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: Absent the expectation for the use of "War Chief", these quotes couldn't be clearer about saying "Edward Brayshaw escaped and became the Delgado Master". And much as we accept "[[Weapon (The Eyeless)|the Weapon]]" as an alternative to "[[the Moment]]" despite the contradictions and the lack of any neatly-trimmed, quotable sentence saying "the Doctor used the Weapon to end the Time War", we must also accept that according to some accounts the War Lord's War Chief was the Master. | : Absent the expectation for the use of "War Chief", these quotes couldn't be clearer about saying "Edward Brayshaw escaped and became the Delgado Master". And much as we accept "[[Weapon (The Eyeless)|the Weapon]]" as an alternative to "[[the Moment]]" despite the contradictions and the lack of any neatly-trimmed, quotable sentence saying "the Doctor used the Weapon to end the Time War", we must also accept that according to some accounts the War Lord's War Chief was the Master. | ||
: This has all been gone over many times, and was eventually resolved at [[Talk:The Master]] when the whole business of "The Monk" was rightfully disentangled from this issue. Please do not restart this discussion unless you have new evidence. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge | : This has all been gone over many times, and was eventually resolved at [[Talk:The Master]] when the whole business of "The Monk" was rightfully disentangled from this issue. Please do not restart this discussion unless you have new evidence. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 00:17, 12 January 2021 (UTC) | ||
:: If it wasn't so sad, this would be utterly hilarious. Terrance Dicks would be rolling around on the floor laughing to think that 50 years on people would be thinking that a couple of throwaway lines he wrote in a Target novelisation were being treated as a secret coded message that the Master was really the War Chief, given that he stated many many times during his lifetime that he and Barry Letts created the Master in 1971. He always said that "continuity" in Doctor Who consisted of what he could remember about previous episodes and what later script editors could remember about his era. Chances are he simply forgot that there'd be another Time Lord villain in a Patrick Troughton story. Essentially, the novelisations don't tell us anything we don't know from the TV story: That the Master is a Time Lord enemy the Doctor has encountered before. [[User:Skteosk|Skteosk]] [[User talk:Skteosk|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 00:40, 25 June 2022 (UTC) | :: If it wasn't so sad, this would be utterly hilarious. Terrance Dicks would be rolling around on the floor laughing to think that 50 years on people would be thinking that a couple of throwaway lines he wrote in a Target novelisation were being treated as a secret coded message that the Master was really the War Chief, given that he stated many many times during his lifetime that he and Barry Letts created the Master in 1971. He always said that "continuity" in Doctor Who consisted of what he could remember about previous episodes and what later script editors could remember about his era. Chances are he simply forgot that there'd be another Time Lord villain in a Patrick Troughton story. Essentially, the novelisations don't tell us anything we don't know from the TV story: That the Master is a Time Lord enemy the Doctor has encountered before. [[User:Skteosk|Skteosk]] [[User talk:Skteosk|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 00:40, 25 June 2022 (UTC) | ||
:::: This discussion was concluded over a year ago — and, as this demonstrates, probably should be archived by now. '''Please don't resurrect concluded topics just to call other people's arguments "sad" or "utterly hilarious"''' (and make dubious claims about Terrance Dicks's long-term memory). Your message doesn't quite rise to the level of a [[T:NPA|personal attack]], but it's still a kind of tone we don't appreciate on this Wiki. | |||
:::: As a side note, your manner of posting the above message also split my signature from the above post. In this case it was plainly just a formatting error, but as a general warning, please take care not to edit other people's talk page messages without their consent, '''especially''' the signature. <span style="color: #baa3d6;font-family:Comic Sans;">[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']]</span> <span style="color: #baa3d6;">[[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]]</span> 00:47, 25 June 2022 (UTC) | |||
