Behind the scenes of The Sound of Drums/The Last of the Time Lords
(Part Six)
Excerpt from Doctor Who Magazine #384 article by Benjamin Cook:
“My favorite thing is that the Master is as witty as the Doctor,” Russell adds. “Our hero has this fantastic sense of humor, which undercuts any and every enemy, but when the villain is the same, or even wittier, it really makes the Doctor vulnerable. Suddenly, he hasn’t got the best lines. That destabilizes the whole format. It ups the danger and the fear. You find yourself taking the Doctor - and David Tennant - into new territory, which has got to be good for the show.”
David’s feelings toward the Master’s past form are mixed. “You either loved him or hated him,” he considers, “but I think it depended on the individual story. My first memory of the Master would have been in the mid-1970s, when he was a sort of oily dishrag with bulging eyeballs! I remember, when it came on, not knowing who he was, not realizing that historically he had anything to do with the show, because, of course, you didn’t at age six or whatever; you just saw this weird man being all decayed. It was only years later that I realized that he had a bit of history.”
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