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doctor who "the sound of drums"
It will surprise no one who knows me to learn that my favorite bit of this episode was not "Are you asking me on a date?", nor "You too, huh.", but the careful point they made about the definition of "decimate". Heh.
Talking of semantics, though, I'm thinking about the POTUS character. He was certainly presented as though he were the President of the United States; in the third person he's called "President Winters" and in the second person he's called "Mr. President". But then he introduces himself to theImperial probe droids alien bot things as president-elect. I suspect this may have something to do with whether it's acceptable (to the BBC, I suppose, because at this point they don't care about the FCC, do they) to have the president disintegrated on television, even in such an obviously fictitious and fantastical situation. I can't believe it's because Rusty and his team of writers, editors, directors, producers, etc. etc. etc. don't know what "president-elect" means.
But I'm not actually interested (much) in why they switch from "president" to "president-elect". I'm interested (mostly) in the fact that the Master says to Mrs. Master, "The last President of America". (I'm also not interested in "America" vs. "the United States" here.) Because if the fellow is in fact the president-elect, then of course he's not the last president of the United States, because he's not president yet when he dies. And if he really is the president, then he's not the last president, because the whole world just saw him get blasted on television; the vice president would be sworn in approximately seventy-five seconds later, no? In fact the VP becomes acting president the moment the president is dead, doesn't he? Which is among the reasons they inaugurate the vice president first? In short, not the last president, no matter which way you slicehim it. I'm just sayin.
Talking of semantics, though, I'm thinking about the POTUS character. He was certainly presented as though he were the President of the United States; in the third person he's called "President Winters" and in the second person he's called "Mr. President". But then he introduces himself to the
But I'm not actually interested (much) in why they switch from "president" to "president-elect". I'm interested (mostly) in the fact that the Master says to Mrs. Master, "The last President of America". (I'm also not interested in "America" vs. "the United States" here.) Because if the fellow is in fact the president-elect, then of course he's not the last president of the United States, because he's not president yet when he dies. And if he really is the president, then he's not the last president, because the whole world just saw him get blasted on television; the vice president would be sworn in approximately seventy-five seconds later, no? In fact the VP becomes acting president the moment the president is dead, doesn't he? Which is among the reasons they inaugurate the vice president first? In short, not the last president, no matter which way you slice
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Although "You too, huh" wasn't bad either.
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We wondered over that "President" vs "President Elect" thing too. We also knew he was toast the instant he appeared. I think the Master said "the last President of America" because he liked the sound of it.
The Master reminds me a bit of Pee Wee Herman (the whole zipping and unzipping lips thing especially), which makes him even more disturbing!
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The whole phone sex conversation between the Doctor and the Master was my favorite part. It could almost have been an old-skool scene, except for the post-Time War angst. Not that I don't love post-Time War angst. And the teeny bits of Time War and Time Lord canon that we got made me so, so happy. They flashed back to the robes and the headdresses!!! The Time Lords resurrected the Master for the Time War, which is a fucking stupid idea and yet completely consistent with the ways they've tried to use the Master in the past. (Oh, Time Lords, maybe if you hadn't depended so much on creating and maintaining a handful of renegades, you wouldn't all be dead.) And Rusty shot down the Looms and the brothers thing, which makes me forgive him a lot.
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IT'S LIKE YOU KNOW ME OR SOMETHING. :-)
I don't mean to suggest that I didn't love the phone sex, of course. All the rest of the show was a very, very close second. But, "decimate". It's not just that he used it correctly, but how. Language-snob!Rusty FTW.