80's Master trilogy vs. new Master trilogy

[Chris227]

Any thoughts on how they stack up against each other? Obviously the latter has better production values, but it's interesting to compare them.


In both Keeper of Traaken and Utopia, we're introduced to an incarnation of the Master who initially seems like someone else, although Yana is obviously more benevolent than the Melkur. This would also feature the only time a particular actor would play the Master on-screen, although both Beevers and Jacobi have contributed somewhat to the audio line as versions of the Master. At the end of both, the Master regenerates into a new body, and the episode ends on a cliffhanger.

In both Logopolis and Sound of Drums, the Doctor is led on sort of a chase for the Master only for him to get the upper hand. The Master 'wins' in both, sort of.

In Castrovalva/Last of the Time Lords, the Doctor spends most of the serial in mainly a weakened state but eventually triumphs at the end, of course, with the Master apparentally dead....but probably not.

 

[Garth Rockett]

There are some interesting parallels. I'd argue that The Keeper of Traken doesn't truly end on a cliffhanger, however.

Also, both trilogies have the Master disguised as a government official of sorts, although in the 80's it was the third part (Castrovalva, as the Portreeve) and in the new series, it was the second part (Sound of Drums).