tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post7122292836043196822..comments2024-03-14T01:22:21.483-04:00Comments on Basil's Blog: Classic Doctor Who Season EightBasilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304218067534993876noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-13576529330215854922014-02-16T09:16:03.000-05:002014-02-16T09:16:03.000-05:00I think Gallifrey University's graduate progra...I think Gallifrey University's graduate program needs to do a better job of vetting its pupils. Both The Doctor and The Master are running around causing havoc. Can you imagine the damage The Dentist could do? Or how about The Lawyer?<br><br>*shivers*D-Rocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-69691242096782944352014-10-06T23:29:28.000-04:002014-10-06T23:29:28.000-04:00Originally, the Monk, War Chief and Master were id...Originally, the Monk, War Chief and Master were identified as three different incarnations of the same Time Lord. Interviews, promo material, Target novelisations etc. all confirm that it's the same Time Lord.<br><br>However, in the 1990's Peter Darvill-Evans' Virgin novels pushed the idea that they're three different Time Lords. Only authors who subscribed to this idea got stories published, and Darvill-Evans as editor sometimes even inserted "references" into stories.<br><br>But then, subsequent stories simply ignored the Virgin continuity. And RTD's Master(Jacobi and Simm) has continuity references to the Monk/War Chief by the bucketload.<br><br>But then under Moffat's watch Big Finish brought back 'The Monk', contradicting pretty much everything that has gone before.<br><br>While the history of 'The Monk' is now hideously convoluted and more contradictory than the history of the Simpsons family tree, there is actually nothing at all anywhere that states that the War Chief and the Master are not the same individual. The sole piece of "evidence" is a laughably bad sequence in the 'Divided Loyalties' novel which is actually called "DREAMING". And none other than the Celestial Toymaker later takes credit for inserting this false nightmare into the Doctor's mind. Meaning, it's not a literal depiction of events, but rather a sick game.John Millernoreply@blogger.com