"Sound of Drums" Recap
Jun. 23rd, 2007 06:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webbgirlSpoilers (duh) for DW through "Sound of Drums", the trailer for "The Last of the Time Lords" and all of Torchwood
I wasn't expecting to like this episode as much as "Utopia" because I thought there was no way they could possibly get the same level of character development in it. I am so happy to be WRONG. I've seen a couple of less than favorable reviews and I wonder if it's that the hardcore sci-fi only folks aren't digging the character stuff as much. Not sure.
Anyhoo...Yet another episode where I love Martha in spite of a couple of things. We got spared the Rose!hammer for the most part in this one, but we did get Mooning!Martha which I'm sorely hoping goes bye-bye after this whole adventure. I also feel bad that we've never gotten the same chance to get to know Martha's family like we did with Jackie and Mickey. I mean, I felt the tension with her family getting taken but not to the level I would have with Jackie and Mickey.
John Simm as The Master was just...Wow he kicked ass! I loved that he was just enough over the top and that the maniacal part just shone. The thumbs up scene was hysterical. He has this great way of using the humor to make The Master that much scarier.
OMG! The phone sex scene! I mean the way The Doctor says "Master", I got all squishy inside over that one. The whole thing of him offering to go off with The Masterand have his mpreg babies forever and ever forever was just awesome. David Tennant is bringing the hotness in a huge way right now.
The scenes of Galifrey were just gorgeous and I'm really hoping that RTD has a long-term plan for giving us a clearer look at the Time War. Props to RTD for the "I thought you were going to say he was your secret brother or something." "You've been watching too much telly." exchange. HEE!
I got my Torchwood revalation scene between Jack and The Doctor. YAY! I'm so glad they didn't just gloss over Jack's involvement with the organization. It was also a nice revelation about Jack's place in Torchwood. For all intents and purposes he runs the place now. In honor of The Doctor. GUH!
If we didn't have enough angst with Jack before, we have plenty now. I mean not only did he keep the Doctor's hand, but he still had a key to the Tardis on his keychain (which did we ever see the Doctor giving him that onscreen?) and it's been verbally confirmed that Jack has been carrying more than a platonic torch for the Doc. (Poor Ianto.) I wonder if that line about Jack fancying the Doctor is what made John and David squee like schoolboys. I can see John getting excited over verbal confirmation of something like that. It's also nice to have something like that as part of canon rather than just fanon.
I do have a plot question. Did The Master use Lazarus' technology to age the Doctor simply to incapacitate him, while pushing him closer to another regeneration? I mean it's not as though he's going to just die of old age and that's that.
I'm wondering what Lucy's connection to the whatsamagigit aliens is. She just seems odd. And what's with the drumming? I still don't get that even though the beat is now stuck in my brain.
Finally, in the trailer for next week's ep was that Adam from Series 1 running with Martha? If so, nice continuity. Wonder how they hook up. I really like the idea of Martha having to take charge, which is I'm sure why they had her teleport without Jack.
I think the only really bad thing for me next week would be if it ends up as a Season cliff hanger. I would have to injure RTD if that happened.
I wasn't expecting to like this episode as much as "Utopia" because I thought there was no way they could possibly get the same level of character development in it. I am so happy to be WRONG. I've seen a couple of less than favorable reviews and I wonder if it's that the hardcore sci-fi only folks aren't digging the character stuff as much. Not sure.
Anyhoo...Yet another episode where I love Martha in spite of a couple of things. We got spared the Rose!hammer for the most part in this one, but we did get Mooning!Martha which I'm sorely hoping goes bye-bye after this whole adventure. I also feel bad that we've never gotten the same chance to get to know Martha's family like we did with Jackie and Mickey. I mean, I felt the tension with her family getting taken but not to the level I would have with Jackie and Mickey.
John Simm as The Master was just...Wow he kicked ass! I loved that he was just enough over the top and that the maniacal part just shone. The thumbs up scene was hysterical. He has this great way of using the humor to make The Master that much scarier.
OMG! The phone sex scene! I mean the way The Doctor says "Master", I got all squishy inside over that one. The whole thing of him offering to go off with The Master
The scenes of Galifrey were just gorgeous and I'm really hoping that RTD has a long-term plan for giving us a clearer look at the Time War. Props to RTD for the "I thought you were going to say he was your secret brother or something." "You've been watching too much telly." exchange. HEE!
I got my Torchwood revalation scene between Jack and The Doctor. YAY! I'm so glad they didn't just gloss over Jack's involvement with the organization. It was also a nice revelation about Jack's place in Torchwood. For all intents and purposes he runs the place now. In honor of The Doctor. GUH!
If we didn't have enough angst with Jack before, we have plenty now. I mean not only did he keep the Doctor's hand, but he still had a key to the Tardis on his keychain (which did we ever see the Doctor giving him that onscreen?) and it's been verbally confirmed that Jack has been carrying more than a platonic torch for the Doc. (Poor Ianto.) I wonder if that line about Jack fancying the Doctor is what made John and David squee like schoolboys. I can see John getting excited over verbal confirmation of something like that. It's also nice to have something like that as part of canon rather than just fanon.
I do have a plot question. Did The Master use Lazarus' technology to age the Doctor simply to incapacitate him, while pushing him closer to another regeneration? I mean it's not as though he's going to just die of old age and that's that.
I'm wondering what Lucy's connection to the whatsamagigit aliens is. She just seems odd. And what's with the drumming? I still don't get that even though the beat is now stuck in my brain.
Finally, in the trailer for next week's ep was that Adam from Series 1 running with Martha? If so, nice continuity. Wonder how they hook up. I really like the idea of Martha having to take charge, which is I'm sure why they had her teleport without Jack.
I think the only really bad thing for me next week would be if it ends up as a Season cliff hanger. I would have to injure RTD if that happened.