The Sound of Drums is an exciting and amazing episode which
sees the meeting of the Doctor and the Master. Even though the Master took the TARDIS, the Doctor, Jack and Martha found a way back to the 21st century. When they arrive, they realize that the election is over, and Mr. Harold Saxon is the new prime minister of Great Britain. However, when he appears on the television, Martha recognizes his voice, as the voice of the newly regenerated Master! They all go back to Martha's house, and they use her laptop to find out more about Mr. Saxon. He seems tohave a whole life story, he went to Cambridge and got married, eventhought he had just been at the end of the universe, in the year 100 trillion. 18 months ago, he also set up a mobile phone connection, the Archangel network. While they are on his website, something pops up, saying that Mr. Saxon is giving a live broadcast on the television. When the Doctor, Martha and Jack tune in, they see Mr. Saxon saying that Earth is going to have an alliance with some strange sphere aliens, which he calls the Toclafane. While the Master is making this speech, the Doctorfinds a bomb on the back of Martha's television. Grabbing the laptop,the three of them escape from her house, just before it blows up. Martha rings her mum, to check if she is okay, and is told to come round to her house, and she has plans to get back together with Clive. When she passes the phone over to Clive, he tells her to beware Mr. Saxon and to run and hide. However, this call is being monitored by one of Saxon's accomplices and he is taken (by force) to jail. Martha runs to her car (with the Doctor and Jack following) and goes to her mother's house to see what's going on. However, the whole of her family is to be taken away, and when Martha drives towards the house, the police spot her and start shooting her car before she can do anything. Martha retreats, and then phones her brother to tell him not to contact anyone in their family, and to stay hidden. Mr. Saxon, however, is listening to the conversation and the Doctor takes the phone off Martha. The Doctor tells the Master about the Time War, and how everything died. The Master then reveals that he was revived by the Time Lords so that he could fight as a soldier in the war, but he ran away because he was too scared. When the Doctor asks him to stop being Prime Minister, and step down, he refuses.
The Master then tells the Doctor that he, Martha and Jack are
Britain's most wanted terrorists and they should run and hide. The Doctor must find a way to stop the Master, before he tries to take over the world...

This episode was very interesting and really enjoyable. The
acting (especially from the lead cast) was fabulous and the set was also very good. The script and plot was absolutely brilliant, and was really enjoyable. The Master was such a different character to usual Doctor Who villains, and I thought that he was absolutely brilliant. I loved it when he was watching the Teletubbies on the television and started wittering on about how wonderful it is to have a television in your tummy!
The Toclafane were quite strange and not as menacing as the Daleks for example, but I still thought that they were really good. The
cliff-hanger is in the right place as usual, as I really want to know what is going to happen next week! The music was absolutely amazing, and the brief appearance of 'Voodoo Child' was really unexpected!

The CGI again, was not very good which was really disappointing
as the Doctor's flashbacks of Gallifrey could have been really
interesting. The scene was also slightly cheesy, which probably could have been avoided.

My favourite quote was from the Master, when he said to the
Doctor, "Are you asking me to go on a date?" I was watching the episode with my friend as soon as he said it we both cracked up! It is something that the Doctor would never say, as he is definitely not as cheeky as the Master!

Overall, I really enjoyed this episode and I can't wait until
next weeks! My rating for this episode is 9/10.

 

 

 

The Doctor, Jack and Martha arrive on present day earth in hot pursuit of The Master who they quickly realise is the newly elected British Prime Minister Harold Saxon. Accompanied by his wife he appears to be a popular and trustworthy politician but in gassing his new cabinet members it soon becomes apparent that he is completely mad. He has been on earth for 18 months building his back story and using low level hypnotism through his mobile phone network to gain the trust of the whole country. The two Time Lords talk at first on the phone, the Master full of manic energy and witty one-liners and the Doctor for once very subdued. Saxon announces first contact with a race called the Toclafane will occur in the morning but the Doctor doubts this is their real name and creates a low level perception field for himself, Jack and Martha so they can get close to the Master without being noticed. They teleport to a UNIT spaceship above the earth where the first contact will be televised, Martha’s family are being held hostage and where they discover the Tardis has been turned into a paradox machine which is obviously not good news. The Master is a showman and after executing the American President live on TV he captures the Doctor and using his laser screwdriver and the Lazarus technology which he initiated ages the Doctor by 100 years leaving him completely helpless. As 6 billion Toclafane descend on the earth and start to remove 10% of the population, Martha manages to teleport off the ship and promises she will be coming back. She is the last hope.

Yet another fantastic episode packed full of action, superb acting especially by John Simm as the Master who brings enough of the Doctor’s usual traits to the role to make you believe all Time Lords must be witty and manic and like jelly babies. Not only has RTD brought together all the clues from this series he has managed to include enough references to the classic series to keep die hard fans very happy, including another brief glimpse of the legendary Gallifrey. Even the music has joined in with extracts from the UNIT theme, Torchwood and Martha’s tune being included.

Marks out of 10

Will 45 minutes be enough to resolve this helpless situation?

9/10.

Name: Lousie Green | Age: 15

They managed to get back to earth to follow the Master of the Time Lords but it was not an easy journey. The Tardis crew, consisting of the Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack Harkness escaped by the Doctor fixing Jacks burnt out old transporter. They travelled throughout time to follow him but there was no capsule to protect them. Very dangerous!! They quickly recover and find themselves in 21^st Century England , exactly where they want to be. They walk around for a while and then start talking about who the Time Lord could be. They know that he is there because the Doctor can feel it. Martha also wonders who he could be because she recognised the voice from inside the Tardis. Jack tells her about the fact that he could have regenerated but she has no idea what this means because the Doctor has never told her! (Well, he tried to at one point but she didn’t want to listen because she didn’t want to think about him dying.) While he is doing this, there is a tapping on a cup in the background. The same tapping that the Professor heard in the last episode. A four beat tap! The Doctor hears this tapping and just looks blankly at him. He knows that that tapping is of some relevance but he is not sure what yet. He then comes out of his trance like state and tells Martha that he will know it’s him because Time Lords always do! Suddenly, it hits them! On a big screen in the middle of where they are stood, Mr. Saxon the new Prime Minister makes a speech. The Doctor steps forwards to take a closer look and they realise that the Master of the Time Lords has been voted Prime Minister!!!

‘This country had been sick. This country needs healing. This country needs medicine. In fact I’d go so far as to say that what this country really needs, right now…is a Doctor!!’ is Mr. Saxon’s first speech. When he says this, he looks directly at the camera. The Doctor knows that the speech is aimed directly at him!!

After the introductory music, Mr. Saxon goes into his office and gets handed a load of papers and folders on the way. He takes them all but does not even stop to look at any of them. He just carries on walking into the office. His wife talks to him as they go in. she says that she is really very proud of him and then the two of them kiss. As he is on his way in, Tish, Martha’s sister stops him and starts to talk to him about what her position is. All he says to her is that she should stand there and look gorgeous. He then goes into the office and starts talking to the people sat around him. Before getting down to serious business, he throws all of the papers across the table and tries to get everyone to laugh. He sees it as a funny moment but the government are not at all amused. He tries to cheer them up by putting on silly facial expressions but the men in the room do not even snigger. Eventually, one of them says that he is funny so that he will shut up. After this, he starts to thank the government. He says, ‘thank you. Thank you all. You ugly fat faced bunch of wet snivelling traitors! Again, the man in the corner says that he is funny but this time Mr. Saxon says that it was not a funny statement, it was true. He then goes on with the facial expressions again about funny and serious. To me, is serious face is funnier than the serious one. Slightly odd if you ask me. He tells them that they are all traitors because as soon as the votes were swinging in Mr. Saxon’s direction, the government joined Mr. Saxon’s party and abandoned the others. He doesn’t like this and decides to give them a reward. Gassing them!! He pulls out a gas mask to protect himself and then releases the gas into the air. The whole room fills up and then everyone in the room drops down dead. Mr. Saxon then just sits there tapping that tune out again. That’s all we see for now.

Elsewhere, Martha takes the Doctor and Jack back to her home. There, the Doctor asks for a laptop so that he can look for information on Harold Saxon. Martha gets one out and gives it to him. Jack takes hold of it and shows the Doctor the Saxon website. While looking for it, Jack tries to ring some friends but there is no answer. Could it have something to do with Mr. Saxon? Martha tries to start figuring bits of it out and realises that he became Prime Minister four days after she met the Doctor. They went travelling all around the universe while he was on planet Earth the whole time. Oops!! Martha wants more information but the Doctor only tells her that he is a Time Lord. He says that she does not need to know anything else. While they are searching this laptop at home, a woman goes into Mr. Saxon’s office. Tish tries to stop her but she does not listen. She barges in and demands to talk to Mrs Saxon. She agrees to this but only because she is promised the front page of the newspaper. She gets rid of Tish and completely changes. No talk of the font page. She just says that Mrs. Saxon, the country and the entire world are in danger!!! Mrs. Saxon says that she doesn’t want to talk about it but the woman insists. Mrs. Saxon says that she has no idea what she is talking about but there is without doubt something that she is hiding. The woman says that everything about Mr. Saxon is a lie. She says that he never used to exist. His childhood…all made up. His years at university…all made up. Everyone seems to believe his story though because Martha tells the Doctor and Jack about all of his past achievements. She honestly believes that he has a whole life. The Doctor says that this is impossible because he could have only arrived on Earth about 18 months before them, tops!!

Back at the office with Mrs Saxon, she is starting to get nervous. She wants the woman to leave but she just does not stop. She is one of the only people to see through Mr. Saxon’s plan. She says that 18 months ago (when he first landed) he became real. She says that is was his first ever honest appearance. At the same time as this, they launched the Archangel network. Also, as soon as the first official meeting, the government go into seclusion. What she doesn’t know is that it is not seclusion…they are all dead!! The woman then goes on to beg Mrs. Saxon to tell her about Mr. Saxon. She goes to talk about something and then stops herself because she made her choice. No matter what he is like, she belongs with him and will not do anything to hurt him. At this exact point, the camera direction changes and we see Mr. Saxon stood in he room behind them listening to what is going on. When she notices him, she goes back to her old reporter ways and tells Mr. Saxon that she is on her way out. Before going, he tells her that she was right and that Mr. Saxon does not really exist so she asks who he is. He then replies ‘I am the Master!!!’ he then lifts his hands up and orbs appear. They are no ordinary orbs…no, they are living creatures that can kill. This is precisely what they do to the woman!! They open up, and produce cutting equipment and while they kill, he talks again about the coming drumming. Mr and Mrs. Saxon then go outside so that they cannot hear the screams. Mr. Saxon then opens the door slightly and she is still screaming. He does this a few times over and then stops because Mrs Saxon walks away. He then tells her that everything end tomorrow. Just what exactly could he mean by that???

Meanwhile, back at Martha’s house, Martha and Jack say that they were both going to vote for Mr. Saxon. This was before Martha met the Doctor though so she had no idea what he was like. The Doctor then asks why she was going to vote and she says because she liked him. They did not know what he stood for but there was a reason that they were going to vote for him. He sounded good! Like you could trust hi. While Martha is saying this, she starts tapping out that four tap beat on the side of the sofa. The Doctor stops her talking and asks why she is tapping. She says that it is nothing, just a tapping noise with no meaning at all. Suddenly, something appears on the laptop screen saying that Mr. Saxon is broadcasting to all channels. The Doctor turns on the TV and listens to what Mr. Saxon has to say. He talks about the creatures of other planets. The Slitheen crashing into Big Ben, The Army of Ghosts all over the world, the Cybermen, and the Racnoss Empress in the Christmas Star. Mr. Saxon says that the government said nothing to the public about it but he wants to be different. He wants to introduce a new species into the World!! The little orbs that killed the woman earlier. He wants to bring dangerous creatures into the World!! They do not sound evil on the screen though, they sound sweet, like they want to make peace. What has Harold Saxon got up his sleeve? What are the Toclafane that he wants to introduce? Is Toclafane even a real species??

Mr. Saxon goes on to explain that they are going to be introduced to the world the following morning. He says that ‘tomorrow we take our place in the world. Every man, woman and child. Every teacher, and chemist, and lorry driver and farmer. I don’t know…every Medical Student!!’ Immediately, the Doctor then turns to look at Martha because of what she is…A Medical Student!! The Doctor then turns the TV around and finds a device attached to the back of it. A device set to explode any minute. They run out of the house just before it blows up!! The whole of the upstairs goes up in flames and it blows the three of them across the street. Martha then picks up her phone and then rings to see if her family are safe. She thinks that if Mr. Saxon knows about her, they might know about her family. Luckily, her mum picks up but there is a woman in the room with her. The same woman that has been with her throughout the series. Her mum tells her that she should go round because there is something that they need to talk about. She makes up that she is getting back together with Martha’s father but Martha is not convinced. Martha then speaks to her dad and asks him if anyone else is there. He tries not to tell her but then suddenly does! He gets up from his chair and goes to run out of the house! He also tells Martha to run and save herself too. Unfortunately, the people in the house grab him and pin him against the wall. He then gets dragged off and Martha puts the phone down and goes to try and help them. She gets in the car and the three of them go off to Martha’s parents’ house. The Doctor tells her not to but she does not listen. Her family are the most important thing to her…even if it does mean risking her own life and the Doctor’s and Jack’s!

The woman at the house with Mrs. Jones grabs hold of her too and throws her in a van with Mr. Jones. She rings Tish to tell her to be careful but she is too busy to listen to the conversation. They hang up and Martha arrives at her parent’s house just as they are being put into the van. She just sits there staring because she is so scared. Martha’s mum tells her to get out while she still can and so does the Doctor. She does not listen straight away but when the Doctor shouts it, she reverses as quickly as she can away from that area. The car gets shot a few times on the way but they still manage to escape…just!! After getting out of the car, Martha rings up Leo and checks that he is ok. He tells her that he is in Brighton and has been watching Mr. Saxon on TV. Martha is not interested in what he has to say, she only wants to tell him not to go home because it is not safe. She tells him not to phone any of the family, just to hide! What Martha does not know is that Mr. Saxon is listening into their conversation. Half way through, he interrupts and joins in with the conversation. He then adds in that he will find Martha and she can hide no where because he will always find her!! Martha then uses Mr. Saxon’s name so the Doctor can hear and he immediately takes the phone off of her so that he can talk to his old Time Lord friend. When the Doctor speaks, Mr. Saxon seems surprised. He picks up his phone and they have a proper conversation. Mr. Saxon calls the Doctor ‘Doctor’ and the Doctor calls Mr. Saxon ‘Master’. He says that he likes it when he is called that and the Doctor comes in with ‘you chose it’. Mr. Saxon then says that the Doctor chose his name because he wanted to be the man who could save everything. The man who makes everything better. That part of the conversation comes to an end and they start talking about him being the Prime Minister. The Doctor wants to know what the creatures are that he is introducing to the World. He says that the Toclafane is just a made up name and it doesn’t mean anything. Mr. Saxon then starts talking about Gallifrey. He asks where he can find it but the Doctor tells him that it is gone. He doesn’t seem to believe it though. He thinks that Gallifrey is still out there somewhere but the Doctor will not tell him where. He then tells him that the Time Lords all died in the Time War and Gallifrey burnt. Mr. Saxon says that he ran when the Dalek Emperor arrived because he was so scared. He made himself human so that they would never find him. He was terrified. The Doctor also says that he was the only one who could end it and he tried but he could not save the Time Lords or the Planet. Mr. Saxon then changed back to nasty again and asks him how he felt having killed all of those Daleks and destroying Gallifrey. The Doctor manages to stop him and tells him that the two of them can go off together and leave the planet. Mr. Saxon declines because it is too late. When the Doctor asks him what he means, he says that it’s the drumming. The sound of drums getting nearer and nearer. The Doctor says that he can help but he refuses. He then whispers down the phone ‘hear come the drums. Hear come the drums’ and suddenly a man in the street with the Doctor starts tapping his legs in the drumming tune. The Doctor demands to know about all of this but Mr. Saxon refuses to answer. While this is happening, we see the Doctor, Martha and Jack on TV as terrorists!! What has Mr. Saxon done and how can it be stopped?? Then, the Doctor turns around and sees that Mr. Saxon is watching them on camera. While he is doing this, he tells him to tell Jack that he cannot get hold of his friends because they were sent away to the Himalayas . The Doctor then destroys the camera so that Mr. Saxon cannot see them any more. Before hanging up, Mr. Saxon tells them to run. Run for their lives!

The Doctor then tells Martha and Jack that Mr. Saxon has control of everything and when they ask when they should do, he just says to run!!! After they have run, we go back to Mr. Saxon’s office. He is there with the orb creatures who are telling him that they must escape because the never ending darkness is coming! At 8oclock the next morning, his plan will come into action. Later on that evening, we see the Doctor, Martha and Jack sat out in the road. Martha has come back from getting food and the Doctor and Jack are still working on the laptop. The Doctor says that her whole family have been taken in except for Leo. He and Martha are the only ones safe…so far. They get talking about families and it brings up the evil Time Lord Master. They ask if he is related to the Doctor but he says that they were just friends along time ago. He gets talking about Gallifrey and how beautiful his home planet was. ‘The shining world of the solar system!!’ on his planet, there were beautiful suns and amazing people there. The children of Gallifrey. At the age of 8, Mr. Saxon, the Master, was taken away and saw all of eternity. He was taken for initiation. He stood in front of the untempered schism, a gap in the fabric of reality, through which he saw the whole of the Vortex. At 8 years old, he stared at the raw power of the vortex. Some would have been inspired, some would have run away…and some would go mad. Exactly what happened to the Master. The Doctor was one of the ones who ran away and never stopped!

Jack then says that since they are telling stories, it’s time that he told his. He opens up a window on the laptop and Torchwood appears. The Doctor is furious at this because of all the damage it did in the past. Jack tries to reassure him that it is a different Torchwood, created in the Doctor’s honour!! The Doctor opens the file and sees the woman who was questioning Mrs. Saxon on screen. She is there talking about Mr. Saxon! She tells them to look at the Archangel document because that is where it all started. When Harry Saxon became Minister in charge of launching the Archangel Network. The Doctor has no idea what it is but Martha says that she has it on her phone. She tells him that everyone has got it!! He looks at her phone and scans it with his Sonic Screwdriver. After doing this, he realises that Mr. Saxon is a hypnotist!! The phone then starts beeping in the 4 beat drumming pattern!! He is doing it to get people to people to vote for him and believe in him. It is a lot more powerful and a lot more discrete than mind control. A noise way down deep in the subconscious mind. That’s how he has power over everything!! That’s how he hid himself from the Doctor!! There is no way to stop it from down on Planet Earth but there is something that they can do now they know how he’s doing it. Straight away, the Doctor gets to work! He takes apart the laptop, takes the Tardis keys and fixes together some other parts that he has. Eventually, his creation is ready. 3 Tardis keys with pieces of the Tardis as part of them, doesn’t seem like anything special but they work brilliantly!! The Doctor tells Martha to look at him and she can see him perfectly clearly. But…when he puts the key around his neck, he goes out of focus. She knows that he is there but it is like she doesn’t want to know. It shifts the perception a tiny little bit but enough to stop Mr. Saxon noticing them. It doesn’t make them invisible, just unnoticed. ‘It’s like you fancy someone and they don’t even know you exist’!! The Doctor says. I think he’s trying to hint something to Martha there, don’t you? After he has said this and run off, Jack pops in with ‘you two, huh? And Martha just looks quite baffled.

As they are walking, the Doctor tells them that they must not draw attention to themselves or otherwise the spell is broken. They must keep to the shadows and stay unnoticed. They manage to walk through a crowd of people unnoticed and that’s all we see for now. Next, we see the news showing ‘countdown to contact’ for the new species that the Prime Minister wants to bring in. It says about the President from the United States arriving and then we go straight there. He tells Mr. Saxon that they will stand down and he will take control because the rules and protocols have just been ignored. UNIT will now be in charge of the new species arrival. To try and change the subject, Mr. Saxon introduces his wife but the President does not seem interested. He just says that he can be removed as Prime Minister if he is not very, very careful. Mr. Saxon then puts his finger to his lip and pretends to zip his mouth up. When the President starts talking about the ‘Toclafane’, Mr. Saxon unzips his mouth and carries on the conversation. Unfortunately, the whole thing will be televised!! Not very good for the Earth! After the President leaves, Mr. Saxon looks over to a corner of where they are and sees the Doctor, Martha and Jack there. They do not go out of focus though! Is this part of the camera shot or has the spell not worked on him?

Mr. Saxon goes to leave but stops when a police van shows up. The police van carrying Martha’s family!! Martha goes to move and save them but the Doctor stops her because of the perception filter. Jack says that he would love to walk up behind him and break Mr. Saxon’s neck but the Doctor says that it sounds like the old Torchwood. Because he is a Time Lord, the Doctor says that he is his responsibility. He is not here to kill him; he is here to save him! They realise that they need to get on board the ship and the only way to do it is to teleport on. Jack’s device works as a teleport so they all grab on and end up on the ship. The difference between this and a normal ship is that this one is protecting Earth from the sky…not across the sea. Mr. Saxon is already on board and he is there talking to people there in a sarcastic manner. After they walk away, Mr. Saxon tells his wife about the designing of the ship. Next, we go back to the Doctor, Martha and Jack, the Doctor suddenly stops and asks the others if they can hear anything. They say that they cannot hear it but Martha is not interested in what he can hear. She just wants to find her family. She wanders off in one direction but the Doctor starts to go another so she ends up following him. They run along a corridor and into a small room. And you’ll never believe what was in there!! The Tardis!!! They run over to it and go inside. Unfortunately, it has all been changed!! It’s all red in colour and he has cannibalised the Tardis!!! It’s a paradox machine!!

This is all we see here and then we go back to Mr. Saxon and the President. He is rushing around trying to make sure that everything goes smoothly but Mr. Saxon doesn’t seem too bothered. He is just sat there offering his wife jelly babies!! Back with the Tardis, the Doctor has to figure out how to save the Tardis before it’s too late. Martha and Jack are more concerned with stopping the Master taking over the universe but the Doctor does not seem too worried. He then blurts out, with ‘I have a way. Ooh, sorry, didn’t I mention it?’ then we go back to Mr. Saxon again and the President. He is stood there making a speech about introducing the new species and how lucky they are that a kind species wants to share the plant. What a silly man…if only he knew what was really going to happen. Mr. Saxon just sits there again and watches it all happen. Once the species arrive, they say that they want to talk only to Mr. Saxon. The Doctor, Martha and Jack walk into the room and the Doctor explains his plan. It is to get the key around Mr. Saxon’s neck so that he can o unnoticed while the Doctor saves the world. He says that it is hard to do though while the room is on Red Alert. When the new species ask to speak to Mr. Saxon, he stands up and goes over towards them. This means that the Doctor cannot get to Mr. Saxon any more. Uh-oh!! When he stands up to talk to the Toclafane creatures, the President tries to stop him. He says that he is not in charge of the operation and orders him to stand down. He refuses and tells the new species to kill him!! One of the creatures fly’s forwards and gets out its mechanical instruments that it used to kill the woman earlier. It then shoots a laser out at the President and he drops down to the floor. Dead. After this happens, Mr. Saxon’s guards get their guns out of their pockets and go to shoot the people in the room. Martha and Jack cling onto each other tightly in the corner and try to keep out of the way. Mr. Saxon laughs hysterically and makes an announcement on the TV. ‘Peoples of the earth, please attend carefully!’

As he says this, the Doctor takes the key off from around his neck and jumps forwards to try and stop Mr. Saxon. The guards grab him and Mr. Saxon is glad that he was there to witness the Earth’s destruction. He also talks about the perception filter. He says that it does not work on him! It did not work when they were in the car park and it isn’t working now because he can see Martha and Jack in the corner. Jack then runs forwards to try and stop him but Mr. Saxon kills him with his laser screwdriver!! He also knows about the immortality because he says ‘and the good thing is, he’s not dead for long. I get to kill him again!!’ The Doctor tells him to think about what he is doing and tells him to rethink it. He decides not to listen to him and walks down the stairs towards him. The guards let him go and he falls to the floor at the Master’s feet. The Doctor offers to help him with the sound in his head but again, he refuses to listen. Mr. Saxon wants to shut him up so he takes a trip down Memory Lane . He talks about the genetic manipulation device of Professor Lazarus’s. He says that the only reason Tish got a job there was because he was laying traps for the Doctor. After this, he says that he wants to harm the Doctor seriously so he mentions that all of that energy from the machine has been transferred into his screwdriver. Because he has his hand, he has his biological code so he can use it to age the Doctor. 100 years!! While this is happening, Jack wakes up and tries to get Martha to leave. She refuses and before they get time to talk anymore, the Doctor has been transformed and their conversation stops. Martha rushes over to him to see if he is ok but she goes to leave because her family have been brought in. he stands up and looks at them carefully and then goes back to the Doctor. The Doctor then asks Mr. Saxon if he will tell him what the Toclafane really are but he says that his hearts would break if he knew the truth! Their conversation stops here because the creatures ask if their machine is ready. Mr. Saxon tells them that all is ready to happen and then stands up to talk into the TV again. This time though, he says: ‘Umm…Well, basically. End of the world!!’ He then holds up his laser screwdriver, shouts ‘here come the drums’ and the orb creatures otherwise known as the Toclafane, descend upon the Earth!! As this is happening, music begins to play saying ‘here come the drums here come the drums!!’ the Tardis starts smoking and a great hole rips open from the sky. This is where the Toclafane come from. 6 billion Toclafane descending upon the Earth ready to cause total destruction!! As they reach the Earth, they start shooting their lasers at the people down there. Mr. Saxon then tells the creatures to remove one tenth of the population!! At this point, one tenth of the population get killed!! While this is happening, the Doctor lets go of a sobbing Martha and looks at her as if she should know what to do next. She takes hold of Jack’s teleportation device and transports herself out. She lands in the middle of the city and says to herself that after she has stopped everything, she is going back for the Doctor!! After this, we go back to Mr Saxon and the Doctor. He and his wife have hold of him and Mr. Saxon is talking about his new dominion and how good he thinks it is!! That’s it until next week. Will Martha Jones save the day? Or will the Doctor fall at the hands of his Master? The Final Part Continues next week!!

Episode Rating: Well, its hard how to sum up this episode because I really enjoyed it. The story line was fantastic, the acting was brilliant but I thought it was too over the top!! The music was unnecessarily loud and the way that the Doctor was aged was slightly pathetic. You are supposed to despise Mr. Saxon because of his plan to take over the world but you can’t help loving him because he is so funny. The Doctor does not think of Martha enough and continually shouts at her. This episode would have got an eight or a nine for excitement and emotion but it goes down to a six because of how irrelevant some of it seemed. Let’s hope the finale can beat this dreadful score. The lowest I have given any episode. Overall rating: 6/10

Name: Julie Bayman | Age: 52 

 “The Master” is posing as Harold Saxon the Prime minister, he is an evil Time Lord so now it is up to the Doctor to try and save him.  Good Time Lord v bad Time Lord.  In this episode we are given a few flash backs and an explanation into how the Master became evil for those who do not, or are not old enough to remember him from the old series.  He has left the Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack, stranded at the end of the universe and he has returned to Earth in the TARDIS and is plotting an invasion of aliens called the Toclafarne. The Toclafarne are floating sphere shaped creatures and they are waiting in the wings to take over the world with the Master in charge.

The Doctor manages to fix Captain Jacks vortex tracker thing on his wrist and they are able to teleport themselves back to Earth. Martha discovers that all her family except her brother who is in Brighton, have been taken prisoner and she, The Doctor and Jack just manage to escape from her flat before it is blown up.  They have to hide, so the Doctor makes TARDIS keys, which they wear round their necks and this semi hides them from view, the Master however knows that they are there.  He seems to be one step ahead of the Doctor all the time.  They eventually find the TARDIS only to discover that it has been turned into a Paradox machine; it’s not explained what that is, the Doctor and Jack know but unfortunately the Doctor can’t fix it.

At the end the master turns the Doctor into a very old man and it is left to Martha to teleport herself away and try to save the day.  We will find out what happens next week.  This episode was very exciting and as usual D.T.’s acting was excellent, the shocked look on his face when he saw the Master, the way he pleaded with him when they talked about Gallifrey and of course he didn’t want to kill him he wanted to help him.  John Simm plays the evil Time Lord wonderfully, funny at times but also quite sinister.  Martha was left out in the cold a bit here, but she will make up for it next week I’msure, she will be back to help her family, the Doctor and Jack.  Wonderful writing from R.T.D.
Marks: very exciting 9/10.