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thisbluespirit5. The Master / Roger Delgado (Doctor Who)
"In reminiscent mood, are you, Doctor? Poor Miss Grant, you have my deepest sympathies."
This is a very simple one. I love Roger Delgado as the Master. I have no rhyme or reason for it (although I know I'm far from alone!*) other than that he is quite, quite beautiful in his own way and the first Three-era story I saw was The Sea Devils, which sees him dressing in white, and claiming to be reformed, and watching The Clangers.** ("It seems to be a rather interesting extraterrestrial life-form.") Three himself never had a chance, no matter how many sandwiches he pilfered later on. My heart was irrevocably given to the villain (with a little room left over for the Brigadier). In fact, that bit in The Claws of Axos where the Brigadier and the Master wind up working together? If the Doctor had run away at that point and never come back, I wouldn't have minded. Well, not much. (And, his genuine dismay at what the Doctor has been doing to his TARDIS and the state it's in: "Overweight, underpowered museum-piece... might as well try to fly a second-hand gas stove." And on what the Brigadier might do if there's a nuclear explosion: "You could try the usual precautions... sticky tape on the windows, that sort of thing." ♥)
I confess I do actually also enjoy the other Masters and their brand of Rubbish Villainy (whereby pretty much any plan, no matter how terrible or petty really boils down to: how to get the Doctor's attention today. So, you know, I blame the Doctor. As someone once said, if he'd just let the Master win at chess a few times in their younger days...)
I was going to make this post Roger Delgado rather than the Master, but then realised that while I once saw an amazing picspam of him on LJ (possibly this one?), I have never actually seen him in anything other than DW. (Yet another reason for people to make 1960s TV moar available now!) I'm sad about how he died (and much, much too soon), but I can still gaze adoringly at him in pics and in DW.*** And, I mean, so he likes to kill people and destroy planets... that doesn't mean he's really evil, does it? (I'm a hopeless case.)
*Just searched LJ to see if I could find that picspam again. My. I'm really, really not alone... Even more than I realised. I had to go use Google images instead because of all the recent Delgado posts/comments.
** WATCH THIS. WATCH THIS.
*** Gaze adoringly = a thing I only ever do in relation to Roger Delgado. Like I said, no rhyme or reason.
"In reminiscent mood, are you, Doctor? Poor Miss Grant, you have my deepest sympathies."
This is a very simple one. I love Roger Delgado as the Master. I have no rhyme or reason for it (although I know I'm far from alone!*) other than that he is quite, quite beautiful in his own way and the first Three-era story I saw was The Sea Devils, which sees him dressing in white, and claiming to be reformed, and watching The Clangers.** ("It seems to be a rather interesting extraterrestrial life-form.") Three himself never had a chance, no matter how many sandwiches he pilfered later on. My heart was irrevocably given to the villain (with a little room left over for the Brigadier). In fact, that bit in The Claws of Axos where the Brigadier and the Master wind up working together? If the Doctor had run away at that point and never come back, I wouldn't have minded. Well, not much. (And, his genuine dismay at what the Doctor has been doing to his TARDIS and the state it's in: "Overweight, underpowered museum-piece... might as well try to fly a second-hand gas stove." And on what the Brigadier might do if there's a nuclear explosion: "You could try the usual precautions... sticky tape on the windows, that sort of thing." ♥)
I confess I do actually also enjoy the other Masters and their brand of Rubbish Villainy (whereby pretty much any plan, no matter how terrible or petty really boils down to: how to get the Doctor's attention today. So, you know, I blame the Doctor. As someone once said, if he'd just let the Master win at chess a few times in their younger days...)
I was going to make this post Roger Delgado rather than the Master, but then realised that while I once saw an amazing picspam of him on LJ (possibly this one?), I have never actually seen him in anything other than DW. (Yet another reason for people to make 1960s TV moar available now!) I'm sad about how he died (and much, much too soon), but I can still gaze adoringly at him in pics and in DW.*** And, I mean, so he likes to kill people and destroy planets... that doesn't mean he's really evil, does it? (I'm a hopeless case.)
*Just searched LJ to see if I could find that picspam again. My. I'm really, really not alone... Even more than I realised. I had to go use Google images instead because of all the recent Delgado posts/comments.
** WATCH THIS. WATCH THIS.
*** Gaze adoringly = a thing I only ever do in relation to Roger Delgado. Like I said, no rhyme or reason.
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Date: 5 May 2012 07:51 pm (UTC)And though I don't normally, I confess to shipping Delgado!Master/Three just a teeny tiny bit because OMG! Their chemistry is SO hot in 'The Sea Devils'!! *giggles*
(I wish Liz had got to meet him - I'm just imagining how MUCH sarcasm she'd have used on him!)
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Date: 6 May 2012 08:25 pm (UTC)Heh, it is a bit hard not to at least ship it one-sided from the Master's POV if nothing else... but what else explains those Rubbish Plots when he is clearly so awesome and suave and debonnair and... okay, evil, but never mind... :lol:
Yes, a fic involving Three and the Master would be rather fun.
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Date: 7 May 2012 06:00 am (UTC)I think you mean the Master and Liz fic, don't you? (There's a Short Trip story in which they meet...)
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Date: 7 May 2012 07:45 am (UTC)*head!desk* Yes! I knew I was too tired to answer comments last night, but I did anyway.
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Date: 7 May 2012 07:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 5 May 2012 08:14 pm (UTC)Isn't it funny how we can become so irrationally attached to certain characters, for no apparent reason. My biggest irrational attachment in Classic Who is Harry - another actor who died tragically too soon.
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Date: 6 May 2012 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 6 May 2012 08:54 pm (UTC)(damn, wrong account again)
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Date: 7 May 2012 07:47 am (UTC):lol: Oh, yes. Indeed. I was just talking to somebody else on my flist about that the other day. Those one-off characters from DW serials are a particular thing for us Classic Who fans...
(And, it's okay. Like Harriet Jones, I Know Who You Are, either way. ;-D)
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Date: 5 May 2012 08:16 pm (UTC)And you're up to number six out of a hundred already? Blimey. I'm still sort of writing and discarding and rewriting number one (my first couple of attempts were a bit rubbish, tbh).
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Date: 6 May 2012 08:22 pm (UTC)And, yes. And I don't know what it is with the gazing adoringly thing. Not something I do as a rule, much as I may like looking at pictures of some people. But Roger Delgado... He is great. It's one of those rare things that most DW fans can agree on, like liking the Brigadier!
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Date: 5 May 2012 09:45 pm (UTC)Delgado (and Pertwee, too, for that matter) had a remarkable face -- it's funny that when I was a fan early on and hadn't seen the Third Doctor or Delgado's Master yet, I saw photos of them and decided that they looked great and I already loved them and couldn't wait to see their stories. :-)
It's too sad how Delgado died; it was too early and so unnecessary, and it hurt everyone who worked with him so much. It was sad to watch John Levene talking about it years later and still getting tearful, and his mentioning how Pertwee had to go off by himself and howl a bit.
I can easily understand gazing adoringly at him. I may have done this myself on occasion. *grin*
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Date: 6 May 2012 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 6 May 2012 02:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 6 May 2012 08:19 pm (UTC)(Um. There may be some logic in our thinking between us there, but I don't know...!)
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Date: 6 May 2012 03:11 am (UTC)(Also, quite irrelevantly, I'm afraid I think of JJ as looking like him. Do you do that too, or is it just me? ;P)
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Date: 6 May 2012 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 7 May 2012 09:57 am (UTC)I must admit I could NOT stand Sims as the master. Nowhere near as classy!
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Date: 7 May 2012 07:30 pm (UTC)And, yes, I'm least keen on John Simm's incarnation - although, to be fair to him, they were clearly having his version be a deliberate mockery of Ten, so he pulled that off. But even though I do like him in LoM, he's just... well... no Delgado!!
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Date: 25 Jul 2012 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 25 Jul 2012 03:43 pm (UTC)Also, Roger Delgado is great, yes. Once I've exhausted the archives of existing British TV with David Collings in, I should look for him next. I should really have beautiful sceencaps of Roger Delgado in my life. Although I might just lose time gazing at them adoringly, so maybe not. ;-)
Anyway, on the basis of you coming here looking for David Collings, plus liking important things like Roger Delgado, Doctor Who, and Blake's 7, I've friended you. Also partly because some of my David Collings screencaps are in flocked posts, I think. (I am all in favour of people having David Collings pics. I have lots, way more than I've posted if you ever want some for any reason.)
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Date: 27 Jul 2012 02:02 pm (UTC)Bit boring but I do screengrabs the same way for youtube & DVD: I've stuck the 'snipping tool' to the bottom of the bar of desktop & then I pause youtube/dvd & click on 'snipping too' that's with windows 7 though. I think I managed to make a jpeg out of print screen once, tricky.
Yes, I like all the important things;) The Master commands you gaze adoringly at him (or look at his baby snaps on the Frontier in Space DVD(?). I like how in many of the photos from stage plays his eyes are closed, even his eyelids are worth gazing at! I get fed up of "people" saying a whole season of the Master was dull/bad as I disagree, although it would mean I wouldn't have watched 'Colony in Space' as much as I have done.
Oh yes, keep making more David Collings pics! I've done a few of him in his 'Professionals', not much light in that episode.
Thanks for being my friend, now I have two! I'm friending you back to keep up with any DC picspam(v. important), dedication to old obscure TV progs & highlighting 'Rentaghost' fanfic!
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Date: 27 Jul 2012 07:42 pm (UTC)I use VLC player for getting screencaps - I can never work out how to do it any other way. So I can play DVDs on it, but not YouTUbe. (If you ever watch his surviving episode of Out of the Unknown - Level 7 on YouTube, I would love to see screencaps from that; it's the oldest thing I've seen him in [1967], and he's so young and his character is so very Doomed. :-D But, anyway, I have lots of pics, mustn't be greedy!!)
I think I'm not about to stop posting David Collings pics yet, don't worry! And my dedication to obscure old TV... well, I can't help it. It's all the BBC's fault. Well, sometimes it's ITV...
Anyway, welcome! LJ takes a little getting used to.
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Date: 28 Jul 2012 03:48 pm (UTC)Yay for picspam(sounds unsavory)XD
Thanks for the welcome:)Yes, lj is a bit tricky I have now mastered the cut button, woo(!).
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Date: 28 Jul 2012 07:20 pm (UTC)You just made me laugh very hard. I know, surely they should have took one look at him and made it a rule that everything he was in had to be in colour? What were they thinking. ;-)
How can spam be unsavory?
The cut button is so hard I learned some basic html instead. Well done! \o/