Earth has been conquered and the Master rules supreme, with the Doctor a helpless prisoner, in the final episode of Russell T Davies’s Doctor Who.The entire human race has been reduced to slavery, as the mighty warships of a new Time Lord Empire rise from the ashes. Only Martha Jones can save the world…<\/p>\n
David Tennant plays the Doctor and Freema Agyeman plays his companion, Martha Jones. John Barrowman and John Simm guest star.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hmm.<\/p>\n
Earth conquered. Master reigns supreme. Time Lord empire. Humanity reduced to slavery.<\/p>\n
I got a Faction Paradox<\/i> vibe off this. A massive<\/i> vibe.<\/p>\n
In The Book of the War<\/i> the Master becomes Gallifrey’s War King as the War looms. In Dead Romance<\/i> the Time Lords invade Earth and enslave the planet, reducing much of it to rubble, to use it as a base and\/or bolt hole.<\/p>\n
Yeah, I’m definitely<\/i> getting a Faction Paradox<\/i> vibe off that blurb.<\/p>\n
Now, it’s just a blurb. Forty minutes of television, reduced to something like sixty words. It could be extremely<\/i> misleading. The way blurbs work, it could be massively<\/i> misleading.<\/p>\n
Still, I’m excited. Despite my ambivalent feelings toward the three previous Who<\/i>vian finales. (I’m counting Torchwood<\/i>‘s “End of Days” in that number.)<\/p>\n
Two weeks, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Or rather… the Doctor Who blurb. The BBC posted information on the season finale of Doctor Who recently, and fandom’s holding its collective breath. I read the blurb. My first thought, “Wow. That sounds cool!” My second thought? “Wait a second. That sounds like…” Let’s go behind a spoiler\/speculation cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4082,790,10,281],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","tag-doctor-who","tag-faction-paradox","tag-jack-harkness","tag-tenth-doctor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}