I think it’s fair to say that season three of New Who has been the most old-school friendly. Right now, we’re in the middle of an old school six-parter with things looking bad for the Doctor as his old enemy the Master gets the upper hand.
Let’s party like it’s 1972!
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I keep hearing the sound of drums. Is that bad?
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Fan. Bloody. Tastic.
That’s all I have to say on the subject.
Okay, being the kind of guy who has lots to say on lots of subjects, that’s patently untrue. But if I had to summarise yesterday’s episode, that would be where I’d leave it.
Fan. Bloody. Tastic.
I’ll go on at length in a minute, but what was most clear from Utopia was that it was a massive one-finger salute from Russell T Davies to the more critical members of Doctor Who fandom. A nice one, mind, but clearly RTD was smiling a very secret smile as he wrote Utopia.
Scrawled in nine-feet high letters across the entire season, culminating in Utopia, the message from Rusty was clear: “You think I don’t know what I’m doing? You think I’m a soap-opera hack with ego problems, intent on trampling all over your memories with infantile fart gags?
”Well, I can do structure. I can do foreshadowing. I can do mirroring. I can do tension of opposites. I can hide things in plain sight where even you geniuses can’t spot them. By the end of this episode, you’ll forget everything you’ve ever said about me and you’ll beg for my forgiveness. And do you know why?
“Because I am the Master and you will obey me.”
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