Wolverine beheads The Master. Companion ascends to the 9th dead world. The Doctor moves in with author's pet in cosmic twist. 80 extra scenes about a sailor included with no bearing on the plot.
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Doctor Who Series Seven |OT| The Question You've Been Running From All Your Life
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Wolverine beheads The Master. Companion ascends to the 9th dead world. The Doctor moves in with author's pet in cosmic twist. 80 extra scenes about a sailor included with no bearing on the plot.
Awesome! So many great people wanting to work on the show, this is amazing.
*looks at title* Hmm, needs something similar to this music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCz0AXvQlLA
Clay Davis
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really enjoyed the mid series finale, will be sorry to see
but it was time to move on.
did anyone else think the doctor would snap at the end and kill (can you kill angels?) the angel or maybe destroy it? was somewhat surprised that he didn't especially as I thought the titles getting progressively darker with each episode was leading to a more unhinged doctor. maybe in the second half of the series.
amy and rory go
did anyone else think the doctor would snap at the end and kill (can you kill angels?) the angel or maybe destroy it? was somewhat surprised that he didn't especially as I thought the titles getting progressively darker with each episode was leading to a more unhinged doctor. maybe in the second half of the series.
King of the Potato People
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Angels are pretty hard to kill.
In Blink, they all had to be staring at each other to be create a group time-lock.
In the Time of Angels two-parts, they got sucked in a crack in time and deleted from existence.
And as you just saw, in The Angels take Manhattan, Rory and Amy committed a suicide pact to create a paradox to make them disappear from existence.
I'm glad that the Doctor can't just wave his screwdriver at one.
MisterNegative
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2 and a half series without a master.
This is a problem.
This is a problem.
King of the Potato People
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The Master was only good in 2 episodes of NewWho.
brucewaynegretzky
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::singstoself:: I can't decide whether you should live or die!!!!
The Technomancer
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I thought the Master was "good" in all three parts of the S3 finale, he seemed genuinely unhinged. End of Time was a bit weaker, but that was more the plot he was given, still decent performance I felt.
I like him, I'm just annoyed that he came back from the dead.
KuwabaraTheMan
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The Master always comes back from the dead.
At least The End of Time sought to come up with an explanation rather than just having the Master randomly disguised in some weird Asian looking get up and chanting half the story before revealing himself just so the Doctor could go "Oh, you did escape Castrovalva", with that being the only explanation of how the Master was still alive.
At least The End of Time sought to come up with an explanation rather than just having the Master randomly disguised in some weird Asian looking get up and chanting half the story before revealing himself just so the Doctor could go "Oh, you did escape Castrovalva", with that being the only explanation of how the Master was still alive.
King of the Potato People
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Russell did his best to destroy the character in the End of Time.
"DINNERTIME!"
"DINNERTIME!"
King of the Potato People
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They could just say he got spat out of the time-lock because his body was mutating, then he could drain some energy from the Doctor and regenerate.
There's been flimsier explanations.
Hot Coldman
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He could stowaway inside the Doctor's TARDIS, maybe?
AND his next body looks exactly like River Song.
EleventhDoctor
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Wasn't that when he was resurrected through a spell, complete with witches chanting something not far off "Double Double, Toil, and Trouble!"? Maybe it got exaggerated in my head, but that's what I remember.
And then he hopped around a junkyard like a psychotic easter bunny with force lightning for an hour while the Doctor chased him, taking a random break to have tea with Wilf, who happened to be out looking at the junkyard with his old people friends.
Hot Coldman
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All I know is if, when The Master comes back, he's pretty much exactly the same, and hasn't adjusted his interests as a result of the Time Lords dicking him over/realising what the fuck is wrong with himself, well, that'd be lame.
He needs to be pissed. And regenerate into someone with a beard.
He needs to be pissed. And regenerate into someone with a beard.
The Real Abed
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King of the Potato People
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The Master will be a complete troll when he escapes, it's in his nature, despite that he allied with the Doctor for a few minutes in his last episode.
The Real Abed
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I think it should be John Simm again but this time no holds barred. Anger. Hatred. Suffering. Yoda.
DrForester
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Can't make The Master worse than Simms was if they do bring him back.
I make that statement in full knowledge of Eric Roberts
KuwabaraTheMan
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Simm was perfect as a foil to Tennant's Doctor, but I don't think he would work nearly as well against Smith. It would be like having Delgado facing off against Tom Baker.
This is one of the biggest reasons that Ainley's Master didn't work out (aside from being a poor man's Roger Delgado who just hammed it up in every scene). He wasn't an effective foil to any of the Doctor's he went up against.
Team Filler
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Everybody always goes to Benedict Cumberbatch for The Master, but I honestly think that if they were going to take an actor from Sherlock to play The Master, Martin Freeman would be a far more interesting choice, if perhaps a bit iconoclastic (and I say this is somebody who loves Cumberbatch greatly). We're used to seeing him play the more subdued roles or the straight man, but I think with some quality writing the guy could pull something off really sinister and dangerous to match Matt Smith's Doctor.
The Technomancer
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Ooh, yes please.
And yeah, Simm's manic approach to the character would not work against Smith's almost equally manic version of the Doctor.
Hot Coldman
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I don't know why, but I got the idea of having Matthew Kelly as the Master recently. Despite knowing nothing about his ability as an actor.
Weird. Probably wouldn't be much good.
Weird. Probably wouldn't be much good.
EndcatOmega
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Moffat will take that as a challenge and write a season-long arc around him that falls apart in the last episode.
TOO SOON.
MisterNegative
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lol. We need better villains. Right now 11's ego is out of control, someone needs to humble him.
Master is perfect for that job. It's unfortunate that RTD just fucked up the character. There is also Omega
Exterminieren
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APZonerunner
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Might be talking about Dreamland.
Exterminieren
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Hmm. Possible, but I really don't see anything in Dreamland that owes much of a debt to the likes of The World Shapers.
I'd suggest something really crazy: we've had multi-Doctor stories. Why not have, in the same style, a multi-Master story?
It wouldn't be a villian to put him in check. Would love to see an ally or an ally working for a villain that would do it.
ScreenSplitter
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I imagine a baritone, humourless Master contrasted against the energetic, childish Eleventh Doctor could be great.
Cumberbatch telling off Smith like a naughty child.
Wouldn't mind a reappearance from this guy at all.
Cumberbatch telling off Smith like a naughty child.
VALEYARD
Right guys? But seriously, I really enjoyed the Dream Lord and I love me a bit of Toby Jones.
Wouldn't mind a reappearance from this guy at all.
brucewaynegretzky
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Hot Coldman
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I don't care what anyone says, I thought the idea of the Master turning everyone in the world into himself was a decent idea. They just executed it horribly.
It'd been better if everyone had been converted to his personality, instead of physically making everyone John Simm, but RTD gonna RTD.
It'd been better if everyone had been converted to his personality, instead of physically making everyone John Simm, but RTD gonna RTD.
Regulus Tera
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Guys, guys.
Rowan Atkinson vs Matt Smith.
Rowan Atkinson vs Matt Smith.
That's exactly what happened - Amy's choice between a normal life with rory and life with the doctor has been the main theme of her tenure and the way she departed was a conclusion to that particular narrative thread - only able to choose one or the other, she chose rory.
And I don't agree that your proposed ending would have been better, seeing as the whole point of these five episodes was that your kind of ending already happened in "the god complex", and the doctor pushed it too far by going back for them AGAIN.
I thought someone would post that
I meant more one with multiple *different* masters.
phisheep
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I'm OK with that ending. Always struck me that the right way for Amy & Rory to go was of old age rather than daleks or something, so there were only two ways to play it, either straight or wibbly-wobbly - in hindsight it seems kind of inevitable. And that feels right.
I thought someone would post that
I meant more one with multiple *different* masters.
It's a good idea, but probably very difficult to manage as other actors from the role are dead and/or expensive. It would lack weight if you have 5 never before seen guys who were the Master standing beside the rubbish guy from The Deadly Assassin.
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