More an antique Roman than a Time Lord

[daibhidc]

I've just seen David Tennant give the death scene of his career.

Obviously, I'm hoping next week's will top it (Part One was awesome), but I can't imagine how...

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[moustachios.livejournal.com]

I'm still mulling over the episode... There were bits that were wonderful (like the bit with Wilf, or theSilver Cloak), and others that... Just weren't. I don't quite know what to make of the Master having superpowers, although I did enjoy the little glimpse of Gallifrey and the Doctor's past. And the sheer joy this incarnation takes in being a villain is fun (if creepy).

Any idea who the woman Wilf's been seeing could be? Hubby has a theory that it's a Guardian. I kind of want it to be a timelord with a soft spot for the Doctor (Susan? What ever happened to her, anyways?)

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

I think the Master's lightning bolts are meant to be his weaponising of the life energy he's losing. But he's always had odd abilities that are borderline superpowers: in the seventies it was super-hypnotism and a talent for disguise that bordered on shapechanging[1]; in the eighties and nineties it was sending his life essence to possess people in order to survive beyond his final incarnation and, at one point, feline-acquired teleportation.

The idea that the woman Wilf sees is a Time Lady is an interesting one that hadn't occured to me. If it is, then I think Former President Romana is probably more likely than Susan, because it avoids getting into the whole "Doctor's family" thing. Or maybe it's Flavia, since they named the Time Lord music after her...

[1]Roger Delgado didn't disguise his name in the credits like Tony Ainley, because the Master's disguises in the seventies weren't played by Roger Delgado. One minute there'd be a clean-shaven man a foot shorter than the Master, the next there'd be the Master holding a latex mask that, had he really been wearing it, wouldn't have fooled Jo Grant.

[rob-t-firefly.livejournal.com]

If you notice at the end, while Timothy Dalton is expectorating about the End of Time, what appears to be the same mystery woman is crouched behind him with her head n her hands in pain or in shame. I wonder at the possibilities of that being President Romana.

[moustachios.livejournal.com]

Oh, I had no problem with the lightning. There's a precedent for Timelords having Weird Energy Stuff happening right after regeneration. And this was a very unusual regeneration (if it can even be celled that), so weirder than usual energy stuff is fine.

It's more the super speed and the ability to leap over tall buildings that annoyed me.

Romana probably makes more sense. She would at least have the excuse of being off in E-Space or wherever when the time war happened; as far as anyone knows, Susan was still in the same universe/dimensions/whatever as the war.

[moustachios.livejournal.com]

There are two people, one on either side. I had taken them to be there for mysterious ceremonial reasons, but you're right, they don't have to be.