Photograph: Simon Ridgway/BBCįirst thing to notice: regeneration has previously been treated as a largely heroic process. Rassilon knows where we go from here, but with this pair now teamed up, I predict much hijinks and foul play.Īlone in nowheresville … a broken, devastated Peter Capaldi. Yes, she treats Team Tardis’s conventions with delightful disdain, and after weeks of (welcome) understated sobriety, Michelle Gomez is back to her campest, most ridiculous best (“Congratulations on your relative symmetry!”). Which makes me even more convinced that, in the beginning at least, Missy’s intentions are indeed pure. I don’t really mind, though, because in his best tradition, Moffat explains things away in one line: “I’m the Master, and I’m worried about my future.” The prospect of turning “good” is apparently too severe a threat not to echo across his timeline. Details of the Master’s timeline and regeneration history are among the questions you’re not meant to ask in Doctor Who – but if we’re to assume this happens to him after the events of The End of Time, there are further mindbending continuity implications. Here, Simm’s Master is significantly dialled down, more malevolent menace than the ADHD version that battled David Tennant back in the day – and far less annoying for it. But it was a nice line in fan service for him to ask Missy: “Do you still like disguises?” Is it worth wishing even for a moment that they had managed to keep John Simm’s return a secret? A sure impossibility, but how much more delicious could that reveal have been if we hadn’t known what was coming? As it was, and despite a hugely effective prosthetic, I called from his first appearance that Mr Razor was the Simm Master in disguise because, given how far along we were into the story, who else was it going to be? We still don’t know how and if this Master knew he would be coming up against Team Tardis and his future self, but we presume he needed to disguise himself as Mr Razor since Bill would have recognised him as former Prime Minister Harold Saxon. Back to her campest, most ridiculous best … Michelle Gomez and John Simm.
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