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Legend
Yep, loved it. Especially the cameos by Doctors past and future. Interesting, though, that Capaldi makes it "all thirteen". So, he is both the thirteenth Doctor and also the last. Well, barring the inevitable dodge/retcon/handwave, of course!
My completely unsupported theory: the worst excesses of the Time Lords during the war were perpetrated by a rogue group, who first resurrected Rassilon and then were led by him (and probably resurrected the Master as well). And they probably were time locked - just in a different lock from the one Gallifrey just avoided.
Or something like that.
Depending on how nasty the war was and how long it had lasted, this makes sense. They've probably used up pretty much all their big weapons. They were probably only a couple of steps short of throwing rocks at one another.
That one did bother me - this episode does seem to deflate the tension from the End of Time storyline.
However, bear in mind that Rassilon & co. were planning to literally end time, leaving Gallifrey alone in the universe. If ever Gallifrey is brought back in the future, that will likely need to be a plot point that's dealt with.
My completely unsupported theory: the worst excesses of the Time Lords during the war were perpetrated by a rogue group, who first resurrected Rassilon and then were led by him (and probably resurrected the Master as well). And they probably were time locked - just in a different lock from the one Gallifrey just avoided.
Or something like that.
Yeah. The whole thing with lots of Dalek ships firing lasers at Gallifrey seemed very sub-Death Star, where the tech is traditionally magnitudes beyond that. I mean, Davros and others have deployed universe-destroying weapons before. Shooting laser at targets on a single planet seems a bit pathetic. And surely a single TARDIS outweighs an infinite number of laser-firing saucers?
Depending on how nasty the war was and how long it had lasted, this makes sense. They've probably used up pretty much all their big weapons. They were probably only a couple of steps short of throwing rocks at one another.