YMMV / Doctor Who S29 E12 "The Sound of Drums"

• Crosses the Line Twice: The Master gassing the entire cabinet to death? Creepy and a tad bit scary. The fact that he did so after insulting them all in an over-the-top way, and one of them calling him insane, only for him to respond with a grin and double thumbs up? Black Comedy.
• Epileptic Trees: While Winters' being referred to as the "President-Elect of the United States" was just a goof on the part of Russell T Davies, the fact that almost all of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors' eras canonically take place a year or so after their actual airdates has resulted in some fans theorizing (mostly jokingly) that the episode takes place just after the 2008 Presidential Election, and that the outgoing George W. Bush saw what an idiot Winters was and allowed him to meet the Toclafane on his behalf in the hope that Winters would do something stupid, get himself killed, and allow his younger and more capable running-mate — a certain Barack Obama — to instead become the next President.
• Fanfic Fuel: The rest of the Torchwood cast's wild goose chase in the Himalayas. Perhaps they encountered yeti?
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In the episode, the fact that a previously obscure politician could set up a new party and then come to power via a Landslide Election is treated as something so absurdly improbable that it implies that "Saxon" has somehow been manipulating the UK population. Almost exactly a decade later, Emmanual Macron did exactly that, becoming President of France as head of a new party and off the back of a comparatively short political career.^note (In Macron's case, the explanation was far more mundane; the initial favourite, Francois Fillon's chances were destroyed when it emerged that he and his wife had previously been embezzling the government, and Marine Le Pen, who had the most support after Fillon and Macron, was considered to be too extreme right-wing to have any chance of being elected)
  • Martha asking the Doctor if both he and the Master are siblings ended being more funny as both Ten and the next incarnation of the Master played siblings in DuckTales (2017).
• Ho Yay: When the Doctor addresses the Master by his title, the latter literally moans in pleasure.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The Master gives two thumbs up!
  • Rat-tat-tat-tat, Rat-tat-tat-tat...Try getting it out of your head after the fact.
  • The Master's gassing of the Cabinet Ministers is one whole meme.

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