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- From: wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson)
- Subject: Re: The Master
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.073456.9774@cs.ucf.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:34:56 GMT
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- yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee) wrote:
- >The best Master to date, Roger Delgado.
-
- That's your opinion. Even though I agree with it, it is still an opinion.
-
- >The 2 other portrayals, Peter Pratt and Geoffrey Beevers, tried there best, but
- >could not capture the essential Master that Delgado had developped.
-
- You can hardly count these guys in a comparison.
-
- >And now to Anthony Ainley, who from the start did his best to fill the
- >footsteps of Delgado, but fell short. The TCE is used more that hypnosis.
- >Instead of being the Delgado diplomat-like billain, a more directly ruthless
- >butcherer who kill and annihalate, rather than the ruthless person who would
- >usurp by conviction.
-
- Perhaps the TCE (maybe you should fill in the new readers with your
- abbreviations - I forget what it stands for but I know what you are talking
- about) is AA's trademark just as hypnosis was RD's. Each Doctor has a different
- trademark of sorts. Perhaps AA's different attitude can be attributed to his
- end-of-his-set-of-regenerations insanity? Of course, it's only speculation.
-
- Finally, if we gave AA the number of stories that RD had and more importantly
- the quality of the stories, we might see what kind of Master that AA portrays.
- The Master isn't the main character anyway, so why emphasize him? The bad guy
- should never be explained fully so that he always has a surprise in store for
- the audience.
-
- Tom
-