Warbler said:

I'm sorry. Call me a sexist, but I can't accept a female Master.

Sorry, that made me snigger.

However I wouldn't be able to accept a male Rani or Romana either. I just can't agree with turning a male character into a femal character or vise versa. It changes the character too much. Also we have seen multiple regenerations of multiple characters in Doctor Who(the Doctor, the Master, Romana, the President Borusa, Melody Pond/River Song). Never in the history of the show have we seen a regeneration result in change of gender. If regeneration can result in such, how come in never happened in all the regenerations we have seen until now. This smells of political correctness to me.

It is my suspicion that a female Master was done as a concession prize for all those who wanted a female Doctor, which tilts in the direction of political correctness.

I've liked this Doctor. He was reckless in Moon but it at least set up the development in Forest. I agree it didn't have to go that way though. He's grappling with being a "good man" in the face of everything he's done and the jading effect of hundreds of years. I like to think there was a good "timey wimey" reason for his actions in Moon. But there is an unfortunate trend toward fatalism. We saw this in Sherlock's dealing with Magnussen and Superman's [spoiling] of Zod. All the skills and motivations of a character go out the window in order to have that contrived "difficult" moment of decision. I think it is a lazy attempt at being "real."