The Sound of Drums

Even while in a Washington DC hotel I made sure we were able to catch Saturday's episode of Doctor Who. We had to watch it on my laptop, but it was worth it.

Yes, spoilers and etc as usual.

Part two of the three-part series three finale picked up with a super brief explanation of how the Doctor fixed Jack's Vortex manipulator to get them to current day London, England, Earth only to find that The Master is dum-dum-dummmmmm the new Prime Minister, Harold Saxon. Not much of a surprise, but it gets the story rolling along at the accustomed break-neck speed.


The latest Master is a gas.
John Simm offers a quite different interpretation of the Master than we've seen before. He's much more insane, and not quite as somber as previous incarnations. They also breeze past how the Master's even alive, with some brief mention about the Timelords resurrecting him to help fight the Time War, and him running away and becoming human to hide.


Greeting from sunny Gallifrey
There is some interesting revisionist history about Gallifrey and some background on how the Master may have become insane and evil.


The Doctor's looked better.
The Doctor and Master have some interesting dialog together, and I hope that John Simm as the Master becomes a reoccurring character.


Balls of death descend upon London.
This episode leaves us with yet another attack on Earth, and makes one wonder how long we can survive with all these invasions since the Doctor has returned to our screens (Slitheen, Daleks, Cybermen, Racnoss, etc.).

Just one more episode of this series, then it will be a long wait until X-mas for more Doctor Who.