Mom! Dad! Don't touch it!
Jun. 23rd, 2007 04:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnanI very, very rarely post about television shows, but for this I'll make an exception.
I adore the Master. Here we have someone who, realizing that his only chance of survival was to make himself human and send himself to the end of the universe, nevertheless took the time to set it up so that:
(a) His human self would take actions that he thought would save humanity;
(b) He would actually destroy humanity in the process, launching its remnants into the middle of nowhere;
(c) He would ensure his own escape from that destruction.
I firmly believe, though perhaps not everyone saw it as such, that when the Master ejected something from the computer (whose screen then went dark) and sneered, "Utopia!", it was because the so-called "signal" on the screen was in fact a program running on that disk and not a real signal at all. A disk which the Master himself set up in advance so that, once human, he'd work on sending humanity to that empty spot in space, where they would of course die. And he did so with a rocket that required him to be outside of it, so he wouldn't go. And to top it all off, he named the empty bit of space "utopia"--literally, "no place".
The sheer extreme foreplanning involved in that...brilliant. So darkly beautiful. It appeals deeply to my love of a good con.
Of course, the fact that it was Derek Jacobi didn't hurt. Reallly, there was just so much to love in this episode
I adore the Master. Here we have someone who, realizing that his only chance of survival was to make himself human and send himself to the end of the universe, nevertheless took the time to set it up so that:
(a) His human self would take actions that he thought would save humanity;
(b) He would actually destroy humanity in the process, launching its remnants into the middle of nowhere;
(c) He would ensure his own escape from that destruction.
I firmly believe, though perhaps not everyone saw it as such, that when the Master ejected something from the computer (whose screen then went dark) and sneered, "Utopia!", it was because the so-called "signal" on the screen was in fact a program running on that disk and not a real signal at all. A disk which the Master himself set up in advance so that, once human, he'd work on sending humanity to that empty spot in space, where they would of course die. And he did so with a rocket that required him to be outside of it, so he wouldn't go. And to top it all off, he named the empty bit of space "utopia"--literally, "no place".
The sheer extreme foreplanning involved in that...brilliant. So darkly beautiful. It appeals deeply to my love of a good con.
Of course, the fact that it was Derek Jacobi didn't hurt. Reallly, there was just so much to love in this episode
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Date: 2007-06-23 06:28 pm (UTC)Do y'all want to watch the new episode at our house tomorrow night?