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{{ | '''Ersatz''' meant "imitation", "fake" or "substitute". In an alternate timeline where the [[Nazi]]s won [[World War II]] several ersatz items were sold in [[Britain]] including; [[sugar]], [[tea]] and [[corned beef]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)}}) | ||
By one account, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') {{Tipple|n=the version of the Master}} who fought the [[Eighth Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') was an " | |||
==The Master== | |||
[[File:Gordontipplemaster.jpg|thumb|"The {{Tipple|n=(ersatz) Master}}" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') before his execution on [[Skaro]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')]] | |||
By one account, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') {{Tipple|n=the version of the Master}} who fought the [[Eighth Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') was an "ersatz". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
Though barely-explained in ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'', the intention of depicting [[Gordon Tipple]] and [[Eric Roberts]]' incarnations of [[the Master]] as "ersatzes" was to tie in with ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'': the intended reveal was that the [[Tzun]] had not converted {{Ainley|n=Anthony Ainley's Master}} into a [[Time Lord]] but merely created a Time Lord clone of him with all his memories, this being the Master who went on to be executed by the Daleks while the original Ainley Master, still in [[Tremas]]'s [[Trakenite]] body, survived elsewhere in the universe. | Though barely-explained in ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'', the intention of depicting [[Gordon Tipple]] and [[Eric Roberts]]' incarnations of [[the Master]] as "ersatzes" was to tie in with ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'': the intended reveal was that the [[Tzun]] had not converted {{Ainley|n=Anthony Ainley's Master}} into a [[Time Lord]] but merely created a Time Lord clone of him with all his memories, this being the Master who went on to be executed by the Daleks while the original Ainley Master, still in [[Tremas]]'s [[Trakenite]] body, survived elsewhere in the universe. | ||
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