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roxannepolice · 25 days ago

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My most controversial take about thoschei is that they are fundamentally NOT tragic. They're practically anti-tragic in a way that needs to involve tragedy so it can defy all of its rules, the way comedy just can't. Sprinkling comedic elements just won't do the trick, tragedy having comic relief moments is part of the course. No, you need to have these freaks actually just like each other and the wink to the audience that the Master survived being as much part of the happy ending as their evil plans getting foiled.

If you can't do that, get away from me, even if BBC hired you.

#roxanne still getting her stupid brain to work #no but srsly this is something you can't do if you make all of the master's appearances exclusively about their relationship with the docto #give them freaking room to breathe give them other relationships and ambitions #give them stories that don't require bending yourself into a pretzel to bestow emotional sense upon it #(honestly if i have to see another meta just ignoring O actually existing as an indepentent entity #or that NOTHING in the text implies the master destroyed gallifirey because they hurt da doctah :((( i'm...#well idk maybe i'm gonna write an actual article about rorschach test storytelling and why people fall for it #i don't have much bibliography for it tho classics of semiotics seem to not have considered #that the addressee may just want to cherrypick the message until it suits them)#please please please please please pleeeeaaaase RTD give the master a break and only bring them back when you have a good story #and not exposition to do #tw: negativity

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