What I liked about John Simm's Master was that he was a mirror-image of the Tennant Doctor: the same energy and quirkiness and humour, but gone bad.
I liked that too. I confess I loved the scenes where he was dancing, which brought to mind "The Doctor Dances" - i.e., it was a sign of the Doctor's damaged psychological state that he had forgotten how to dance, while for the Master, it was a sign of his madness that he could and did dance. There's a cleverness and subtlety to that (yes, subtlety!) that I admire.
Sadly, one of my old Whovian friends thinks he was just a "sordid psycho".
I'm not sure the word 'just' belongs in that sentence. Yes, he was a sordid psycho. That was the whole point. A tragic, dangerous, sordid psycho.
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Date: 2007-07-03 02:08 pm (UTC)I liked that too. I confess I loved the scenes where he was dancing, which brought to mind "The Doctor Dances" - i.e., it was a sign of the Doctor's damaged psychological state that he had forgotten how to dance, while for the Master, it was a sign of his madness that he could and did dance. There's a cleverness and subtlety to that (yes, subtlety!) that I admire.
Sadly, one of my old Whovian friends thinks he was just a "sordid psycho".
I'm not sure the word 'just' belongs in that sentence. Yes, he was a sordid psycho. That was the whole point. A tragic, dangerous, sordid psycho.