Sorry @Tian , but I listened to yet another Missy story just now 
“Missy and the Time Assassin” from Missy 4: Bad Influence. It was alright, a 3,5/5 
, but it does fail to “wow”. I don’t really have that much to say about it if I’m honest.
The running switcharoo gag was funny 
But the silly voices and exaggerated accents can take a nosedive into a very shallow pond… It’s so irritating to listen to 
And I’ve finished Missy - Bad Influence with “Bad Apple Brigade” and “The Baron Robbers”.
Both quite bland if I’m honest, but they were decent enough for mowing the lawn and doing some shopping just now.
They both rate at 2/5 for me.
Oh my giddy aunt would someone please write something fantastic for Missy? I think you can hear in Michelle Gomez’s performance that the scripts are subpar.
And stop having her on Earth in the past! There’s a whole universe out there with spaceships and stuff as well you know?
I got to say, I am just not sure if these standalone Master/Missy ranges work for me. They will always inevitably screw over/backstab/kill whoever is along as secondary character/sidekick for that story/stories (it’s why a story like “Sky Man” from the War Master range doesn’t really workfor me, there no point in getting invested in those temporary characters)
The only one I’ve really enjoyed has been Master! with Eric Roberts, but that’s because we constantly have Vienna as a counterpoint, boy would I be surprised if Vienna or, to a lesser degree, Passion was killed by the Master.
By the way, where is that Master TARDIS at now? Didn’t Missy get it, or at least the coordinates to it at the end of Missy and the Monk?
I’m not quite sure if I should keep going with Missy’s Dark Gallifrey stuff at this point…
The Missy series just felt like such a wasted opportunity. Its like they just had tunnel vision on wanting to make it silly and only focus on that aspect of her personality.
Her Dark Gallifrey episode was characterised well, and the writer in the interviews did say along the lines of wanting to make Missy darker and remember audiences she is the Master. The story didn’t win me over, but its only part 1!
I’ll probably end up listening to those Dark Gallifrey stories since I’ve already heard the Morbius and War Master ones.
(Really hope Dark Gallifrey kicks into gear probably very soon…)
Yeah… I think something that’s harming BF in general recently, this series especially, is the fact they’re trying too hard to make each series self contained so that people can just pick up one of them, and as a result they’re just not connected enough.
For a story of such scale, I’d have expected a lot more connections to each other by now.
Can’t the Spymaster just come after the Lumiat?
Kind of thing I would come up with after reading about the characters on the wiki and not actually knowing anything about the stories in which they appear.
So I’ve finished Series 2 and I just don’t think this series is for me. I’ve realised I find Missy irritating and not the least bit convincing as an incarnation of the Master. I always felt a bit of a disconnect between Missy and the other Masters. On TV I could just about accept the ‘quirkiness’ and the campness that define a lot of her character. But on audio it seems this has become her sole character trait. Each story involves her pitching up somewhere and spewing various pithy comments or ascerbic put down at the mortals and time travellers around her. The comedy accents and gags just seem to overwhelm anything else about the character.
I’m going to listen to Series 3 so I can 100% the Monk, but I’m not going to be rushing to get Series 4. I think I just have to accept I don’t like whatever it is other people seem to adore about the character.
Same here, I only did her series for The Monk but I cannot stand Missy herself and the general vibe of all it is a bit juvenile? Idk if that’s the right word but it’s silly in a way I don’t think fits The Master
I love Missy but feel BF rarely write her correctly, same goes for 12 honestly in most of his EU. I do think that her Dark Gallifrey trilogy is the best she’s been written on BF by MILES. The writer is one of my faves and she even said she wanted to make a point to reiterate she is the Master and it shows. It’s accessible as you don’t need to do any other of the range’s trilogies to understand it.
I don’t think juvenile is the right word but I think the campness is ramped up far too much and Michelle Gomez just turns it up to 11 in her performance.
Dark Gallifrey as a whole hasn’t piqued my interest (except the Monk trilogy). Too Many Masters (ironically).
I enjoyed the Missy audios for what they were but they were very popcorn audios to me, fun but I won’t be revisiting
Obviously I enjoyed them. They’re not the best serials in the world, but there is some imagination in them, and I like Missy a lot.
