Oh god can you imagine a Moffat-written Master arc. It would be:
1. Genuinely terrifying and/or psychologically brilliant in some way. 2. Cheekily compliant with both nu!Who canon and the spirit of oldskool, but going off in a different direction altogether. Almost certainly a more sense-making direction than hobo!Master eating everything in sight. 3. Somehow timey-wimey. 4. Held together by a coherent story arc with meaningful thematic shit and everything, rather than being a series of plotholes and dei ex machinis cobbled together with string, gleeful batshit insanity, raging UST, and John Simm acting the hell out of the part.
Not sure what to think about Simm coming back for it though. I mean, of course it's John fucking Simm and he could pull it the hell off and then some. And I would more than trust Moffat to hand him a script that lets him stay recognizably the same character but different, playing off Eleven rather than Ten. But. Moffat looks like he's staying as far away as the hell he can from reusing or referencing RTD-era characters or plot developments. Most of the creatures and settings are brand new, the Daleks got a redesign in season 5, there will apparently be classic-series Cybermen in season 6. It would just be fucking weird to plonk Simm!Master down in the middle of all that, especially if it involved dragging him out of the time lock because that'd rely heavily on RTD continuity. Now granted, Moffat could have something tricksy up his sleeve there--wouldn't put it past him, especially if Simm started pouting at him for the role. But it would be weird.
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1. Genuinely terrifying and/or psychologically brilliant in some way.
2. Cheekily compliant with both nu!Who canon and the spirit of oldskool, but going off in a different direction altogether. Almost certainly a more sense-making direction than hobo!Master eating everything in sight.
3. Somehow timey-wimey.
4. Held together by a coherent story arc with meaningful thematic shit and everything, rather than being a series of plotholes and dei ex machinis cobbled together with string, gleeful batshit insanity, raging UST, and John Simm acting the hell out of the part.
Not sure what to think about Simm coming back for it though. I mean, of course it's John fucking Simm and he could pull it the hell off and then some. And I would more than trust Moffat to hand him a script that lets him stay recognizably the same character but different, playing off Eleven rather than Ten. But. Moffat looks like he's staying as far away as the hell he can from reusing or referencing RTD-era characters or plot developments. Most of the creatures and settings are brand new, the Daleks got a redesign in season 5, there will apparently be classic-series Cybermen in season 6. It would just be fucking weird to plonk Simm!Master down in the middle of all that, especially if it involved dragging him out of the time lock because that'd rely heavily on RTD continuity. Now granted, Moffat could have something tricksy up his sleeve there--wouldn't put it past him, especially if Simm started pouting at him for the role. But it would be weird.