Thoughts about Lucy and The Master from Doctor Who

[catyuy]

A entry on mrv3000's journal prompted a few thinky thoughts for me about:

Comments

[mrv3000]

Like I said before, nice analysis! The whole thing is really intriguing to me.

[demented2468]

I think he was quite shocked how she betrayed him in the end of time. He was certain that she was faithful and had been broken.

At first I feel she was just for show. He knew that he could get more votes if he was married even if he did have the mind control. Image is still key to the effect.

I was sort of sad that she didn't end being on his side in the end of time. I have no doubt that she loved him. She looks totally heartbroken in the Last of the TImeLords show.

[jane_prefect]

I have the feeling that it wasn't just the Master thinking it a necessity for 'Harold Saxon' to have a wife, but the fact that the Master was a) fairly traumatized after the rushed regeneration, and b) knew that there was something like him in Lucy.

It was more than just mind-control, definitely; and I think he loved her to a degree for what she did for him mentally. Perhaps she filled the gap left by him not having anyone to speak to, or to plot and plan with.

Also, by 'driving her mad,' it validated the fact (to him) that it wasn't his behavior ruining her; it was because she had seen "Utopia" and the future of humanity. That thought kept him morally clean in his own eyes, to force himself to believe that she would be there for him no matter what he did to her.

[klcthebookworm]

One thing to add on top of what everyone else has said, the Doctor is notorious for "playing with Earth girls" (oh gods, how that line made me giggle) but never taking it as far as a intimate relationship. So canonically, the Master has a notch in his headboard for humanity and the Doctor doesn't.