The Sound of Drums

[coalescent]

[Poll #1008791]

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Comments

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

The Master watching the Teletubbies!

[ajr.livejournal.com]

Flying aircraft carrier fortress sky island thing

Definite shades of Captain Scarlet there, I thought.

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

I was going to do a post of my own, but this seems the perfect place instead: it seemed to me to sum up all the good and bad of RTD episodes without having that extra bit of kick-ass his previous two season finales did. And the old-age makeup for Tennant just looked fake, like an obvious prosthetic - compare the wonderful job done on Tom Baker in The Leisure Hive25 years ago.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

It was rotten. I ticked GOOD for Simm's little face though which I liked regardless of its totally inappropriate nature.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

You know, until I had to answer this poll I hadn't realised how much I disliked some aspects of this episode. It was all so... Unoriginal. Unsurprising. Unbelievable. Unfunny and unscary.

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

I did enjoy it, but it suffered, again, from being one script edit and good direction away from being actually, genuinely, good.

[majuran.livejournal.com]

"I'm not going to kill him, I'm going to save him"

I couldn't help thinking that someone was going to have to step up and be Giles at that point...

[wychwood]

Flying aircraft carrier fortress sky island thing:

Neither GOOD! nor BAD! but TOTALLY AWESOME!!eleventy

*is a sucker for that sort of retrofuturism*