lexasami reblogged your post and added:
How so? Not disagreeing, I just haven't seen...
In Classic Who, The Master first appeared in the Third Doctor episodes when the Time Lords confined The Doctor to Earth, due to budget issues. The Doctor became a quasi-James Bond sort of figure: he had gadgets, he used Venusian Aikido, etc. The Master was, essentially, a classic Bond villain, think like an Ernst Blofeld.
Which brings us to Nu Who Master. The John Simm Master is a hypermaniac with supernatural abilities who mentally is unstable. The Michelle Gomez Missy is better, but essentially is a distaff version of Moriarty from Moffat’s Sherlock. Also, Missy didn’t really seem to have any motivation other than to prove how clever she was, a problem Moffat’s Doctor had as well the longer he was showrunner, and to flirt with/seduce the Doctor. By appearing as Missy, though, Michelle Gomez essentially cleared the way for Jodi Whitaker to be the Thirteenth Doctor. (The funny thing is that before Jodi was announced as the Doctor, I thought that Sacha Dhawan would have made an excellent choice for the next Doctor.)
So far, Sacha’s Master has all of the hallmarks of the Classic Master, so I wait with baited breath that they do a better job with his Master than the past two ones.
