This coming Saturday is the final Doctor Who episode featuring David Tennant as the Doctor. The first part of this episode, which aired last Saturday, was epic....
First off, it featured the resurrection of Lord Voldemort--- I mean The Master--- but they did seem to be using the same spell more-or-less, I hope they paid J. K. Rowling for it.
The Master in his new incarnation seems to be a cross between Nikolai Carpathia of the Left Behind movie, Hannibal Lector (without the nice table manners), and one of the Fantastic Four (the annoying one), in the guise of a street bum.
There is a rather funny bit of business where they are totally making fun of US President Barack Whats-His-Name, particularly the Messiah complex and the ears..... This kind of breaks an unwritten rule of Doctor Who in which no contemporary Prime Minister or foreign head of state is featured. But however much that old queen who runs Doctor Who meant to insult Americans, it was rather comforting to see Obama transformed into The Master. The Doctor knows how to defeat The Master, he's done it before.
From the promos for the second part of the episode, it looks like the Timelord race is coming back, which looks like fun. Does anyone else notice that the Timelords are a lot like the Vulcans of Star Trek who are in turn like the people from Superman's home planet of Krypton?
And--- on the topic of Star Trek and superheroes---- Mr. Spock's mom is named Amanda Grayson, and Batman's sidekick Robin is Dick Grayson in real life.... They've got to be related......
UPDATE: Bad Wolf One has a post about The End of Time, and he's heard that former companion Donna Noble may get killed off (after all the guy-in-charge of Doctor Who is the one who massacred Torchwood and it's his last episode as well as David Tennant's....) Of course, since she's kind of merged with Time Lord DNA maybe she can regenerate at some future date--- or maybe they are just messing with our minds--- assuming we haven't lost them with all this Doctorly excitement.....
2 comments:
"I hope they paid J. K. Rowling for it."
I think they paid it forward in the new series third season epi, "The Shakespeare Code," but that may be just my warped memory...
Thanks for keeping us up to date: I am not that motivated to watch TV anyway, but I occasionally wish I could afford the channel that has The Doctor. I see I'm not missing that much. :(
Yeah, I remember that about 'The Shakespeare Code'.
Actually in spite of my sarcastic comments about the episode it was so totally cool and great I feel sorry for all the masses of people who can't yet watch it---- but I'm sure it will be on the 'syfy' channel sooner or later, they are continuing to show 'Who' reruns there, they just did the one where Professor Yana finds out he's The Master and becomes the younger, cooler Master when he regenerates.......
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