Cosmic Puppet Master: Difference between revisions

[[File:Toymaker Nightmare Fair Cover.jpg|thumb|right|[[The Toymaker]] in [[1980s]] [[Blackpool]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (novel)|The Nightmare Fair]]'')]]Many elements in ''[[Iris Wildthyme (series)|Iris Wildthyme]]'' media are equivalents or parodies of characters from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' history. As such, the Cosmic (or Celestial) Puppet Master is evidently intended as a nod to the [[Celestial Toymaker]], with the [[Blackpool]] setting of his encounter with Iris in ''[[From Wildthyme with Love (novel)|From Wildthyme with Love]]'' referencing ''[[The Nightmare Fair (unproduced TV story)|The Nightmare Fair]]'', the unproduced [[Sixth Doctor]] sequel to ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'' (later adapted in [[The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)|prose]] and [[The Nightmare Fair (audio story)|audio]]). As the Cosmic Puppet Master was first mentioned in [[Find and Replace (audio story)|a BBC-licensed story]], he might legally be argued to be a lawful alias for the Toymaker, and not merely a copyright-dodging analogue.  

However, while some of the unnamed ''Doctor Who'' characters in ''From Wildthyme with Love'' are certainly intended as unlicensed cameos by the prime BBC versions, others act more as Iris's counterparts to the Doctor's recurring cast, as typified by [[MIAOW]] replacing [[UNIT]]. Whether the Puppet Master was intended to merely be an alias for the Toymaker, or to document a distinct but comically-similar being whose nemesis was Iris instead of the Doctor, has never been clarified.