14. Turning Your Head Back And Forth Quickly Means You're Becoming The Master
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UszT_L4QWII The End of Time two part special contains much that is quintessentially Doctor Who, but it also features some pretty terrible stuff, too. Stuff, such as the Master turning into a flying, translucent skeleton, that's so God damn awful that it's positively bizarre in its badness. Topping that, though, the story also has the human population of the Earth turning into duplicates of John Simm. Just 'cause. This mass transformation starts out well with waves of energy blasting round the Earth. Then the focus switches to individual people, whose heads begin to turn from side to side in a blur of motion, for some unknown reason. After a bit of this oddness, they each turn into a grinning copy of the Master. But it's not just each person's head that's being converted, is it? It's the victim's entire body that's changing. Logically, the whole body should shake. The logical flaw wouldn't matter if the effect was cool, but actually the effect is disastrous. So there you go.
Mike Morgan
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Mike has lived in the UK, Japan and the USA. Currently, he is based in Iowa with his wife and 2 young children. After working for many years as a writer and editor for a large corporation, he is now a freelancer. He has been fortunate enough to contribute to many books on Doctor Who over the last 20 years and is now concentrating on original sci-fi & fantasy short stories, with recent sales including Flame Tree, Uffda, and The Martian Wave. Also, look for his contribution on Blake's 7 to "You and Who Else", a charity anthology to be released later this year.
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