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The Doctor didn't let him go, The Doctor wasn't responsible for the Master's humanisation, The Doctor didn't implement appropriate security measures on the Tardis, The Master, while being generally geniuslike has not shown any greater level of knowledge than the Doctor so far. I have to say i thought the scene of the Capitol did look beautiful, first scene of galifrey in a generation. Speaking of the toclafane, the Master said that it would break the Doctor's heart to know who they were, which gives me a few ideas, but nothing very solid. I think they are related to utopia, either this is the way that the utopia project intended to survive, or this is the previous universe's utopia project, where they came from was definatly somewhere in turmoil, like perhaps the end of the universe...

There has been this sense all this season that Galifrey is very important, all the way from the Racnoss, to now, i wonder if this is all significant to the end of the season, after all badwolf, and torchwood were somewhat subtle, saxon was about as subtle as a brick shaped, city sized meteor hitting london at near-luminal speeds. I doubt the capitol is about to be rebuilt, but i think next season, we may see the begnings of a new galifrey. Under burnt orange sky, phoenix like, the new capitol will rise from the ashes of the old.

Looking at the Master, i can't help but think he's in 2 minds, there is the genuine Master, and the evil Mastermind, there is an underlying sense of he is being forced down the route he is taking, and can't turn back, that said he doesn't object being evil and all. It seems a shame, the Master, despite the name always seems to be working to someone elses masterplan, unless of course he's exploiting the Toclafane for his goal of domination. Whatever the drums are, i don't think they are to do with the Toclafane, unless they really are the gallifreyian bogeymen. I'm also confused entirely who Mrs Saxon is, she clearly knows at least most of the Master's plans and seems willing to go along, its possible she's under some kind of mind control. On the one hand she seems very ruthless, and the other hand very childlike. One final thing that i'm thinking is Professor Yana was a good, idealistic man, and the Doctor claimed that everything John Smith was capable of, so was he. Maybe burried under the layers of repression and evil that same good man might still exist in part.

Side note, from utopia, given the doctor regenerated after the war, and after holding the power from rose, he had to regenerate again. Maybe he was speaking from experience about being a vengeful god, (The master referred to him as a godlike during the war) however Rose had enough control to kill the daleks and resurect Jack, so if thats the case why could he not destroy the daleks and save Galifrey?