Talk:The Game of Time & Space (game)
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War Chief likeness[[edit source]]
Hi, I was watching through pictures of this boargame but I am not really convinced by the Master-War Chief likeness based on what I can see here
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/2808683/doctor-who-game-time-space
Are there other pictures of the Master in this? Or a likeness credits?RingoRoadagain ☎ 09:27, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
- It is certainly quite a questionable likeness... I've added a Source Needed tag to that one for now. I did look into this game and the thing - both interesting and unfortunate - is that though Derek Carver is credited as the game designer... in an interview he gave some years ago, he claimed that he knew little of Doctor Who and that Albie Fiore was actually responsible for the game in the sense of the mythology within it. Unfortunately, Albie passed away over a decade ago so this would be quite a difficult thing to verify unless there's any BBC Enterprises paperwork on the game out there somewhere. And there isn't any credit on the back of the box relating to any likenesses. JDPManjoume ☎ 11:41, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
- Personally… I guess I kind of see it? They do have similar facial structures and facial hair if you set aside the "Mekon" cranium. But I did go in expecting Edward Brayshaw. I'm not sure I'd have gone "Oh my giddy aunt, it's Edward Brayshaw!!" if I'd gone in blind.
- It is certainly quite a questionable likeness... I've added a Source Needed tag to that one for now. I did look into this game and the thing - both interesting and unfortunate - is that though Derek Carver is credited as the game designer... in an interview he gave some years ago, he claimed that he knew little of Doctor Who and that Albie Fiore was actually responsible for the game in the sense of the mythology within it. Unfortunately, Albie passed away over a decade ago so this would be quite a difficult thing to verify unless there's any BBC Enterprises paperwork on the game out there somewhere. And there isn't any credit on the back of the box relating to any likenesses. JDPManjoume ☎ 11:41, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
- Still, it's plausible someone might have looked at a (poor) screenshot of Brayshaw, exercised a bit of artistic license, and ended up with this.
- I think the crux of the matter is that this is from 1980 — i.e., before Ainley was introduced. So, the reasoning of whoever first drew the War Chief link must have been — well, if he's meant to be a TV Master, then he can only be Delgado or Brayshaw. (Not counting Peter Pratt, who, controversial later retcons aside, no one would have conceptualised as a different incarnation from Delgado at the time.) And if it's one of those two, he looks somewhat more like Brayshaw than he looks like Delgado.
- But it's entirely possible this is meant to be an original incarnation altogether (there's precedent for that in Who board games). Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 14:01, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
- Personally, I find it more likely for it to be Delgado considering the drawing has the goatee instead of the mutonchops and Delgado being the one with a receiding hairline. I agree that we could just put it as an ambiguous original incarnationRingoRoadagain ☎ 15:24, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, I think probably The Master (The Game of Time & Space) is our best bet. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 15:28, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
- Personally, I find it more likely for it to be Delgado considering the drawing has the goatee instead of the mutonchops and Delgado being the one with a receiding hairline. I agree that we could just put it as an ambiguous original incarnationRingoRoadagain ☎ 15:24, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
