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[QUOTE]Originally posted by FawnDoo: [QB] I quite liked Simm's take on the character - after being stuck in a decaying body, a possessed alien body, a translucent snake, a possessed human body, the heart of the TARDIS, a pocketwatch (watching his human body get older and older - I got the impression the Time Lord mind remains quite aware of itself and its surroundings, even when it is within the watch) he finally gets his Time Lord body back only to have a blue alien shoot a hole in it and fatally wound him! Makes sense that when he regenerates and gets a nice, young body to plot and scheme in he would be a bit giddy. As for the campness, it might not be entirely the fault of the actor. From the Wikipedia article on the Master: "Ainley's portrayal was closer to Delgado's, but his Master's tendency to burst out into peals of malicious laughter was criticised by some fans as being too over-the-top. However, this was more a function of the scripts and direction that Ainley received than of his own interpretation of the character. Visitors to the recording of the story Planet of Fire recall Ainley giving a serious, understated performance in an initial take only to be overruled and asked to go more "over the top" for the final one." Of course that doesn't excuse Eric Roberts who took it to panto villain levels (Widow Twanky meets Chancellor Flavia) but it might point to where the whole camp angle started to come into the character. A few questions though - does the Master still have his TARDIS? If not, how did he get to the end of the universe? And what provided the chameleon watch and the means to transform his biology? And what was on that disk he pulled out of the computer? And will he land on Earth in 1973? ;-) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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