70s Master is the BEST.

[Has made repairs to Three's TARDIS, tries to get it going, and the TARDIS control panel promptly explodes in his face.]

The Master: Might as well try to fly a stinking gas stove! [smacks the console]

He's so awesome! <3 <3 <3

ETA: Another brilliant line. He's going to channel a nuclear surge through the TARDIS into the belly of an organic alien ship hell-bent on consuming the life on Earth. Someone asks if there's anything else they can do.

The Master: Oh, nothing very much. Oh! I suppose you *could* take the normal precautions against a nuclear blast, like, uh, sticky tape on the windows and that sort of thing.

He does the perfect arrogant nostril-tick as he delivers that line, too. Fucking *brilliant* *laughs*

Third Doctor waffling.

I'm just watching "Claw of the Axons", the third part. The Doctor just pulled Jo up off the floor. She is, of course, wearing a cute little A-line skirt, which we got a very good shot of from the floor. Yes, upskirt. The fanservice of the 70s.

Third Doctor: Colony In Space...

Awesome quotes:

Mining Dude: Are you some kind of scientist?
Doctor: I'm *every* kind of scientist.

The Blues

TW: Descriptions of violent deaths of African American people in the days of Slavery.

I love singing, I love the Blues. I admire Billie Holliday so damned much. But this song... the expression she shows. I understand there are some songs I will never sing, and that there is a spirit in the Blues that I couldn't know. I can sing about my troubles, but they aren't a thing on these troubles here.

The horror and grief in her expression says more to me than words ever could. Oh Billie, God bless you for having the strength to sing about it, and to hear applause after you have opened yourself to share such a thing.

(Seriously, am I the only one that is a bit thrown by the bold applause? Sure, she was at a performance on TV, but it's like clapping at a funeral to me).