Last of the Time Lords—what did you think?

[matgb]

OK then, watched it twice now and, um, yes. Ok then. Ah, can't be arsed to write a full review, many many of them around all over the place; an excellent discussion worth reading over at diggerdydum. So, without further fanfare, I present:

[Poll #1013462]

Yeah, well. Still, Titanic for the next episode. No Martha though, although she's supposedly going to be back. And Jack will hopefully be over the emo wangsting for the next series of Torchwood, so it might actually be worth watching? Stranger things have happened.

Oh, gratuitous icon pluggage; this one made by mapp, and I really like it.

Comments

[two-brains.livejournal.com]

I've missed much of the new series due to work/forgetfulness/stress/lazyness/partying, but I've seen the second halves of the last couple of eps... I have to say I've really enjoyed them,! It was cirtainly good enough that I'm gonna have to track down the rest of the series to catch up on it properly now over the summer.

The reset switch was a little predictable, but in keeping with Dr Who, not sure they could really have done anything better!

Sad to think we'll never see the master again (as if!) particularly the way that John Simm played him... who next to have survived? The Rani? The meddlesome Monk? Sagacitity? Maybe even Rassilon or Omega!!!

[matgb]

It's definitely worth watching the whole thing, especially Blink, which I still rate as possibly one of the best ever shows.

But, um, no Master again? The ring+laughter at the end didn't drop any hints there? Sure, probably not Simm back, but the Master may have got through.

[two-brains.livejournal.com]

hence the "as if!" comment!

think I only caught most of Daleks in manhatten & Lazarus... caught litle bits here and there - some weird thing where Dr was a teacher in an English school pre war, with no aparent knowledge of who he was...

[matgb]

Oh yeah, I appear to be being particularly obtuse today.

Randomly, the above results are fairly closely mirroring my own thoughts; I didn't like Daleks or Lazarus much (fun, but not good), which seems to be a consensus.

The one with him as school teacher is actually two; Human Nature & Family of Blood, possibly the best two-parter of all of new Who, and only beaten by Blink this season, definitely worth a watch.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* waves hello on her way past with only 200 more entries to go *

[0ct0pus.livejournal.com]

I disagree with you profoundly regarding Human Nature/Family of blood. As soon as he started getting his freak on with that nursey-lady I really took against ten as "cute but my god don't he just know it".

And having him on the same screen as Harkness and SimmMaster was just overload. Get a room guys! No wonder Martha walked.

For this series anyway, multi-part episodes = over-the-top camp nonsense. With overall "worst moment EVAR" award going to the "with one bound he was free" link between Utopia and The Sound of Drums.

[matgb]

See, I do really like Human Nature, and I mostly like Family of Blood: the votes above seem to concur, I thought the basic plot was good and it was reasonably well implemented.

I'm still not keen on Tennant, but he's got a lot better this season than last.

Agree on the cliffhanger resolution, it was a little too obvious and easily done, would've been nice if we'd seen them in a bit of danger I think. And I also suspect thy'll have needed to hop a few times, which wasn't covered. Ah well, this one was better than last year, so there's hope it'll continue improving.