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- From: Ric_Goldman@3mail.3com.com
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- Subject: Re: Re: The Master
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 20:37:00 GMT
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- wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson) wrote:
- >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.
-
- I agree. They put in the adequate performances needed until a new
- Master characterization could be developed.
-
- >>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.
-
- Actually, the Tissue Compression Eliminator (sic?) appears as early as
- "The Deadly Assasin" used by Pratt's Master on video technician and the
- incompetent Chancellor guard. But I think it falls in the category of
- the sonic screwdriver - a trademark tool, not a trademark of the
- characterization.
-
- >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.
-
- I think it's also the chemistry between the actors themselves as well.
- RD and John Pertwee knew each other well before DW and were able to use
- that on screen. AA outlasted three (maybe four or five counting McCoy
- and the Valeyard) incarnations of the Doctor, but at least kept
- consistent while his opposite kept changing.
-
- Perhaps what is needed was a "Who is the Master" thread, similar to the
- "Who is the Doctor" introduced with McCoy, to help flesh out the
- character.
-
- >Tom
-
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