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== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
* In ''[[The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] describes the Time War as being "so dark, so obscene, that the dead were walking, called back into life to fight the terrible fight." From his perspective, this justification connected the resurrections of Rassilon, [[the Master]], and [[The Woman (The End of Time)|the Doctor's mother]].  
* In [[TEDW 7]], various writers were interviewed on how they understood the highly ambiguous status of Rassilon's appearance in {{cs|The Five Doctors (TV story)}}. [[Steven Moffat]], who coined Rassilon's title as "Rassilon the Resurrected" in {{cs|Hell Bent (TV story)}}, denied that he had intended it to refer to Rassilon being resurrected to fight in the War, instead suggesting that the incident took place later on in the War: as far as he was concerned, Rassilon in the Tower was physically alive but in [[Rassilon's eternal sleep|eternal sleep]], from which he reluctantly awoke to take part in the fighting, ''after'' which he "got killed. And resurrected. Because that happened a lot in the Time War".
* In ''[[The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] describes the Time War as being "so dark, so obscene, that the dead were walking, called back into life to fight the terrible fight". From his perspective, this justification connected the resurrections of Rassilon, [[the Master]], and [[The Woman (The End of Time)|the Doctor's mother]].  
* A version of the resurrection was seen in [[STAGE]]: {{cs|Time Fracture (stage play)}}, with the Time Lords using the [[temporal disruptor]] to resurrect [[Rassilon (Time Fracture)|a new incarnation of Rassilon]] to initiate the [[Ultimate Sanction]] during the [[Time Fracture]].  
* A version of the resurrection was seen in [[STAGE]]: {{cs|Time Fracture (stage play)}}, with the Time Lords using the [[temporal disruptor]] to resurrect [[Rassilon (Time Fracture)|a new incarnation of Rassilon]] to initiate the [[Ultimate Sanction]] during the [[Time Fracture]].  


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