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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] i really liked it. Unlike some other three-parters that come to mind (like PotC2), this wasn't just filler, and we got some great insights into the background of the Master, Jack and especially Martha and her family. I was truly moved when Martha's dad defiantly revealed the Master's plan and tried to escape, and her mum's subsequent realization that in trying to help her daughter she was in fact helping the bad guys all along. Martha's "I'll do what I like!" line was also well delivered and I think the first time a companion has really lipped off to the Doctor quite like that. Loved the Gallifrey stuff - there's a million touches in those few moments that will take the fandom ages to work out. Note for example that the classic high-collared Galligreyan robes are back, but so too are their predecessors - the kid Master in the flashback is wearing a version of the robes worn by the Time Lords in "The War Games". http://shillpages.com/dw/story/st--2z88.jpg And thank goodness for this episode effectively de-canonizing the looming thing... We basically establish that Gallifreyans are in fact born into families and at some point are genuinely young. This is probably before whatever process is done to them that makes them Time Lords, if that is in fact how it's done - some say that All Time Lords are Gallifreyans, but not all Gallifreyans are Time Lords, implying that upon becoming a Time Lord you are granted your twelve regenerations (or more in the Master's case). In any case, the Master confirms taht he was "resurrected" from whatever his last fate was (be it getting sucked into the Eye of Harmony, or after whatever evil schemes he had going in the novels) to fight in the Time War. Oddly, the Time Lords didn't tell the Doctor this, and they fought on the same side through most of the War until the Dalek Emperor took control of the cruciform (whatever that was, but it sounds WAY COOL). So this is at least the second incarnation of the "new" Master's body. Hey, did anyone notice that immediately after they arrived back on Earth, the Doctor and Jack were moving identially? They both cricked their necks, they both walked down the street the same way, and right after that they both were sitting in pretty much the same way too. :) Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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