#geoffrey beevers

[clowns0cks]

[cleowho]

“I used to know an ancient remedy...”

The Keeper of Traken - season 18 - 1981

[spookydestinycat]

Doctor Who Poll: The final results for your favourite incarnation of the master.

12. Peter Pratt and Milo Parker 0%

11. Alex Macqueen 0.9%

10. Jonathan Pryce 1.2%

09. Gina McKee 1.8%

08. Eric Roberts and Derek Jacobi Shalka Master Incarnation 3.7%

07. Derek Jacobi War Master Incarnation 4.6%

06. Geoffrey Beevers and Mark Gatiss 6.2%

05. John Simm 10.8%

04. Sacha Dhawan 12.6%

03. Anthony Ainley 18.5%

02. Roger Delgado 42%

01. Michelle Gomez 55.7%

So yeah, once again my favourite came out on top. I swear I don't interfere with the final result in any way. Guess I'm just in tune with a lot of tumblr whovians.

For reasons you can look up I didn't include James Dreyfuss in this poll.

Once again thanks to everyone who voted.

[skelligaladan]

22. Ghost

I really love this one. Love the inking. Love the ambiance. Love the light.

I have progressed a lot since the beginning of this series of "inktober" drawings.

I really really love the eyes of the "crispy" master, don't know how I did this glassy effect.

[please-attend-carefully]

Happy Birthday Alex Kingston!

[stickybasementobject]

Every Incarnation of the Master in Doctor Who

Mark Gatiss

Milo Parker

James Dreyfus

Roger Delgado

Peter Pratt

Geoffrey Beevers

Anthony Ainley

Eric Roberts

Alex Macqueen

Derek Jacobi

John Simm

Michelle Gomez

Gina McKee

Sacha Dhawan

[lizshaw]

Caroline John with her husband Geoffrey Beevers, and their lovely kids Tom, Daisy and Ben, over the years

[mr-boundless]

The smell of burnt in the darkness

[whoisthemaster]

Why does no one ask, Master Who?: (#3 - Oh No, He’s Crispy!)

Why does no one ask, Master Who?: A Character Study Series Masterlist

Our next topic to cover in the subject of the Master is his Anakin Skywalker---er, I mean, sudden change in appearance and re-appearance when he surprises us all in the Fourth Doctor’s era. I think this is where his now signature long running gag for ‘coming back from the dead’ without any explanation truly began. 

So, because of the tragedy that happened to Roger Delgado, the Master as a character was kept out of stories for quite awhile until the 4th Doctor’s era in 1976′s episode, “The Deadly Assassin.” An episode not only remarkable for bringing back the Master in a MUCH darker state, nearing the end of his regeneration cycle, but the fact this episode began a lot of the mythos of the Time Lords and Gallifrey as we know it. Played by two different actors for two different episodes years apart, the fandom has dubbed the Peter Pratt and Geoffrey Beevers Master’s as the Crispy Master or Decayed Master, due to his decaying form looking like he was fighting with a Jedi for control of the high ground and lost (Still too soon? Okay.) 

In ‘The Deadly Assassin,’ the Master’s disappearance is explained to us when he comes up with a clever plot, sending the Doctor back home to Gallifrey in order to uncover a mystery into the future premotionions of the Lord President’s death (and of course he’s behind it.) This Master is FAR more dark than his previous self, hell-bent on only his survival, even if it means taking the rest of Gallifrey with him to achieve it. Only his hate and need for revenge keeps him going. Although it may seem the Master has finally lost, this is only when we start to realize how great of a survivor he can be when it comes to death.

Making a return in ‘The Keeper of Traken,’ he’s still focused on attaining a body that can handle the presence of a Time Lord. Although he isn’t able to obtain the Doctor’s, using his cunning, the Master ends up stealing the body of Tremas of Traken, finding a way to extend his life a little longer.

Important Character Traits for Crispy!Master:

High sense of Self-Preservation. He doesn’t care what it takes to stay alive. This is the first time we see it with the Master, even if he’s going completely against the Doctor to do so.

Known for being the most ruthless of the Master’s incarnations (and that’s saying something.)

His physical state of being rotten and decayed can be used as a metaphor for how evil he is as an individual. As Geoffrey Beevers remarked; this is what the Master is like without his smooth looks and charm: as he put it, "the essence of the creature.”

However, in Big Finish, thanks to Beevers himself, and the writers, Crispy gets more of a development. Despite being just ruthless because of his current situation, ‘being faced with his own mortality also gives him plenty of poetic and calm moments.’ 

The Many Explanations for his Crispy State:

Geoffrey Beevers remarked that this is what the Master is like without his smooth looks and charm: as he put it, "the essence of the creature". This seems to be a running theme with this Master. The first Crispy Master is the ugliest and cruellest of all, while the second Crispy seems to have "healed" a little and is a step back towards Delgado behaviour (how much of the "healed" appearance is intentional and how much of it is due to the limitations of Beevers' makeup compared to Pratt's mask is unknown).

There are also many more explanations of how the Master became decayed on the TARDIS Wiki. 

[cleowho]

“...my twelfth regeneration.”

The Keeper of Traken - season 18 - 1981

[spookydestinycat]

Doctor Who Poll: Favourite classic incarnation of the Master?

[please-attend-carefully]

In this week's episode, we examine The Master's machinations in his own words! "I am the Master" written by and starring Geoffrey Beevers as The Decayed Master.

Beevers wrote this piece for himself, and who is a better authority on the Master than the man who has been playing him the longest!

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, or via the link on our blog.

[classic-who-review]

Master

10/10

Oh my. What can I say? This was a complete work of art. I enjoyed this so much. Such an emotional roller-coaster. This is one I would enjoy listening to again and again. Very well done.

[softshelldoctor]

I'm an idiot I only just realised this!

[dwimpossblog]

Dust Breeding

The Doctor and Ace find themselves on Duchamp 331, where the dust is able to reanimate corpses. Meanwhile, an old foe is on their way with devious schemes on their mind!

[junkyardbluebox]

Tremas saying rather softly "Help, Nyssa!" when he really should have yelled is bad direction by John Black and JN-T. Also, what if Nyssa *had* come? A quick TCE'ing by the Beevers Master?

Yeah, I'm still a little confused by that direction. I'm due for a re-watch of that story and can't remember if that was all he was able to do physically or not. As for Nyssa arriving I don't want to think about what would have happened.