Thing with the Roberts body is that it was physically dead-The Master keeps saying the body won't last long and we see some signs of decay (Such as his finger). The O Master was trapped for several decades in the 20th century and looked exactly the same (I think it's established that Time Lords can live in the same body for centuries without noticeably aging-Matt Smith's Doctor for example lived for over seven centuries before he started to look at most middle-aged).
Granted,Tremas lasted longer but Tremas wasn't human, and the Master also had the lingering abilities of a god-like being (The Keeper) instead of some weird slimy snake so the possession was probably more stable (He even managed to make Tremas younger-looking!)
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Kind of sad that we're getting so many boxsets with various Masters and yet my fav hasn't had one yet, the Beevers incarnation. Still, it's great to know that there's plenty of fun content for the 50th anniversary of the Master available or incoming.
Not gonna lie, I'm curious as to what Geoffrey Beevers would like as a normal version of the Master instead of his decayed self.
I wouldn't mind of they did that for a story.
Whilst he's still scarred in it, Big Finish did do Master as an audio which is a great examination of what Beevers' Master would be like if he tried to be a better person, albeit unknowingly. Lot of the threads found in both Utopia and Missy's stories probably started with that story.
I like the fact he's distinctive physically from the other Masters though - he doesn't have the advantage of relying on his appearance to get back, so a lot of him comes from that smooth and velvet'y evil voice of his as he operates in the shadows.
Liked Eric's take there. Calm but still very sinister. Kind of reminds me of how Ainley's Master, when he showed up in SURVIVAL, had the camp toned down (Well, apart from some of the cheetah bits). Less evil laughing and jokes, more just being subtly evil.
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Been announced that season 13 is in production and will be shortened to eight episodes.
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Annoying but at least it sounds like that the show will be back next year and not take another year off again as was feared. Having a tighter season of eight episodes might be good too.
Big Finish has confirmed that Jacob Dudman is returning to play the Eleventh Doctor in four full cast stories within the second volume of the Eleventh Doctor Chronicles. Likely means that Matt Smith isn’t coming back yet but Jacob does a decent job.
Just listened to Enemy of My Enemy, the second part of the trilogy of adventures for the Eighth Doctor in Time Lord Victorious. Really good Dalek story that looks to set up Eight and the Dalek Time Squad’s involvement in Flesh Is Grass, the book which merges all the threads of TLV together.
The shorter season is probably mostly due to the pandemic.
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Any thoughts on DALEKS!? Animation is pretty bad, especially the battle scenes, but the voice work (Mostly by Briggs I'm guessing) is pretty good, and the music sounds straight out of a Peter Davison story.
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Maybe a bit too early to speculate at it's probably 3 years and nine days away, but I wonder if we'll have a 60th anniversary special (Not sure but I'm guessing we might be on Doc #14 or even #15 by then, although we have Jodie for at least one more season)
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