#he's just got toxic logic patterns that are suddenly victimising Him instead of some other poor bastard

[ssaalexblake]

i think what discomforts me about takes that say the doctor and the master aren’t equal anymore is that it’s a take pretty much entirely based upon the logic that the master has been right all along and that nobody in the universe is equal to the two of them because they’re Time Lords and Superior and to top it off, they’re better than Other time lords too. 

And this is uncomfortable to me because like, the narrative of the show has always been pretty clear that he’s not correct on this score. The function of having human companions whom teach the doctor to be better than what they are is the antithesis of the master’s perception of the two of them as superior, and the Entire Show is based around the doctor and their companions. 

The master has Always been wrong about them both being superior to everybody else, and he's wrong again now even as he’s relegated himself down to the disdained function of companion, because the doctor’s never been better than their companions. The master cast the doctor as the only other worthy being in the cosmos apart from them and now his own bigoted views of where the two of them stand in life have made him the victim to his own awfulness and he can’t hack it. 

He’s been impaled upon his own sword, basically. If the master hadn’t been fuck awful to Start with this wouldn’t matter at all. But because he’s a nasty ass bastard, he now has to see himself as lesser to fit with his messed up world view and has needlessly victimised himself. 

The doctor and the master have, and have since they’ve known each other, been on the same level. Their entire past still happened. What it meant still has meaning. The effects of it are still valid. They are two sides of the same coin and nothing changes that because they’re never not going to be them and their personalities are what make them, not their birth. You’re not limited by what you are. 

The only thing that’s making his life a mess right now is that his own sense of superiority and bigotry has suddenly been turned inwards.  

It just makes me in general uncomfortable because it concedes that, basically, the master was right all along, if you agree he’s not not on equal footing with the doctor now it’s basically a concession that if only they were the same species he would be their equal, and i think the show has gone to pains to point out that time lords are Not better than anybody else time and time again, and that the master’s views on that are just bigotry, like, Gallifrey is an imperialist metaphor, the master’s superiority comes from a Bad Place and they have, and always have been wrong about it. The only difference now is that it’s not the time lords the master is propping up as superior, it’s whatever the doctor is. He’s still wrong, his mode of thinking is toxic. 

This is badly phrased but like... He’s wrong. He’s a bigot. He’s a product of a metaphor of the british empire at its worst and how it looked down upon others with utter disdain (or worse, as nothing at all) and because of that enslaved and oppressed them, it’s just now he’s using this toxic mind set learnt from the time lords to re-frame his view into the doctor being the empire figure and him being the one looked down on. He demoted Himself because of his own toxic gallifrey taught mind set, not out of any kind of decent logic. 

And tbh the reason the doctor and the master are on the level with each other has Nothing to do with their species. 

They’re both just assholes of the same vintage.