Doctor Who 3x12: "The Sound of Drums" | Reaction!
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- Alex reacts to and discusses Series 3 Episode 12 of Doctor Who: The Sound of Drums!
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Fun fact. The Last Christmas Special there’s a reference to Harold Saxon. There’s a soldier in a tank and you hear the words said ‘orders from Mr. Saxon, Fire at will’
So he’s been hiding for a LONG time
There is also a hint at Harold Saxon is season 2. In Love and Monsters the newspaper the absorbaloff is holding when they see his true identity has a headline talking about Harold Saxon. :) I hadn't realised how far back it is referenced. :D
"Vote Saxon" has also been hidden in the background of a few episodes of Torchwood as well.
Bad Wolf was even written on a staircase in the episode “Captain Jack Harkness” apparently
Fun fact: In series 2 episode 11 “Love and Monsters”, the main enemy of the episode, Victor Kennedy, was reading a newspaper with the phrase “Saxon rising through polls” or something along those lines (:
So yeah they’ve been planning this. Just like when Torchwood was mentioned in the Series 1 finale.
It’s very quick, so I don’t blame you. I think I only found out by listening to the commentary lol.
The Master is a lot more zany and energetic in this episode than his previous incarnations were, but then, so is the Doctor. The Master has always kind of mirrored the Doctor (It's kind of implied that he deliberately tries to copy him). The whole point of him, as a villain, is "what if the Doctor were a sociopath".
It's always kind of funny to me how Jack says that "all the legends of Gallifrey made it sound so perfect." In Classic Who, the Time Lords were always portrayed as arrogant, xenophobic bureaucrats, with their society stagnant and bogged down in tradition. They "swore never to interfere," yet their secret service - the Celestial Intervention Agency - existed primarily to prevent other civilizations from developing time-travel technology.
You really think previous doctors aren't zany? Have you even seen classic who?
@@rememo6294 They weren't as _overtly energetic,_ is what I meant. You won't see Hartnell, Pertwee, or McCoy running around the set the way Tennant does. Not nearly as often, at any rate.
I've seen probably around 70% of Classic Who. The ones I've seen the least are Peter Davison and Colin Baker.
@@Alfwin for William Hartnell's age, he was actually quite energetic. Energetic doesn't just mean running around the set. Pertwee beating up people is energetic. Hartnell beating up people is energetic. Sylvester bumbling around and talking fast and strangely is energetic. Tom's childish sense is energetic.
@@rememo6294 But most of the Doctors only approached that level of energy when it was _needed_ (with the exception of Tom Baker; you're right there). Maybe I didn't word it very well, but Tennant is definitely more energetic than most previous doctors.
Either way, it's rather beside my original point, which was just that as the Doctor changes, the Master changes to reflect him.
the teletubbies thing is a reference to a joke in classic who where the master is watching the children's TV show "The Clangers" and thinks that it is actual aliens.
Nah, I think that's more Delgado!Master fucking around and trolling with the prison warden, to toy with him. Simm!Master is just that fucking stupid to believe it. He's obviously not fucking with the Toclafane since they don't know or care about the Teletubbies
I have a theory, that the Master gave the Torchwood team some 'hints' that Jack had been spotted, or that he was in fact in trouble, in the Himalayas and, being loyal friends, they set out to find him, not realizing that it was just the Master sending them on a wild goose chase to get them out of the picture.
‘because of the GAS!’
‘What gas?’
‘.....this gas!’
*such a badass scene*
TheFallofTheEleventh I think the word you are looking for is *INSANE!*
Wish I got to *see* that in this video.
One of the Master's special skills is mind control & hypnosis. He literally tries to "master" people's minds - inserting himself into British political process and simultaneously getting people to ignore it is a very Master thing to do.
The Master has been getting himself killed since the seventies. He's just never yet had the decency to stay dead.
Hopping "he" will never do.
The Master is just as much a part of Doctor Who as the monsters and the Doctor himself.
There is a saying in Who fandom when the Doctor goes a bit mental. ‘Doctor! your Master is showing!’
A good way to put the Master in to context would be to think about those little moments when the Doctor looses his sh*t. Remember Eccleston’s Doctor holding a massive gun when confronting the lone Dalek in ‘Dalek’. Rose brings him back with “what are you becoming?” When the Doctor sometimes loses his sh*t it only last a few seconds and he always reigns it in or has a companion to set him right. Image if he didn’t! Imagine if he lost it for good, all that power! That’s the Master.
Notes :
The first reference to Harold Saxon is in “Love and Monsters” it’s on the newspaper the Absorbalof is holding “Saxon leads polls with 64%”
In “The Runaway Bride” we hear a solider say “Orders from Mr Saxon fire at will”
The Doctor says there’s an error of 18 months so between 2006 and 2007
I can't get over that The Doctor took the time to grab his coat!
They've been dropping Harold Saxon references since Love and Monsters.
Rose-2005
Aliens of London-The Christmas Invasion- 2006
School Reunion- The Runaway Bride- 2007
Smith and Jones-Present- 2008
Also when we first meet Harriet Nine says she gets like 4 terms and a Golden Age, but Ten ousts her in The Christmas Invasion and The Master fills the vacuum.
This is June 2007, the Christmas invasion was December 2005 so that's 18 months (...Man this episode was over 11 years ago...wow)
The Christmas Invasion took place in Christmas 2006.
@@Kasterborous1963 sorry yeah they supposedly all took place a year after their actual release because of Aliens in London. I still think it's more important to remember when these are actually coming out
+spencer o'keeffe I didn't realise you were saying the date of release. I thought you were saying when the events took place.
@@Kasterborous1963 No, you're right it was something I didn't think about and it was a great point to make. I do find it makes very little difference though and half the time you're watching it you forget about, but yeah I think it's good to keep track of the year it's coming out, but you're absolutely right in pointing out it was set 2006 and 2008 rather than 5&7 even though those are the release years
+spencer o'keeffe I
have a severe obsession with chronology so I don't really forget the year when watching. It usually becomes my main focus. I have a need to know the year and order of everything.
Back in the Runaway Bride, when the tank opens fire on the Raknos ship, the tank commander says "Orders from Mr Saxon", so he was in a position of authority even then
An interesting tidbit about Harold Saxon is that the BBC created a website during the run of series 3 that was essentially a fake profile for him, as if he was actually real. It listed things like what school he attended, his University and what he studied, his interests and how he hopes to make a big change. All packed with pictures of him and Lucy, him attending various places for his campaign, etc. I think they did this super early on, too. A massive spoiler that nobody even knew existed until they showed it.
The Master died between the movie and New Who. His death wasn't actually shown yet. But audios, comics, and this episode mention that he was revived for the Time War.
5:16 "God, I thought the Doctor was insane" - I agree on so many levels, this phrase just made my day, thank you :)
The first reference I think was in Love and Monsters. In the paper the absorbolof carries. Saxon then gets mentioned in The Runaway Bride. He is minister of Defense that calls the attack on the Racnoss. The Time Schism is sort of like the sorting hat. Looking into it shows the Chancellors the sort of Time Lord they could be. The more adventurous tend to enter the Prydonian chapter. The Master and the Doctor are both Prydonian (they wear Scarlet robes). UNIT are international. It used to be a unit nations outfit and get their orders from Geneva.
The dynamic between The Doctor, Martha and Jack is really great to watch. The moment when The Doctor talks about Gallifrey is such a gripping moment because of the way he talks about it. The visuals and narration on that part is awesome.
Yeah, the Master is one of those villains who in the classic series always died, but never for long....you know, the whole "the bad guy is dead! .....or IS he? DUN DUN DUN!" sort of things. So yeah, he was thought to have used all his regens. The doctor doesn't want to kill him because A. He doesn't want to kill the last Timelord (besides himself) in existence...especially after being responsible for the deaths of the rest of them during the war, and B. They were childhood friends, and I think the doctor thinks there is always a chance for redemption there...that he can get his friend back....
Also, it never really fully explains the whole 'staring into the untempered schism' thing....they kind of imply that it's something that all students at the academy (where Gallifreyans become 'Timelords') have to do... Maybe seeing all of time gives them their 6th sense/understanding of time (fixed points, what can be changed, what can't, etc.) ? Maybe it's just a ritual, to give them an appreciation for time? Who knows? Pretty cool, though.
UNIT is global, originally stood for "United nations intelligence taskforce". As far as public knew, Saxon had contact with these new aliens with alerting other authorities or following first contact protocols, thus why unit and America had right to be annoyed at him.
It kinda glosses over it in this episode, but I think it's important to note that once upon a time friends, they fell out before even the beginning of classic Who. (It's actually one of my favourite elements of the character)
Saxon has been meantioned many times. Sorta like how bad wolf was. The first time is one most people miss since it's so fast.
In love & monsters, when the absorbaloff reads the newspaper you can see a headline reading "Saxon ahead in poles"
Next in the runaway bride, the guy in the tank shooting the webstar says "orders from mister Saxon, fire!"
In smith and Jones there's a vote Saxon poster, also some guy on a radio meantioned him.
In Torchwood there's a vote Saxon on the door of that hall in the episode "captain jack Harkness".
The only one I noticed was the one in Torchwood.
"this just is the Avengers." Man you wait until series four ;)
Shhhh...
HA!
Notes on The Master
I’m not gonna say anything about death and the Master as it’s long and complicated but in recent years the Master has been given audio boxsets set during the Time War
So how we know what happened but when this aired we didn’t. But I will say that Jacobi to Simm is the first Master regenerations we’ve seen on screen
The Drums,looking into the untempted schism, and the laser screwdriver is all new to this episode -mainly just to explain and help new fans
We have also been given other reasons to why the Master is the way he is but he was created to be a Moriarty like character in the show so
There’s lots of references to past Master things but I’ll leave them for other people
That rhythm gives me goosebumps.
The Valiant's design seems to resemble Skybase from The New Captain Scarlet series from 2003.
New Captain Scarlet being a reboot of the 1967 series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
Now that you know the Master, a good thing to watch would be "Curse of the Fatal Death". It's a Dr. Who parody starring Rowan Atkinson. It's super funny and very reactable. It could easily be a filler thing if you need to delay an episode with something.
This was made when the MCU was still just a gleam in Kevin Feige's eye, but the heli-carrier as a concept was introduced in the comics back in the 60's, in the "Nick Fury: Agent of Shield" feature in Strange Tales. UNIT isn't just a British organization, it's the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, so it's an international organization (they've modified the name to Unified Intelligence Taskforce in modern Who when the U. N. complained about the use of their name.)The earliest reference to Harold Saxon that I'm aware of is when he's name-dropped in The Runaway Bride. Really enjoyed this reaction. Hope you're going to react to Time Crash, the mini-sode that falls between the season finale and the next Christmas special.
You've probably already been told this a dozen times, but the Tellytubby bit is a reference to a Classic sequence, where the Master is watching the kids' tv show The Clangers with deep interest.
In The Runaway Bride, the tank that shoots down the Raknos ship does so on the orders of Mr Saxon
As I understand it, the Master used regenerations for disguise, so he ran out quicker than the Doctor.
Don’t know whether it was deliberate or a coincidence but Mister Saxon is actually an anagram of Master no. Six as John Simm is the 6th actor to portray the Master on TV ( Eric Roberts played the Master in the 1996 movie but not included as it’s film)
The Master is to the Doctor what Moriarty is to Sherlock Holmes. Both of equal intelligence but choosing to channel that in completely different ways.
When Martha said she thought the Master was going to turn out to be the Doctor’s brother or something, it was a reference to the classic series in that they were planning to have that revealed as so but the actor at the time had died so the storyline was scrapped.
The alien orbs in this episode (The Toclafane) were originally created to be the emenies that fought The Time Lords in the Time War when it looked like the show runners weren't going to be able to get the rights to use the Daleks. But everything worked out in the end and the show runners got the rights to the Daleks and we get the Toiclafane as they are here.
There were Vote Saxon posters all over the place. Right from the end of the Judoon episode in the alley with Martha and the TARDIS.
Yeah the master is a great villain as he's the doctors equal in many ways, they're time Lords and have a history together unlike Daleks or Cybermen.
When keeping track of the doctor who timeline remember that present day episodes are actually a year ahead of the year it aired due to the bit in series one where Rose missed a year.
Each of the Masters has a different take on 'evil'.
The first Master we encountered presented himself as a suave and sinister businessman.
Then he became what can only be described as 'icky!'
After that he assumed the mantle of 'demonic-laughter villain';
Then flamboyant dressy show-off;
amnesiac,tortured old man;
and now this 'extrovert and bat-shit crazy young guy'.
According to your viewing schedule, you'll meet some of the other versions in the not too distant future :)
I know this isn’t related to Doctor Who btw but RIP Stan Lee 😭😭😭
Not the first person to bring it up on here. It's okay man. We'll move forward. (gives virtual hug)
I'll provide a link : my iPad wallpaper is a photo of David Tennant and Stan Lee.
Deus in Exelsior. (Virtual hug for all True Believers).
The genesis of this story is interesting. It was actually one of the first plotlines developed when the Who revival was in the planning stages. The original concept was for the Master to have an Alliance with the Daleks, but at this point the BBC weren't sure if they could get the rights to use them, so the Toclofane were created as stand-ins.
By the time the show had gone into production, a lot of things had changed, so they didn't bother rebranding them as Daleks,
The Tellytubbies thing is a callback to a gag in classic Who. In one episode the Master is watching an old animated kid's show called The Clangers, and trying to understand their language until someone explains to him that they're puppets. They basically updated that. Many Americans don't realise Tellytubbies was a British show, as your channels tend to localise it with a new soundtrack.
Weirdly, Sir Derek Jacobi, who played Professor Yana, narrated another show by the makers of Tellytubbies, called In The Night Garden. You have to watch it, it's the trippiest thing you'll ever see!
As to your question of whether the Master was dead, it's partly answered in the 1996 movie, which you might get to at some point so I won't go into any detail. An interesting aspect of that movie is that it's hinted that peace has been made with the Daleks and they are operating as part of a space equivalent of the UN. As the Daleks and the Master both figure in this story to a greater or lesser degree, I would speculate that the episode you've just seen (replacing the Toclofane with Daleks) is a direct sequel, and maybe the Daleks weren't reformed beings at all but were a part of the Master's plot all along.
I suppose the point of looking into the Schism is that it's a test, to see how they cope with the enormity of it. A kind of "throwing them in at the deep end".
I think many British viewers looking at the Valiant would have thought "they did that in Captain Scarlet 50 years ago" rather than "they did that in The Avengers". At least, those of a certain age group in which I may or may not belong.
In The Runaway Bride, when the tank shoots down the webstar, the tank captain says "Mr Saxon's orders".
Boom boom boom boom... Drum time😳Yay! Almost to season 4! Looking forward to it.
Speaking of the Helicarrier, the Valiant isn't original either. It seems to be inspired by Cloudbase from the puppet secret agent series, Captain Scarlet.
@@SGlitz Um... yes?
Some sad news: The young man who played the master as a child in this episode, recently passed away.
Why the Voodoo Child song at the end? It was 2007. That's why. lol
The Master is what the Doctor might be if he took the brakes off
in Classic Who, the Master used regeneration as a form of disguise, and so used up his lives faster than usual. In at least one episode, he's a misshapen semi-human.
I guess #VoteSaxon for the last time since you know who he is now.
Funny, to me Winters read as a US president butting in, when Britain was more or less logically the lead since the toclafane came there first. So I kinda liked the Master for his irreverance, I mean, not for the killing, just the faces and the jokes. I really like the Master as a character, and actually like this version a lot, because of his zaniness and hilarious use of pop music :D
Funny. You like that President. All of us were like "For fucks sakes"
Him taking over only works because Saxon/Master was being an ass. Prior to their talk on the runway, it is arrogant for America to waltz in a take control of Britain's operation (though UNIT had jurisdiction to get involved).
the first on screen reference to "Saxon" was in "love and monsters"
"Dang it".....Where's this guy from, the 1950's?!?!!!
Yes, the Master 'permanently' died prior to the Time War. Can't give details ...spoilers.
I remember the week this episode aired Waterstones(like Barns & Noble) Doctor Who book display had tones of Vote Saxon posters everywhere
We also had adverts like this on tv
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There’s Sharon Osborn (wife of Ozzy Osborn) Ann Widdecombe UK politician and the boy band McFly
This is a fantastic finale, if u enjoy the next episode wait until series 4 finale jheeeeeze😂
My favorite messed up line from The Master is, referring to Jack and Martha, “oh look, it’s the girlie and the freak, although I can’t tell which is which.”
That statement is Homophobic, Racist, Sexist, and “Immortalphobic” AT THE SAME TIME.
Looking forward to full length!
Great reaction! Love this finale 3 parter.
I was comics guy for a long time, and the helicarrier is well established as an Avengers staple ages before the movies, so I definitely didnt think they were ripping off Doctor Who.
UNIT is international. The name *was* United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. But, allegedly, in 2005 the UN complained and so the name was changed to the UNified Intelligence Taskforce.
Is SJA going to be part of your schedule?
Following S2 of Torchwood and toward the end of S4 of Doctor Who.
UNIT is United Nations Intelligence Taskforce
More like Asgard is like Gallifrey, and the Valiant is not a helicarrier. This is before the MCU.
Gallifrey looks like Atlantis from Stargate.
11:12 - "this just is the Avengers"... Oh, you just wait.
Selected responses to your own observations! The Master being oddly interested in children's television was a tiny little nod to an episode from the 70s. He is, after all, completely insane. Interesting thing to think about: This is all actually the Doctor's fault. He caused the fall of Harriet Jones, and so he caused the election. All the Master did was sweep into gap he caused. As for the Master being dead; his timeline is crazy. Also his life hasn't exactly been conventional, even by Time Lord standards. It's no spoiler to say that he appears to have met a "final end" several times in the classic series, only to find his way back from it somehow.
Ummm... do you realize how elections work?
Mister Saxon = Master No. Six
Ok I’ve just realized that EVERY SINGLE REACTOR skips over the best parts of the gas scene.
You said you were interested in reacting to classic who 3 very notable episodes to watch are genesis of the daleks, earthshock and attack of the cybermen
In a few weeks we're doing The Daleks, Tomb of the Cybermen, Terror of the Autons and Genesis of the Daleks.
This has to be the only case whare decimate is used corectly.
If you need another skip week, it might be worth checking out the 1995 US Doctor Who movie, which is 'sort' of relevant here.
Dad and I are going to watch the movie following S4 in April.
@@7thHourFilms Will it really be that far ahead? You've already started the 'series 4' spreadsheet (on Patreon,anyway). When you get to them,will you be doing the "SJA; Torchwood;Who" episode reactions every week;or just one of them per week?
No, SJA Torchwood and DW videos in the same week. Add on top of that Game of Thrones and I have a busy Spring ahead of me.
The movie came out in 1996. Also, it's not a US movie. It's a BBC-Fox-Universal co-production.
Regarding UNIT and the Valiant - UNIT are involved - they're a UN organisation, and it's they who command The Valiant.. As for the helicarriers? - nah, we all went "Oh, 'Captain Scarlet' did that in the 60's"*. And Torchwood were probably sent Yeti hunting. Seriously.
* Spectrum is GREEN.
Can't wait for the finale, sir!
Funny thing is, an alien psychopath is not the worst candidate Brits could have elected.
He seems more charismatic than that Boris dude (don't know his name but he's been brought up). I'd also rather have The Master than some politicians in America.
@@7thHourFilms I'm not convinced you DON'T have the Master!
We don't. Our psychopaths aren't fun.
Yeah, having The Master would be a step up. Maybe Donald trump is a Slitheen? It would explain so much.
President winters is played by a British guy....I think.
So here it comes
The Sound of Drums
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So . ... Which is that page where you look Doctor Who?? Answer me please
What do you mean?
@@7thHourFilms Through which pages you are watching the series
Oh, I watch Doctor Who and Torchwood on Amazon Prime.
The finale is going to mess you right up.....get ready for the mic to drop
Brilliant! This is just like something the Master would done back in the 70s, only on a MASSIVE scale. Next episode is gonna be very interesting, believe me. John Simm's not my favourite Master (That would be Peter Pratt) but he's a nice change of pace from the Masters of the Classic Series.
Can you hear them ?
Well as a Doctor Who and Marvel fan I was very aware Doctor Who stole it from Marvel comics
Best! 💪💪
I always thought that the Master ageing the Doctor was the weakest part of this three parter and really dumb. It makes the Master too OP. Just let the Doctor be the centre of the action for once...😢
Alex did you vote Saxon?? And the first mension or Harold Saxon was the Christmas special the run away bride, at the end the army ppl says orders from Harold Saxon to destroy the Web 🕸
I think I need to be a citizen in England to vote. Besides, in 2007, I was 10 though that Saxon guy did sound nice! Wonder what his policies were?
@@7thHourFilms wait wait wait uk is not just England, their Scotland 🏴 England 🏴 Ireland 🇮🇪 Wales 🏴 all in the uk, am from Scotland, and u can vote in any of the country's i says also for prime minister lol 😂
And in Torchwood too. There were 'vote Saxon' posters everywhere.
Actually, first reference is in Love & Monsters, on a newspaper the Abzorbaloff is reading.
I didn't realize Prime Minister was for the whole UK. I learned something!
7:26 After watching the recent Seeker's video, this scene just not as epic like I used to think...
They should make a Gallifrey Snowglobe. And don't ever compared Gallifrey with Asgard XD. RIP, Stan Lee...
"It's like when you fancied someone, but he ever knew you're excited." The Doctor said. Martha just stared, and Jack said to Martha "You too, huh?"
Welcome to a three parter :D
Well I did notice the audio but I didn't want to be rude
Oh, last episode? Right. Forgot about that. Because of that, I now triple check that I'm recording.
@@7thHourFilms Np, I still liked it :)
@@7thHourFilms Actually, I find the new microphone too noisy. It seems to pick up every little vibration.
The SHIELD Helicarrier was introduced in a 1965 comic. The Avengers did not copy Doctor Who. Not in that regard, anyway.
I would love if you go back to a pre-1965 episode of Doctor Who and there was a helicarrier; though I doubt they had the budget for that!
There's certain reasons why time Lords would expose themselves to the time schism, you'll learn more of that one day so I won't say anymore.
No ... we’ve never learned why as it’s just appeared in this episode
If you're referring to what I think you're referring to, then that's a really shit retcon of Time Lord history and society by Moffat that makes no sense and contradicts everything that had been established about 'that' particular trait before. I'm not saying anything else, but I HATE that retcon.
Some Random Guy but it wasn’t know I’ve never seen this be the reason apart from this comment
@@archive9796 Rewatch the scene in A Good Man Goes to War with the Doctor and Vastra.
Some Random Guy but that was a whole other different thing know also they didn’t look into it
Why would a child of 8 become a time lord automatically?
What’s the point of studying then ?
Why couldn’t Ace or Chris just look into the vortex then
Cough * 8th doctor movie * cough
Cough * We're doing it in April * cough
Anyone else got an annoying echo in the video ?
It happens. I try my best to sync up the two clips but sometimes it's a half-frame off and there's nothing I can do.
So I wanted to let the dust settle before this ...
Hello and Welcome to an ongoing feature called
“Iain nit picks the episode”
And in this episode nit picks
They really really really simply the UK general elections, you don’t vote for a prime minister, you vote for a political party.
The gas thing is stupid as you’d have needed as many people in your party to win a UK general election.
President Winters says he’s “President Elect” ... so he’s not the president yet so why is he leading this ?
The drumming really bugs me as it seems to imply that he’s crazy because of that but the Master isn’t crazy he’s just so above everyone he believes that he should rule them, John Simm wanted it to play it more clam and collected but RTD said no
Ageing the Doctor makes no sense as we know that 100 years is nothing to a time lord so why does he become an old man ?
Well, it's 100 years for that form without regenerating. Correct me if I'm wrong but the forms still age. It's when a Time Lord grows to old in a form or is severely injured that they regenerate. That seemed to be what they were going for.
7th Hour Films they do age but not as we do
The first Doctor was about 450 ... it’s not so much an issue now but maybe later.
Susan once said she was both the age of Ian and Barbara combined who were between 30-40 so Susan is about 60 or 80
Taking away that it just feels like very odd and kinda random for the master to just age him up like that
_This_ incarnation of the Master is bat-shit crazy so I think the Drums work well for this particular Master.
Oh what great nitpicks! I'd love to have a stab at countering them, if you please.
1) I agree, but consider - literal hypnosis. Also it isn't actually unbelievable for a majority to vote for a popular guy rather than the party (unfortunately).
2) The gas is silly, yes, but why run the country like he is expected to when he's just going to rule the world instead?
3) We don't know how far through the presidential transition they are but given that Winters will be in charge for the next 4 years he would be the one making policies about the new aliens so he's there to circumvent unnecessary transitioning of a delicate situation.
4) I don't want to say too much about the drumming because this is a public comment but you're right, but also time is wonky and currently things are different. Also there's a multitude of factors to the Master's craziness (consider - being revived, thrown into a war, forgetting who he was only to remember and discover everything he knew has changed. Gallifrey was his home too.)
5) The Master actually explains (in very simple terms) that he's interfering with the passive regeneration of a Time Lord that slows their physical ageing, hence revealing what 100 years would look like if the Doctor was a normal being. No adding going on here, just subtracting certain species advantages.
If you took the time to read this reply then thank you very much, and I hope maybe I have absolved some nitpicks (even if I have extrapolated a lot of unsaid and thus unconfirmed information).