It's here that any resemblance to coherent plotting goes right out of the window with the resurrection of the Master by the Governor (looking very much like Prisoner Cell Block H's Erica Davidson but minus the Lady Penelope posh accent) and the officers of Broadfell, including a Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson lookalike in Miss Trefusis. The problem is that for a great deal of screen time a lot of this is lost amongst long scenes of exposition set on the Ood Sphere (which simply serves to recap the story of The Last Of The Time Lords), lots of scenes of David Tennant and John Simm running, and an extremely silly Harry Potter meets Prisoner Cell Block H convergence with the scenes set in the women's prison. It sees the resurrection of the Master, rampant with narcissistic greed and acquisition, billionaire Naismith's 'Fighting The Future' post Torchwood manifesto realised as a home grown capitalism ('the king is in his counting house') with a multinational reach to acquire alien technology and a Time Lord army striking out in a "victory for Gallifrey" frontal assault on its intended targets who are a weak and divided Doctor and Wilf and a united and insurgent world of Masters. The story's framing narration by Time Lord President Dalton is an attempt to once again place the events in the story on a global, nay this time, (Who)niversal scale. Heavy handed religious symbolism isn't one of RTD's strengths and he's quite unfocused here struggling to articulate the bigger ideas about the Far Right's rise to power and our worries about the political direction the world has taken about war and peace, about the respect for liberty and diversity, and on the equitable development of nations. The well used, post 2005 theme of faith in the Doctor is seeded into the story right at the beginning when Wilf enters the church and is told the story of the 'sainted physician' coming to Earth and 'smoting the demon'. There's also a strange tone to the whole episode, suffused as it is with a religio-political theme, telling the tale of the rise of an Aryan Time Lord and his fascist monoculture, a suggestion of some kind of Holy war in heaven between the Doctor and the Master and then the emergence of a reactionary, equally right wing, High Council of Gallifrey.
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