First off, I love your icon, especially since most cats think they are the Master. Heh.
Ainley was a good actor; even in Logopolis you could see that. And I will say that his performances were part of what led me to the belief that each iteration of the Master was a peeling back of the sophistication and actual pro-Doctor affection of Delgado, to layers of succeeding insanity and brutality that the "younger" Master had better control of. Ainley exhibited the first sign of the breakdown, (which was probably caused when he entered the decayed state between Delgado and Ainley), and each subsequent Master was more unhinged, their inability to control urges and tendencies toward brutality and viciousness more and more apparent. In some ways, Missy seems to have been clinging desperately to the one solid thing with a set of ethics - and a mind she could respect as much as she loved her own - that she'd had in her long life; the Doctor. Can I tell you how much I want to write (or read) a story of how Missy survived?
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Ainley was a good actor; even in Logopolis you could see that. And I will say that his performances were part of what led me to the belief that each iteration of the Master was a peeling back of the sophistication and actual pro-Doctor affection of Delgado, to layers of succeeding insanity and brutality that the "younger" Master had better control of. Ainley exhibited the first sign of the breakdown, (which was probably caused when he entered the decayed state between Delgado and Ainley), and each subsequent Master was more unhinged, their inability to control urges and tendencies toward brutality and viciousness more and more apparent. In some ways, Missy seems to have been clinging desperately to the one solid thing with a set of ethics - and a mind she could respect as much as she loved her own - that she'd had in her long life; the Doctor. Can I tell you how much I want to write (or read) a story of how Missy survived?