I Love Lucy

[jmatonak]

I really do. It's wrong love, wicked love, and not the kind of wicked that just makes you feel pleasantly naughty. I really think I'm a bad person for it. But I love Lucy Saxon.

I should take pains to point out that there are, as we know, many possible interpretations of the Lucy character, a Time Lord's worth of incarnations we make of her. The televised stories don't tell us much of anything about her motivations. So I should specify that the Lucy I love is, first and foremost, a willing accomplice. I'd like to believe that she's in on the Master's jokes from beginning to end.

She joined with everyone and invoked the Doctor- after it had already become plain that train had sailed. She shot her beloved Harry in the heart- one of two, after he asked Francine to do it, and bearing in mind that Time Lords are extremely durable when they want to be. She seemed a little out of it, and not entirely happy- but the Master himself wasn't having as much fun this week. (They say your first Doctor is always your favorite, you see, and this interpretation was my first Lucy.)

"It's always the women."
"I didn't see her."

I don't believe the Master, or the pair of them, worked out elaborate contingency plans in advance. But I know Time Lords are low-level telepaths, and I know the Master wasn't doing much fighting of the Doctor directly during the invocation. I suspect his attention may have been elsewhere. And all this would require some quick thinking from Lucy, but any girl I love is going to be quick on the uptake.

And it looks like the relationship between my love and the Master is going to last. He did give her a ring, I believe.

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A bunch of other stuff happened, some of it very slashy. I certainly don't dislike the episode as a whole. I'm pleased the Toclafane tied up the loose end from Utopia. And Jack's fate makes me say, "whatever". But unless someone else wants to provoke something, I have nothing to say about any of that.



Martha, you're all right. Sadly, my heart belongs to another. Vaya con dios.