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[–] guinness2 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago  (edited ago)

I really loved the old-school style Master.

I know he was camp, but the Roger Delgado or Roger Delgado 2 (a.k.a Anthony Ainley) were awesome and these were the actors who established The Master as such a fun and intelligent enemy.

I am hoping that sometime in the not too distant future, they return to a classic styled Master, just for fun.

It's not that I fear change, it's just that I'd get a huge thrill from seeing a classic-styled Master operating his TARDIS.

The Doctor Who show seems to forget that we are following The Doctor, not his enemies and there is no reason classic enemies from the past can't be revisited one way or another. That may even be a fun twist: to have the newest Doctor team-up with a re-cast, classic companion again... perhaps transmat Adric from his exploding death so he can be returned home before a few fun episodes?

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[–] arrjayjee 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I would have liked to have seen more of Jacobi as The Master. I know it's a family show but the one note characters get a bit thin at times.

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[–] RedStormbringer [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Totally! Especially when the one offs are the better actors/characters than the ones who replace them (if they replace them). I also wondered what happened to the Doctor's daughter. Then I found out she was the daughter of the Doctor playing the daughter of the Doctor, who married the Doctor and had a daughter with the Doctor, and I understood that shit was getting a bit too deep for a repeat.

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[–] dunkelzahn 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I really, really, really, really want to see John Hurt opposite Derek Jacobi at some point in the Time War series coming up on Big Finish Audio.... Though Alex McQueen has been phenomenal (and reminds me of Jacobi).

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[–] RedStormbringer [S] ago 

Sounds like one hell of a mash up!

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[–] Zephoria 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I think Jacobi would have been better as he expressed the insanity within the Master better. Personally I think the best actor to play the diabolical version of The Master was Anthony Ainley/Nyssa's Father/The Keeper of Traken. Gomez would have been mf'ing perfect for the role of The Rani if the writers had the balls to bring back that character from the classics. The whole introduction plot for him screamed The Rani.

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[–] Donttazemebro 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I think it would have been cool to see. Wasn't much a fan of Simm, I think Eccleston or Capaldi's Doctor would have just drop kicked him into a volcano. I also think they were just trying to appease some loud mouths about needing a female time lord. Instead of building up to it and making it important they just said fuck it and threw her in there.

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[–] Zephoria 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I agree about shutting up the whiners. I'm just ticked they didn't use Romana or The Rani as the female Time Lord. Hell, they could have even pulled up Susan (his granddaughter) or Jenni (The Doctor's "Daughter")

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[–] RedStormbringer [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I agree, Eccleston, definitely. He would have smiled at him real big and then done something drastic. Next scene would have been The Master serving lattes at a coffee stand in Seattle with half a face and no clue what happened--just a enough brain cells left to ask, "cweam or sugar with dat?" with an accent that American's would eat up. I think your right about the female Time Lord thing as well. Jacobi for Master, 2016!

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[–] didntsayeeeee 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I liked John Simm, at least in his first story. The "gas mask" scene was pretty fricking good. And he was a good foil to David Tennant, being a similar age, general look, et cetera.

The Master should certainly be an over-the-top scene-chewing villain, but should also be playful and funny, otherwise it just gets a bit drab.

Derek Jacobi was great as The Master but he only got, like, thirty seconds of actually playing him, and he just went for pure scenery-munching evil. Not sure he could have maintained the character on that same level for more than a few lines.