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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 3619471" data-attributes="member: 4090">Very disappointed here. From the minute the "One Year Later" popped up on-screen, I knew this was going to be a magic reset button episode. Can't stand those. I guess it wouldn't have bothered me so much in and of itself except that it seemed like such an artificial plot device that wasn't equally applied to the storyline. Martha's part of the plot was the only one affected in any way- with her "walk around the earth to set things up for a particular time and place" (and I'm going to assume that this was some sort of plan she, the Doctor, and Jack came up with prior to arriving on the helicarrier, and not just something the Doctor managed to whisper to her in the few seconds they had before she left, because that would just be silly.)The Master didn't seem to be at all affected by the whole thing- he and the Doctor seemed to more or less pick up their story exactly where we left them with some cryptic commentary about the Master's plans which would be entirely pointless had they actually spent the year together (ie, they were only included to fill in the audience on things because we hadn't been there to see the year develop). It's just awkward exposition.The escape attempt- was there a point to that? If the Doctor had really been gearing up to this climactic moment, then why risk it? (Although, to be fair, I suppose the climactic moment was a risk- probably a bigger one. As Morrus points out- getting all the people in the world to think Doctor at precisely the same moment in time? Reminds me of <a href="http://www.worldjumpday.org/" target="_blank">World Jump Day</a>).Just shooting the paradox machine (not to mention trying to shoot the Toclafane)? Strange. The Doctor as Mini-Me? Silly.Disappointed to see the Master/Simm killed off, seemingly permanently (though Simm did get a bit too campy for my tastes in this episode). I did like the way he went out, though- refusing to regenerate as a last act of defiance against his hated enemy does seem appropriate. Not sure if the woman's hand with the ring is just someone picking up his ring (his "wife" perhaps? Still enthralled- which could mean the whole "death" sequence was faked in the first place) or if it means he regenerated after all- as a woman. They did leave it open-ended in typical Master fashion, though, which is cool.I loved the Face of Boe bit. Hate that Jack is going back to Torchwood, hate that they still aren't doing anything with the whole Time Agent/Missing two years of memories/Man from the Future angle, but the revelation was great, and it definitely explains a question I had back in the day (why the Face- who had met the Doctor all of two times, referred to him as "old friend"). Why Jack didn't say anything more to the Doctor as the Face is a bit strange, though. I get why he wouldn't want to create paradoxes (the Doc hadn't met Jack at the time he first met Boe, and if he'd passed along his "warning/last words" any sooner, then he'd have gotten a lot of strange questions and could have created a paradox as the Doctor would have wanted to travel to see the Master before he and Jack and Martha actually did); he could have said a little more the second time they met, though (on hospital world), like- hey, Doc- I'm Jack let's catch up on old times!Anyway, overall, a pretty big letdown from the heights of last episode.</blockquote>

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