The End of Time, pt. 1

[rm]

OMGWTFBBQ!!!!



Well, hrrrrr.

1. I think it's too ambitious. This already feels like a three-parter, but it only has two parts. This really needed to ramp up into what it is, the intensity got too high too fast.

2. The quiet emo moments were really the best. Man, Ten crying is HOT. And all that Ood shit was creepy.

3. John Simm is a really good actor. And it looks like filming this vacillated between really fun and completely sucktacular. All that food stuff. Food scenes SUCK.

4. OMG, the porn. THE PORN. That little smile on the Master's face when he was being buckled into the straight jacket. Hello, hello, hello. HELLO.

5. No Jack yet. This is good. This means he may be there for the regeneration, this is my hope.

6. This really is pretty damn audacious. And the rebirth of Gallifrey/Timelords is a really smart plot line since the Doctor is getting close to the limit unless the council or whatever it is grants him some more. Er, yeah, this is the first time I've really felt stymied by my lack of old who knowledge.

7. So that first shit with the regeneration of the Master? What a waste of Lucy Saxon. What was with all the women basically being witches with potions? And "The Book of Saxon"? What now? The prison was named Broadfell? Seriously? I've never found RTD to be more misogynistic than he is fucked up (i.e., his issues as a writer tend to be more interesting to me than offensive), and this happened. Dude, REALLY?

8. OBAMA, WTF? Actually, could a Brit living in Britain currently help me out here? How is Obama perceived? Was this satire that made sense to you all in an eye-rolling at the believe he can fix everything thing or what? I was like confused. A lot confused. Also I hate when they do scenes that are supposed to be White House press conferences and of course everything looks wrong.

9. Naismith = ne Smith? Also, woah, incesty with the daughter there.

10. OMG, Whoniverse wardrobe department, I love you. But "The Master Race"? Seriously? You went there? Man. Really?

11. I'm glad Ianto got to miss this one, such as it is.

Woah.

Comments

[pocketmouse]

That was exactly my thought with the food. There's a reason Simm's burger looks different from the other homeless guys'.

Ten breaking down in the pub was hot, and I really loved everything Simm is bringing to this.

Old Who canon basically boils down to 'la la la -- oh look, this looks like a convenient plot point to use!' The 13 lives is the standard that we've heard, but there have been other cases, and there's a whole bunch of weird shit, but I basically believe that the producers/writers are just going to make up some technobabble to do whatever they want there.

I really hated the whole Book of Saxon everything, but I do like that at least Lucy wasn't on Saxon's side. The rest was complete WTF.

I don't even know what's going on. There's so much of this that doesn't make any sense to me. I'm hoping part 2 will draw a lot of stuff together, because this sounds like throwing all your script ideas into the word processor and hitting 'frappe.'

[rm.livejournal.com]

I have done food scenes, albeit ones not as grotesque as that. But man, I never, ever wanted to look at hors d'oevres EVER AGAIN.

[pocketmouse]

Even doing straight theatre, actors get sick of it quick enough. Having to do take after take of eating meat? Bleugh.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I also had one involving marshmallows when I worked on Across the Universe. The scene was cut. But EURGH.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

this sounds like throwing all your script ideas into the word processor and hitting 'frappe.'

That sums up RTD's style neatly. He's appealing to gut emotion, never the brain, which is why the stories tend to fall apart with even a hint of a critical eye.

[eandh99.livejournal.com]

This - QF so much Truth.