The End of Time, pt. 1

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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

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

Oh I don't think she got it from him directly, but certainly, the documents were there and there were people running around who'd seen it. Henry VIII was less into that sort of propaganda later in his rein, but used it in his early rein. Again, plenty of surviving witnesses to become advisers and documentation. She was bright and used all the political tools available to her.

Alas, I no longer have access to the materials I used then. I can poke around and see if I can find my paper. No promises though. I've moved often and I haven't much strength for digging through boxes and things.

I honestly don't know. There is an argument some people make that as she was alive an old enough to remember the fall of Catherine Howard, she may have been wary of marriage due to it's connection with death. I don't necessarily subscribe to it, but it's an option. People arguing it point to just how close she came with Dudley, only to pull away at the last minute. Of course, that can be argued three or four other ways. She may have been hetero-romantic, but hypo or asexual. some people are. She may have been molested by Catherine Parr's last husband. (There were contemporary rumors.) She may have had strong appetites secretly indulged or suppressed for political reasons. All of these are theories floated in the literature.

I have no proof one way or another of her sexual psychology or sexual history, so I feel uncomfortable holding a firm opinion of any type. It's too easy to impose my own biases as others have done, so i like to stay out of it.

[woogledesigns.livejournal.com]

Please do not trouble yourself unnecessarily. I would be grateful for even an indication of what to research or look out for. I would feel awful if you had to exert any more effort than recollection for such a small matter.

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

It's rather embarrassing that I can't remember these details. I used to know this stuff inside out. I do know the coronation stuff was absolutely deliberate. I remember commissioned poems later, but I no longer have the details stored in my head.

[woogledesigns.livejournal.com]

I used to know how to solve quadratic equations, but now I can barely connect a television to my DVD player.