User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4029158-20130210215122/@comment-188432-20130211172047

And you've totally — I mean totally — missed the narrative point of the scene. I don't know how you've missed it, since RTD goes to incredibly great pains to make it, and Euros Lyn delivers it in the clearest cinematic language possible. But you've missed the central point that the link is broken because the mysterious woman indicates that the Doctor should shoot the machine, not the Master. That is what breaks the link. It's the Doctor who sends Gallifrey back. The Master's act is to prevent Rassilon from killing Ten with the gauntlet.