Coming back from complete death isn’t much a problem given the Master’s history. He has no reason for surviving Planet of Fire. Burned through all of his regenerations by the time of Deadly Assassin. Survived an execution by turning into a space snake. Survived death and cremation via a ring and cult. I’m sure we’ll see the Master again, but I’m always in favor of giving the character long breaks.
Just watched the third installment in the trilogy (“Lie of the Land”). Hmmm, the first two were SO good… rather disappointed in the conclusion. Bill’s role in the climax was much too sappy for my taste. Same complaint(s) I had about prior series. Hoping the next episode(s) get back to clever sci-fi stories.
Yeah. A lot of people were a bit ‘meh’ about Pyramid at the End of the World, but I really enjoyed that one. And it made me appreciate Peter Harness’s other two stories quite a bit more (one of which I already liked, and one that I have plenty of misgivings about). His theme of ‘dealing with controversial modern politics by forcing massive quick decisions on humans and seeing how they deal with it’ is interesting. But Lie of the Land was a terrible conclusion. Among the worst episodes of Moffat’s era, and certainly the most disappointing of Capaldi’s.