Please please please please write the pocket universe (either of the possibilities you mentioned), because that, like virtually everything else you said, was EXACTLY what I was thinking while watching this episode! But I know that Christmas will probably reverse all this, and will be full of hamfisted moments where the Doctor realizes that he's become like the Master, oh noes! and teach him to feel good and chipper again. At least, that is what I'm telling myself so I won't be painfully disappointed.
Andandand there is so much I want to squee about, from amazing lines to his descent into madness and hubris to his subsequent realization of (and flight from) this, to how incredibly HOLLOW that "ooh snow!" enthusiasm is now, and augh. I need someone to flail at in person.
I'm surprisingly ok with skull!Master, because a) it is a nod to Crispy, and b) I like to think that part of the reason they did it was the same reason they aged the Doctor in Series 3--to cut down on the incredible slash potential for the sake of the child audience.
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Andandand there is so much I want to squee about, from amazing lines to his descent into madness and hubris to his subsequent realization of (and flight from) this, to how incredibly HOLLOW that "ooh snow!" enthusiasm is now, and augh. I need someone to flail at in person.
I'm surprisingly ok with skull!Master, because a) it is a nod to Crispy, and b) I like to think that part of the reason they did it was the same reason they aged the Doctor in Series 3--to cut down on the incredible slash potential for the sake of the child audience.