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News River Song to meet the Fourth Doctor (Big Finish, of course)

Do the River Song boxes consist of a continuing story, or are they all largely standalone? Would jumping in on any set be fine (maybe a few subtle details not understood, but otherwise unrelated)?

Sort of like Moffatt arcs vs RTD arcs.
 
Now River is going to be battling four different Masters! At once! Sadly, no John Simm...

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2...as-the-masters-for-new-doctor-who-adventures/

I read this, and was wondering how there could possibly be other Roberts Master stories when he only existed in the TV movie - he is created and destroyed on screen within the span of that one story, and didn't have his own Tardis at any point in it (although I suppose he did have access to the Doctor's Tardis.)

So I thought the solution must be that, when the Time Lords resurrect the Master to use as a soldier in the Time War, he first emerges as the Roberts Master, before regenerating / being reconstructed / whatever into the Jacobi Master.

Absolutely fascinated to know what a River-Missy meeting would be like though...

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I read this, and was wondering how there could possibly be other Roberts Master stories when he only existed in the TV movie - he is created and destroyed on screen within the span of that one story, and didn't have his own Tardis at any point in it (although I suppose he did have access to the Doctor's Tardis.)

So I thought the solution must be that, when the Time Lords resurrect the Master to use as a soldier in the Time War, he first emerges as the Roberts Master, before regenerating / being reconstructed / whatever into the Jacobi Master.

The Master's timeline, TBH, makes the Doctor's look easy to follow. He seems to have quickly burned through at least three lives between when he was resurrected (well into Eight's lifetime, but well before the Time War) and when he becomes Jacobi.
 
While I would have been OK with where River Song's story ended with the Eleventh Doctor I loved seeing her interact with Peter Capaldi and would definitely look forward to seeing (hearing?) her interact with other Doctors even though it makes her "your so young" comments in Silence in the Library seem odd. And I'd definitely love to see her appear with Jodi Whittaker (although I'll be surprised if that ever occurs).
 
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