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- From: doctor8@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Jason A Miller)
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- Subject: Re: Re: The Master
- Message-ID: <18NOV199216054214@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:05:00 GMT
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- In article <921117.124116@3Mail.3Com.COM>, Ric_Goldman@3mail.3com.com writes...
- >
- >>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, Delgado DID have the TCE, or at least a primitive
- version of it. We see it used in the very first episode of "Terror of
- the Autons", the first Master story, when he uses it on an unsuspecting
- lab technician.
- However, I'm not sure if we see Delgado use it again. All I know
- is that he did have it.
-
- >
- >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.
-
- Remember Part 1 of "Logopolis"? The Master's "calling card" is
- the twin shrunken bodies of a police constable and Tegan's Aunt Vanessa -
- that is how the Doctor realizes he's being pursued. And in many subsequent
- Master stories, we see several shrunken corpses lying around. I think it
- was meant to be his trademark at first, but go dropped as time went on.
- By Survival, I don't think the Master HAD a trademark - he just showed up
- for the first cliffhanger of every story and looked silly.
-
- >
- >>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.
-
- During Pertwee's second season, the Master was in every single
- episode. After this season concluded with his arrest in "The Daemons", he
- was dropped as a "regular", and became a frequent guest star. When Ainley
- came around, he showed up once a season, and just became a sort of guest
- star, like the Daleks and Cybermen.
-
- >
- >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.
-
- Does anybody know if the Master is supposed to show up in any
- New Adventures? It would be interesting to see what he's like, after
- he metamorphosed into Tony the Tiger at the end of "Survival" ...
-
- >
- >>Tom
-
-
- Jason Miller
-