Comments | lone_gunfreak: "The End of Time"

lone_gunfreak

"The End of Time"

Feb 23, 2012 23:15

Cross-posted from my Tumblr ... I've been watching a lot of Dr Who lately with Glenn (we watched this episode specifically to quantify how much it sucked), and blanking on anything to write about, so I thought I'd do Dr Who reviews for awhile. I’m playing around with the format of them, so future reviews may not look exactly like this one. And may ( Read more... )

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innocentsmith February 24 2012, 07:03:51 UTC

For real, the only sense I can make of the recurring Obama references is that RTD read this fic and wanted to give a shoutout. I don't think this theory is too silly: this episode is clearly the result of reading a shit-ton of Ten/Simm!Master fic, then watching Star Wars, and then...smoking a truly amazing amount of crack.

I think what bugs me most is that there's at least three good episodes, and six or so mediocre-to-crappy ones' worth of plot in it, and shoving them all together produces this trancendent ball of nonsense which somehow manages to be quite boring and annoying for a lot of the run time. It's just. Why would you DO this?! Sigh.

On the upside, I'll never get tired of making fun of it?

lone_gunfreak February 26 2012, 04:00:16 UTC

I think what bugs me most is that there's at least three good episodes, and six or so mediocre-to-crappy ones' worth of plot in it, and shoving them all together produces this trancendent ball of nonsense which somehow manages to be quite boring and annoying for a lot of the run time. It's just. Why would you DO this?! Sigh.

For a new series show, it has a lot of old show flaws - too padded, too boring, too ridiculous. They seemed to be taking the worst possible cues from the classic era ... except for Doctor/Master material, I felt like that worked out pretty well, and was nicely consistent with the level of gay we've seen over the years.

aralias February 24 2012, 14:42:04 UTC

i read this review and liked it. i watched end of time and didn't like it.

i also never really bothere to think about how totally ridiculous it is to have three plots by three different people that hinge on the master (because i was too busy worrying about how embarrassing the episode was), although i also do like the point you raise about the time lords knowing the master wasn't going to die on them. it's a nice thing that suggests someone has actually watched some doctor who at some stage. and it makes the master special - but in a kind of crap way, which is what's good about him.

i do believe the show loves obama and just did that really badly.

man, this episode sucked. although i do like the bit at the end where he sees rose, even though it's also awful for all the reasons you mentioned above, and particularly because the doctor should just have died in the box. and without a massive fuss.

booooooooooooooooo. anyway. there's that.

lone_gunfreak February 26 2012, 04:27:22 UTC

i also never really bothere to think about how totally ridiculous it is to have three plots by three different people that hinge on the master

That never occurred to me before I rewatched this, but it suddenly struck me and I couldn't believe how dumb it was. The Master imposing his plans on others makes sense to me - someone saying to themselves "what this scheme needs is the reliability and team-playerness of the Master" does not.

i also do like the point you raise about the time lords knowing the master wasn't going to die on them. it's a nice thing that suggests someone has actually watched some doctor who at some stage. and it makes the master special - but in a kind of crap way, which is what's good about him.

I think my friend and I had this exchange about 15 times over the course of this rewatch:
"This thing the Master's doing is pretty stupid."
"The Master is pretty stupid. [recount one of many dumb exploits at least as shameful as this ( ... )