6. It'll Help When The Master Comes Back
If you're really going to bring him back at some point ( played by Benedict Cumberbatch, rumour has it) make the duels between him and the Twelfth Doctor more like the Holmes-Moriarty-ish battles of wits between the Third Doctor & the Roger Delgado Master, and not the sort-of bromance between his Tenth self and John Simm's incarnation, please. Toe-curling stuff. But still, don't make us wish he really had retired from being gloriously evil to become a vicar at Devil's End. The Simm Master was good who didn't love him watching Teletubbies as his previous incarnation had raved over The Clangers but he came across as more desperate than pure, gentlemanly evil, reckless where Delgado had been considered, calm, even suave. What a waste giving acting royalty like Derek Jacobi such a miniscule amount of time to be Masterly, too he'd most likely have handled ' The End Of Time' and that ' dying in the Doctor's arms' bit so much better, and possibly have given the second-last of the Time Lords a peck on the cheek for his trouble. Well, it was heading that way, wasn't it? And how sad it was to watch. If Cumberbatch gets the part, sit him down and physically force him to watch Series 8 of classic Who- taking in everything from ' Terror Of The Autons' to ' The Daemons.' That's what made us genuinely fear him- so engagingly charming you'd want to invite him in for a cup of tea and a chat, yet evil enough to make you later regret it. It was verbal sparring at its best, and even a sort of mutual respect between the two enemies, as well. Come to think of it, he really would have made a good, if terrifying, vicar I'm not sure he was ever quite what the Church Of England was looking for, although he could convince the General Synod by lowering his glasses and letting hypnosis have its way with them. Worked for the Archbishop of Canterbury, so we hear.