Random Dr. Who Thought
Sep. 9th, 2009 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalI'll be posting the next bit of "Arc" later. For now I have to get this out of my head.
Had a thought occur about last season's cliffhanger, with the Master regenerating into John Saxon. [1] We know that certain timelords can choose their appearance when they regenerate (Romana II) and more importantly choose to look like people they've met. It's not that much of a jump to assume they can switch genders too (per Tom Baker's off the cuff statement back in the 80's that got fans in such a tizzy)
I just got the thought in my head of the Master regenerating to look like Sarah Jane, just to piss off the Doctor that much more with the idea that he'd stolen one of his most beoved friend's face, And wouldn't you have loved the idea of seeing Elizabeth Sladen boogying down on the bridge of the carrier?
The real Sarah of course would be tucked away in a nice secure insane asylum, since she's operating on the delusion that she's the duplicate of a major political figure (a side effect of the mind control sat that made everyone vote Saxon into office.) Breaking her out would have been major sub plot in the revised version.
[1] Don't bitch at me about spoilers. If you're a fan, you've seen it or at least heard/read breathless summaries, if you're not a fan and you're at vaguely connected to Anglo-Saxon culture you've likely heard of the plot twist already anyway, and if you aren't a fan and you haven't heard of it why did you scroll down to read this stupid footnote anyway?
Had a thought occur about last season's cliffhanger, with the Master regenerating into John Saxon. [1] We know that certain timelords can choose their appearance when they regenerate (Romana II) and more importantly choose to look like people they've met. It's not that much of a jump to assume they can switch genders too (per Tom Baker's off the cuff statement back in the 80's that got fans in such a tizzy)
I just got the thought in my head of the Master regenerating to look like Sarah Jane, just to piss off the Doctor that much more with the idea that he'd stolen one of his most beoved friend's face, And wouldn't you have loved the idea of seeing Elizabeth Sladen boogying down on the bridge of the carrier?
The real Sarah of course would be tucked away in a nice secure insane asylum, since she's operating on the delusion that she's the duplicate of a major political figure (a side effect of the mind control sat that made everyone vote Saxon into office.) Breaking her out would have been major sub plot in the revised version.
[1] Don't bitch at me about spoilers. If you're a fan, you've seen it or at least heard/read breathless summaries, if you're not a fan and you're at vaguely connected to Anglo-Saxon culture you've likely heard of the plot twist already anyway, and if you aren't a fan and you haven't heard of it why did you scroll down to read this stupid footnote anyway?
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Date: 2009-09-10 04:57 am (UTC)I don't know of any source, screen or tie-in, where it's stated or implied that regeneration appearance control is a function of youth. Though it does appear from the example of Borusa that toward the end of your lives you can't regenerate into young bodies. Unless Borusa was regenerating old on purpose for reasons of his own.