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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

Because with the Doctor there's always some traits that run through every incarnation of the Doctor. With the Master it's just "evil" and "progressive madness". It's a far cry from the Moriaty-like character the Master originally was and it's something I miss. That's no different to everyone missing an older Doctor before Capaldi came along.

And I'm not quite ready to call this Master a "regeneration" yet. This is the Master and there could be any number of reasons he's had a gender change (only a fraction of the previous Masters were fully-fledged regenerations). I fully EXPECT it to be a regeneration though because the whole point of this exercise was to turn heads.

I don't know if I'd say the Gomez Master is progressively more insane than the last one. We've yet to see her howl at the moon and then try to eat a rottiserie chicken whole. She's clearly not playing with a full deck, but her plan still shows a good level of thought and cunning (and, so far at least, no dancing around while mugging at the camera - I really hated how RTD wrote the Master).