History YMMV / DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums

** Martha asking the Doctor if both he and the Master are siblings ended being more funny as both Ten and the next incarnation of the Master played siblings in WesternAnimation/{{Ducktales 2017}}.

* {{Jossed}}: In an interview with ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'', Creator/RussellTDavies stated that the eponymous drumbeat was not inspired by the opening bars of Ron Grainer's original theme tune (as many fans believed) but by his alarm clock which plays a sound similar to the aforementioned sound of drums when it goes off.

* HilariousInHindsight: In the episode, the fact that a previously obscure politician could set up a new party and then come to power via a LandslideElection is treated as something so absurdly improbable that it implies that "Saxon" has somehow been manipulating the UK population. Almost exactly a decade later, Emmanual Macron did exactly that, becoming President of France as head of a new party and off the back of a comparatively short political career.[[note]](In Macron's case, the explanation was far more mundane; the initial favourite, Francois Fillon's chances were destroyed when it emerged that he and his wife had previously been embezzling the government, and Marine Le Pen, who had the most support after Fillon and Macron, was considered to be too extreme right-wing to have any chance of being elected)[[/note]]

* FridgeBrilliance: Before the Master gasses his cabinet to death, he calls them all disgusting traitors and talks about how they abandoned their own parties when his got the upper hand. Where the Fridge Brilliance comes in is that during most of his appearances in the classic series, the Master's M.O. was to team up with some other alien or villain to attack the Earth, only for the other villain to betray him and force him into an EnemyMine with the Doctor. Out of all people, of ''course'' he would choose traitors to satisfy his bloodlust.
* FridgeHorror: The Master mentions how the Time Lords thought he'd be the "perfect warrior" for the Last Great Time War. With the knowledge that there was an incarnation of the Doctor who fought in the Time War, otherwise known as the "War Doctor", and how he was feared ''by both sides'', it raises the question of the amount destruction the Master could've brought if he never fled to the end of the universe.
** Additional FridgeHorror: We have only seen very few things scare the Master, but never to extent of what the Cruciform does. And yet nothing is revealed about the Cruciform, making you question what the hell it exactly is. The fact that it apparently didn't scare ''the War Doctor'' also raises some disturbing implications about what he did back in the Last Great Time War.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Davies later admitted he used the title "President-elect" just because he thought it sounded cooler than simply "President," not knowing it actually refers to a newly elected President in the two months before they officially take office, with the actual position still held by the previous President in a "lame duck" period.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The American President's remark about Britain electing "an ass". Sort of self-aware humour in 2007. [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump In the late 2010s,]] [[UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson however...]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The American President's remark about Britain electing "an ass". Sort of self-aware humor in 2007. [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump In the late 2010s,]] [[UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson however...]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The American President's remark about Britain electing "an ass". Sort of self-aware humor in 2007. [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump In the late 2010s,]][[UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson however...]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The American President's remark about Britain electing "an ass". Sort of self-aware humor in 2007. [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump In the late 2010s,]][[UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson however...]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The American President's remark about Britain electing "an ass". Sort of self-aware humor in 2007. [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump In the late 2010s,]][[UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson however...]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The American President's remark about Britain electing "an ass". Sort of self-aware humor in 2007. [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump In the late 2010s, however...]]

* CrossesTheLineTwice: The Master gassing the entire cabinet to death? Creepy and a tad bit scary. One of the member of the cabinet calling him insane, only for him to respond with a (supposed) grin and double thumbs up? HILARIOUS.
* FridgeBrilliance: Before the Master gasses his cabinet to death, he calls them all disgusting traitors and talks about how they abandoned their own parties when his got the upper hand. Where the Fridge Brilliance comes in is that during most of his appearances in the classic series, his M.O. was to team up with some other alien or villain to attack the Earth, only for the other villain to betray him and force him into an EnemyMine with the Doctor. Out of all people, of ''course'' he would choose traitors to satisfy his bloodlust.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The American President's remark about Britain electing "an ass". Sort of self-aware humor in 2007. In the late 2010s, however...

+ HarsherInHindsight: Watching this episode post-2018 can be upsetting with the knowledge that William Hughes (the child actor who plays the young Master in the flashback scene) [[http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2018/07/william-hughes-1998-2018.html died in 2018 at the very young age of 20.]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The American President's remark about Britain electing "an ass". Sort of self-aware humor in 2007, now...

* HilariousInHindsight: The "President Elect" business has seemed like ArtisticLicenseLaw for years, as noted on the Recap page. Come late 2016, and suddenly Winters is an even more accurate Expy of [[Creator/DonaldTrump the newest PEOTUS]], and his blatant disregard for Executive protocol, than of Dubya.