Hmm, fairy cake...

Brian

Huh, the straw hat made me think of the Seventh Doctor, but you're the boss. :) Anyhow, I really enjoy your Time Lord stories, and I hope to see more of them.

(Heh, random thought, I wonder if the Master will play the Dominus on Professor Enigma someday, arranging to have Clarkson "regenerate" into him, and have the Doctor play against him... or maybe they can play against parts, with the Doctor playing the evil genius (and hamming it up badly) with the Master being good. I can just see the critics, "Newcomers John Smith and Harold Saxon added a lot of energy, but eventually spent more time chewing the scenery....")

<whimper>

Wannaseeit, wannaseeit, wannaseeit...

<tries to plokta on TV remote> Drat, I can't find it.

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...yeah, I'm a ham. In more ways than one.

As long as you don't swallow.

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I don't remember #7 ever rolling his hat up, offhand, but #5 pretty frequently did. Which may be why you don't think of him wearing it. :)

The Doctors and their hats, from memory:

- 1: Not much hat action; rocked a Garibaldi now and then, though, that was pretty boss. It takes a certain devil-may-care panache to pull off a Garibaldi hat with an Edwardian-math-teacher ensemble.
- 2: No hat, as far as I can recall. Did like a Wookiee-pelt coat, though.
- 3: Stole a snappy fedora in his first appearance, then rarely wore it.
- 4: Fond of a slouch hat. Also once wore a Zippy the Pinhead clown hat, or was that just the time I had a 105°-F fever?
- 5: Straw hat. Usually rolled it up and stuck it in a coat pocket.
- 6: No hat.
- 7: Straw hat.
- 8: No hat.
- 9: No hat, except in that one photo of him on the Titanic.
- 10: No hat. (Strange. Did Russell have something against hats?)
- 11: Likes a hat. Not that picky as to style. Personally I like that Tom Petty top hat he was kickin' during the Victorian Sulk.

>the Doctor playing the evil genius

... I'm not actually sure the Doctor and Rose could maintain a straight face long enough to produce an episode in which she was the Professor and he played Dominus, and they definitely wouldn't be able to do so if the Master was along as the Professor's a-bit-out-of-his-depth-but-game assistant Harry. :)

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10 also had that straw cowboy hat a few times when he was in "Party" mode.

When he wasn't rockin' the necktie-as-hachimaki look. "Have you seen the French?!"

(John "Rock Doctor" Smith, lead guitarist in Professor Rose Tyler's new backup band.)

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And the Master on drums? :)

That'd be a bit cruel, don't you think? I was thinking keyboards.

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That's cool. He probably whips out the cowbell at times, too.

The Master seems to be stuck in Manic Phase ever since the drums stopped.

"I'm monopolar!"

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"I still can't believe you actually like playing the drums."

"Ah, but these are different. If I want the drums to stop, they stop. Did you really think somebody who calls himself The Master would like being completely out of control of something? Can't stop it, can't slow it down, can't even walk away?"

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But when drums stop, bass solo.

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*rimshot*

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No, he did that during his post-regeneration mania, while trying to settle on a look.

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Something more like a cross between Kid Gladiator (also from Wolverine & the X-Men) and John DiMaggio's Aquaman (from Batman: Brave & The Bold), with a healthy dose of Brian Blessed? :)

> - Who let in the Theta Chis? comes from an old MST3K, but I
>can't remember which one.

You lost some geek points for not throwing in a "Theta Sigma" joke, Ben. I am somewhat disappointed.

I don't think those two references fit together as well as you seem to think they do, that's all I'm saying. :)

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This is highly probable. :D

As I commented to Gryphon during development, in one swoop, Don Griffin managed to accomplish all THREE of the outcomes of looking into the Vortex:

* Inspired (to go and retrieve Romana from E-Space)
* Run away (stealing a TARDIS to accomplish that)
* Go Mad (well, nobody remotely SANE would've tried the above things for such a goal and expected to live...)

The full trifecta -- "Hitting for the cycle", as one might say.

> - I suspect the Gladiator's MO was similar to the Doctor's, except he
>was much, much more up for a fight. Hence his somewhat shorter
>career.

He and The Corsair used to be drinking buddies. It played out about as well as could be expected.

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Well, actually...

        "I only pass on the messages, I make no warranty as to their
accuracy," the Master replied piously.  "Martol, Castellan Andred asked
me to tell -you- that if he sees your face in the Citadel at any point
in that same span of time, he will see that you are transported to the
Death Zone and there leave you to the tender mercies of Lady Leela."
        "Told you he'd be pissed," said Don philosophically to Kitty.

... Leela, at least, is still around. I make no promises about Sarah Jane Smith, though if she was to appear, she'd probably have the same sort of longetivity as Dr. Raoul Duke (but with MUCH LESS pharmaceutical use). As long as there's a Story to uncover...

--- Philip

Tales tell of a lone journalist, one to whom even the greats -- Murrow, Cronchite, Winchell, Reston, Carter -- bow their heads at the mere mention of her name. Some say she travels still, enlightening all who read her words, seeking out the truth in the shadows, empowered only by her wits and the assistance of a curious robotic dog. All that we know for certain is her name... Sarah Jane.

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I dunno, man, that could be pretty awesome.

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Ah, devil ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel.

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Something I've always loved about it. I seem to recall telling you of my discovery of soda machines disguised to look like shipping crates on Tom Sawyer Island at Disney World a few years back, and my immediate decision that they had to be Don's TARDIS. All of them.

>(And Romana in the "present-day" framing sequences is still Lalla Ward.)

<HOMER>Oooooo, Lalla Ward!</HOMER>

-- Bob
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I was mightily confused for a moment here, since Enterprise isn't in Omni 5; it'll be the leadoff story in Omni 6. But anyway: traditional NASA end-of-the-decade thing, calling back to Project Apollo in the '60s. Also, they wanted to get it done before President Clinton would have had to leave office (though it was always possible that he wouldn't have been re-elected in 1996). Whoever replaced him might've canned the whole thing. Why take the chance?

--G.
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It isn't??? ... (checks again) ... indeed it isn't. Don't have any idea why I thought it was. Sorry for the confusion.