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retro_eidasSince I'm apparently trying to turn this weekend Who posting obsession into a daily thing....
Thus the device will kill half the Earth, but turn the other half into gods (in theory) of which Saxon will rule and control, possibly also with a bit of help with his infamous mind mojo powers (hypnosis into submission on a mass scale via Archangel, a telecommunications network he controls and probably the source of his Earthly wealth & means?). Ye shall be as gods and know good and evil. Resurrecting Gallifrey - a new Garden of Eden - on Earth... of which he is the sole lord and master (when/if the Doctor rejects any evil partnership he'd likely offer). A new (bastardized version of Harriet Jones') Golden Age in the century "everything changes" for humanity.
How will Martha choose to do the human thing and face death? By jumping in the cogs or in the way of the device before it can blast Earth, taking on the full blast herself. By way of Jack's and/or the Face of Boe's help or guidance (don't know for sure if Boe is in the finale or not, but... I've got a feeling based on something Rusty said in the "Utopia" Confidential). Jack probably wouldn't know what she'd planned to do, but I could imagine Boe did (probably even advised her to do it... yet another way Boe may have known the Doctor was "not alone". He helped fulfill the prophecy he told the "lonely traveller" at the time of his death, knowing it would be at the time of his death via Martha and knowing Martha would be part of the means the prophecy was fulfilled ... and, of course, he's the omniscient Big Ole Face). Will it kill her? It may appear to at first, thus leaving the Doctor to a devastating reaction (losing the amazing companion he'd only just opened his eyes to for the very first time) and unleashes some terrible vengeance on the Master, possibly taking all or most of his regenerations away somehow (if he doesn't get away in the nick of time, that is... survival is one of the Master's specialties). Only to discover later on, Martha didn't die at all, she survived... but she's been changed into a Time Lord (err, Lady). Martha Jones is dead, long live (literally) Martha Jones.
I also wouldn't be shocked there's either voluntary or automatic Vulcan mindmeld of some kind (btwn Martha & the Doctor) due to that connection Nine spoke of with the other Time Lords back in S1. A connection the Doctor noticeably doesn't have with Saxon and thus why the Doctor didn't detect him all those times he and Martha had been on present day Earth, this lack of connection probably explained and hence reminding us of said Time Lord connection. Which the Doctor may have with Martha (but not right away, thus why the Doctor believes she died. He can't sense another Time Lord), vice versa, thus confirming her Time Lordiness. Also possibly mirroring the Doctor/Reinette and Bad Wolf & the S1 finale (the Doctor looks into Martha and Martha looks into the Doctor). Also, incidentally, probably how Dr. Martha ends up curing the Doctor of his "Lonely God" emo. She peers into his head, sees just how lonely he is... then doesn't have the heart to Chameleon Arch herself into a human again (or at least wants to explore this new & shiny Time Lord thing for a little while). Doctor and Martha still might not be 100% best buddies by the end of the ep, but she still may not want to leave him. This would also harken back to the title of the episode (which everyone, rightly, assumes is only about the Doctor and the Master, but the status quo changes by the end of the ep). "The Last of the Time Lords"... The Doctor, The Master and Martha Jones due to her exposure to the Lazarus-Saxon device. The Doctor, Jack and Martha the last three heroes left standing (also, all three, incidentally, would then share the common trait of having too long life).
Of course, I'd also bet instead of suddenly making Martha the Doctor's daughter or sister by the genetic brouhaha which would kill the innuendo dead, she won't be biologically related to him at all. The device probably would rewrite human DNA to Time Lord, but not make every single new potential Time Lord out there related to the Doctor (we know the pitfall of that might be for the Master in the EOTD human husks as the Doctor's DNA apparently - magically - gave them a choice, made them more Doctory in the head with the love of choice and freedom and all that. The Master may be aware of this magical foible in DNA, so would prevent such a display of the Doctor's genetic mind control over his loyal subjects by altering the DNA enough where there's no definitive connection to the Doctor). Not to mention, as this is still Rusty's Who, no way do I see him killing the innuendo like that, even if it never actually goes anywhere. The man be too obsessed with teh sexxorz to turn Martha into the Doctor's little sister/daughter.
BBC Press Release for "The Last of the Time Lords":"New Time Lord empire"? Now depending on how literal that is (I'm thinking it is very literal, Rusty isn't particularly subtle as we know), I'm thinking that machine he'd commissioned Lazarus to make (based around Lazarus' lifetime's work which Saxon likely stumbled on in constructing his diabolic plans) will show up again in the finale in a huge way. Combined with the potential foreshadowing in both the Plasmavore's MRI bomb and the Doctor giving his DNA to the human/Dalek husks in "Evolution of the Daleks"? I think Saxon will modify Lazarus' machine, possibly using his own DNA / the Doctor's hand (or hell, the Doctor himself) for the Time Lord genetic codes and maybe the TARDIS (the Chameleon Arch) to create an anti-Chameleon Arch on a global scale that changes humans to Time Lords. The only catch is - as there's always one or two in scenarios like this and usually life or death - is the thing has a 50/50 shot of either turning you into a Time Lord or just plain killing you in a horrible way (or just a terrible monster by the looks of Lazarus, which would still fall in the *ded* category as I doubt there's room in Saxon's new empire for giant, uncontrollable ferocious beasts... unless he wants some pits for entertaining to throw in nerf herders who don't pay their debts like Jabba or whatnot, but I digress).
Earth has been conquered and the Master rules supreme, with the Doctor a helpless prisoner, in the final episode of Russell T Davies's Doctor Who. The entire human race has been reduced to slavery, as the mighty warships of a new Time Lord Empire rise from the ashes. Only Martha Jones can save the world...
David Tennant plays the Doctor and Freema Agyeman plays his companion, Martha Jones. John Barrowman and John Simm guest star.
Thus the device will kill half the Earth, but turn the other half into gods (in theory) of which Saxon will rule and control, possibly also with a bit of help with his infamous mind mojo powers (hypnosis into submission on a mass scale via Archangel, a telecommunications network he controls and probably the source of his Earthly wealth & means?). Ye shall be as gods and know good and evil. Resurrecting Gallifrey - a new Garden of Eden - on Earth... of which he is the sole lord and master (when/if the Doctor rejects any evil partnership he'd likely offer). A new (bastardized version of Harriet Jones') Golden Age in the century "everything changes" for humanity.
How will Martha choose to do the human thing and face death? By jumping in the cogs or in the way of the device before it can blast Earth, taking on the full blast herself. By way of Jack's and/or the Face of Boe's help or guidance (don't know for sure if Boe is in the finale or not, but... I've got a feeling based on something Rusty said in the "Utopia" Confidential). Jack probably wouldn't know what she'd planned to do, but I could imagine Boe did (probably even advised her to do it... yet another way Boe may have known the Doctor was "not alone". He helped fulfill the prophecy he told the "lonely traveller" at the time of his death, knowing it would be at the time of his death via Martha and knowing Martha would be part of the means the prophecy was fulfilled ... and, of course, he's the omniscient Big Ole Face). Will it kill her? It may appear to at first, thus leaving the Doctor to a devastating reaction (losing the amazing companion he'd only just opened his eyes to for the very first time) and unleashes some terrible vengeance on the Master, possibly taking all or most of his regenerations away somehow (if he doesn't get away in the nick of time, that is... survival is one of the Master's specialties). Only to discover later on, Martha didn't die at all, she survived... but she's been changed into a Time Lord (err, Lady). Martha Jones is dead, long live (literally) Martha Jones.
I also wouldn't be shocked there's either voluntary or automatic Vulcan mindmeld of some kind (btwn Martha & the Doctor) due to that connection Nine spoke of with the other Time Lords back in S1. A connection the Doctor noticeably doesn't have with Saxon and thus why the Doctor didn't detect him all those times he and Martha had been on present day Earth, this lack of connection probably explained and hence reminding us of said Time Lord connection. Which the Doctor may have with Martha (but not right away, thus why the Doctor believes she died. He can't sense another Time Lord), vice versa, thus confirming her Time Lordiness. Also possibly mirroring the Doctor/Reinette and Bad Wolf & the S1 finale (the Doctor looks into Martha and Martha looks into the Doctor). Also, incidentally, probably how Dr. Martha ends up curing the Doctor of his "Lonely God" emo. She peers into his head, sees just how lonely he is... then doesn't have the heart to Chameleon Arch herself into a human again (or at least wants to explore this new & shiny Time Lord thing for a little while). Doctor and Martha still might not be 100% best buddies by the end of the ep, but she still may not want to leave him. This would also harken back to the title of the episode (which everyone, rightly, assumes is only about the Doctor and the Master, but the status quo changes by the end of the ep). "The Last of the Time Lords"... The Doctor, The Master and Martha Jones due to her exposure to the Lazarus-Saxon device. The Doctor, Jack and Martha the last three heroes left standing (also, all three, incidentally, would then share the common trait of having too long life).
Of course, I'd also bet instead of suddenly making Martha the Doctor's daughter or sister by the genetic brouhaha which would kill the innuendo dead, she won't be biologically related to him at all. The device probably would rewrite human DNA to Time Lord, but not make every single new potential Time Lord out there related to the Doctor (we know the pitfall of that might be for the Master in the EOTD human husks as the Doctor's DNA apparently - magically - gave them a choice, made them more Doctory in the head with the love of choice and freedom and all that. The Master may be aware of this magical foible in DNA, so would prevent such a display of the Doctor's genetic mind control over his loyal subjects by altering the DNA enough where there's no definitive connection to the Doctor). Not to mention, as this is still Rusty's Who, no way do I see him killing the innuendo like that, even if it never actually goes anywhere. The man be too obsessed with teh sexxorz to turn Martha into the Doctor's little sister/daughter.
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Date: 2007-06-22 02:50 am (UTC)So what's your guess? The time war involvement/actual Time Lordiness theories sound good to me...but I can't come up with anything that seems clearly, absolutely to offer the right answer. I keep thinking the fact that it's exactly two years missing must be significant... The only thing I can think of involving two years is if we take each Dr Who season to equal a year in the Doc's timeline, then it's been two years (Doctor time) since Jack died on the Gamestation. So maybe Jack is a regeneration of the Doctor and somehow needed to have those two years wiped because....oh, crap. I don't know. I'm clutching at straws here.
"Of course, if the Doctor continues to change the timeline in such a way, then everything that happened in season 2 and 3 wouldn't have happened."
That's why I just don't think that's the answer. Rusty doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who would opt for the "wave a magic wand and none of it really happened" type of resolution.
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Date: 2007-06-22 03:15 pm (UTC)Neither can I and we probably won't until whatever happens actually happens as the possibilities are plentiful. The only thing I tend not to lean towards are the theories Jack is some Chameleon Arch'd future incarnation of the Doctor / the Valeyard (unless Rusty tries to dance around the whole paradox thing). Despite it being a tempting spec with that, "The only man you'll ever be satisfied is yourself" line.
That's why I just don't think that's the answer. Rusty doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who would opt for the "wave a magic wand and none of it really happened" type of resolution.
At least I'd hope not. I spec'd that at a low (paranoid) point the other day in this madness waiting for TSoD. There will be minutes I'll think everything will turn out in a satisfying way, the other I'll be thinking horrible things like Rusty resurrecting his favored creation (no matter the retconning he has to do) or canonically making Martha play Yenta to the Doctor & Rose (fanfic cliches of the worst order, mostly of the rabid fen, so I'd rather not think a professional would stoop to such levels... but such is my Rusty suspicions/paranoia). *cringes*
However, the more I think about this whole "Martha must save the world" thing (thus, in theory, thwart Saxon or at least play a very crucial role in doing so)... and Saxon's propensity to target the Doctor's human connections to get at him? Not to mention the "killed by an insect... a girl" foreshadowing of anviliciousness? Topped with the "devastating" and "grim" adjectives I've seen floating around describing the finale? I have been wondering more than I probably should if there is anything to the Sun rubbish and Martha is, in fact, abducted by the Master in the end. As I don't see the Doctor killing him, but unleashing some terrible vengeance (as he can't control himself)... there'd be more than reason the Master would be hella pissed at both of them, but if he can't thwart the Doctor, he targets his vulnerable human companion. Even if that doesn't seem the way Rusty usually ends things, the closest he's come to a cliffhanger yet is Donna in the TARDIS and that wasn't much of a cliffhanger, at least not anything like this would be.
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Date: 2007-06-22 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-22 10:51 pm (UTC)Well, even if that's not what's in store, I feel pretty sure that optimism will not be disappointed. It's a long, long hiatus on Brit tv from one series to the next, and you just can't leave the audience with a bad taste in the mouth about the key relationship in the show. Right? (I will be clutching my knees rocking back and forth repeating this to myself over and over for the next week or so...)