Doctor Who 3x11 "Utopia"
Jun. 17th, 2007 03:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reflectedeveSome very brief and incoherent spoilers, but spoilers nonetheless.
John Barrowman. John Simm. I am dead of the pretty.
Captain Jack is himself again! The flirting, it was back! And he totally wasn't letting the Doctor get away with the abandonment . . . and wow, did I ever love the Doctor's (assholish) treatment of the whole subject. Spot-on. And how long have we been waiting for those explanations? (The conversation through the door was fucking amazing.) Jack bonding with Martha a little over being ignored? Beginning of a beautiful friendship, here's hoping. They're both so fabulous, and the Doctor could use not being revered all the time (so damn full of himself).
It occurs to me that maybe they're going to do something with the whole Rose subject, instead of just having the Doctor inexplicably whine about her in every episode (just to make Martha wince). I'm glad that the Doctor didn't just forget her or anything, but seriously, it's felt so random. I certainly don't want her back at this point--Martha's awesome, and Rose and Ten had terrible chemistry--but I'd like to see it wrapped up at last.
I didn't figure out who the Professor was at first; probably because I was expecting John Simm to be the "human" Master, and also because I don't have the familiarity with the character that so many classic Who fans do. But as soon as the watch came out . . . and there was such amazing buildup there. And ye gods and little fishes, John Simm is amazing already in that role.
I should probably try and watch some old episodes. I mean, I need to do that anyway (I love that this show has a history, though I'm not sure I can get through all of it), but just specifically, some Master episodes. So I can get a little of the context. Hrm.
The thing that bugs me the most, I think, is that the Doctor can't sense "Mr. Saxon" as a Time Lord . . . he's supposed to be able to "feel" them anywhere, anywhen, and he was right there in the same year/planet with him several times ("Smith and Jones," "The Lazarus Experiment," etc). That was why I assumed Mr. Saxon was "human" (and thus undetectable). Although . . . I guess the concept doesn't make sense in the first place. How could the camoflauge watch thing work at all if the Family could sense the Doctor in some other time, and go for him there instead?
Maybe it's one of those "personal timeline" things (which also make little enough sense), with the Doctor not being able to "feel" the Master before the Master emerges from hiding in the Doctor's own timeline. I guess that sort of thing is a suspension of disbelief necessary to being able to watch a show about time travel in the first place (such a paradoxical notion).
Okay, I know that this post probably made no sense . . . I really have to sleep, it's ridiculously late.
I'm not going to get to see the next episode for nearly a week after it airs, because I'm going to be on the other side of the country. Augh.
John Barrowman. John Simm. I am dead of the pretty.
Captain Jack is himself again! The flirting, it was back! And he totally wasn't letting the Doctor get away with the abandonment . . . and wow, did I ever love the Doctor's (assholish) treatment of the whole subject. Spot-on. And how long have we been waiting for those explanations? (The conversation through the door was fucking amazing.) Jack bonding with Martha a little over being ignored? Beginning of a beautiful friendship, here's hoping. They're both so fabulous, and the Doctor could use not being revered all the time (so damn full of himself).
It occurs to me that maybe they're going to do something with the whole Rose subject, instead of just having the Doctor inexplicably whine about her in every episode (just to make Martha wince). I'm glad that the Doctor didn't just forget her or anything, but seriously, it's felt so random. I certainly don't want her back at this point--Martha's awesome, and Rose and Ten had terrible chemistry--but I'd like to see it wrapped up at last.
I didn't figure out who the Professor was at first; probably because I was expecting John Simm to be the "human" Master, and also because I don't have the familiarity with the character that so many classic Who fans do. But as soon as the watch came out . . . and there was such amazing buildup there. And ye gods and little fishes, John Simm is amazing already in that role.
I should probably try and watch some old episodes. I mean, I need to do that anyway (I love that this show has a history, though I'm not sure I can get through all of it), but just specifically, some Master episodes. So I can get a little of the context. Hrm.
The thing that bugs me the most, I think, is that the Doctor can't sense "Mr. Saxon" as a Time Lord . . . he's supposed to be able to "feel" them anywhere, anywhen, and he was right there in the same year/planet with him several times ("Smith and Jones," "The Lazarus Experiment," etc). That was why I assumed Mr. Saxon was "human" (and thus undetectable). Although . . . I guess the concept doesn't make sense in the first place. How could the camoflauge watch thing work at all if the Family could sense the Doctor in some other time, and go for him there instead?
Maybe it's one of those "personal timeline" things (which also make little enough sense), with the Doctor not being able to "feel" the Master before the Master emerges from hiding in the Doctor's own timeline. I guess that sort of thing is a suspension of disbelief necessary to being able to watch a show about time travel in the first place (such a paradoxical notion).
Okay, I know that this post probably made no sense . . . I really have to sleep, it's ridiculously late.
I'm not going to get to see the next episode for nearly a week after it airs, because I'm going to be on the other side of the country. Augh.
