constantly thinking about the fact there was one time RTD had a good take on the Master and then he cut most of it presumably to spite me personally
WILF: But you said, you were told he will knock four times and then you die. Well, that’s him, isn’t it? The Master. That noise in his head? The Master is going to kill you. DOCTOR: Yeah. WILF: Then kill him first. DOCTOR: And that’s how the Master started. It’s not like I’m an innocent. I’ve taken lives. I got worse. I got clever. Manipulated people into taking their own. Sometimes I think a Time Lord lives too long. I can’t. I just can’t.
See this scene from TEoT? It’s nice enough in the ep, but it’s longer in the script:
In this one scene RTD suddenly gets why the Master is evil. It’s not the drums or insanity or anything like that. It’s much simpler. The Master just began justifying their actions as, “I deserve to be able to do this.” (Which is how we all tend to justify doing things we know are wrong.) It comes down to pride and selfishness. And it illustrates the difference between the Master and the Doctor, because the Doctor knows if they start thinking that way they’ll end up on the same road as the Master. It sets up Ten’s moment of bitterness at the end when he has to sacrifice himself for Wilf and complains that it’s not fair and he deserves so much more, but ultimately rejects that path and does the right thing.
Why did you cut most of this Mr. Davies???