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[retro_eidas]

New S4 pics... with Martha bonus! YAYZ!

She's got a ring on her finger which, understandably, folks are wondering if it means she's engaged/married. Possibly. As a woman could only ever get over someone by being suddenly married off. *insert massive eyeroll here*

Although - as my brain is full of crackspec as anyone who reads my Who posts probably knows at this point - I'm wondering if it might be a modified version of this ring....



I'm thinking a Master possession in S4 is all but an inevitability. It's not only an old skool thing he does, but he totally has no body now (as Jedi!Doctor burninated it).

I do have to admit, as long as she doesn't end up Truly Dead by the end of it, I think the idea of Master!Martha is kind of hot. However, that could just be me desirous to see (Not)Martha kick the Doctor's scrawny ass ("Second best", I'll show him "second best"), so I could be a little biased.

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[eido.livejournal.com]

And you are somehow not as hot as Troughton.

Oh my god, the acting. Every time anyone brings up Two, I feel like I have to post this clip from "Evil of the Daleks" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=K4w9OR_stic). It's not only a brilliant display of acting, but the man - with the strength of that performance by itself - makes the Daleks scary and threatening (and one of the few times I've ever found them scary)... and that's early era Who when the villains were made of tin foil. Also, ironically, one of the Doctors closest to Gallifrey (being only the second incarnation) and yet he's a greater humanitarian than I think... just about all of them (most especially Ten).

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

Evil of the Daleks! I have not seen it yet! I want it so badly. *emo tear* Ah, well, soon I'll indulge myself.

and that's early era Who when the villains were made of tin foil.

You know, even before factoring in performances, I think I find tinfoil villains more convincing than CGI villains, even when the CGI is good. It's just always going to be subtly different when the actors have something real, present, and material to interact with. Case in point: Virtually anything would have been better than Gollum!Ten: an indistinct shape in a wad of clothing, and muffled voice issuing from a bag, anything. /random

[eido.livejournal.com]

I still hurts me on a deep and personal level the Master couldn't have - if anything (not heinously embarrassing) - followed through with the status quo of scary fairy tale types of vengeance and trapped Ten in a magic mirror? Threaten him to braid Daughter of Mine's hair for all eternity. I honestly don't care it's been done, a retread would have hurt my soul much less than forced to look at that ridiculous hideous muppet as lead up to Blue Floating Jesus Doctor. Maybe magic-mirror!Ten wouldn't have made BFJesus any less embarrassing to watch, but ... it might have been something.

And now I'm veering off on an LOTTL rant, but I also don't get - since Rusty was going to use the reset anyway - why the Master's missing year couldn't have all been some gigantic global hallucination induced by the Master powered-up by the Archangel Network and the TARDIS?? So instead of a Paradox Machine (which it's disguised as), we'd have gotten a Nightmare Machine. They could have still kept the Master as ludicrously panto as they wanted, but also have gone to "The Mind Robber" or "Celestial Toymaker" levels of headtrip/torture. The Master trapping Ten, Martha, Jack and the Joneses in terrible illusions they'd have little to fight apart from sheer force of will. BUT OH NO!! Fucking GollumBlueFloatingJesus!Doctor, Disco!Master, Jack doing little but be dirty and repeatedly dead, Evil Pokemans straight out of "Phantasm" and Apostle!Martha (one of the few redeeming qualities of that ep, sadly enough) is what we got. Along with ugly racial subtexts and Martha leaving still with no decent acknowledgment from asshole!Doctor!! And I'm stopping the finale rant right now or I never will.