My name...is the Master
From the brillant new NEKKID BONDAGE MASTER BBC Christmas trailer, I bring you a picspam sprinkled with the usual piss-taking, plus some conjecture for the specials.
There was a poll a while back asking if people thought the Master would be a villain or a victim this time around, or a little of both. The overwhelming answer was 'both', and the new trailer definitely seems to support this idea.
Myself, I think that someone - most likely the Time Lords or the Shadow Proclamation - brings the Master back to life in order to make him kill the Doctor for daring to break the laws of Time. Except that he doesn't wanna. Not really. He and the Doctor both enjoy their eternal game of cosmic cat and mouse WAY too much to ever completely destroy each other. After all, he had a whole year of opportunities to kill the Doctor on the Valiant and he didn't - so why start now?
Yeah, hon, I feel that way about the internet too, sometimes. Anyway, judging from the Master's grumpy!face here, I'm reading a few different possibilities for what's going on re: the people who brought him back:
1. He's now beholden to them for his life, or owes them some other sort of cosmic 'debt'.
2. He's their prisoner (thus the collar).
3. He's being forced to do their bidding against his will (also thus the collar).
Any one of which would really chafe his hide, and make him want to look for a way to break free as soon as is Masterly possible. (ohyes!)
And speaking of the people who brought him back, they would appear to be the Hudson flight 1549 crew. Yeah, your guess is as good as mine there.
"...You people think you can keep me on a leash?"
"You're funny."
Thoughts on the collar:
1. Most obvious option: it's a restrictive device, like a shock collar or an ankle bracelet, and his captors want to use it to try and keep him on a short leash (yeah, good luck with that one, guys). Or -
2. It's a device to keep his new (and highly unstable) body alive; and without it, he'll start to detoriorate (thus the highly un-fetching Skeletor shots we've seen). Could also be that the red shirt underneath the hoodie is just the collar itself in another, less conspicuous form. Or, possibly -
3. It's a machine that allows him to project a physical version of himself to wherever the Doctor is without putting his actual body at risk, or - more importantly - moving one hair from the prison where his resurrectors are keeping him.
"My name...is the Master."
Oooh, SO much going on here...first of all, the fact that he's having to tell someone his proper name suggests that they've just called him the wrong one. I really don't like the idea of the whole 'Koschei' thing becoming canon, so I'm hoping that they've called him something generic like 'Time Lord' instead.
Going purely by Simm's performance, though? I'm guessing that he's just been given an order by someone who's trying to control him. As in: Ressurector: "We brought you back to life. You owe us your existence. You are our servant." Master: "My name... is the Master."
So much packed into that one line: the dark, seething sulk followed by the smirky 'fuck off and die' smile; undercut by the stubborn little jaw-thrust at the end, with just a hint of the murderous glare lurking underneath. *shudder* That tenacious defiance in the face of a temporarily inconvenient reality is just like him, too: he may be wearing your pretty red bitch collar right now, invisible offscreen captor, but he's still the Master...and you'd be very wise not to forget it.
Obligatory vaginal gate imagery? Check.
Obligatory handporn moment? Check. *om nom nom*
...And again. Talk to the hand! This is another reason why I think the Master doesn't really want to kill the Doctor, right here...
At that kind of range, all he'd have to do is just slightly turn his palm half an inch to the right, and the Doctor would be toast. It's very unlike the Master to fire a warning shot across someone's bow unless he's toying with them, and his 'oh shit!' look as he senses the Doctor's approach doesn't really look like he's having much fun:
Note: I'm also including this pic mainly to reassure myself that they're not going to try and ruin Simm's lovely hazel eyes by making him wear stupid blue contact lenses to match Lucy's blond hair. (yes, I am still scarred by Tennant's hateful contact lenses in Casanova, can you tell?) And speaking of things Not Simm?
*SNURK*!!!
Okay, yeah, so I know Health and Safety would never let our man do this stunt himself; plus he probably wouldn't want to (hard to act manic when you're nursing a sore bum). But really, couldn't they have at least tried to find a stuntman who was roughly the same size as the actor? Seriously, you could fit two of Simm into that guy.
Anyway. That's enough spec and smirk. Deep down, I think we all know that that trailer was all about one thing: NEKKID SIMM!MASTER. So, here is some prettiness to linger over...and, in honour of nekkid Simm!master becoming canon, they are amped up full .avi size as they rightly deserve.
Congratulations, Mrs. Saxon! It's a...er...um......oh my.
Q
...your thoughts?