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Talk:Thirteenth Doctor's forced regeneration (edit)
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I think this is probably [[T:BOUND]]-kosher, though I remain of two minds about the proposal on the merits, so yes, let's discuss it. | I think this is probably [[T:BOUND]]-kosher, though I remain of two minds about the proposal on the merits, so yes, let's discuss it. | ||
Aah, the forced-regeneration scheme; will we ever see the end of it… We considering covering the Master-Doctor as an incarnation of the Doctor — but that made no sense. We considered covering him as an incarnation of the Master — but that falls afoul of the "we don't have two Jodie Whittaker Doctor pages" of it all, and the Crispy reversions. We considered covering him as an event — but the event is coterminous with [[the Master's Dalek Plan]] as a whole. | |||
If he's neither individual nor event, does covering him as an ''alias'' finally square the circle? That is the question we face today. To which I say: hmm. Hmmmm. Well, ''maybe''. The issue is that the "alias" isn't [[The Master-Doctor]]; it's "The Doctor". Script names ''are'' okay, but we must be careful about not assuming too much about the in-universe grounding of names thusly derived. [[The Master-Doctor]] threatened Yaz" is fine; but "'''the Master-Doctor''' was the alias adopted by the Spy Master when he…" isn't quite right, and even "As '''the Master-Doctor''', the Spy Master…" is misleading. One really wishes [[The Doctor (The Power of the Doctor)]] were less of a non-starter. How ''do'' we write this blighter's ''lede''? | If he's neither individual nor event, does covering him as an ''alias'' finally square the circle? That is the question we face today. To which I say: hmm. Hmmmm. Well, ''maybe''. The issue is that the "alias" isn't [[The Master-Doctor]]; it's "The Doctor". Script names ''are'' okay, but we must be careful about not assuming too much about the in-universe grounding of names thusly derived. [[The Master-Doctor]] threatened Yaz" is fine; but "'''the Master-Doctor''' was the alias adopted by the Spy Master when he…" isn't quite right, and even "As '''the Master-Doctor''', the Spy Master…" is misleading. One really wishes [[The Doctor (The Power of the Doctor)]] were less of a non-starter. How ''do'' we write this blighter's ''lede''? | ||
(My entirely unjustifiable gut instinct is to wait until an in-universe source (probably one of those reference book thingummies…) directly uses "the Master-Doctor" in-text in a citable way.) [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 19:40, 21 November 2023 (UTC) | (My entirely unjustifiable gut instinct is to wait until an in-universe source (probably one of those reference book thingummies…) directly uses "the Master-Doctor" in-text in a citable way.) [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 19:40, 21 November 2023 (UTC) | ||