No apology required I often repeat myself.

No I don't really like much of the Simm performance but that isn't because of the actor himself, who is a proven talent, but more the way he is written.

There is a parallel with the portrayal of Moriarty in Sherlock and Hannibal Lecter in Red Dragon (2002).

There are these characters who are arch by nature, they don't need to be played archly.

There are some amazing scenes with Simm (the Gasmask scene for example) but they would probably worked better if the character was a bit more cold and less like a sixties Batman television villain.

His 'origin' story is hopefully something that will be unwritten soon too as boiling the character down to cosmic tinnitus does have a retromingent effect.

Anthony Ainley was also a proven talent (and a real giggle too by all accounts) but he was cursed in the same manner as Simm to play the role as a camp pantomime (not to say that The Time Monster is a display of understated acting by any means).

Once again that was down to the direction the production team wanted him to go in.

Derek Jacobi got more out of his few minutes as the revived Master than we had seen on screen since probably The Deadly Assassin and that was just the punchline to an otherwise dull story.

People slag off Eric Roberts but his camping around was as skillfully done as either Ainley or Simm and he could have been great if he wasn't a one hit wonder.