Second, before I get on to actual episode stuff...clearly Lucy = Drusilla. I mean the scene when she first comes walking in in that red dress was full on Dru.
She was definitely insane enough to be Drusilla. Though it was never outright explained why she was so nuts, I took it that the Master made her his companion and took her to the end of the universe, and what she saw made her lose her mind.
Was she the one who took the Master's ring from the funeral pyre? It seemed at the end she had also turned against him, joining in with the others saying the Doctor's name, but if she's gone round the bend, she may have regrets and took the ring thinking it would bring him back.
Though it does bring to mind a recurring question among Who fans... can a Time Lord regenerate as another gender? IIRC, they actually did this in a radio drama, but nothing canon on the show itself.
In the original series, the Master had run out of regenerations and at one point had his consciousness jumping into other bodies to survive. I assume when the Time Lords revived him, that reset the number of regenerations he had. What if he refused to regenerate at the time, but jumped into someone else, such as Lucy? S/he could possibly manage to regenerate later on.
I mean, they give us kick-ass Martha through the whole thing and then she has the courage to do the thing that Rose never could. Make the choice to live for herself and not The Doctor.
I still have a love/hate thing with Martha. When she kicks ass, I love her. When she whines about the Doctor not being in love with her, I hate her (well, not hate, but it does make me cringe), especially when the spin is she's only doing the ass kicking because she loves the Doctor. It wouldn't bother me so much if it was in the sense of love for a friend, but the constant romantic whinging got on my last nerve.
At least at the end she does seem to realize this about herself and removes herself from the situation, at least for the time being. Perhaps the time away will break the crush cycle, especially if she hooks up with hottie doctor and/or works with Torchwood a bit.
I have been hearing rumors about Martha appearing as recurring not only on Who, but on Torchwood too. I could easily see her finding something unusual and calling Jack, or vice versa. Maybe they form a "Former Companion Support Group." *g*
One of my guesses on the Toclafane was that they were the humans (I'd seen other folks speculate this as well). It falls into place with the whole thing about breaking the Doctor's hearts.
I'm thinking the Master went back to the end of the universe and set up the myth of Sancutary to lure in desperate humans and created the Toclafane out of them. So his previous incarnation of Professor Yana was unknowingly (or subconsciously) sending the people he thought he was saving out to his future self to be killed. [ow] Time travel makes my brain hurt. But it not only breaks the Doctor's hearts they were humans, but he himself made it where the Master could only travel between two fixed points in time. Once again, his actions trying to prevent one disaster caused another.
I do wonder about the "futurekind" we saw in Utopia... natural (de)evolution or more work of the Master?
Then again...I'm going to have to go back and watch the Boe eps again now to see what got retconned and what fits with this.
It does make sense that Boe would know details about the Doctor if he was a future evolution of Jack. But... the Doctor (and the TARDIS) instinctively have been running from Jack ever since he became a "fixed point in time" so wouldn't the Doctor have sensed whatever it is he senses from Jack and made the connection?
I did think it's a nice save that Jack's still aging, however slowly, but can't die, to cover for the actor aging. This was always an issue in the Highlander series because the actors weren't as unchanging as their characters were supposed to be. *g*
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on 2007-07-01 08:15 pm (UTC)She was definitely insane enough to be Drusilla. Though it was never outright explained why she was so nuts, I took it that the Master made her his companion and took her to the end of the universe, and what she saw made her lose her mind.
Was she the one who took the Master's ring from the funeral pyre? It seemed at the end she had also turned against him, joining in with the others saying the Doctor's name, but if she's gone round the bend, she may have regrets and took the ring thinking it would bring him back.
Though it does bring to mind a recurring question among Who fans... can a Time Lord regenerate as another gender? IIRC, they actually did this in a radio drama, but nothing canon on the show itself.
In the original series, the Master had run out of regenerations and at one point had his consciousness jumping into other bodies to survive. I assume when the Time Lords revived him, that reset the number of regenerations he had. What if he refused to regenerate at the time, but jumped into someone else, such as Lucy? S/he could possibly manage to regenerate later on.
I mean, they give us kick-ass Martha through the whole thing and then she has the courage to do the thing that Rose never could. Make the choice to live for herself and not The Doctor.
I still have a love/hate thing with Martha. When she kicks ass, I love her. When she whines about the Doctor not being in love with her, I hate her (well, not hate, but it does make me cringe), especially when the spin is she's only doing the ass kicking because she loves the Doctor. It wouldn't bother me so much if it was in the sense of love for a friend, but the constant romantic whinging got on my last nerve.
At least at the end she does seem to realize this about herself and removes herself from the situation, at least for the time being. Perhaps the time away will break the crush cycle, especially if she hooks up with hottie doctor and/or works with Torchwood a bit.
I have been hearing rumors about Martha appearing as recurring not only on Who, but on Torchwood too. I could easily see her finding something unusual and calling Jack, or vice versa. Maybe they form a "Former Companion Support Group." *g*
One of my guesses on the Toclafane was that they were the humans (I'd seen other folks speculate this as well). It falls into place with the whole thing about breaking the Doctor's hearts.
I'm thinking the Master went back to the end of the universe and set up the myth of Sancutary to lure in desperate humans and created the Toclafane out of them. So his previous incarnation of Professor Yana was unknowingly (or subconsciously) sending the people he thought he was saving out to his future self to be killed. [ow] Time travel makes my brain hurt. But it not only breaks the Doctor's hearts they were humans, but he himself made it where the Master could only travel between two fixed points in time. Once again, his actions trying to prevent one disaster caused another.
I do wonder about the "futurekind" we saw in Utopia... natural (de)evolution or more work of the Master?
Then again...I'm going to have to go back and watch the Boe eps again now to see what got retconned and what fits with this.
It does make sense that Boe would know details about the Doctor if he was a future evolution of Jack. But... the Doctor (and the TARDIS) instinctively have been running from Jack ever since he became a "fixed point in time" so wouldn't the Doctor have sensed whatever it is he senses from Jack and made the connection?
I did think it's a nice save that Jack's still aging, however slowly, but can't die, to cover for the actor aging. This was always an issue in the Highlander series because the actors weren't as unchanging as their characters were supposed to be. *g*