Russell T. Davies Reveals Insight About The Master
Written by Ian Cullen on December 22, 2009 – 12:30 pm -
Its hard to believe that we’ll finally get to see the Master return to Doctor Who by the end of this week, and for best part of two years fans have been speculating on how Russell T. Davies would bring back The Master.
Of course the popular theory, which Davies has admitted to be fact is the use of the ring, which fell to the floor after the Doctor had given the Master a viking style funeral in the season three finale The Last Of The Time Lords.
However, the biggest question on everyone’s mind is what kind of Master will return and how different is he from the one we seen in the third season, and in his most recent interview for SFX Magazine Russell T. Davies filled in just a few small details about that.
“He’s the opposite of the Doctor, but now he’s powerless, he’s wretched, he’d practically death incarnate, he’s dying… I’m not giving anything away by saying this, but his resurrection goes wrong, and he’s becoming this feral beast. He’s wearing a hoodie, he’s dirty, he’s living among the homeless on Christmas Eve. It’s a great thing to show on BBC One at Christmas! He’s literally in the wastelands of London, with charity burger vans and stuff like that. Stuff you wouldn’t normally see on Christmas Day!
“The Doctor in contrast becomes this kind of lordly figure in a TARDIS, with friends like Wilf… So they’re different opposites again. And you realise you can play it any way. It’s like life and death – the Doctor is life and the Master is death. There’s this fantastic special effect where the Master’s turning into a skeleton… John Simm’s face shimmers and you see all the bones underneath, with bulging eyes and the sinews and everything. He’s death, practically, and he really goes for it.”
As we already know. These final two episodes of 2009 spell the death of David Tennant’s tenth Doctor and the birth of Matt Smith’s eleventh Doctor and start of Stephen Moffat’s run as main producer on the show. Which begs the question of what would Davies had done if he’d stayed on for a fifth season with Doctor Who? A question that Davies was more than happy to ponder.
“If I was doing a fifth year I’d probably be sitting there going, ‘Alright, yeah, the ice warriors!’ or something unexpected, like the Macra. I tell you what I would have done, because of what you can do with CGI – the Krotons! [last seen in 1968 Patrick Troughton tale ‘The Krotons’]. You’d lose that shape completely, but a crystalline monster is a CGI monster waiting to happen. Something like that would be really fun. But, if i’d been dying to do it, then I would have done it. I’m just talking theory now. It’s not like I’m walking away from it thinking damn, I never did the Krotons!”
In regards to the fifth season of Doctor Who we’ve recently learned that Stephen Moffat is bringing back the weeping angels, which we first seen in the episode ‘Blink’ for one of the fifth season episodes, and one major historical figure coming up in season five is the artist Vincent Van Gogh. It has also been strongly hinted via a sign on a trailer door in Cardiff that we could well see former British war time Prime minister Winston Churchill pop up in an episode as well as the return of the Doctors future companion River Song.
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- Russell T. Davies Talks Up Torchwood’s Epic Five Part Series
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