Doctor Who - 312 - The Sound of Drums

[retro_eidas]

Saxon is Bacchus. Cuz in his apocalypse I want to have sex. with. everyone. To. The. DEATH!! Rusty is going to have one helluva time trying to top this OT4 of universal domination. I don't think he's ever going to. He should just quit now. Unless he keeps writing eps like this that make me weep sweet sweet fangirly tears.


Gratuitous Gallifrey cap in glorious (on a budget) modern CG. Looking very much the cover of a Vernor Vinge novel I must say. Those Time Lord robes though? Never fail to make me giggle.


I know what it is you saw, for it also in my mind //believes The Mill was channelling LOTR with those cg shots//.... PLUS the Seal of Rassilon [/geeks out]


Oh look! It's Phantasm and they've made friends with the Master! Great.


I have no idea why everyone keeps going on about this "slash" business.

Really.

No. Really.

"I'm going to save him." Oh honey, you just said he's been insane since he was 8-yrs-old, I'm not sure there's much you can do for him. However, I vote he tries sexing the crazy out of him just like I'm sure he attempted in their Academy years. I also want to read that hot fubar slashy mcslashy supersized spin-off novel of them growing up together.

The neverending drumbeat. Could be anticipatory, but I'm betting it was the Master that started the Time War due to the Frailty levels of crazy. As if it's some divine right endowed by the almighty touch of Rassilon or some shit (because that is the way crazy people think... with an incessant, maniacal sound like Caligula in that one series with Master #6 ("With your 'Chan' and your 'tho' driving me INSANE!!")). Thus the Master started the war, the Doctor ended it (errr Bad Wolf ended it... no, that's not right either, Cult of Skaro turning on each other ended it... but then Dalek Caan got away and the Master is alive... nevermind). Although sad Time Lord Bacchus nee the PM Saxon seems to have signed his own death regeneration warrant by raping the TARDIS.


Mrs. Saxon seemed a bit of a dullard, but do you know who these two remind me of in tradition of evil couples apparently in love although I still think he'd waste no time killing her if she proved a liability like Chantho? Rasputin and his Nazi lover from the Hellboy movie. Evil minion blondes and the meglomaniac bastards who love them.

But I am left wondering if that was a Paradox Machine and it went off as it did at 8:02 thus, presumedly, creating a paradox? Why didn't the time-eatting dragons show-up? Then we'd have time-eatting dragons vs. phantasm balls of death. [subconscious]Cuz they blew their wad on Vernor Vinge's Gallifrey. Idiot.[/subconscious]



All for one! Like the Three Musketeers, except a bit NC-17 (triple handporn) and their phallic symbols are more sonic.

I did love that scene though. You've got the Doctor staring at the last and closest thing he has to family left. Then you've got Martha having to watch her own family get carted away Guantanamo-style. While Jack stands alone. Of course, you've got both humans ready and willing to kill Saxon and here's the Doctor, wanting to "save him" (good luck with that). Although I do get a funny feeling the Doctor knows exactly what those "drums" are about.


The Doctor is looking tragically geriatric here (and suffered a bit from Insufferable Git Syndrome early-on of which Jack and Martha felt the brunt. The archnemesis ex-lover turned out to be alive and all, but yeah, IGS), but this scene was amongst the shippier scenes between them. Looking right into each other's eyes, the slow hand release. Quite lovely... all except the Doctor looks like my granddad about two years before he died (and he was a son of a bitch, but that's neither here nor there).

As for the state of the Doctor/Martha relationship in the finale? The Lazarus Machine theory is (quite rightly and not remotely unexpectedly) total bust (as Saxon stuck Lazarus knowledge in his screwdriver, so there goes the reasons for the Lazarus commissioning). I really have no other specs at hand but with the advent of something called a 'Paradox Machine', I'm wondering if those "Martha travels through time" theories may be onto something. She either scouts herself/the Doctor from afar changing certain things or makes it so her past self never travels with the Doctor. However, how exactly the relationship between them will be resolved? I don't really have any guesses... I don't really want to guess truthfully, as things are looking rather grim at the moment. IF I were going to take a stab at speculating, I'm thinking she's going to leave him, due to the danger knowing him and what it put her family through, but that he doesn't really appreciate her either and he hurts her ... and, sadly, probably won't ever appreciate her despite whatever she does in the finale. Unless her mother - with a change of heart (since she'd been working for Saxon and the Doctor will probably do something to save everyone, she's eaten humble pie re: the Doctor) - makes her go to him or something and Jack after they shag bitchslaps him making him face Martha is Awesome Incarnate and he better open his goddamn eyes.

Right at the mo, I'm thinking the Master resolution is either going to drive the Doctor, Martha and Jack (the Doctor and humans) closer together or drive them apart. For now, I'm leaning to the driving apart, but ask me tomorrow and I might not be so emo.

You know, when I was reading the reactions, everyone said "Voodoo Child" was played in this episode, I immediately thought of Hendrix. So I was a little jarred when bouncy pop song of uberobnoxious blared up. Although had he played Hendrix, that probably would have, in fact, killed me *ded*... but as I died several times throughout the ep anyway, I'd figure one more wouldn't have hurt.


You know why all the latter Arnold Schwarzeneggar movies kind of suck? Because due to the time/space vortex which apparently is residing in one Miss Martha Jones, any coolness that "I'll be back" line had for Ahnold, she has since completely absorbed. Heroine Addict, much?? Looks like the Master is gonna get himself killed by a girl again.

Although I'm a bit baffled on if Saxon planned to kill Martha anyway (and yeah, hardcore. Murder the companion esplody style while seriously maiming Jack and the Doctor even if it may not kill either)? Why bother to bring in her family? Did the family thing only happen cuz the bomb failed? Also... that bomb was set on a timer, did it activate the moment the tv was turned on? *don'tquestionitdon'tquestionitdon'tquestionit.... watches phonesex scene again and completely loses train of thought*