Synopsis
He's Back... And It's About Time!
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
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Pros:
Paul McGann
Paul McGann
Paul McGann
Paul McGann
Paul McGann
The Soundtrack
Paul McGann
Cons:
There's not a lot of Paul McGann after this movie.
Paul McGann
Eric Roberts leaps into the air, his oversized costume barely staying together, and opens his mouth to release a stock Lion roaring sound effect.
Instant 5-stars?
“babe, come back to bed 🙄 you’re not the master from doctor who”
“i need the doctor’s body 👿👹🐍”
yeah all the nuwho regeneration scenes are iconic and uber cinematic but will anything beat seven regenerating into eight being intercut with footage of the “it’s alive” scene from frankenstein
the tardis, to the doctor in the doctor's wife: i always took you where you needed to go
the tardis, in doctor who (1996): brings the doctor somewhere where he steps outside & immediately gets shot & dies
This movie is the worst and by the worst I mean THE BEST. They got the hammiest American soap actor they could find to play the Master and the Doctor's companion is an incredibly transparent Dana Scully expy. The plot is nonsensical and quasi-canonical, the special effects are 90s-hilarious, and the whole thing is generally abhorred and ignored by the fandom at large, but I absolutely love it. It's joyful and irreverent and ridiculous and terrible and failed spectacularly at what it was meant to achieve (becoming a backdoor pilot for an American revival of Doctor Who), but as it stands it's a masterpiece of cheesy, guilty-pleasure, turn-of-the-millennium science fiction cinema.
Am I ever going to get over the fact that Paul McGann, who was given a messy script and still managed to be a fantastic Doctor, was only given one movie and a too short mini-episode? Not likely.
Lying in bed on a Sunday morning watching this started my day off brilliantly.
Standard plot whereby the Doctor has a defined time to save everything.
I think McGann was sold short by only being the Time Lord once as he is quite good.
Life is wasted on the living.
The list of the Master's powers in this movie:
1: The power source of the most powerful time-ship in the universe, that if left open it will nuke all of existence in all possible universes.
2: Being the most powerful hypnotist in the universe, able to force you to do anything he desires and will make you kill whoever he wishes.
3: Unlimited Nickelodeon slime.