they even canonically made Ian headmaster of the school!

I loved the music and turned my friends onto it long before I knew the backstory.

SPOILER
the one time you finally kill them, you wake up standing over the body of a dead stranger and go to jail.

one great thing about the special: it reminds me of Classic Who where the supporting/guest characters would have personalities and get some development. just subtle indications that they had lives and quirks.

too convoluted? for Moffat?!

oh gawd. I browsed through that, read the Fifth Doctor story in its entirety and found it dire. I would not seek it out.

the space egg thing. the Doctor left it/her alone for the humans to deal with.

the Doctor did not technically leave Jenny for dead. he thought, for real, that she had died. like I said upthread, I wish Moffat had made her the Doctor's original wife (i.e. Susan's grandmother), just for the sake of originality.

I belong to the no female Doctor camp, actually. though in my case I doubt it has to do with sexism. I would not want an American Doctor, either. (actually I would dislike an American Doctor more than I would a female one.)

nope. the Doctor changed sex in "The Curse of Fatal Death", not the Master. (the Master had "Dalek bumps", though.)

well, he kinda left a whole planet full of Time Lords for dead, in a way, didn't he?

one idea for Ainley's Master in the '80's would have had him dressing as a woman. they never did that, in part, I guess, because they could not think of an overly campy way to do it.

the Mistress has already said that she "chose [Clara] well". so she might have done more than simply monitor her.

a much more detailed summary of the original ending to "Planet of the Spiders" than any I have read. where did you find that out?

early Pertwee had a dangerous, reckless amorality that got lost. in (I think) "The Claws of Axos" he says to the Master, "screw these humans… I just want to restore my TARDIS", you can actually believe him.

best case scenario: never bring back the Time Lords. second-best: bring them back, as baddies. every time a Time Lord* appeared on screen post-"The Deadly Assassin", things got 50% more conventional and mundane.

Eric Roberts (the '90's Master) introduced the manic the Master as the Joker element and Simms went and ran with it. (Ainley [the main '80's Master]) could get OTT, in a different way.

McGann's Doctor and Eric Roberts' Master pair up, sex, and attend an American football game together, wearing the team colors. I read that once. and saw the pictures. on DeviantArt.

they have such a brilliant actor in the role now that I can't see why they would do it.

my mindfuck idea which I wish that Moffat had done: make Missy the Doctor's wife. you know, Susan's grandmother. (the Doctor's granddaughter. as opposed to Susan the horse.) after fifty-one years, we still know nothing about her.