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ILU WAR CHIEF
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So tonight I watched The War Games (I figure it's much easier to catch up on the Master than the Doctor - after tonight I'm completely finished with TV canon for 5/8 versions (well, depending on what you count as a version and what you count as canon) yay! ('course that's because there were only three Masters who got more than one arc, but I don't care.)
Anyway, you should watch it.
This serial is the one that introduces the Time Lords, and it does it by way of bringing in the War Chief, the third Time Lord we meet after the Doctor, and the third renegade.
The War Chief is:
a) Almost unbearably young. I kind of want to chuck him under the chin - well, no, I actually want to sit with him on a bare mattress in a tiny dorm room and drink overpriced seltzer water and flirt while he plans world domination. --Because yeah. He's that sort of unbearably young revolutionary. He gets Marius' songs from Les Mis stuck in my head.
b) Almost unbearably *lonely*. He gets the only bit of internal monologue that anyone gets in any Doctor Who episode, standing alone in a crowded room and wondering if the time travellers he's hearing about -- "could it be? Could it be?", and the tension just visibly builds while he's waiting to find out if it *is* someone he can call a friend, or at least an equal. And just -- he's so pushing everyone away because he's ashamed to admit he doesn't know how to make them like him, and so yearning for somebody he doesn't have to push away, and oh, War Chief, your communist pyjamas are so mysteriously alluring on you, I wish I could figure out what color they are. Seriously, I want to sit in your dorm room and flirt and talk politics.
c) So totally a young version of the Master. So *totally*. You can trace all this stuff in later Doctor/Master interactions right back to him, it's all here in this episode. (Except they're *both* so unbearably young. The Master's clearly just starting to find his feet in the galaxy, and Two's being played, especially at the end of the serial, as a kid in an old man's body. I wonder if War Chief wasn't actually the Master's Two, which makes me wonder just what *happened* to him on Gallifrey to push him all the way down his regenerations into Delgado that quickly.)
d) So totally not over the break-up yet, even though he's trying to be. You can watch him fluctuating between pretending he has no feelings for the Doctor, and being completely unable to resist touching him at every possible minute. And, of course, there's the "rule the universe at my side" moment, which will come up repeatedly later, but this is the fluffy baby chickens one. (This Doctor *is* over them, I think, but he's starting to *regret* that he's over it, a bit, and I can really see where his reaction to the Master as Three feeds right out of this. And Delgado's reaction right back.)
Also, Shalka!Doctor and Master both have War Lords style hair and sideburns. This surely means *something*. Just not sure what. (And the Time Lord outfits in this episode are pretty much identical to what Wee!Master wears in the SoD flashback. Yay continuity?)
(PS: If you are completely uninterested in Doctor/Master fandom's conspiracy theory ravings, this is still a good serial to try out early Doctor Who with, I think. Five hours long, but good. And Zoe rocks. And it's also a necessary episode if you're interested in Doctor/Jamie conspiracy theories. :P )
isiscolo has made an lj feed of my jf! melannen_jf. So if any of my lj people are still bothering to drop by, and actually *want* my Doctor Who prattle on their flists, you can friend that one now!So tonight I watched The War Games (I figure it's much easier to catch up on the Master than the Doctor - after tonight I'm completely finished with TV canon for 5/8 versions (well, depending on what you count as a version and what you count as canon) yay! ('course that's because there were only three Masters who got more than one arc, but I don't care.)
Anyway, you should watch it.
This serial is the one that introduces the Time Lords, and it does it by way of bringing in the War Chief, the third Time Lord we meet after the Doctor, and the third renegade.
The War Chief is:
a) Almost unbearably young. I kind of want to chuck him under the chin - well, no, I actually want to sit with him on a bare mattress in a tiny dorm room and drink overpriced seltzer water and flirt while he plans world domination. --Because yeah. He's that sort of unbearably young revolutionary. He gets Marius' songs from Les Mis stuck in my head.
b) Almost unbearably *lonely*. He gets the only bit of internal monologue that anyone gets in any Doctor Who episode, standing alone in a crowded room and wondering if the time travellers he's hearing about -- "could it be? Could it be?", and the tension just visibly builds while he's waiting to find out if it *is* someone he can call a friend, or at least an equal. And just -- he's so pushing everyone away because he's ashamed to admit he doesn't know how to make them like him, and so yearning for somebody he doesn't have to push away, and oh, War Chief, your communist pyjamas are so mysteriously alluring on you, I wish I could figure out what color they are. Seriously, I want to sit in your dorm room and flirt and talk politics.
c) So totally a young version of the Master. So *totally*. You can trace all this stuff in later Doctor/Master interactions right back to him, it's all here in this episode. (Except they're *both* so unbearably young. The Master's clearly just starting to find his feet in the galaxy, and Two's being played, especially at the end of the serial, as a kid in an old man's body. I wonder if War Chief wasn't actually the Master's Two, which makes me wonder just what *happened* to him on Gallifrey to push him all the way down his regenerations into Delgado that quickly.)
d) So totally not over the break-up yet, even though he's trying to be. You can watch him fluctuating between pretending he has no feelings for the Doctor, and being completely unable to resist touching him at every possible minute. And, of course, there's the "rule the universe at my side" moment, which will come up repeatedly later, but this is the fluffy baby chickens one. (This Doctor *is* over them, I think, but he's starting to *regret* that he's over it, a bit, and I can really see where his reaction to the Master as Three feeds right out of this. And Delgado's reaction right back.)
Also, Shalka!Doctor and Master both have War Lords style hair and sideburns. This surely means *something*. Just not sure what. (And the Time Lord outfits in this episode are pretty much identical to what Wee!Master wears in the SoD flashback. Yay continuity?)
(PS: If you are completely uninterested in Doctor/Master fandom's conspiracy theory ravings, this is still a good serial to try out early Doctor Who with, I think. Five hours long, but good. And Zoe rocks. And it's also a necessary episode if you're interested in Doctor/Jamie conspiracy theories. :P )