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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evildmguy" data-source="post: 3619638" data-attributes="member: 6092">I have to admit to being torn on this episode.  I agree with what people have already said here.  Lots of Deus Ex Machina.  The ending seemed forced.  A gun was all that was needed for the paradox machine.  It seems like it was a lot of little things, rather than one big thing.  I am also not sure about the Doctor being Dobbie as someone else said, although it does set up the Face of Boe.  The problem is having someone as smart as the Doctor as the adversary.  I don't think that they really showed the differences between the Doctor and Master well enough, to see the Master's weaknesses and blind spots.  And, this time, it was the Master himself that failed, not his partners who betrayed him, which is how Delgado's Master usually failed, IIRC.  His (Delgado's Master) plans were usually good but it was his "servants" that failed him.  This time, though, he failed himself and he didn't see it coming.  At the same time, the way the Master was defeated was quintessential Doctor.  No violence.  No gun.  Faith, hope and love were the tools he used.  And the Doctor was willing to shoulder the burden of watching the Master.  It fits.  So, I am not completely sure about the episode.  It did have some interesting bits, like bringing together who the Face of Boe was.  I also took it that the Master's companion did it because she knew it would help.  She seems to have embraced her own "drums" and that's why she was helping the Master.  I worry about the next time, if there is one, that we see the Master.  Back in the day, it was just expected he would be defeated, no matter how implausible.  I think we, as viewers, expect more than that today.  Just my two coppers.  edg</blockquote>

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