The End of Time, pt. 1

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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

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

5) You can take a Holmesian or a Doylist view of that plot development.

..I'm curious what you mean by that.

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

Holmesian analysis takes a view of the work from within it, treating it as its own universe, so oddities and inconsistencies have to make sense within that universe and not by reference to external factors. So, for example, in the Sherlock Holmes canon references to Watson's wife having two different names cannot be explained by authorial error, but have to be given a logically consistent explanation by reference only to other bits of canon (in that case, that Watson married twice and for some reason his remarriage was too painful to be dwelt on in the narrative context).

Accordingly, the comment that the situation happened and now it's up to the remaining characters to deal with it is a Holmesian approach; the argument which I put forward, namely that he chose to twist the plot in a way which would limit his need to write female or non-white characters is a Doylist one. Neither is right or wrong, but you can't challenge a Holmesian analysis with Doylist arguments and vice versa, because the framework for argument is different in each case.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

I have never come across that before..fascinating. Thank you for breaking it down for me.

[woogledesigns.livejournal.com]

I think they are more usually referred to as Watsonian and Doylist analysis- that is what you will find them under on TVtropes, for example.