Who dares wins

[ffutures]

Thought I'd take another look at my post a few days ago and see how good I am at predicting the outcome of things. Not 100%, unfortunately, but I did get a few things right.

Everything "Saxon" has done has obviously created an enormous time paradox which is what the revamped Tardis has been holding back; when Martha somehow gets to the Tardis and switches the thing off before the moment the globes appeared the time paradox dragons from Father's Day will arrive to erase everything. Starting with the UNIT helicarrier, no doubt...

Right about the paradox, wromg that it would be Martha and that the dragons would appear. And why didn't the Valiant return to its pre-Master condition.

I think that the Time Lords created this mess, using The Master to re-create their world on Earth. Why Earth? Because it is obviously the galactic equivalent of a Hellmouth, somewhere where the laws of space and time have got a bit flimsy, largely thanks to the Doctor.

Could still be right about this, there's really nothing to say that the Master wasn't obeyink orders. He may have been rather creative in his interpretation of them, of course...

I think that Saxon's wife is the real power behind the throne, something old and evil which has programmed The Master and inserted itself into the timeline in the 1950s to create her. Wild guess - what was around in the 1950s? The Test Card / TV thingy that ate people's faces!

OK, probably not that, but I think she's possibly another Time Lord, The Doctor never encountered her alone so it's possible that his senses didn't detect her. If the Time Lords were using brainwashed people to save their past I think she might be The Ranee. Or Romana, as someone else has already suggested. Or a half-human hybrid programmed to reproduce the Time Lord race.

Apparently not, just batshit crazy from seeing the end of time. Unless the Master's Horcrux, or whatever the ring is, turns her into him or something.

I didn't spot the mass-telepathy thing or yet another Promethea rip-off coming at all, which I think isn't unreasonable considering that they never said it was two-way. For some reason I didn't say anything about the true nature of the Troclophane, but I think I would have been wrong - can't quite remember what I guessed. And the Face of Boe thing destroys all dramatic tension re Captain Jack's survival in Torchwood, so let's hope it isn't true.



Oh, and if I haven't recced this before

http://www.slum.slashcity.com/lum/eyecandy/#multi

Luminosity's Sci-fi Friday (in a blender), a lovely multiversal fan video. And lots of other excellent vids.

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

SOMEONE picked up the Master's Ring, and I'm guessing the Rani.

And, hey, she COULD have been the Rani. There's the watch thingies...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think it was Lucy - for some reason she still loves him.

[lulucthulhu.livejournal.com]

The Pook thinks that it is Lucy.
Both she and the hand that picked up the ring had scarlet nails.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Yes, but who is Lucy ;)

So, how'd the Evil Overlord thing work out for him, in the end?

[dsample.livejournal.com]

Off the top of my head, he made a couple of mistakes:

1) Getting massages from someone other than his trusted lieutenant while the trusted lieutenant was watching. Makes the trusted lieutenant wonder about her job security.

2) The big one of course was the [b]digital countdown timer![/b].

Re: So, how'd the Evil Overlord thing work out for him, in the end?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yes, I thought that was a bit over-done too. Even without the "clap hands if you believe in the Doctor" plan someone was bound to have some sort of rebellion organised for zero hour.

[vitruvian23.livejournal.com]

The Valiant doesn't revert to its (presumably not built) condition before the Master arrived in the 21st century because the paradox only started at and the rewind only went back to the point at which the 'Toclafane' came back to our time en masse. Everything else the Master did up until that point, up to and including designing Archangel and the Valiant, winning the election as Harold Saxon, and assassinating the President of the United States, still happened. Then he's shot by his wife, refuses to regenerate, and both the UK and US need new leaders.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

More or less plausible, I suppose.