What a letdown, after The Sky Men turned out to be one of the best Master stories we have this to bring us back to the mediocrity of the second story. Jacobi is great and the effects work well but there are a bunch of lazily used tropes that Time War stories recycle constantly like the up-to-now unmentioned superweapon and a secret Gallifreyan outpost on Earth.

The tropes also make the Master look a lot less cunning than the previous story. He uses the weapon in a pretty wreck-less manner, overcomes a trap off-screen, explains his entire plan to his captives and then leaves the room.

This is still a somewhat entertaining story but it's a disappointing follow up to one of the best stories of the range

And here we have the end of the War Master, and what leads to him being in Utopia. I thought this was a great episode, a masterful plan by the Master, and things spiraling out of control so far even for the Master.

Almost as soon as his adventures start, Cole's ends. This story was entirely okay, with the Master utilising a plot point from the previous story, but there's one slight nitpick I have with this story. If Earth was time-locked (as shown in the Shoreditch Intervention) how could the Master have made it through? I am aware that this is a slight nitpick, and you can get through Time Locks, but I thought it'd be more difficult. However, the Master was pleasantly evil in this story, and he's slowly becoming one of my most favorite incarnations. I'm not sure about this story, but I'm leaving it as entirely adequate to finish off this box set, and leads into the events of Utopia, with one small sidestep on the way.