him telepathic while you're at it, just like in True Blood ? Or haven't you got to that boxset yet? Too busy watching The Matrix Trilogy on Blu Ray, I bet. Oh well. The Master's plan is remarkably simple at first: terrorise tramps and eat plenty of hamburgers. This detail is quite amusing. The fact that the Master has to disguise himself after unsuccessfully ruling over the country fairly recently is a neat, logical touch. Simm's performance is also mesmerising at times, especially during his long overdue chat with the Doctor, but just when you think that we are finally getting somewhere, Joshua Naismith turns up to fast-track a nefarious plan that took the Master months to cook up the last time. How nice of him. The Naismith subplot is as unsavoury as it is convienient. There's a faint whiff of incest about the whole affair (his daughter? really?) and the handy properties of the alien tech is either something that will be ingeniously resolved in part two or a Deux Ex Machina Gate. It's too early to call. The episode goes batshit crazy before we've had a chance to settle down. Just thank your lucky stars that Doctor Who isn't made in 3D. Tennant's jaw would give you one hell of a headache after the first five minutes. And if you were ever in any doubt that this is some SERIOUS SHIT we're dealing with here just check out Tennant's determined grimace as he chases Simm through that secret