controversially really love this episode

it adds more to the doctor and the master's dynamic imo and really explains why he as spy was so different from missy (assuming he comes after missy, which is my personal belief)

i didn't find the reveal to be a disservice to the character at all and i don't think that it takes away from who the doctor is. they did everything they did throughout their life not because they were like. Chosen Magic Child or whatever but because they were the doctor whom we've gotten to know for the last 60 years! idk i am of the belief that you are your memories so the doctor secretly having this crazy batshit origin story doesn't really change who they are to me since they don't remember it anyway. i just thought this was a really cool episode honestly

i will say though getting rid of gallifrey again was... definetly a choice! I'm certain it will come back soon enough but man really annoyed they did that! it's also really annoying to me how they deal with time lords. it's really unconvincing to me that the master could just genocide his entire race of super powerful and intelligent assholes just because he wanted to. it's also really unconvincing to me that the whole of time lord society is just sitting on gallifrey raising their children and doing paperwork. they don't strike me as the simple pleasures of life kinda assholes. surely there were at least a few people who were "off worlds" as they say when it happened.