A Question for Classic Who Fans

[ithildin]

Is that we're called? Sounds better than 'old Who fans'!

Anyway... about the Master.


Anyone else having trouble adjusting to the new Master? I can't quite put my finger on it, but he just doesn't seem like the Master to me. A good bad guy, but not him.

If I figure out what it is, I'll let you know :)

Comments

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I agree. This is one of a myriad of reasons why I usually ignore what Rusty says in interviews. :-) Although I'll concede when he says the Master is insane, it may not necessarily mean in the legal sense where he cannot be held accountable for his actions.

My hypothesis after "Utopia" was that the Master (at least partially) intentionally regenerated into a proper equal-and-opposite for this particular incarnation of the Doctor.

One thought that I also had recently: he's always had peculiar blinders for any consequences of his action that aren't the primary effect he's looking for.

Think of "Logopolis," where he adamantly refuses, in the face of mounting evidence, to believe that knocking off a few bean-counters could possibly threaten the fabric of the universe. And even when he's finally convinced, and agrees to join forces with the Doctor to fix it, he can't resist double-crossing him the second his own survival is no longer in imminent doubt.

So the short answer is no, actually, he's working for me. He seems to me to be operating on the same underlying impulses he always has, but with a level of manic intensity designed to match Ten's.