This time for sure!

[scarfman]

Now that I've actually seen Last of the Time Lords, I stand by what I kept saying before I saw it: A funeral pyre doth not an allusion to Star Wars make.

Also, pursuant to my previous argument on what Rose actually meant to the Doctor, as opposed to what he thinks she meant, I think it's suggestive that the Doctor stopped chasing Rose though she's still alive but didn't stop chasing the Master till the Master died out of spite.

Also I want to say once for the record, despite any impression given by anything I may write or may have written in discussion or in fanfiction, that I don't 'ship the Doctor and the Master. Any appearance that I may be doing so simply derives from the appearance that Russell T. Davies did so and, thus, merely accurately reflects the source.

Comments

[skipthedemon.livejournal.com]

I thought it was pretty clear that the funeral pyre = The Doctor burning Gallifrey again. What the the Doctor fears most is burning what he loves and/or watching what he loves burn, and that's been canon since Mind of Evil.

It's hard to ignore the Doctor and Master 'ship. It's not pretty, or healthy, or what humans consider romantic, but it's *there*.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

"What the the Doctor fears most is burning what he loves and/or watching what he loves burn, and that's been canon since Mind of Evil."

Turning up two years late to say:
Wow! =8oO   I never would have thought of that connection. That's... deep. =:o}

Also puts an added layer of perspective onto the end of ... um... the story whose title I can never remember. Y'know, the one where the sweet innocent fifth Doctor met Peri, dropped off Turlough, euthenased Kamelion, and stood and watched the Master burn to death!

No wonder he went straight into "Caves of Androzani" with a secret "heroic death" wish... =:o\
(Big Finish audios, especially the wonderful Erimem and "...Ish", not withstanding.)