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4 June 2024
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Last of the Time Lords is a pretty serious let-down after all the excitement and energy of Utopia and the Sound of Drums. Martha running around the world spreading the word of the Doctor and turning him into some sort of psychic messiah through the Master's technology is impressive as a feat for her character, but still a little underwhelming. It's always annoyed me that Martha is a medical doctor who never really gets to show off her very useful profession over the course of Series 3. It's disappointing, as is the way this episode kind of just erases everything from the Master's rule over Earth. It makes the story feel a little cheap.
Speaking of cheap, the Doctor does not look good in this episode. A lot of those effects just don't look that great to me. John Simm was fun collapsing in on himself by the end of the episode and has a great reveal here with the Toclafane, but the larger episode feels a little awkwardly acted overall and it really doesn't hold up as a finale that well at all. It's not terrible or unwatchable, but definitely a bit of a missed opportunity as up until this point, we had a really strong string of episodes and Last of the Time Lords really could have capped everything off nicely.
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