Yes it would be nice to break tradition for once. The Tremus Master (Anthony Ainley) was paired against four of the classic doctors (Doctors 4-7). But I have a feeling it might be another recast because I imagine RTD would want to cast an actor close to Ncuti’s age to play the Master and Sacha is almost ten years older than Ncuti.
I believe that missy maybe one of the last incarnations of the master as saxon stated that the blast from his laser screwdriver stops her ability to regenerate, this could of course go a few ways either she is the 'last' master or as they have shown before she may find a way to either reverse it or steal another body much like what the decaying master did :)
In the audio books by big finish it explains how missy regenerates in to the spy master, making the spy master the 4th regeneration of the new cycle given to the master when the timelords patched him up for the time war. The doctor by all accounts if they got another 12 cycles from the timelords through the crack after matt smith ran out of regenerations then the doctor is on his 4th body with Ncuti but Disney seem to be doing whatever they want and retconing 60 years of British screen writing so it's anyone's guess these days 🙃
I do like this video. However, I’d like to believe that the Spy Master actually comes before Missy (as he acts much more like the Saxon Master). It also wouldn’t reduce Missy’s evolution by having her simply become evil again after The Doctor Falls.
But that is not how regeneration works: every incarnation is a different person from the other, with only memories and (sometimes) their core attitude still there. Missy is not the Spy Master, just like every other incarnation is not the same individual.
True, but also factor in that the Saxon master "gave her the full blast" in that she didn't regenerate. All we see is her lying still with no evidence of regeneration or any deus ex machina to save her. To me personally, it feels as though this was the masters final incarnation and that is her canonical death
@@christopheryoung9857 I do not concur with that idea, even with the Doctor, because despite how many times they said so in the series (i.e. "same software, different hardware"), it is not at all what it's shown to happen in the episodes. I like to use the example of the Fourth Doctor and the Seventh Doctor because both of them experienced the same situation with the same enemy; so, it gives us a comparison field with (almost) equal variables. In _"Genesis of the Daleks"_ , the Fourth Doctor is in a particular space-time condition that should allow him to delete Daleks from existence by altering their birth moment; he is troubled, struggling with the idea of making the Daleks disappear, worried about the implications of the baby dictator conundrum. In the end, he decides to let it go because of his moral principles. Then, confront him with the Seventh Doctor in _"Remembrance of the Daleks"_ , where he decides to commit a genocide of Daleks tricking Davros into destroying Skaro and, after that, he pushes the last remaining Dalek on Earth to commit suicide with no remorse whatsoever. In 1963 no less, well conscious Daleks should technically being present in the future too; so with the clear intention of changing the past. The same moral values between the two..? I don't think so. The only two things the Doctor's incarnations share with each other are memories and the good Samaritan spirit; but a person is not just the mere sum of their memories. Each incarnation of the Doctor is not the same individual, as much as every incarnation of the other Time Lords are neither the same person.
I believe missy is the final incarnation. The fatal blast + emotional journey she went on felt like a conclusion to the character. Plus lines like "im a bit fuzzy on the whole regeneration thing" from missy imply moffat was leaving room for this interpritation and other masters / mistresses inbetween saxon and her. So think spy master is pre missy and... Maybe post Saxon? Theres so many gaps in the timeline to fill in why not pre 13th?? But honestly like the idea of the doctor and master just meeting out of order River/Doctor style. Hope they acknowledge that idea in the writing some day
Big Finish confirmed she used a thing called an Elysian field to rebuild her body and kickstart a new regeneration cycle, Missy regenerates into The Lumiat who then regenerates into the Spy Master later if im not mistaken
It's most likely Saxon Master has regenerated into the Spy Master. Don't forget Missy couldn't regenerate and that Saxon Master didn't want to become her anymore.
You know it's a shame bi-generation only came about recently. Would have been a nice twist if the Saxon Master had rejected becoming Missy so much that he bi-generated to become Missy and the Spy Master. With the mental trauma of such a regeneration preventing one from remembering the other.
I've been really hopeful for this as well. I also think that could be a nice opportunity to bring back the spy master, cause I personally loved his take on the character
@@jakesmall832 what I'm hoping for is that someone has the tooth installed and he possesses them. Bonus points if half their face turns into the spy master like that edit of rory and saxon
How do we know Saxon Master regenerated into Missy when it was never shown on screen? The Master could have had many incarnations before missy. This my head-canon, it helps redeem Missy's ending to her story arch.
I still think that when Saxon saw Missy, he deliberately chose to regenerate into someone else (Spy Master). So either Missy never happened (and she's a temporal paradox) or she happens much later.
war chief is not the master,is an early installment version of they/him ,i think he is not the master just another time lord renegade and corrupt because that theory sounds very unconfirmed for now ,i hope because comics and other media stuff like big finish war chief and the master being the same is not true
In the video it explains how he is a possible incarnation of the master, because some expanded media stories have said that he is the master, whereas others have said that he isn’t.
The offer was made by President Borusa who ended up entombed with Rassilon, Chancellor Flavia who became acting president, and the Castellan who died to further Borusa scheme, in the days when stasers were actually fatal to Time Lords. Two members of the High Council were gone and the third was acting in the place of the Doctor, so it’s doubtful she’d honor a pledge to a villain made by another villain.
@@CultOfThirteen it was there since he was a kid, but only because the time lords changed the past. A "retcon" is when previous story/lore changes for out-of-universe reasons, not time travel
@@ab-mc2nq Except the Time Lords knew about the drumming before they sent it, making it a bootstrap paradox. So according to DW's time travel "rules" (more like guidelines) it was always there. Before then, in series 3, RTD was clearly implying that the drumming was why the Master went evil in the first place. But really, this is doctor who, and canon is what you want it to be. I rationalize it by assuming that the classic Master always had the drums, but he automatically tuned them out (like humans with our heartbeat). Then when he became Yana, he lost that tolerance, and kept hearing them
@@cement_eater dw's time travel system makes it quite clear that most time travel changes history rather than simply always being the case. Sometimes the effects of your personal future self changing history can ripple back down your timeline for a bit, making it seem like it was "always the case" but it wasn't always the case
Bur between Missy & spyMaster there were Lumiat, only pure good Master incarnation...
Fair, but screen only listed here. 😀
I really hope RTD brings back Sacha. He's such a great master and it'd be nice to break the trend of new Doctors having new Masters.
Yes it would be nice to break tradition for once. The Tremus Master (Anthony Ainley) was paired against four of the classic doctors (Doctors 4-7). But I have a feeling it might be another recast because I imagine RTD would want to cast an actor close to Ncuti’s age to play the Master and Sacha is almost ten years older than Ncuti.
I believe that missy maybe one of the last incarnations of the master as saxon stated that the blast from his laser screwdriver stops her ability to regenerate, this could of course go a few ways either she is the 'last' master or as they have shown before she may find a way to either reverse it or steal another body much like what the decaying master did :)
That's what I thought as well, and since Missy was a 'reformed' character, why would she regenerate into an evil master anyway?
In the audio books by big finish it explains how missy regenerates in to the spy master, making the spy master the 4th regeneration of the new cycle given to the master when the timelords patched him up for the time war. The doctor by all accounts if they got another 12 cycles from the timelords through the crack after matt smith ran out of regenerations then the doctor is on his 4th body with Ncuti but Disney seem to be doing whatever they want and retconing 60 years of British screen writing so it's anyone's guess these days 🙃
I do like this video. However, I’d like to believe that the Spy Master actually comes before Missy (as he acts much more like the Saxon Master). It also wouldn’t reduce Missy’s evolution by having her simply become evil again after The Doctor Falls.
But that is not how regeneration works: every incarnation is a different person from the other, with only memories and (sometimes) their core attitude still there.
Missy is not the Spy Master, just like every other incarnation is not the same individual.
True, but also factor in that the Saxon master "gave her the full blast" in that she didn't regenerate. All we see is her lying still with no evidence of regeneration or any deus ex machina to save her. To me personally, it feels as though this was the masters final incarnation and that is her canonical death
@@christopheryoung9857 I do not concur with that idea, even with the Doctor, because despite how many times they said so in the series (i.e. "same software, different hardware"), it is not at all what it's shown to happen in the episodes.
I like to use the example of the Fourth Doctor and the Seventh Doctor because both of them experienced the same situation with the same enemy; so, it gives us a comparison field with (almost) equal variables.
In _"Genesis of the Daleks"_ , the Fourth Doctor is in a particular space-time condition that should allow him to delete Daleks from existence by altering their birth moment; he is troubled, struggling with the idea of making the Daleks disappear, worried about the implications of the baby dictator conundrum. In the end, he decides to let it go because of his moral principles.
Then, confront him with the Seventh Doctor in _"Remembrance of the Daleks"_ , where he decides to commit a genocide of Daleks tricking Davros into destroying Skaro and, after that, he pushes the last remaining Dalek on Earth to commit suicide with no remorse whatsoever. In 1963 no less, well conscious Daleks should technically being present in the future too; so with the clear intention of changing the past.
The same moral values between the two..? I don't think so.
The only two things the Doctor's incarnations share with each other are memories and the good Samaritan spirit; but a person is not just the mere sum of their memories.
Each incarnation of the Doctor is not the same individual, as much as every incarnation of the other Time Lords are neither the same person.
The video said there is no canon but failed to mention the non TV media that adds extra masters and explains why he turns bad again after missy
The video says there is no non canon, but we have excluded expanded media for ease. It’s hard to make a video using only audio stories.
thanks for making this!
The war chief is the grown up version of the first master's incarnation.
Don forget the big finish master incarnations
We decided to use on screen only in this video. 😀
I believe missy is the final incarnation. The fatal blast + emotional journey she went on felt like a conclusion to the character. Plus lines like "im a bit fuzzy on the whole regeneration thing" from missy imply moffat was leaving room for this interpritation and other masters / mistresses inbetween saxon and her.
So think spy master is pre missy and... Maybe post Saxon? Theres so many gaps in the timeline to fill in why not pre 13th??
But honestly like the idea of the doctor and master just meeting out of order River/Doctor style. Hope they acknowledge that idea in the writing some day
Big Finish confirmed she used a thing called an Elysian field to rebuild her body and kickstart a new regeneration cycle, Missy regenerates into The Lumiat who then regenerates into the Spy Master later if im not mistaken
It's most likely Saxon Master has regenerated into the Spy Master. Don't forget Missy couldn't regenerate and that Saxon Master didn't want to become her anymore.
You know it's a shame bi-generation only came about recently. Would have been a nice twist if the Saxon Master had rejected becoming Missy so much that he bi-generated to become Missy and the Spy Master. With the mental trauma of such a regeneration preventing one from remembering the other.
Well, we didn't see Saxon's regeneration onscreen. 🙃
I've been really hopeful for this as well. I also think that could be a nice opportunity to bring back the spy master, cause I personally loved his take on the character
Great vid
Well done including the War Chief!!!
Doctor Who just confirmed that the War Chief is The Master in the War Games remastered
i bet the spy master is in the toymakers tooth
I’m pretty sure that’s what was intended by the writers, after he started to die in the power of the doctor, he begged for a game
@@CultOfThirteen ok but how will he come back like how will he get of the tooth
@@jakesmall832 True, hopefully RTD2 will show us at some point. 😀
@@jakesmall832 what I'm hoping for is that someone has the tooth installed and he possesses them. Bonus points if half their face turns into the spy master like that edit of rory and saxon
@@cement_eater that would be great but who would the tooth have installed
This is soo good! 😊😊
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed. 😀
Saxon Master was the only one who was truly scary. That actor did a phenomenal job in the role.
How do we know Saxon Master regenerated into Missy when it was never shown on screen? The Master could have had many incarnations before missy. This my head-canon, it helps redeem Missy's ending to her story arch.
This is what I like to think, but I’m going by what is shown and intended on screen
On Big Finish it's explained that Missy regenerated into The Lumiat
@@VoltyOnYTWhats the Lumiat?
@@Blazing_Ninjamaster but good
@@Skyw-.𠄢 Ah ok, thanks!
I still think that when Saxon saw Missy, he deliberately chose to regenerate into someone else (Spy Master). So either Missy never happened (and she's a temporal paradox) or she happens much later.
I wonder who will play the new master.
David Tennant
@@badwolf66 Don't give them ideas
I have a theory that Mrs Flood is the Master so maybe Anita Dobson?
Matt Smith?
I want Iain DeCaestecker
I like to think that it’s ainleys master that’s on trial
Philip Segal says Tipple is a separate incarnation, but Destiny of the Doctors says Ainley is sent on trial. So the intention is definitely muddied.
No Big Finish Masters (Reborn or Lumiat)?
I’d love to have put them there, but I was just using on screen masters.
@@CultOfThirteen ah okay fair enough
war chief is not the master,is an early installment version of they/him ,i think he is not the master just another time lord renegade and corrupt because that theory sounds very unconfirmed for now ,i hope because comics and other media stuff like big finish war chief and the master being the same is not true
In the video it explains how he is a possible incarnation of the master, because some expanded media stories have said that he is the master, whereas others have said that he isn’t.
Did the Master not accept the High Council's offer of a new set of regenerations in The Five Doctors?
The Doctor wouldn’t listen to him so he ended up trying to kill him so never got the chance to accept the offer.
The offer was made by President Borusa who ended up entombed with Rassilon, Chancellor Flavia who became acting president, and the Castellan who died to further Borusa scheme, in the days when stasers were actually fatal to Time Lords. Two members of the High Council were gone and the third was acting in the place of the Doctor, so it’s doubtful she’d honor a pledge to a villain made by another villain.
Interesting
the classic masters didn't have the drumming. That only happened because during the time war the time lords changed his past
RTD retconned it so the drumming was there since he was a kid. I'm not a fan of the retcon either.
@@CultOfThirteen it was there since he was a kid, but only because the time lords changed the past. A "retcon" is when previous story/lore changes for out-of-universe reasons, not time travel
@@ab-mc2nq Except the Time Lords knew about the drumming before they sent it, making it a bootstrap paradox. So according to DW's time travel "rules" (more like guidelines) it was always there. Before then, in series 3, RTD was clearly implying that the drumming was why the Master went evil in the first place.
But really, this is doctor who, and canon is what you want it to be. I rationalize it by assuming that the classic Master always had the drums, but he automatically tuned them out (like humans with our heartbeat). Then when he became Yana, he lost that tolerance, and kept hearing them
@@cement_eater dw's time travel system makes it quite clear that most time travel changes history rather than simply always being the case. Sometimes the effects of your personal future self changing history can ripple back down your timeline for a bit, making it seem like it was "always the case" but it wasn't always the case
@@ab-mc2nq generally yeah, but bootstrap paradoxes have always been the exception
what's the music in the video called
ABBA Gimme Gimme Gimme instrumental 😀
🎉
Nah the spy master is way before missy case saxston killed her with something that stops regeneration
I really wish that was the case. 😅
I don't understand why everyone everywhere is so sure that Delgado is Incarnation Number 12. Did I miss something?
yes, Big Finish Expanded Media
Expanded media confirms he’s directly before Beevers who refers to himself as the 12th regeneration thus 13th incarnation on screen.
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