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Post by dasmaniac on Dec 28, 2023 0:02:19 GMT
Doctor Who on both TV and audio has usually had The Doctor and The Master encounter one another in a linear fashion, despite both being time travelers. What I mean by this is that incarnations of each usually only encounter the incarnation they were paired with on TV. So for example: the bulk of the Decayed Master's appearances in Big Finish have been in the Fourth Doctor Adventures. Big Finish has only a handful of times had The Doctor (from his perspective) encounter an earlier or later incarnation of The Master. The Seventh Doctor encounter an early Master played James Dreyfus, who was previously introduced in The First Doctor Adventures. Is there a behind the scenes reason why this so infrequently occurs? Story wise there's no reason The Tenth Doctor couldn't meet the Decayed Master.
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Post by number13 on Dec 28, 2023 0:54:30 GMT
Doctor Who on both TV and audio has usually had The Doctor and The Master encounter one another in a linear fashion, despite both being time travelers. What I mean by this is that incarnations of each usually only encounter the incarnation they were paired with on TV. So for example: the bulk of the Decayed Master's appearances in Big Finish have been in the Fourth Doctor Adventures. Big Finish has only a handful of times had The Doctor (from his perspective) encounter an earlier or later incarnation of The Master. The Seventh Doctor encounter an early Master played James Dreyfus, who was previously introduced in The First Doctor Adventures. Is there a behind the scenes reason why this so infrequently occurs? Story wise there's no reason The Tenth Doctor couldn't meet the Decayed Master. Good point and at a guess, the answer is: tradition. On TV there was only ever one Master (or Missy) active at a time and unlike the occasional multi-Doctor specials, their paths never crossed. The first three Doctors did all meet the Ainley Master in 'The Five Doctors' but only the Third Doctor recognised him.
BF have done multi-Master specials though including to wrap up 'Ravenous'. But you're right, generally each Master/Missy stays in their own era.
I wonder if 15 will find a new Master or Missy II lurking somewhere along his timeline, or if 'Rasputin' will be back having survived the apparently unsurvivable?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2023 11:32:22 GMT
On TV there are obvious logistical reasons, but I am surprised BF don't break the sequence more often. They did try to with "the Master who shall not be named" appearing against multiple doctors, but have been otherwise quite shy of it. I have noticed that Missy's stories and Masterful refer to the Doctor as being female now but that seems more like a nod to the then state of the TV series.
Some if it is probably down to the Doctor failing to recognise a new Master meaning there's no scope for previous doctors to have met that incarnation without defaulting back to mind wipes,the way they had to in the Two Masters trilogy.
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Post by cwm on Dec 28, 2023 14:15:17 GMT
The Tenth Doctor is the last of the Time Lords. That disqualifies him (or Nine) meeting any other Time Lords without resorting to Self-Defence/Time Lord Immemorial style workarounds, which I think you have to use sparingly.
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Post by dasmaniac on Dec 28, 2023 16:20:35 GMT
The Tenth Doctor is the last of the Time Lords. That disqualifies him (or Nine) meeting any other Time Lords without resorting to Self-Defence/Time Lord Immemorial style workarounds, which I think you have to use sparingly. From their perspective Nine and Ten are the last of the Tine Lords but Ten has bumpd into 4/5/6! |
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Post by number13 on Dec 28, 2023 16:31:12 GMT
The Tenth Doctor is the last of the Time Lords. That disqualifies him (or Nine) meeting any other Time Lords without resorting to Self-Defence/Time Lord Immemorial style workarounds, which I think you have to use sparingly. From their perspective Nine and Ten are the last of the Tine Lords but Ten has bumpd into 4/5/6! And in 'The Legacy of Time', Ten not only meets the full set from Three to Eight but he's giving the First and Second Doctors a lift in his TARDIS! |
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Post by enofa on Dec 29, 2023 13:25:08 GMT
Dalek Universe has the whole thing of Ten basically jumping a time track and appearing in the pre-War universe, and yet yes, in Legacy of Time, he meets all the early Doctors. River seems to be able to jump to either side of the war as well. There doesn’t seem to be much consistency to how the time lock works, really.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2023 13:29:02 GMT
There doesn’t seem to be much consistency to how the time lock works, really. That's because time is a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff !  |
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