The Master in the 3DAs

For my preference, it has to be the original TV incarnation of the Master.  As I am comfortable with the Tim Treloar recast of Pertwee.  I am also receptive for Delgado being faithfully recast.

Given that Delgado turned into Kisgart in the other universe, I personally like to believe there's a Mark Gatiss Master somewhere between Delgado and Beevers. Beevers might be a better fit against Treloar, though.

For myself, absolutely so. With Tim Treloar, Frazer Hines and Elliot Chapman i find the portrayals take me back to the Televised stories seamlessly, to the point that i do not visualise another actor impersonating, provided the stories are a suitable fit and feel recreation of their period.

The question is whether as listeners we want pastiche recreations or new directions for past Doctors. I like a cosy nostalgia trip back to 60's and 70's Who all too often with early Doctors, though appreciate that many want something less predictable and more dynamic. 

Michelle Gomez though - she's got to be on the Big Finish headhunters list for potential past Doctor encounters...

I wouldn't like Gattis to play this Universe's Master. Kinda takes the fun out of having an alternate cast list for the Unbound universe. I like the notion that the casting there is it's own thing.

There's room for new characterisation with a new Master, exciting casting for an unseen incarnation....I'd rather see that. Gattis gets the same treatment as James Dreyfus just did - perfectly good but written and performed as Generic Master 101; charming, debonair and yet vainglorious and deadly. Something new would be great. It does frustrate that The Doctor changes so much from body to body yet The Master in the classic era is almost always variations on a theme - all through the filter of Delgado. Only MacQueen gets to really play it differently and even then he's very Simm-like rather than something totally fresh. I get the "But Delgado was so iconic" thing but, well, so was Tom Baker. Doesn't mean that everyone just did a Fourth Doctor avatar when Tom left. 

I'd have zero issues with recasting Delgado's Master - then he could be written as like Roger as BF want. The argument against recasting when the range is already led by a recast doesn't hold water. 

The difference to me is that to do a full cast third Doctor story they need to have a third Doctor. Can’t avoid it. To do a third Doctor Master story after Frontier in Space you don’t need the same incarnation of Master. Indeed it might be more interesting for the Doctor, Jo and co to react to a new Master. He could hide in plain sight for most of a story.

I think the Delgado Master in audio is a great idea.... except for the fact that we couldn't see all those expressions he pulled with his eyebrows in audio format. Ah, well; one could say the same about Patrick Troughton. He was very expressive in his face; you wouldn't think it would work on audio, but it does.

P.S. - I REALLY like the idea of a pre-Terserus Beevers. It's actually an idea that's been on my mind for quite a while.

The more i think about it through reading this thread, Geoffrey Beevers, being the surviving actor in the role from the classic series, seems to be an opportunity hiding in plain sight. Particularly as we never saw what led the Master to his catastrophic decayed state in Assassin/Traken and Delgado left on a kind of cliffhanger/unresolved exit at the close of Frontier.

Some good creative ideas cropping up here which would make for a good original development of the character, whilst avoiding the moustache twirling Dastardly ness that followed in the eighties (as good as it was with Ainley in the role).

Big Finish have provided an explanation for the decayed state of the Master in