the Master fucked up the regeneration like a bastard and made the Doctor 900 (well, he was already 900, but you know what I mean), I was basically in the thrall of John Simm. Maybe it was the novelty, maybe it was just because he was so FREAKING AWESOME, I'm unclear. I'm not proud of it. Not that I'd forgotten the Doctor, but I was just so gleeful re: th Master. Anyway, I'm sorry. He may be glamourous, insane and completely sexual... but he is also warped and evil, and he hurt my Doctor. Not cool. Because now my Doctor is one foot tall and pitiful and in a birdcage.
However, Martha Jones is on hand to be brilliant: "The Doctor's still alive!" She has such complete and utter faith in him- it's one of the things she has in common with Rose, but, I dunno, it just feels like Martha's more mature about the whole thing? She's got a plan and a strategy and she's focused, whereas Rose basically just surrendered her life to the Doctor and opened the heart of the TARDIS and saved him at the expense of everything else. I absolutely love that moment for her, don't get me wrong, I just appreciate the differences. Actually, I much prefer Nine/Rose to Ten/Rose... Thoughts, anyone?
Proper action stuff with guns and running and khaki!
Finally, an explanation for UTOPIA!!! I have to admit, I was slightly pissed off with Rusty for the complete lack of focus on that in Ep11, so I have to hold my hands up. Sorry for doubting. Although, when they sliced open the Tochlofane, did anyone else think for a moment that RTD had resurrected the Daleks AGAIN? And this does put an interesting spin on Rusty's human fetish. How great are we, exactly? Maybe it's just humans in the present that are fantastic. Or maybe it's all just subjective.
Now, this whole Martha as KillerMartha ruse was pretty cool, although I did find myself doubting whether Rusty would really have a heroine who killed people in cold blood. But he didn't, so issue dodged! This isn't Torchwood, y'all.
Despite everything I said earlier, the Master looks razor fine in his dressing gown and bed hair.
Ohh, a public Martha declaration of Doctor Love. Rose comparisons? There are many. This was such a beautiful scene, she was so still and inspiring. Freema Love, people. Freema Love. If that doesn't silence that haters, I don't know what will.
Yuck, EXPLICIT COMPARISON TO ROSE! What are you doing? Are you going to have Martha's entire arc overshadowed by her?
"As if I would ask her to kill"... PACIFIST DOCTOR FTW!!!
And we've come full circle this series because everything is right back to the power of WORDS. Oh, Rusty. Hugs for you.
Ooh, a quarry! Right on.
And right in the middle of the big climactic action sequence with time reversing and everything getting fixed, Martha and the Doctor just look at each other with absolute joy and they're back on the rollercoaster and I love this partnership.
"You mean you're just gonna... keep me?" DO NOT PUT THIS IMAGE IN MY BRAIN. I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SLEEP.
Ohh, Lucy. You shot John Simm. All that hot sex... Actually, I really loved this shot, the gun against the red dress was so femme fatale, it was very noir and thus awesome.
So the Master is dying in the arms of the Doctor and refusing to regenerate and the Doctor is crying.
"We're the only two left. no one else. "
And now he's full-on sobbing, and he's cradling the body of the only other Timelord left in the universe and he lets out this strangled, frustrated cry of inarticulate rage and I love this show and I love this character and I love The Tennant. And now he really is the last of the Timelords.
Or is he????? Mwahahaha.
Is it just me, or was that funeral pyre pure Return of the Jedi?
Oh, Martha. Back in the bad jacket.
Cardiff... I've been there! I've stood by that very railing in front of that red brick building! Ohh, Jack is yearning for his team! *coughIantocough*
Thae salute that he gives them reminds me that The Barrowman is not just a damn pretty face, he's fucking good at that acting lark. There's just so much pain and isncerity there.
JACK IS THE FACE OF BOE!!!!!! He lived for 5 billion years and sent messages out through the universe calling for the Doctor! He tried to warn him! He got to see Rose again!
Martha's leaving... This whole scene is played with such grace by the pair of them, it breaks my heart. And she's leaving because she loves him, and she's leaving because she has self-respect, and she's leaving because it hurts too much. God. Rose could never have done that.
THE FUCKING TITANIC?! Bring it ON, as Jack would say.
Ohh, and a Martha-centric montage at the end of Confidential. To Invincible. By Muse. Perfection.
So, the usual mess of squee and 'analysis' to follow, basically in the running order of the episode, with reveals and whatnot as my slow brain picks up on them...
I still get a kick out of seeing John Barrowman's name in the opening credits.
Ooh, ONE YEAR LATER?!!!! I deliberately didn't read spoilers for this ep, but I'd sort of assumed that she'd nip back 18 months into the past and sort it out that way.
Ooh, It's Claude from Much Ado! Stubble. I like it.
And Martha's all rebel like Ricky/Mickey! and Ben from Byker Grove...! She is 'the famous Martha Jones'! She is finally the absolute BADASS we always knew she was! She's FINALLY got a functional yet sassy hairstyle and wardrobe! She's a 'legend'!
"She's going to save the world!"
Johns Simm is beyond sexy as The Master. I think I want to be Lucy Saxon a little bit, with the raunchy kissing and the dancing... Ooh, and if anybody can Name That Tune (the one with the dance routine of awesome) I would be eternally grateful...
Further proof that the Master's mind is as filthy as my own... He's had a dirty, sweaty Jack chained up all sexual like. For a year.
"I've met shakespeare." Oh, Martha. I loves thee.
Aww, kiss flashback!
Um, it appears the Doctor's been living in some sort of creepy floor teepee.
Here we go, covert stuff! Rebellion and so forth. Oh, they've failed. Curses. Although, Jack's even grubbier now. This is a good thing.
Okay, I realise that my overwhelming Saxonlust has overshadowed my perception of the last few episodes (sorry Louise!), so I should probably just clarify that The Tennant is still rocking my socks with the acting and all that jazz. Especially with the old man make up, where so much of it is done with his eyes. Those beautiful, beautiful eyes... Anyway, up until the point where the Master fucked up the regeneration like a bastard and made the Doctor 900 (well, he was already 900, but you know what I mean), I was basically in the thrall of John Simm. Maybe it was the novelty, maybe it was just because he was so FREAKING AWESOME, I'm unclear. I'm not proud of it. Not that I'd forgotten the Doctor, but I was just so gleeful re: th Master. Anyway, I'm sorry. He may be glamourous, insane and completely sexual... but he is also warped and evil, and he hurt my Doctor. Not cool. Because now my Doctor is one foot tall and pitiful and in a birdcage.
However, Martha Jones is on hand to be brilliant: "The Doctor's still alive!" She has such complete and utter faith in him- it's one of the things she has in common with Rose, but, I dunno, it just feels like Martha's more mature about the whole thing? She's got a plan and a strategy and she's focused, whereas Rose basically just surrendered her life to the Doctor and opened the heart of the TARDIS and saved him at the expense of everything else. I absolutely love that moment for her, don't get me wrong, I just appreciate the differences. Actually, I much prefer Nine/Rose to Ten/Rose... Thoughts, anyone?
Proper action stuff with guns and running and khaki!
Finally, an explanation for UTOPIA!!! I have to admit, I was slightly pissed off with Rusty for the complete lack of focus on that in Ep11, so I have to hold my hands up. Sorry for doubting. Although, when they sliced open the Tochlofane, did anyone else think for a moment that RTD had resurrected the Daleks AGAIN? And this does put an interesting spin on Rusty's human fetish. How great are we, exactly? Maybe it's just humans in the present that are fantastic. Or maybe it's all just subjective.
Now, this whole Martha as KillerMartha ruse was pretty cool, although I did find myself doubting whether Rusty would really have a heroine who killed people in cold blood. But he didn't, so issue dodged! This isn't Torchwood, y'all.
Despite everything I said earlier, the Master looks razor fine in his dressing gown and bed hair.
Ohh, a public Martha declaration of Doctor Love. Rose comparisons? There are many. This was such a beautiful scene, she was so still and inspiring. Freema Love, people. Freema Love. If that doesn't silence that haters, I don't know what will.
Yuck, EXPLICIT COMPARISON TO ROSE! What are you doing? Are you going to have Martha's entire arc overshadowed by her?
"As if I would ask her to kill"... PACIFIST DOCTOR FTW!!!
And we've come full circle this series because everything is right back to the power of WORDS. Oh, Rusty. Hugs for you.
Ooh, a quarry! Right on.
And right in the middle of the big climactic action sequence with time reversing and everything getting fixed, Martha and the Doctor just look at each other with absolute joy and they're back on the rollercoaster and I love this partnership.
"You mean you're just gonna... keep me?" DO NOT PUT THIS IMAGE IN MY BRAIN. I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SLEEP.
Ohh, Lucy. You shot John Simm. All that hot sex... Actually, I really loved this shot, the gun against the red dress was so femme fatale, it was very noir and thus awesome.
So the Master is dying in the arms of the Doctor and refusing to regenerate and the Doctor is crying.
"We're the only two left. no one else. "
And now he's full-on sobbing, and he's cradling the body of the only other Timelord left in the universe and he lets out this strangled, frustrated cry of inarticulate rage and I love this show and I love this character and I love The Tennant. And now he really is the last of the Timelords.
Or is he????? Mwahahaha.
Is it just me, or was that funeral pyre pure Return of the Jedi?
Oh, Martha. Back in the bad jacket.
Cardiff... I've been there! I've stood by that very railing in front of that red brick building! Ohh, Jack is yearning for his team! *coughIantocough*
Thae salute that he gives them reminds me that The Barrowman is not just a damn pretty face, he's fucking good at that acting lark. There's just so much pain and isncerity there.
JACK IS THE FACE OF BOE!!!!!! He lived for 5 billion years and sent messages out through the universe calling for the Doctor! He tried to warn him! He got to see Rose again!
Martha's leaving... This whole scene is played with such grace by the pair of them, it breaks my heart. And she's leaving because she loves him, and she's leaving because she has self-respect, and she's leaving because it hurts too much. God. Rose could never have done that.
THE FUCKING TITANIC?! Bring it ON, as Jack would say.
Ohh, and a Martha-centric montage at the end of Confidential. To Invincible. By Muse. Perfection.
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Date: 2007-07-01 04:16 pm (UTC)I think I want to be Lucy Saxon a little bit
Sighh yes. Only I wouldn't shoot him. This has been the problem with John Simm - no matter HOW evil the Master got, I've always been totally "I love you!"
"You mean you're just gonna... keep me?"
AAAGHHH!
Despite everything I said earlier, the Master looks razor fine in his dressing gown and bed hair.
Best few seconds. Ever.
She has such complete and utter faith in him - it's one of the things she has in common with Rose
Rose kind of stopped believing in him during the Christmas Invasion. In all fairness, he looked completely different all of a sudden and was asleep.. but still! This time round the Doctor's pretty helpless again (rather old and in an odd tent or very old and tiny and caged) but as you say, she never gives up on him <3
Anyway. Yes. I'll leave you in peace now :D
OH apart from to say that the song's the Scissor Sisters' "I Can't Decide" if you were still wondering - and according to my media player's play count thing, I've listened to it 12 times since yesterday. Obsessive, much?
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Date: 2007-07-01 09:25 pm (UTC)The Wonder That Is John Simm does tend to make you forget that he's supposed to be the bad guy when he's being so damn hot. So Simm + Tennant + the verb "to keep" = a rather flustered me.
And thanks for the song!