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rabid1stOkay, a number of people have gaped at me when I said that one particular RTD signature sequence in EoT-1 delighted me to the marrow.
Those people are scratching their heads and asking me, "Rae, how can you look at us with that straight horse face and say that you loved something so outstandingly craptastic?"
Allow me to 'splain...
You have to remember that I have been saying that acceptance of Ten 2 as the Doctor is completely dependent on the audience accepting the reborn Master is the Master. You have to take the audience by their metaphoric hand...and lead them through the process to the conclusion you want them to come to in the end. I was imagining the Master doing much the same sort of thing as what he does in the canon.
I would have written him reborn via the ring and a handy spare hand...drawing the life force out of Lucy. I knew that he had been reborn before and so was completely familiar with the process and that he would have prepared in advance to return should the Doctor win that round in Last of the Time Lords. To me, that was all a given. And I knew we had created a duplicate of the Doctor by drawing life force from Donna.
RTD pretty much did what I expected him to do...only he went not just one but quite a few steps beyond me. Of course, I did think there must be some people loyal to Saxon onboard the Valient when it traveled back through time. I even thought one of those people might have picked up his ring, because I did imagine Lucy going straight to Bedlam. But there is no way I would have had the gumption to write that Frankenstein Chic resurrection. Nor would I have considered Smith and Jones as source material. It seems that the Master making love to Lucy charged her up with his biomatrix signature...much as the Doctor's kiss must have changed both Martha and Rose...and a few other people, perhaps. There's some fic fodder for us, hey?
But the salient thing here is...how little MASTER we have in the mix. If the audience accepts that John Simm was ever the Master...then they have accepted that he came back from being burned to ashes in the Doctor Who Movie. The Time Lords used SOME method to restore him...why not a biochemical one? How many people, on the Old School fan sites, are saying this is NOT the Master? I would imagine very few of them are thinking that this Master is an imposter and the real Master is dead.
But certainly canon is telling us something very important, now...that you can suck the life force out of a few humans and combine that energy with some stray biomatter...and maybe the mind stored in a ring...and create a new Time Lord. And isn't that what happened during the Metacrisis? Only Donna wasn't sucked dry...because the Doctor had some scruples and a whole HAND...plus his regeneration...rather than just a few scraps of cellular residue. And, because Ten stepped in to seal the two parts of his new self away from one another...on two sides of a big dimensional wall.
So, of course, Ten 2 is not the DOCTOR...not yet. One must still die.
But here we have a method...lightning (energy)...chemicals...a life force...DNA...and...IT'S ALIVE! Igor, It's ALIIIIIVE!
And sitting there...crackling with magic power, we have this Immortality Gate thing-a-ma-jig. And Donna has some life force that will burn...and Ten 2 has an abundance of Doctor DNA...and I think we can make us a new, new Doctor from this pile of spare parts. And he will be the Doctor as much as this new born, skeleton critter is The Master...more so, in fact, because he will be healed and so will Donna, I'm hoping.
Ladies and gentlebeings!
We have the technology. We can rebuild them. Igor, fetch me my smock!
BWAHAHAHAHA! ~zzzzTTT!CCRRAAACK! <<-- a punctuating lightning striking.
Those people are scratching their heads and asking me, "Rae, how can you look at us with that straight horse face and say that you loved something so outstandingly craptastic?"
Allow me to 'splain...
You have to remember that I have been saying that acceptance of Ten 2 as the Doctor is completely dependent on the audience accepting the reborn Master is the Master. You have to take the audience by their metaphoric hand...and lead them through the process to the conclusion you want them to come to in the end. I was imagining the Master doing much the same sort of thing as what he does in the canon.
I would have written him reborn via the ring and a handy spare hand...drawing the life force out of Lucy. I knew that he had been reborn before and so was completely familiar with the process and that he would have prepared in advance to return should the Doctor win that round in Last of the Time Lords. To me, that was all a given. And I knew we had created a duplicate of the Doctor by drawing life force from Donna.
RTD pretty much did what I expected him to do...only he went not just one but quite a few steps beyond me. Of course, I did think there must be some people loyal to Saxon onboard the Valient when it traveled back through time. I even thought one of those people might have picked up his ring, because I did imagine Lucy going straight to Bedlam. But there is no way I would have had the gumption to write that Frankenstein Chic resurrection. Nor would I have considered Smith and Jones as source material. It seems that the Master making love to Lucy charged her up with his biomatrix signature...much as the Doctor's kiss must have changed both Martha and Rose...and a few other people, perhaps. There's some fic fodder for us, hey?
But the salient thing here is...how little MASTER we have in the mix. If the audience accepts that John Simm was ever the Master...then they have accepted that he came back from being burned to ashes in the Doctor Who Movie. The Time Lords used SOME method to restore him...why not a biochemical one? How many people, on the Old School fan sites, are saying this is NOT the Master? I would imagine very few of them are thinking that this Master is an imposter and the real Master is dead.
But certainly canon is telling us something very important, now...that you can suck the life force out of a few humans and combine that energy with some stray biomatter...and maybe the mind stored in a ring...and create a new Time Lord. And isn't that what happened during the Metacrisis? Only Donna wasn't sucked dry...because the Doctor had some scruples and a whole HAND...plus his regeneration...rather than just a few scraps of cellular residue. And, because Ten stepped in to seal the two parts of his new self away from one another...on two sides of a big dimensional wall.
So, of course, Ten 2 is not the DOCTOR...not yet. One must still die.
But here we have a method...lightning (energy)...chemicals...a life force...DNA...and...IT'S ALIVE! Igor, It's ALIIIIIVE!
And sitting there...crackling with magic power, we have this Immortality Gate thing-a-ma-jig. And Donna has some life force that will burn...and Ten 2 has an abundance of Doctor DNA...and I think we can make us a new, new Doctor from this pile of spare parts. And he will be the Doctor as much as this new born, skeleton critter is The Master...more so, in fact, because he will be healed and so will Donna, I'm hoping.
Ladies and gentlebeings!
We have the technology. We can rebuild them. Igor, fetch me my smock!
BWAHAHAHAHA! ~zzzzTTT!CCRRAAACK! <<-- a punctuating lightning striking.
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Date: 2009-12-27 04:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-12-27 05:05 pm (UTC)So...it is possible that Donna will simply recover from her cliffhanger recall and go back to being clueless. But I hope not. I hope she has one more moment of brilliance...even if it means she dies.
Because it is possible that Ten 2 is as unstable as the Master and will die if he's denied Donna's life force. It is also possible that Ten 2 stepped under a bus because he couldn't go on or something. However, with all the Doctor's talk about how he COULD die if he didn't regenerate...and the reminder that the Master refused...it is possible if Ten 2 and Donna merge into a new, new, new Doctor...that Ten could simply will himself to age and die with Rose.
Rae