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I just feel as though the paragraph as it currently stands is misleading. Again as I say because it draws a direct connection between The War Chief and The Master in this novel as though Dicks had intentionally suggested they were the same character in this particular novel. In reality, the only thing supporting this idea was that Dicks had supposedly used the same “satanically handsome” phrase to describe Delgado in earlier Target books, but as far as I can tell he did no such thing. Therefore the page should be changed. Timewyrm: Exodus only really builds off of continuity directly from the War Games and doesn’t really draw inspiration from anywhere else. I’m not trying to suggest that the book considers the two separate characters, just that it doesn’t actually do anything to draw a connection between the two, unlike say the Target Novelisation of Terror of the Autons. [[User:SarahJaneFan|SarahJaneFan]] [[User talk:SarahJaneFan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 13:55, 7 January 2021 (UTC) | I just feel as though the paragraph as it currently stands is misleading. Again as I say because it draws a direct connection between The War Chief and The Master in this novel as though Dicks had intentionally suggested they were the same character in this particular novel. In reality, the only thing supporting this idea was that Dicks had supposedly used the same “satanically handsome” phrase to describe Delgado in earlier Target books, but as far as I can tell he did no such thing. Therefore the page should be changed. Timewyrm: Exodus only really builds off of continuity directly from the War Games and doesn’t really draw inspiration from anywhere else. I’m not trying to suggest that the book considers the two separate characters, just that it doesn’t actually do anything to draw a connection between the two, unlike say the Target Novelisation of Terror of the Autons. [[User:SarahJaneFan|SarahJaneFan]] [[User talk:SarahJaneFan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 13:55, 7 January 2021 (UTC) | ||
::You may very well have a point about the "''satanically handsome'' was a Delgado cliché" thing turning out to be an urban legend. However, I do think the most reasonable interpretation of that scene ''is'' that the War Chief has succeeded in regenerating, at the very last second. I mean, the novel ''also'' makes a point of the fact that he's stuck as a two-faced monster due to his failed regeneration; it wouldn't especially make any ''more'' sense for him to somehow revert to Brayshaw out of nowhere! | |||
::Whether the "tall, dark and satanically handsome" incarnation glimpsed by Ace is {{Delgado|n= the Delgado Master}} is perhaps another question, and if no evidence can be found I support edits to the current claims. However, I do think the most sensical interpretation of the scene is that it's doing the "surprise! the villain somehow survived and ''may'' be back… although who knows?" thing, and this implying that yup, the War Chief did manage to regenerate. Whether the person he became is Delgado, an earlier Master, or even (why not?) the post-Brayshaw non-Master War Chief from the FASA game, the fact remains that Occam's razor points to a regeneration. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 14:11, 7 January 2021 (UTC) | |||