In Which I Have A Theory, And I Hate RTD So Much
Ok, so I'm trying to organize my thoughts on End of Time Part 2. Which mostly consists of "HI JOHN SIMM RAGE AGAINST RTD JOHN SIMM IS AWESOME WILF IS AWESOME I HATE YOU RTD WHYWHYWHYWHYWHY WTF IS THIS SHIT JUST DIE ALREADY"
So. Stuff I Liked:
- The Woman is Romana. Nothing will convince me otherwise. Also, RTD, your foreshadowing of her as Romana was terrible and like being bashed over the head with a two-by-four.
- John Simm is awesome.
- So is Wilf.
- So were the Time Lords, mostly.
- Tennant. Still a great actor, even though the material was crap.
- The first half of the episode.
- The Doctor and the Master acting like sexually frustrated teenagers.
Stuff I Didn't:
- RTD CANNOT hold together a story. He can build it until about climax, and then it all just kind of falls apart. (There is probably a bad sex metaphor in there somewhere)
- The TWENTY MINUTE DEATH SEQUENCE WTF
- Why are Martha and Mickey married?
- The entire Jack-in-Mos-Eisley-Cantina. What. Just... what. NONONONONO. That entire sequence was awful and horrible in so many ways.
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SO, I have decided that the Martha/Mickey thing is pissing me off more than anything else because, what can I say, I like to focus on something fairly inconsequential and minute so I don't explode with rage over everything else. This is healthy. (Probably not.)
The thing is, it's OOC for both of them. Martha would not, in the span of like a year and a bit, ditch her fiance and get married to some guy she'd just met. Mickey would not make a stupid misogynistic joke about "this is no place for a married woman" (seriously, RTD, wtf is that shit).
I've decided that Martha agreed to let Mickey--who obviously didn't have anywhere else to go--stay in her and Tom's guest bedroom until he could figure out another arrangement. Or at least, that was the agreement. In practice, though, Martha decided she liked having someone around who understood traveling in space (Tom has been doing some occasional work for UNIT, but they aren't his primary employer, and while he knows about Martha's space travel, he can't relate since he hasn't been part of that himself).
In the end, they wind up in a triad, and have a three-way (nonlegal) wedding-type ceremony and go honeymooning (which is why Mickey wasn't around in CoE either, although unless they went and secluded themselves on a private island, they'd have to know something was up, so I don't really buy that excuse but whatever).
So, yes, Martha and Mickey are married, but they're also married to Tom. After the events of CoE, they decided all organizations are evil and went freelancing. Martha showed Tom how to shoot a gun. Mickey showed him how to dress in black and look badass. Tom was not there during that scene because he got injured chasing down an alien. Martha did not say "oh, and also Tom" because... he wasn't part of that exchange. Which was a stupid exchange anyway. Seriously, wtf, "this is no place for a married woman" what bullshit is that.
In conclusion, the Doctor and the Master acting like boyfriends was awesome, and Martha/Tom/Mickey OT3.