Theta Sigma
Captain
- Joined
- 26 Apr 2006
- Messages
- 2,572
- Age
- 44
First of all I thought the resolution to the excellent cliffhanger to Utopia was bit of a cheat, with the Doctor, Martha and Jack already out of danger at the beginning with a brief explanation via flashback on how they escape. Thankfully this is easily forgotten as the episode progresses.
As I was watching it in anticipation I was tapping my fingers not realising that tapping of fingers would be significant to the plot.
Harold Saxon (aka The Master) becomes Prime Minister and quite a bizarre coincidence that just four days after its UK broadcast, Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in real-life Britain.
Having only briefly saw him at the end of Utopia, John Simm has his first full episode as the Master and my he was excellent in the part. Absolutely kooky. However there is one disappointment to Simm's formal Master debut in that he did not kill Vivian Rook by the TCE (Tissue Compression Eliminator was a device the Master used to kill people in the original series by shrinking them to the size of dolls). Seeing the TCE again would have been great.
The scene of Gallifrey was superb.
Seeing the Doctor grow old physically I found very disturbing.
Despite some gripes that I have expressed about this episode this has been an excellent penultimate episode to the season.
As I was watching it in anticipation I was tapping my fingers not realising that tapping of fingers would be significant to the plot.
Harold Saxon (aka The Master) becomes Prime Minister and quite a bizarre coincidence that just four days after its UK broadcast, Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in real-life Britain.
Having only briefly saw him at the end of Utopia, John Simm has his first full episode as the Master and my he was excellent in the part. Absolutely kooky. However there is one disappointment to Simm's formal Master debut in that he did not kill Vivian Rook by the TCE (Tissue Compression Eliminator was a device the Master used to kill people in the original series by shrinking them to the size of dolls). Seeing the TCE again would have been great.
The scene of Gallifrey was superb.
Seeing the Doctor grow old physically I found very disturbing.
Despite some gripes that I have expressed about this episode this has been an excellent penultimate episode to the season.