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Though I love the mystique of the Time Lords, the ridiculous Council scene that opens "The End of Time, Part Two" proved to me, without reservation, that they were better off dead.
That scene wasn't exactly characteristic of the Time Lords overall, just Rassilon's megalomania and the others just shitting their robes over the fact that they're all about to die. In actuality, had he not been there, it would have been as interesting as grass growing. So not so much better off dead as largely ignored.
At any rate, it seems that only the most famouses of Time Lords (the ones we know by name) tend to get any real character. Those are the ones I'd really like to see.
I do hope the rumors about the Dreamlord possibly being the Valeyard are true, as that would be very intriguing. And what's this 'Idris' thing I'm hearing about?
Also I have to wonder what would happen if one of the Many Masters that were teplated across earth were to find a way to make the change permanent, that could be another way for him to bring it all back using him like Rassilon used the master in the EOT.
As I don't really like Simm's take on the Master (and I don't think he'd play well off of Smith's Doctor), I think one interesting angle to play on your theory would be to have a remnant of the Master's consciousness remaining inside all of humanity, with any number of crazy ideas that could result from that. A version of the Master could be resurrected without having Simm's "Evil Tennant" return.
I didn't care for Simm's portrayal of the Master either. They should've kept Derek Jacobi he was awesome for the five minutes he had. Obviously they were going for a "young evil version of the Doctor" though. I could stand him in his first appearance but he was so outrageously over the top in "End of Time" it was just ridiculous.
Granted, I'm fairly new with the whoverse and all, but I gathered pretty quickly that 1) time doesn't really matter all that much to these people. 2) Death doesn't really matter all that much to them. 3) The Time War was a convoluted mess of time travel, so twisted that it collapsed in on itself into a huge, tangled paradox. The Doctor talked about battles fought countless times, being reverse, and counter reversed, I'd be shocked if there weren't a half dozen Rassilons walking around at any given point in time.
Well, not shocked, actually disappointed that the writers didn't have the vision to portray something as FUBAR as a war across time. It's quite a liberating concept actually. You could have real fun with things if you tried.
Actually, I think part of the problem with Simm's Master was that he was too similar to Tennant's Doctor. I think Simm would be a lot more fun to watch contrasting against a somewhat less manic Matt Smith Doctor.
When the Time Lords reappeared briefly in "The End of Time Part I" I was excited and my mind raced with possibilities. In fact I speculated wrongly that this was RTD kind of paving the way for Moffat and that maybe he was restoring Gallifrey and the Time Lords as per Steven's request for series five and the Time Lord's would play a reoccurring role on the show. Alas was I wrong lol.
I suspected the same thing. So many other things seemed to be changing over during the transition from Tennant to Smith & RTD to Moffat. I wondered if perhaps the "last of the Time Lords" concept would be one of them. It would have been a helluva way to blow up the status quo, just as the Time War itself did back in 2005.
Are we ever going to find out who the hell she was supposed to be? That was kind of annoying, particuarly since I never got any indication that Moffat indended on following up on any of RTD's loose threads.
I don't want Gallifrey as a society to return, but I do want to see certain individuals to return in some form. I've always held the belief that Romana took a small group with her into E-Space just prior to the destruction of Gallifrey (or rather "The Moment").
I agree that Romana et al in E-Space would be cool. Personally, I'd like for Lalla Ward to come back in the role. But if they have to recast, I've heard that Rachel Weisz is a fan of the show.
And since I'm a big fan of Katy Manning's work in the Big Finish audios, I think Iris Wildthyme would be a great Time Lady to bring back!
Although, I'm also intrigued by the idea of the Master leading a new Time Lord army on a war against the galaxy.
What about the Time Meddler? Did anything else happen to him after the Doctor crippled his TARDIS' navigation circuits in "The Daleks' Masterplan"?
I figured he wanted to find a way to increase his own number of regenerations, and possibly find a way to mutate humans into Timelords (which should be possible given the reverse is).
It is also possible according to certain semi-canon theories about Time Lords. In the Sylvester McCoy audio adventure "Death Comes to Time," Ace is ultimately promoted to the status of Time Lady, being the first of a new race of Time Lords, since all of the old ones, including the Doctor, died out.
My impression was that there was a final apocalyptic battle over Gallifrey with the two fleets meeting and the Doctor used some final god-like device to burn them all out of existence, but since he was the one throwing the switch he ended up being immune to it and survived.
My personal theory is that the reason why he survived is because he's half-human, anchoring him into one dimension, thus immunizing him from the trans-dimensional affects of whatever doomsday device it was that he used to destroy both the Time Lords & the Daleks.
I have heard some people state while Rassilon's depiction in The End of Time is the first time he's been actually evil, the audio dramas which have featured him over the years have made it clear he was never an angel.
I do hope the rumors about the Dreamlord possibly being the Valeyard are true, as that would be very intriguing. And what's this 'Idris' thing I'm hearing about?
My Time Lord related Series 6 theory is that the "Silence will fall" guy is Omega. Since he only exists as a force of his own will anyway, there's no reason why he couldn't have survived the Time War. Furthermore, unlike Davros & Rassilon, Omega would have a more plausible motive for destroying the universe. Since he was abandoned by the Time Lords to an antimatter universe so many millennia ago, he's become increasingly resentful of the material world. And since he basically invented Time Lord time travel, it would be no problem for him to remote manipulate the Doctor's TARDIS in "The Big Bang."
The Woman in White was confirmed in I believe The Writer's Tale as being the Doctor's mom. I also believe RTD alludes to this in the audio commentary for "The End of Time" and Julie and David kind of banter back and forth about who she might be to which Russell states the viewer can ultimately interpret who she is as they like.
My pick for the next Master should Steven decide to use him again...would be Benedict Cumberbatch.
For some reason, I'm picturing the Master as a black leather clad rock star played by Simon Pegg. He'd have some of the youth of John Simm combined with the swagger of Anthony Ainley. Or maybe cast Steeve Coogan in the role. (I kinda picture a version of the Master akin to Coogan's portrayal of Hades in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.)
While we're on the subject, I'm curious who among current UK film/TV actresses would make an ideal Romana III.
Also, I wonder whether all such roles should be portrayed by younger actors. Derek Jacobi was great as the Master for his five minutes or so. Toby Jones was suitably humorous and creepy as the Dream Lord. And I thought Smith and Gambon played excellently off each other in the xmas special (to demonstrate that Smith can most definitely hold his own against vastly more experienced actors).
Maybe not for the Master, but for characters like the Omega or the Rani, or even Romana III, casting an older actor may not be a bad idea.
Pegg as the Master, sorry but I just don't think he's a strong enough actor, and he's better as the weasely cowardly type if he's playing a bad guy. Cumberbatch could do it, but he'd be way too similar to Smith. I get the idea of the Master being a shadowy reflection of the Doctor, but I don't think it needs to be taken as literally as it was with Tennant/Simm. I've always said, given that Smith plays the old man in a young man's body so well, that the opposite for me would be a much older actor playing the child.
Personally I'd cast Paterson Joseph as the Master (a black Master, watch fandom explode!) I think he could do a fab job of it myself.
And given I'm now in charge, Romana will return as Emilia Fox
The Master is now in the time lock, and potentially has Rassilon at his feet. Who knows what havoc he can cause? He could probably fix himself too since I assume he'd have access to Timelord technology in the time lock.
RTD left it nice and open for whoever decides to pick the plot back up.
This is my feeling as well, the door has been opened just enough to bring them back some day. Also, Dalek Caan proved that the Time Lock could be broken so nothing is ever 100 % and that goes not just for Doctor Who but science fiction in general.
I've always said, given that Smith plays the old man in a young man's body so well, that the opposite for me would be a much older actor playing the child.
Indeed, RTD says it was his intention that she was the Doctor's mother, but that he chose not to directly state it in the episode to allow viewers to think of her as whoever they wanted her to be.
Why would "fandom explode?" It was stated in Death of the Doctor that regeneration can change skin colour (in the same sentence that the now infamous 507 regeneration limit was mentioned), and even ignoring that, would anyone really find a change in skin colour unbelievable in a process which changes a person's height, weight, age, colour and style of hair, voice, and so on? It's not like we're talking about a gender change here...
