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One week on...
A week after the finale, and it just kinda keeps getting a bit more disappointing in my mind as time goes on. Utopia and Sound of Drums were *awesome* setups to the finale. I mean, AWESOME. I was way more enthralled with those than in past setups to finales - and even way more enthralled with them than anything else in S3. Utopia did an interesting human!Master who then reverted – John Smith wasn't *really* the Doctor, but some traits carried over. Makes you wonder how much of Yana is buried in the Master. And then Sound of Drums – everyone was kick-ass! The Master, his holy-crap-he's-married wife Lucy, the Doctor, Martha, Jack. Fantastic conversation between the Doctor and the Master, the Doctor gives a butt-load of Time Lord trivia, there's an explosion and the universe is ripped apart!
But then you get Last of the Time Lords. The fast-forward of a year skipped character development for *everyone*; OMG the plot holes; Jack does absolutely nothing except look dirty and pretty and give a WTF to the ending; the Doctor spends life as a house elf and there's no repeat of really cool conversations between him and the Master; we get no peek into the Master and Lucy other than he apparently beats her; Martha gets to be cool but again we miss all her character development to make it 100% believable; and Time Lords can apparently restore their bodies based on good vibes. By this point it was just so hard to really care about the Doctor sobbing over the Master.
So in conclusion, setup = AWESOME. Conclusion = not so awesome.
I really wish we'd gotten more on the Master and Lucy as I'm still a bit fascinated. Really, was he just using her? He seemed to like her well enough – even filled her in on his plans and so he seemed to trust her. Externally, it's a fairly useful tool to give someone a significant other. The audience got to see aspects to the Doctor that we could only see when Rose was with him – aspects that have since shut down. (Biggest obviously is the Doctor the man vs. the Doctor the god.) And we also got to see something different to the Master through Lucy, instead of just your straight-up evil bad guy.
And now completely random – why do I find the thought that there will be Doctor Who novels with Donna just so *amusing*? You know, I think I'm kinda seeing Donna as a bit of a joke at the moment – that she'll be this 24/7 wacky companion who likes to get drunk at intergalactic parties. On the one hand I hope that they'll give her a bit of depth to make me care about her (sorry, didn't really care that much about her in TRB), but on the other hand, don't know if I care if I care any more.
A week after the finale, and it just kinda keeps getting a bit more disappointing in my mind as time goes on. Utopia and Sound of Drums were *awesome* setups to the finale. I mean, AWESOME. I was way more enthralled with those than in past setups to finales - and even way more enthralled with them than anything else in S3. Utopia did an interesting human!Master who then reverted – John Smith wasn't *really* the Doctor, but some traits carried over. Makes you wonder how much of Yana is buried in the Master. And then Sound of Drums – everyone was kick-ass! The Master, his holy-crap-he's-married wife Lucy, the Doctor, Martha, Jack. Fantastic conversation between the Doctor and the Master, the Doctor gives a butt-load of Time Lord trivia, there's an explosion and the universe is ripped apart!
But then you get Last of the Time Lords. The fast-forward of a year skipped character development for *everyone*; OMG the plot holes; Jack does absolutely nothing except look dirty and pretty and give a WTF to the ending; the Doctor spends life as a house elf and there's no repeat of really cool conversations between him and the Master; we get no peek into the Master and Lucy other than he apparently beats her; Martha gets to be cool but again we miss all her character development to make it 100% believable; and Time Lords can apparently restore their bodies based on good vibes. By this point it was just so hard to really care about the Doctor sobbing over the Master.
So in conclusion, setup = AWESOME. Conclusion = not so awesome.
I really wish we'd gotten more on the Master and Lucy as I'm still a bit fascinated. Really, was he just using her? He seemed to like her well enough – even filled her in on his plans and so he seemed to trust her. Externally, it's a fairly useful tool to give someone a significant other. The audience got to see aspects to the Doctor that we could only see when Rose was with him – aspects that have since shut down. (Biggest obviously is the Doctor the man vs. the Doctor the god.) And we also got to see something different to the Master through Lucy, instead of just your straight-up evil bad guy.
And now completely random – why do I find the thought that there will be Doctor Who novels with Donna just so *amusing*? You know, I think I'm kinda seeing Donna as a bit of a joke at the moment – that she'll be this 24/7 wacky companion who likes to get drunk at intergalactic parties. On the one hand I hope that they'll give her a bit of depth to make me care about her (sorry, didn't really care that much about her in TRB), but on the other hand, don't know if I care if I care any more.