AVEC SPOILERS FOR THE BFA 'MASTER'

[x_los]

Ah, the BFA audio Master: I will review it more fully inna bit. Suffice it to say I've been dividing my day between studying for the Kareinina final, taking care of Rachel and Mike's rats, dealing with the Home Inspection and listening to the audio.

Inspector Character: Your maid's hot. Do you think you might like Human Wimmins?
John Smith!Fobwatched!Master: Um. No. I totally don't care at all. It's never even occurred to me to care. /Really./

John Smith!Fobwatched!Master: So you and this 'Master' used to be... close?
Seven: That's not important right now.

Seven: So the Master never loved or cared about anyone ever, but I think you could love this Jacqueline person. Do you?!
John Smith!Fobwatched!Master: Um. I mean, not in the way where I in any way care? But she makes me laugh. At her more than with her. But I /guess/ you could construe that as a positive attachment?
Seven: *construes hard*
John Smith!Fobwatched!Master: Hey, Re: my apparently never having loved or cared for anyone. That seems kind of... not true, given that whole thing earlier where when we were children I killed someone just for hurting you. And that whole thing where we ran around loling in the flashback and seemed to be planning to run away together in a Hetero Man-Love Not Eloping At All Totally Cousins or Something...Okay, Having A Great Deal of Sex way. Are you sure you're not being desperately naive or taking serious advantage of the frame narrative structure?
Seven: THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW. Look, a woman! LOVE IT!
John Smith!Fobwatched!Master: ...I think I understand why I have this lingering desire to smack you leaking through.

Comments

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, haven't listened to that one, because I knew the basic plot and feared it.

My first reaction to the whole layout of the episode is, "Dude, that totally reminds me of Lovecraft's "Through the Gates of the Silver Key," where everybody sits and listens to this wild tale about people turning into aliens and stuff and then the character in question reveals it's all true and escapes in a teleporting grandfather clock.

My second reaction is, as it has always been to the "This-or-that Champion" stuff, bunk! Really, who thinks that the Doctor and the Master aren't grand and epic enough on their ownselves? Why do they need to be representing great cosmic forces that aren't them? Pfffffft to that, I say!

But on the other hand, my understanding that the story contains exactly what you've described has been a big temptation.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

My second reaction is, as it has always been to the "This-or-that Champion" stuff, bunk! Really, who thinks that the Doctor and the Master aren't grand and epic enough on their ownselves? Why do they need to be representing great cosmic forces that aren't them? Pfffffft to that, I say!

Yeah, that's kind of how I feel. The canon's already off in epic!land, I don't need cosmic forces to make me feel this is playing out on a huge scale, or to dilute the agency of those involved. And in a world full of aliens, what IS this personified Death thing, anyway?

But there is enough good writing (uneven, but w/ high points) and stuff to make it well worth a perusal? That 'over me with the knife' scene was like, uncomfortable to listen to in public levels of hot.

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

uncomfortable to listen to in public levels of hot

Well, I'm convinced.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Oh man, come back to me with your mileage on that one and tell me if it did indeed vary. This is all downloadable on That One Eps Com, btw, you too could have uncomfortable!hot at your finger tips if you do not already.