The McGann TVM was the eventual result of a plan for a US Who series which in its earlier versions would have been an entirely new continuity in which the Doctor and the Master were brothers, although all of this was forgotten when they decided to keep it in the old continuity.
In the Peter Davison story Planet Of Fire the Doctor, in one of his sterner moods, tries to incinerate the Master, causing the Master to beg "How can you do this to your own... AAAARGH". It has been widely rumoured that the line was originally intended to end "...brother" but that the then creative team thought better of it at the last minute. If the line is acknowledged by fans at all, conservative fans assume that it would have ended "...kind" or "old school pal", while slashers go straight for "...boyfriend".
Going way back it is generally agreed that if Roger Delgado had not been killed in a car crash the Third Doctor's final story would have been one in which the Master redemptively sacrificed his own life permanently to give the Doctor a chance to regenerate and survive. Some rumours have it that it would have been revealed that the Master was the Doctor's brother, others that there would have been a more mystical connection between them.
I interpret the "You've watched too much TV" line in "Sound Of Drums" as mocking the original McGann plan and US TV's tendency to turn everything into a fraternal or father/son story, altohugh some anti-RTD types weirdly interpret it as an insult against online fandom.
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Date: 2008-01-17 04:00 pm (UTC)In reverse chronology:
The McGann TVM was the eventual result of a plan for a US Who series which in its earlier versions would have been an entirely new continuity in which the Doctor and the Master were brothers, although all of this was forgotten when they decided to keep it in the old continuity.
In the Peter Davison story Planet Of Fire the Doctor, in one of his sterner moods, tries to incinerate the Master, causing the Master to beg "How can you do this to your own... AAAARGH". It has been widely rumoured that the line was originally intended to end "...brother" but that the then creative team thought better of it at the last minute. If the line is acknowledged by fans at all, conservative fans assume that it would have ended "...kind" or "old school pal", while slashers go straight for "...boyfriend".
Going way back it is generally agreed that if Roger Delgado had not been killed in a car crash the Third Doctor's final story would have been one in which the Master redemptively sacrificed his own life permanently to give the Doctor a chance to regenerate and survive. Some rumours have it that it would have been revealed that the Master was the Doctor's brother, others that there would have been a more mystical connection between them.
I interpret the "You've watched too much TV" line in "Sound Of Drums" as mocking the original McGann plan and US TV's tendency to turn everything into a fraternal or father/son story, altohugh some anti-RTD types weirdly interpret it as an insult against online fandom.