World Enough and Time

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.

I think ggreig was trying to imply that this was somehow a diminishment of the Master from what he had been in the past. But the old-time Master was "just" a stereotype baddie, without depth. John Simm's Master had far more substance.