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on what makes Last of the Time Lords possibly the worst Who ever (maybe after End of Time, part 1)
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pitry and I have a friendly disagreement going on about "Last of the Time Lords." She loves it, and I hate it. She recently posted a very interesting, thoughtful and analytical review of the episode, and I will now reciprocate with a very thoughtless, non-analytical list-of-things-that-annoy-me for the episode:
--I don't like watching old!Doctor. It sort of creeps me out, or squicks me out, or somewhere in between, but basically I'm not happy whenever he's on the screen. And given that the Doctor is my favorite character in the show, that's a big problem.
--What's up with the "I have one thing to say to you" business? I'm sorry, but once we found out it was "I forgive you," that was just incredibly hokey. And why does the Doctor forgive him, anyway? And why does the Master even care whether the Doctor forgives him? Why would the Master desperately avoid hearing that, as opposed to laughing in his face about it? (I mean, come on, Ainley!Master would've surely mocked him, and Delgado!Master would've just acted superior over it.)
-- The three o'clock revolt thing -- so is that the first time they've tried that in a year? It really wasn't that hard for the Doctor to get ahold of the laser screwdriver, so it's hard to believe that it was the first time in the whole year that he got it only to find out it has isomorphic controls.
-- The visual effect of the Doctor aging makes me literally cringe. It's just a bunch of ridiculous flailing around that makes me long for some good old-fashioned bubble wrap special effects.
-- Yoda!Doctor. Dear god, Yoda!Doctor. Need I say more? (Cringe, can we get some more bubble wrap over here?)
-- So people have "heard stories" that Martha has walked the Earth to find a weapon, but they haven't heard "and by the way, at the moment of the countdown start thinking 'Doctor'?" Hope those 30 people Martha does talk to directly in that house are loud thinkers, because apparently they're carrying it for the UK . . .
--If there's anything worse than Yoda!Doctor, it's Yoda!Doctor in a birdcage. Now I'm embarrassed and creeped out at the same time.
-- I'm sorry, I can't take any scene between the Master and the Doctor seriously when the Master is actually talking to a CGI effect in a birdcage. A kind of cringy, creepy CGI effect at that.
-- Toclafane insides are kind of squicky-creepy too.
--Oh god, Tinkerbell!Jesus!Doctor. And the music. And the lights. It's hokey dialed up to eleventy-million. I feel like Arnold Rimmer being confronted by Ace -- where are the vomit bags? Gag me with a spoon.
--Then everybody starts chanting "Doctor" and I'm all "No, make it stop, dear god make it stop!" Gag, gag, gag.
--And then the big moment, and the Doctor says "I forgive you," and really, is it possible to lay the cringy cheese on any thicker?
--And by the way, what's the deal with all those soldiers? Suddenly they're all on the Doctor's side and obeying Jack when literally five minutes beforehand they were taking orders from the Master?
--. . . and that's it, really. The end of the episode isn't so bad. In fact, there are even moments that I like. Too bad I've already turned the TV off.
pitry and I have a friendly disagreement going on about "Last of the Time Lords." She loves it, and I hate it. She recently posted a very interesting, thoughtful and analytical review of the episode, and I will now reciprocate with a very thoughtless, non-analytical list-of-things-that-annoy-me for the episode:--I don't like watching old!Doctor. It sort of creeps me out, or squicks me out, or somewhere in between, but basically I'm not happy whenever he's on the screen. And given that the Doctor is my favorite character in the show, that's a big problem.
--What's up with the "I have one thing to say to you" business? I'm sorry, but once we found out it was "I forgive you," that was just incredibly hokey. And why does the Doctor forgive him, anyway? And why does the Master even care whether the Doctor forgives him? Why would the Master desperately avoid hearing that, as opposed to laughing in his face about it? (I mean, come on, Ainley!Master would've surely mocked him, and Delgado!Master would've just acted superior over it.)
-- The three o'clock revolt thing -- so is that the first time they've tried that in a year? It really wasn't that hard for the Doctor to get ahold of the laser screwdriver, so it's hard to believe that it was the first time in the whole year that he got it only to find out it has isomorphic controls.
-- The visual effect of the Doctor aging makes me literally cringe. It's just a bunch of ridiculous flailing around that makes me long for some good old-fashioned bubble wrap special effects.
-- Yoda!Doctor. Dear god, Yoda!Doctor. Need I say more? (Cringe, can we get some more bubble wrap over here?)
-- So people have "heard stories" that Martha has walked the Earth to find a weapon, but they haven't heard "and by the way, at the moment of the countdown start thinking 'Doctor'?" Hope those 30 people Martha does talk to directly in that house are loud thinkers, because apparently they're carrying it for the UK . . .
--If there's anything worse than Yoda!Doctor, it's Yoda!Doctor in a birdcage. Now I'm embarrassed and creeped out at the same time.
-- I'm sorry, I can't take any scene between the Master and the Doctor seriously when the Master is actually talking to a CGI effect in a birdcage. A kind of cringy, creepy CGI effect at that.
-- Toclafane insides are kind of squicky-creepy too.
--Oh god, Tinkerbell!Jesus!Doctor. And the music. And the lights. It's hokey dialed up to eleventy-million. I feel like Arnold Rimmer being confronted by Ace -- where are the vomit bags? Gag me with a spoon.
--Then everybody starts chanting "Doctor" and I'm all "No, make it stop, dear god make it stop!" Gag, gag, gag.
--And then the big moment, and the Doctor says "I forgive you," and really, is it possible to lay the cringy cheese on any thicker?
--And by the way, what's the deal with all those soldiers? Suddenly they're all on the Doctor's side and obeying Jack when literally five minutes beforehand they were taking orders from the Master?
--. . . and that's it, really. The end of the episode isn't so bad. In fact, there are even moments that I like. Too bad I've already turned the TV off.