ccrobinson
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***Utopian thoughts***
Pete, did you forget what the Doctor did in Smith and Jones, taking his tie off for Martha before he even met her? I think the same thing has happened with Master Saxon.
I've started watching The Enemy Within again in order to get some information about the Eye of Harmony, and the Master's fate at the end of the movie. The question is not only how did the Master come to have at least one more regeneration, but how did he gain that particular body? Eric Roberts, Enemy Within Master, looks nothing like Derek Jacobi (who was brilliant as the pre-regeneration Master), so how did that all take place?
I speculated earlier about the Time War and the Eye of Harmony, but the Master had to get out of the Eye before the Time War started. If he had gotten out as a result of the Time War, the Doctor would have sensed him. We already know that Time Lords can sense each other, and there was no doubt that 10 sensed the exact moment that the Master was reborn.
Somehow, the Master got out of the Eye, stole himself a body (which, admittedly, isn't hard for him to do), and then stole a TARDIS. Maybe he stole the body of another Time Lord? Where's the Master's TARDIS?
Isn't it likely that he gave the Daleks the necessary technology to start the Time War? I think we've made the assumption (which was perfectly reasonable considering what we knew) that they developed it on their own, but now that we know the Master is alive, it's not a stretch at all to say that he gave them the technology. Perhaps he gave it to them and then became human, avoiding the repercussions of the war, knowing that he would eventually open the watch.
Also, what's the significance of the Doctor's hand? They showed it to us in Act 1, so it will obviously come into play somehow.
Props to the writers.
The "parlor trick" that the Doctor did in Smith and Jones was an effective setup for us to go along with Master Saxon affecting the Doctor before he was awakened.
The Face of Boe, obviously.
In Human Nature, they sold us on the Chameleon Arch, setting into motion the thought process that a Time Lord could have used it to save himself/herself from the affects of the Time War.
I was pretty sure that The Enemy Within was considered canon, and that was firmly established when John Smith drew a picture of himself as 8.
Not every book/comic/novel about Doctor Who is considered canon. Human Nature was a novel that Paul Cornell wrote during 7's era. Since it was adapted for 10, it couldn't have been considered canon for 7. RTD isn't George Lucas, so he's not going to mess up the canon of the series like that.
In Blink, the Doctor himself tells us that time is made up of "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff", setting us up to buy the idea that Master Saxon could be "awakened" in the year 100 trillion (or whatever it is), and still affect the Doctor in 2007.
I'll post more about The Eye of Harmony once I finish the movie, hopefully tonight.
***end of Utopian thoughts***
Pete, did you forget what the Doctor did in Smith and Jones, taking his tie off for Martha before he even met her? I think the same thing has happened with Master Saxon.
I've started watching The Enemy Within again in order to get some information about the Eye of Harmony, and the Master's fate at the end of the movie. The question is not only how did the Master come to have at least one more regeneration, but how did he gain that particular body? Eric Roberts, Enemy Within Master, looks nothing like Derek Jacobi (who was brilliant as the pre-regeneration Master), so how did that all take place?
I speculated earlier about the Time War and the Eye of Harmony, but the Master had to get out of the Eye before the Time War started. If he had gotten out as a result of the Time War, the Doctor would have sensed him. We already know that Time Lords can sense each other, and there was no doubt that 10 sensed the exact moment that the Master was reborn.
Somehow, the Master got out of the Eye, stole himself a body (which, admittedly, isn't hard for him to do), and then stole a TARDIS. Maybe he stole the body of another Time Lord? Where's the Master's TARDIS?
Isn't it likely that he gave the Daleks the necessary technology to start the Time War? I think we've made the assumption (which was perfectly reasonable considering what we knew) that they developed it on their own, but now that we know the Master is alive, it's not a stretch at all to say that he gave them the technology. Perhaps he gave it to them and then became human, avoiding the repercussions of the war, knowing that he would eventually open the watch.
Also, what's the significance of the Doctor's hand? They showed it to us in Act 1, so it will obviously come into play somehow.
Props to the writers.
The "parlor trick" that the Doctor did in Smith and Jones was an effective setup for us to go along with Master Saxon affecting the Doctor before he was awakened.
The Face of Boe, obviously.
In Human Nature, they sold us on the Chameleon Arch, setting into motion the thought process that a Time Lord could have used it to save himself/herself from the affects of the Time War.
I was pretty sure that The Enemy Within was considered canon, and that was firmly established when John Smith drew a picture of himself as 8.
Not every book/comic/novel about Doctor Who is considered canon. Human Nature was a novel that Paul Cornell wrote during 7's era. Since it was adapted for 10, it couldn't have been considered canon for 7. RTD isn't George Lucas, so he's not going to mess up the canon of the series like that.
In Blink, the Doctor himself tells us that time is made up of "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff", setting us up to buy the idea that Master Saxon could be "awakened" in the year 100 trillion (or whatever it is), and still affect the Doctor in 2007.
I'll post more about The Eye of Harmony once I finish the movie, hopefully tonight.
***end of Utopian thoughts***
