carmen_lj | Doctor Who: Utopia

A wee list thing about this week's Who.

In summary, My Favourite Episode of New Who Ever. Quite.

Does it count as 'calling it' when you guess the twist at the first sound of drums and realise that that Mad Fan Rumour you heard last year is actually true? Anyway, I flailed every time the drums sounded and then I may have screamed a lot when the watch appeared. Probably missed precious moments of Jacobi!acting.
*SOB* At the horror of only a few minutes of Jacobi!Master. Luckily, there's Shalka too, hurrah! But, dude, Jacobi!Master ON THE TELLY. ON MY TELLY OMG. That was...oh, I can't explain it, I can't. But I was six years old when I saw The Claws of Axos for the first time and I loved and adored the character and then he was played by one of my most favourite actors ever and it's two decades later and just, oh, oh, oh.
One of the very earliest fanwanky things I wished had happened in Doctor Who? That we saw a Master!regenration. I have no idea why, but I I remember talking about it with my uncle when I was about three feet tall after watching The Armageddon Factor. And they did it. Now, technically, I suppose it wasn't just for me. And that they didn't cast Jacobi just for me. BUT THEY MIGHT HAVE. Just...to see a childhood dream brought to life onscreen is something astonishingly, amazingly, unnutterably brilliant.
I do have things that are not Master-related. And I loved them at the time, but, ah, my massive Master!love is pretty much obscuring them right now. I shall give it a shot: The Rose references? I loved. They were perfect. And Martha's feelings were understandable, and the Doctor is clearly happy that she's alive and livng her life and it feels like some good solid closure there. And they needed that, and I liked it a lot. Then the Doctor and Martha gang-up on him and that is Seriously Awesome. And then Jack and the Doctor sort it out and that is great. And Martha/Jack/Ten = Rose/Nine/Jack = SUPREME AWESOMENESS. And the idea of the Doctor's prejudice there being an issue is shiny. Essentially, that was as awesome as I thought it could be for their reunion. He ran away, man, and he admitted it. Win.
Also, the Doctor said humans are "indomitable." Obviously a referance to his One True Love of Harry, heh.
And then there's all the Hurrah, Romana and Brax and Narvin et all are easily smart enough to come up with the same plan as the Master, yes.
And Jack is back to Awesome, thus proving that, in all things that are not Suzie, Doctor > TW, like woah.
I just can't get over it. The Master. Jacobi. A regeneration. ALL HIS SHINY LINES. Pissing off quickity-quick saying no hints of my plans for you, Doctor. The Doctor's sheer desperation to speak to his ex. And the Master just said he fancied the Doctor, better get a body that the Doctor fancies, FOOLISHLY BLIND TO THE BEAUTY OF JACOBI, MAN.
Oh, and I love how the Doctor and the Professor seem to be like a version of Theta and Koschei.
I love Simm. I love the Master. That was my favourite episode of New Who. I don't give a flyin' fig what might be wrong with it, nothing is going to kill it for me. Nothing. It is the most beautiful thing in these three years. You want to beat that? (Er, which, to be fair, they probably will next week, since lots more Simm!Master, hurrah!) You're going to have to bring Pat Troughton back from the dead, man.

Oh, Confidential = quite good this week. If only because everyone is suitably wonderful at Jacobi.

"I love Doctor Who, I've watched them all. I'd love to be in it," said Jacobi. Hurrah! "One of my ambitions since the sixties has been to take part in Doctor Who." I LOVE HIM. HE'S LOVED IT SINCE MONOCHROME!! DT went to get his autograph at a stage door when he was young!

Oh, he is perfectly wonderfully perfect. I love him.

And, yes, still quite, perfectly dead.