missy doesn’t understand that she’s in the wrong genre. she believes she’s in a darkly alluring gothic romance instead of an optimistic sci-fi show. in her genre, gifting your estranged ex/enemy/lover/best friend/twin flame an indestructible undead army to prove to him that your will to power is identical is the most romantic gesture imaginable. it’s victory via surrender, it’s control through abdication. all her scheming to “corrupt” him, to demonstrate that they’re the same deep down, that his sanctimonious morality is nothing but a method of keeping his own conscience clean, that’s the hannibal gene, the lestat gene (*obviously the dynamics aren’t 1-to-1 similar, but… close enough) and missy’s tragedy in death in heaven is in that, within the narrative format she’s trapped in, she can never succeed
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You'd go to hell, if she asked. And she would!
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Alexander Tinei: 'Dark Water' (2012)
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the master always has some cyberman shit going on around them (let’s be real, the toclafane count. they’re just ball-shaped cybermen). saw a post last night that said something in fewer words along the lines of… it’s another one of their warped-mirror-of-the-doctor attributes. the doctor loves humanity — the master loves humanity stripped of all its humanity
the creation of cybermen is almost like a reassurance to them; “proof” that these weird apes that their ex is irresistibly in love with really do become, with a few tweaks and upgrades here and there, nothing more than programmable easily-manipulated murderous drones. because if they dared to look past their prejudice, to see humans for all their beauty and strength and diversity — and missy almost got there, she tried — they would understand what’s drawn the doctor away from them. and that scares them more than anything
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Me, a dumbass, realizing that the Master in nuwho has only ever been revealed as a twist after an entire episode of them acting as an ally or at least non-assuming acquaintance to the Doctor or their companions:
something something foils parallels the Master could have been the Doctor if they weren't so obsessed with control the Master keeps trying to prove to the Doctor that they are one and the same THE MASTER AND THE DOCTOR ARE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN EQUALLY CAPABLE OF GOOD AND BAD AND IT IS ONLY CHOICES THAT KEEP THEM WHO THEY ARE
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when the doctor said "do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?" and when hozier sang "do you know I could break beneath the weight of the goodness, love, I still carry for you?"
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