The Masters Madness came from looking into the time vortex (at least as far as a knew, I missed a big chunk of Who's so I may well have missed something). I don't have a problem with removing his "humanity" as such, I have issue with him not being the master planner. I don't have issue with characters evolving just changing the core of the character.

The evil for the sake of evil is something I don't really like in literature either, and to me that seems the route they sort of are taking with the daleks. They were supposed to be the sped up evolution of their people with genetic modifications to make them “stronger”, by weeding out “emotions that would make them weaker” to help them win the war.

Bah I'm starting to sound like some sort of Treky for Dr, Who, I'm not really, it was just something I grew up with and hold dear. Everything I'm saying could be dead wrong, I'm just going by a biased memory that's not all that good any more.

And BTW, I'm really looking forward to your grunge Daleks.