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There's an old science fiction trope about time travel, that only *one* species at a time may possess it, since another group of time travelers will simple go back in time and wipe out the first group.

Eventually, there can be only one.

R. T. Davies actually proposes a new wrinkle to this idea: if you can't travel to the Past and defeat the Time Lords, you can travel to the Future end of time and extinguish all they had hoped to create, or preserve.

Fortunately Davies shunts less of Part Two's script into risible action scenes (jumping out of a flying vehicle, through a skylight, and onto a marble floor? With no broken bones? Phwa) instead of the Last Time War he created for the Ninth Doctor. Timothy Dalton's Rassilon (think of the phrase, "Alt-Right Time Lord") Is a treat; it's too bad Davies is so intent on tearing down Time Lords, instead of addressing issues like war, the Spenglerian life-cycle of Culture, and mortality.

I was also amused at how Sinêad Keenan's blue eyes stood out in the green Vinvocci make-up. I don't normally notice eye color, but the combination was quite striking.

"Not if President Obama ends the recession tonight!"

"Here, on Christmas Day, the President has promised an instant and radical solution to the world-wide depression. Barack Obama will lead us all into a new age of prosperity!"

*gag* Though hilarious in retrospect. But I must ask, was writer Davies subtly critiquing Obama (or his drooling fangirls)? Naismith, a black man, extols Obama's coming White House presser to the Master: "You might want to see this, sir. Proof that the human race can mend its own problems." Risible, considering that these humans are hijacking alien technology only with the secret help of two different alien species.

This show matches the plot holes usual to Doctor Who with superior special effects, but this episode is largely prologue to the superior Part Two.

Is this a perfect movie? No. But is a great whatever-it-is.

Ghost stories are all about memory. (Just as zombie flicks are about death, Frankenstein is about overreaching man/science, vampires are about gluttony (sexual and otherwise), and werewolves about our animal drives.) This is an awesome ghost story. I enjoyed it immensely. I hope Monika Treut has another one in her.

We see the German writer haunted by the memory of her deceased lover, even as another woman (seems) to take her place. In reality, the restless Asian spirit is simply sought by the German lady simply to place her to rest.

"Dream Boy" was a gay (male), Southern ghost story. "Ghosted" is a Euro-Chinese lesbian version. They both rock, and I enjoyed them both immensely.