New Dr. Who

[redfiona99]

And all is well with the world.



So far I'm liking Martha. Even if she seems far too nice for a medic. I love how her reaction was surprise and fear but not terror. She's also nicely incredulous. And she tried damn it. Tried her damnedest. As did the other med students, even if they were much more to type.

I want to know who checked the Doctor out first, and exactly how much they lied on his chart. Because you know full well that they must have heard his 'interesting' internal anatomy. I have been assured by med student friends that the consultant was no exaggeration of what they're used to. And Roy Marsden was wonderful as him. I must say that I had to wait for the credits to figure out who it was.

I loved the plasmavore being this nice little old lady. I'm also quite fond of the straw of terror. And the slabs. Although I'm pretty sure radiation doesn't work like that.

I quite liked the Dugoon. Space rhinos are new. I also want to know who's been reading too much Judge Dredd. I liked how they were systematic about. And how they had to remove the hospital from the Earth because of red tape.

The scene with Martha trying to give the Doctor CPR was very cool. I like it when people are useful. The bit towards the end with the Doctor trying to get Martha some more air, while he was hoping that the Dugoon would return the hospital to Earth was pretty nifty too.


So yes I enjoyed it a lot. I also really like how they mentioned previous happenings like the cybermen.



He never used to have a brother, did he?




We never did see what Tardis Jack got into did we? Now, I know the BBC have already declaimed that it was the Doctor's but how cool would it be if the Master turned up and was all 'hello, you might want to meet my companion," and somehow he'd ended up with Jack and convinced him that he was the Doctor and that the real Doctor wasn't him. I mean, do we know if Torchwood know what 10 looks like.



Once I start replying to comments, there may well be spoilers for stuff

Comments

[writercath.livejournal.com]

Another thing I've grown to like about Korea is that it has like six back-to-back episodes every Sunday, so I've finally gotten a chance to watch the show. Granted, I'm only on the 9th Doctor, but it's right cool so far.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

You've got some good episodes ahead of you. I admit to preferring 9 to 10, but there is no such thing as bad Dr. Who. With the exception of Tooth and Claw, which everyone else loved and I hated.

[coneyislandbaby]

Yay for it being good. I've heard mostly positives so far.

Apparently there was some precedent for the brother, in something unaired I believe.

We did not see which TARDIS Jack got into and I think that would be fascinating *g* Also? There is possibly some connection between your speculation and the identity of the Doctor's brother... *subtle in case you haven't heard*

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

>>Apparently there was some precedent for the brother, in something unaired I believe.<<

I don't suppose you know what the unaired thing was. Because I'd far prefer it to be an interesting Gallifreyan definition of 'brother' like brother in arms or brother in school rather than the Master being the Doctor's biological brother, because that would be kind of dull. And totally ruin some of 3's stories, or at the very least make them make no sense, and I'm a 3 girl at heart so phooey to that.

[coneyislandbaby]

It was something related to the TV movie and for some reason, with the half human thing, I've decided that if it turns out to be true, it would make the Doctor into a rather Heathcliff-like figure and I am inordinately fond of Heathcliff.

Well, if you go with Gallifreyan aristocracy and the Doctor as being born on the wrong side of the blanket and being shunned for his illegitimacy.

Perhaps I am overly fond of Victorian novels *g*

But from what I can remember when this came up, it's not impossible. There's also someone called Brax who it might be (I think it's Brax) but I'm all for the Doctor and the Master having family melodrama myself. If done well. Okay if done like I said above, I approve. If not done like I said above, I'm neutral ;)

But definitely (well as definitely as something so vague an be) it was actual brother. Yes.

Why would it ruin 3 though?

Probably far more rambling about the Doctor and the Master than anyone should be subjected to

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

I don't think that he'd even need to be born on the wrong side of the blanket, he'd always be not entirely a Time Lord and therefore have a huge target on his back that way.

Ruin is probably too strong a word, it's more like 'make even more awkward the chronology' because in the first Master episode he's introduced as just another Time Lord and it's only later that we get the whole thing about them being friends at school. Them being brothers would also jar with other things like (both from the bbc website)

>>Untelevised
The Doctor has been to a circus. At some point, he angered the Master enough to make him want to kill his 'old acquaintance'. The Master's hypnotic skills were evident then, although he was not nearly as learned as he is now. [Their time together at the Academy wasn't very important to them (the first Doctor doesn't recognise him in The Five Doctors) so the antagonism must have arisen during unscreened later meetings.]<<

Although some of the later 3 and 5 stories screw that up too, so I probably shouldn't complain.

And while I can buy the Doctor eliding his relationship to his brother by ignoring it totally, or just saying he's another time lord to give as much detail as he does do in 'The Daemons' seems to defeat his purposes if that was his intention.

>>The Doctor : [Speaking of the Master.] "He used to be a friend of mine once... a very good friend. In fact, you might almost say we were at school together."<<

While you could quite easily spin their relationship into the Master being the older, full-blood brother and the Doctor being the younger, almost, as you say, bastard son, kind of like Prince Michael and King Rudolph in 'The Prisoner of Zenda', I've always seen them as being very similar to Ethan and Giles.

Plus, if they are brothers, it weakens my joke about all the interesting/loony time lords being from the Prydonnian Academy.