The master

[Ar-Pharazon]

Delgado & Ainley were very different Masters, despite the similar appearance. Ainley was much more the mustache twirling villain type.

If he comes back, maybe he'll bring his TCE with him, not to mention one of his TARDISes (TARDII ?).

And then if he comes back and the drumming is gone, what's his motivation?

 

[Turbo]

I'm still kinda hoping that the Master is somehow behind the Silence, and is the one who showed them how to take control of and blow up the TARDIS.

 

[Anachronus]

If he were to return I would like a more Delgado-esque version. He is supposed to be brilliant after all. Got better grades than the Doctor even.

 

[Turbo]

^ Agreed. I'd like to see a more subdued portrayal. My dream cliffhanger is that the last story of a series has the Doctor stop a villain with the aid of a cool customer, only to have that guy reveal to the companion(s) that he played the Doctor like a harp, using him to accomplish some secret plan, and end by saying "I am the Master, and you will obey me."

 

[Gov Kodos]

So long as the madness is done away with, I'm happy to have the Master pop up somewhere down the line. And Delgado is the true Master.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I'm still kinda hoping that the Master is somehow behind the Silence, and is the one who showed them how to take control of and blow up the TARDIS.

That seems a little more insane than any version of the Master. Universal destruction isn't his style, is it?

It does seem more like Omega, in that he's completely bat-shit insane from exile in the anti-matter universe.

 

[Turbo]

I'm still kinda hoping that the Master is somehow behind the Silence, and is the one who showed them how to take control of and blow up the TARDIS.

That seems a little more insane than any version of the Master. Universal destruction isn't his style, is it?

It does seem more like Omega, in that he's completely bat-shit insane from exile in the anti-matter universe.

You're right, it does seem more like Omega, but there's a few reasons why it could be the Master, most of them ending with "he screwed up again".

 

[Zeppster]

This raises an interesting point. It's always seemed, to me at least, that the Master and the Doctor are contemporaries, yet is the Master was on his 12th incarnation when the Doctor was on his third can this really be the case? This would seem to indicate he's led a far more fraught existence than the Doctor, which given that he's evil and not wont to throw himself in the path of danger for anyone in the way the Doctor is it seems odd that the Doctor's led a safer existence.

Of course this relies on them actually being contemporaries.

It is also an interesting point that the Doctor spend roughly, or maybe more than half his life in the first incarnation. Maybe his interaction with humans has made him more adventurous over the years while the Master was trying to do things out of the ordinary for centuries already?

 

[MacLeod]

Perhaps both being renegade Time Lords, the Master tried to keep a lower profile. After all trying to become Master of the Universe is bound to draw more attention than fighting evil.

At times it seemed as if the Time Lords tolerated the Doctor's interferrence in events. They even used him at times such as in "Genesis of the Daleks". Plausable denability,

 

[Skellington]

It is also an interesting point that the Doctor spend roughly, or maybe more than half his life in the first incarnation. Maybe his interaction with humans has made him more adventurous over the years while the Master was trying to do things out of the ordinary for centuries already?

I've always liked the idea that the Doctor when he left Gallifrey wasn't in an adventurous mindset; that circumstances pushed him to do something radical and that at first he was very bitter about it, but adapted to the circumstances and eventually discovered a love of adventure, not to mention an aptitude for it.

 

[CaptainMatt]

My childhood Master was definitely Ainley although I have come to appreciate other incarnations over the years that I've grown up. But I would like a non-insane non-drumming in the head Master again. And having him regain some of his old familiar wit and oozing, sinister charm would be great. I also would like the use of the TCE once more.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

This raises an interesting point. It's always seemed, to me at least, that the Master and the Doctor are contemporaries, yet is the Master was on his 12th incarnation when the Doctor was on his third can this really be the case? This would seem to indicate he's led a far more fraught existence than the Doctor, which given that he's evil and not wont to throw himself in the path of danger for anyone in the way the Doctor is it seems odd that the Doctor's led a safer existence.

Of course this relies on them actually being contemporaries.

Doesn't contemporary lose meaning once time travel is involved? Why do we assume every time the Master and the Doctor meet the same amount of time has passed for both?

Agreed. In fact, there's some speculation that they didn't even always meet each other in the right order. For example, some speculate that the reason why the Master survived at the end of "Planet of Fire" was because it was at that point in his time stream that the Time Lords recruited him to rescue the Doctor in "The Five Doctors."

Also, the Master was behind the events of "The Lazarus Experiment," which, from the Doctor's perspective, happened before the Master stole the TARDIS in the future.

 

[CaptainMatt]

Anyone prefer the short amount of screentime we got Derek Jacobi as the Master as opposed to poential overexposure of John Simm in the part.

 

[Sindatur]

I didn't hate Simm, but, he didn't really work for me as the Master. I very much enjoyed Derek Jacobi's voice work for the Master in Scream of the Shalka and enjoyed Prof Yana in Utopia. I believe I've also heard Derek Jacobi as the Master on an Audio Play(s) as well.

 

[CaptainMatt]

Are you thinking of Sympathy for the Devil?


Edit: I looked it up and the Master was played by someone else. Oh well...

 

[Sindatur]

Are you thinking of Sympathy for the Devil?

In The Doctor Who Unbounds he played the First Doctor in Deadline, which I have and quite enjoyed, but, I thought I remember him playing the Master in an Audio as well (Though maybe not?)

 

[CaptainMatt]

I did some checking and couldn't find any audios with Jacobi as the Master.

 

[Sindatur]

I did some checking and couldn't find any audios with Jacobi as the Master.

Eh...I'm probably just adding The Doctor Who Unbound and Scream of the Shalka and coming up with 5

 

[CaptainMatt]

Well no harm done there friend. I do like Jacobi's work and thought for a minute there was something I had missed!

 

[Rarewolf]

In The Doctor Who Unbounds he played the First Doctor in Deadline

He plays the writer of the first Doctor Who story, except in that Unbound reality that failed and played on his mind for decades...