The nuWho Master/Mistress is just disgusting. There hasn't been a decent portrayal since Anthony Ainley, although I give some leeway to Derek Jacobi, just for being Derek Jacobi.
Season 9/Christmas special speculation *spoilers*
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In Terror, that makes better sense in early versions of the script, where the Master is only working for the Nestenes because they saved him from captivity/capture by the Time Lords.
In turn, that may have been the last remnant of a rumoured initial idea that the new regular villain might be the War Lord, escaped from the temporal limbo he was sent at the end of The War Games: if that ever was the idea (Terrance, as usual, can't remember as it was a long time ago and he was doing at lot at the time), it didn't last very long, as the idea of calling the character The Master and casting Delgado soon made it easier to make him a totally new character with an unseen backstory, though there's one version or another of the script where the Time Lord who info-dumps to the Doctor says "Nowadays he prefers to call himself The Master..." as if it's a new name that he hadn't used on his previous encounters with the Doctor.
This story says Capaldi will be doing S9 & S10.
Hardly a surprise, that guarantees him for the standard three year term for a Doctor.
The Doctor's opinion of the Master in "Terror of the Autons" was formed by events that occurred before the episode. Here is the dialogue:
TIME LORD: We Time Lords don't care to be conspicuous. Some of us, that is.
DOCTOR: Look, if you've come down merely to be rude
TIME LORD: I came to warn you. An old acquaintance has arrived on this planet.
DOCTOR: Oh? One of our people?
TIME LORD: The Master.
DOCTOR: That jackanapes! All he ever does is cause trouble.
TIME LORD: He'll certainly try to kill you, Doctor. The tribunal thought that you ought to be made aware of your danger.
DOCTOR: How very kind of them.
TIME LORD: You are incorrigibly meddlesome, Doctor, but we've always felt that your hearts are in the right places. But be careful. The Master has learnt a great deal since you last met him.
DOCTOR: I refuse to be worried by a renegade like the Master. He's a, he's an unimaginative plodder.
http://www.chakoteya.net/DoctorWho/8-1.htm
I noted that when Santa Claus was speaking to the Doctor that the background was white. In the serial "The Mind Robber", the TARDIS was in a dimension that was unknown to the Doctor. This dimension was white, and individuals experienced hallucinations in it. This dimension had a connection to the Land of Fiction. Could the TARDIS have landed in this dimension again?
TIME LORD: We Time Lords don't care to be conspicuous. Some of us, that is.
DOCTOR: Look, if you've come down merely to be rude
TIME LORD: I came to warn you. An old acquaintance has arrived on this planet.
DOCTOR: Oh? One of our people?
TIME LORD: The Master.
DOCTOR: That jackanapes! All he ever does is cause trouble.
TIME LORD: He'll certainly try to kill you, Doctor. The tribunal thought that you ought to be made aware of your danger.
DOCTOR: How very kind of them.
TIME LORD: You are incorrigibly meddlesome, Doctor, but we've always felt that your hearts are in the right places. But be careful. The Master has learnt a great deal since you last met him.
DOCTOR: I refuse to be worried by a renegade like the Master. He's a, he's an unimaginative plodder.
http://www.chakoteya.net/DoctorWho/8-1.htm
I noted that when Santa Claus was speaking to the Doctor that the background was white. In the serial "The Mind Robber", the TARDIS was in a dimension that was unknown to the Doctor. This dimension was white, and individuals experienced hallucinations in it. This dimension had a connection to the Land of Fiction. Could the TARDIS have landed in this dimension again?
I have been reading the history of the depiction of Santa Claus.
By 1902, the magazine Puck had on its cover the image of Santa Claus that has become known worldwide. By 1914, that depiction of Santa Claus had spread from North America and Europe to Asia. Coca-Cola in the '30s popularized the image. The depiction of Santa Claus in the episode is recognizable as a global symbol. There are slight cultural variations; however, the red and white clothing, the white beard, and happiness of the character are universal.
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-pictorial-history-of-santa-claus/
By 1902, the magazine Puck had on its cover the image of Santa Claus that has become known worldwide. By 1914, that depiction of Santa Claus had spread from North America and Europe to Asia. Coca-Cola in the '30s popularized the image. The depiction of Santa Claus in the episode is recognizable as a global symbol. There are slight cultural variations; however, the red and white clothing, the white beard, and happiness of the character are universal.
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-pictorial-history-of-santa-claus/
That's great news! I hope Jenna returns as well, at least for half a season.
I hope this doesn't mean that Moffat will be around until S10 as well. Again, I have really loved his work on DW. He's added so many great things to the program. But it's time for a change I think.
Mr Awe
Not sure if there's such a thing as a standard 3 year term?! Ecclestone? No. Tennant? No. Smith? Ok, 1 out of 3 so far. Capalid, not sure!
Mr Awe
The idea that they don't know in November who'll be appearing in the series when it starts shooting in January is of course utter nonsense. It's just trying to preserve the "is she going?" mystery, even though her story is clearly over except for having the pair part on truthful terms.
Unfortunately -- and I realized this after I shared that link on Twitter yesterday -- that article has no source for the assertion that Capaldi will be doing series 10 and the "It's confirmed" statement links back to the Hollywood Reporter article that only says he's confirmed for series 9. It's not clear where the International Business Times is getting the information that Capaldi is doing series 10, so for the moment I'm not taking that as confirmed at all.
That said, I would like to see Capaldi in series 10, especially if Moffat is gone and there's a new producer. I'm worried that if Moffat stays for series 10, that he and Capaldi could leave together at the end of that series.
If Capaldi does stay till 10 then I hope 9 is Moffat's last year, if only because I'm intrigued to see what another producer would do with Capaldi. So far we haven't had a Doctor who straddled two show runners (Ten in DOTD doesn't really count because Moffat couldn't really take Tennant in a different direction to that he already had) and I think it would be interesting.
Well, five out of twelve Doctors did three years (Hartnell, Troughton, Davison, McCoy, Smith) and technically Tennant only did three actual seasons, the rest of his term was spent doing specials. Most Doctors do a minimum of three years, and the ones that haven't were under extenuating circumstances, C Baker was fired, McGann's term was cut short by the 96 movie's failure to launch a series, and Eccleston turned down a second season. So yeah, I consider a three year term to be the standard for most Doctors.
Doctorwhovian
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Interesting thing is Davison followed Patrick Troughton's advice, to only stay three years to avoid typecasting.
McCoy's run was also sort of cut short by the cancellation although I think he might've left after season 27.
McCoy's run was also sort of cut short by the cancellation although I think he might've left after season 27.
IIRC Eccleston committed to only one season to get the new series up and running but did not wish to be bogged down- his real focus was on feature films, not television.
Although he kept silent for a long time he's been quite open in recent years about the fact that he didn't carry on because of problems with the behaviour of the people making the series.
And while it's true that it was pretty much a miracle that the first series made it to air, everyone involved was trying to invent the way to produce a type of series that the British TV industry had no real experience making, so his attitude strikes me as a bit unfair.
I think it's hard to gauge what was happening in that first year on the testimony of one witness. What do others say about the first year?
As for the tenure of each actor, I think it's more accurate to look at how many episodes they appeared in.
Tom Baker 172 episodes
William Hartnell 134 episodes
Jon Pertwee 128 episodes
Patrick Troughton 119 episodes
Patrick Davison 69 episodes
David Tennant 47 episodes
Matt Smith 44 episodes
Sylvester McCoy 42 episodes
Colin Baker 31 episodes
Christopher Eccleston 13 episodes
Tom McGann 3 episodes
As for the tenure of each actor, I think it's more accurate to look at how many episodes they appeared in.
Tom Baker 172 episodes
William Hartnell 134 episodes
Jon Pertwee 128 episodes
Patrick Troughton 119 episodes
Patrick Davison 69 episodes
David Tennant 47 episodes
Matt Smith 44 episodes
Sylvester McCoy 42 episodes
Colin Baker 31 episodes
Christopher Eccleston 13 episodes
Tom McGann 3 episodes
Who is "Tom McGann"? 
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