I'm not sure what show you guys were watching but I thought it was pretty standard and a bunch of fluff. Oh, really. It's the Master. Who could have guessed??!!! <Obvious alert!!!!>
For this particular Doctor Who show, nothing can beat the episodes leading up to and including where Rose looks into the heart of the TARDIS and vanquishes the Daleks for what should have been the final time. Everything after that has been downhill. How long can this show keep banking on Daleks, the Master, and running away from silly monster things? It' just seems sad to me.
It was a good episode, but I'm baffled by the hype around it. It's not like this is the first time the Master has come back from the dead in some improbable fashion. Neither is this the first three part story about his return. For those of us who were watching back in the 80s, we can remember the "Master Returns" trilogy: The Keeper of Traken (the Master attempts to take control of an ultimate power source to extend his life, fails, and escapes after hijacking someone's body), Logopolis (the Master lays a trap for the Doctor, inadvertantly unleashes unstoppable forces that are destroying the universe, has to cooperate with the Doctor to stop it, and, in the process, kills off the 4th Doctor), and Castrovalva (the Master lays a series of traps for the newly-regenerated Doctor, one of which includes sending the Doctor's TARDIS back to the Big Bang, the other involving a simulation of a theraputic location to aid the Doctor in healing from his difficult regeneration--the trap fails and the Master is caught in his own nasty surprise in what appears to be a fatal manner).
Utopia was really just a vehicle for reintroducing the Master and had no real plot signifigance. I'm not sure why fans are calling this episode a pivotal moment in Doctor Who history. The true meat of the story will be happening in The Sound of Drums and The Last of the Time Lords.