tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post4550255167197880106..comments2023-10-02T14:33:18.136+01:00Comments on The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: Day 2372: DOCTOR WHO: Last of the Time Lords…?Millennium Domehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08430269096817934037noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-57315091185444159752007-07-07T19:39:00.000+01:002007-07-07T19:39:00.000+01:00If you got the info re: Reggie/Leo off the comment...If you got the info re: Reggie/Leo off the commentary, it says that both he and Milligan were to meet Martha on the beach.<BR/><BR/>This implies to me that Milligan wasn't a replacement for Leo, but that Leo was meant to be in that scene.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07173499309937005585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-64202981591834393112007-07-04T15:24:00.000+01:002007-07-04T15:24:00.000+01:00Ooh, ooh, I can answer this one!"…why was Mulligan...Ooh, ooh, I can answer this one!<BR/><BR/><I>"…why was Mulligan there, while Captain Jack and Leo just sort of dropped out of the story?"</I><BR/><BR/>The answer is because Dr Milligan was apparently written in as a last minute replacement when Reggie (Leo Jones) Yates agent double booked him! It was, of course, supposed to be Mr Leo who met Martha on the beach… which would all have made a lot more sense.<BR/><BR/>We were very sad about losing Miss Martha too, and we know what you mean about the (inexplicable!) negativity from fans online – after reading some of the Outpost Gallifrey threads we all decided that, whatever Daddy said above, we actually rather loved this episode too!Millennium Domehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430269096817934037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-47588606527566422202007-07-03T10:09:00.000+01:002007-07-03T10:09:00.000+01:00I've not really heard from anyone who enjoyed this...I've not really heard from anyone who enjoyed this episode, apart from my Mum - which makes me feel even more alone in my Who-love than usual. I felt that, in this episode alone, Dr Who actually showed some of that 'darkness' that people bandy words about so often. <BR/><BR/>Simm's Master is so cruel, so unpleasant, I actually found myself longing for his comeuppance. Davies even made a paradox-plot work, for me - the Master's little line about being a Time Lord, having the right to do crazy things with causality itself. Between him and his torture of the Doctor, and the nasty reality of the Toclafane (is Utopia the new Year 5 Billion? I hope so...) I found the whole story frightening, full of dread and horror, in the way I always imagine the 1970s episodes must been. <BR/><BR/>There were irritating flaws. The Tardis, magically fixed. I missed the usual jokes and japes, and to be honest, why was Mulligan there, while Captain Jack and Leo just sort of dropped out of the story? - but I thought the Peter Pan moment was excellent. Perhaps it's how I read it - not as a world crying out for the Doctor, but a world uniting, and not in aggression but in hope. The story could have better stressed the Master's hypnotic signal keeping the populace cowed and afraid - and perhaps if they had thought of anything *but* the Doctor... But I thought it was excellent that an exercise in mind-control was shown to be overthrown, even if it did take fifteen million people, or something.<BR/><BR/>Was much sadder about Martha's abrupt exit, if only because it felt, on some level, she'd been forced out of the programme by overwhelming snarks and snides from the audience. Somebody on OG wrote 'thank god the wooden doll has done', and it just made me remember how sick I am of online fandom. I'm going to avoid OG and their ilk in future. Talk about spoilers...<BR/><BR/>I do love your reviews, though. Always thoughtful, always clever, always witty. Thank you for writing them, and long may you do so.Nick Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01618461043660129105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-12507302551311674962007-07-02T23:42:00.000+01:002007-07-02T23:42:00.000+01:00After the profound pleasure of seeing Jacobi as th...After the profound pleasure of seeing Jacobi as the Master in 'Utopia', I found the 'Sound of Drums' a great disappointment. When the US President asked "Are you taking this seriously?" he was expressing my own thoughts... I actually think I would have preferred Jacobi and Simm to have exchanged roles (although perhaps Simm redeemed himself in his dying seconds)<BR/><BR/>So for me , "The Last of the Time Lords" just <I>had</I> to be an improvement on the previous weeks show, and thankfully it was.<BR/><BR/>As you so correctly point out there were a few dodgy weaknesses in the plot. It seems doubtful to <I>me </I> that Martha can spread the word around the whole surviving population about what they must do... and the Master never gets to hear of it.<BR/><BR/>All in all, nothing like as good as last year's final episodes....Onlinefocus Teamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04380208481112766609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-21967099891067123082007-07-02T23:26:00.000+01:002007-07-02T23:26:00.000+01:00My theory is that the Hand belongs to Joanna Lumle...My theory is that the Hand belongs to Joanna Lumley. I have no logical reason for believing that, I just do.<BR/><BR/>Presumably you are also now aware that Martha not only returns in the next series, but turns up in Torchwood? I'm praying she doesn't have sex with Guppy.<BR/><BR/>Overall, I agree with your ambivalence. It was a good episode that was almost on the verge of greatness. The big reveal about the Doctor's and Martha's plan was a fantastic piece of television, but I too was unsure about the Dobby Doctor. Also, when the Paradox machine had been destroyed, how come the "Reapers" didn't show up? Apart from budgetary constraints of course? If they aren't needed, why didn't time just go "wibbly wobbly" in reverse in Father's Day?<BR/><BR/>Fundamentally, I'm unconvinced that a whole year can just cease to be without it leaving traces. It would be too much of a cop out for there to not be consequences; we need the temporal equivalent of anthropocentric climate change. Hopefully this will be a thread picked up in the next series.<BR/><BR/>(talking of plot threads, I want to see a return of the Time Lord-Dalek-Human hybrids - surely one must have survived. And Henry Van Statten. And Adam Mitchell. God these series are too short!)James Graham (Quaequam Blog!)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00319089107820032874noreply@blogger.com