Results of the Top Five Meme

[thisbluespirit]

I realised that when I saw people's request, my fic on Teaspoon is very misleading - I must add a disclaimer here that (for various reasons), I actually have whacking great gaps in my Three-era stories I've seen. So if my favourite bits seem lacking, that could be why.

For clocketpatch:

Top Five Delgado Master Moments
1. The Sea Devils: watching the Clangers and pretending to be good while wearing white (and a rather beautiful black cloak-thing). "It seems to be some sort of new life form."

2. The Sea Devils: Anyone for a big Doctor-Master sword-fight?

3. Claws of Axos: On entering the Doctor's TARDIS. It's not even the wonderful line "Over-weight, under-powered, might as well try and fly a second-hand gas stove." as much as how genuinely shocked he is at the state of it. ("What have you been doing, Doctor?") (With also much love for the moment where he ends up working with the Brigadier and being gently sarcastic on nuclear warfare).

4. Frontier in Space: I can't decide between anything in this - his entry (why is Jo not pleased to see him? I was overjoyed, after all that padding and swapping cells), his pretending to be good yet again ("I have devoted my life to the cause of law and order...") and working for the Daleks "Stupid tin pepperpots, we'll see who rules the galaxy!". But maybe it has to be reading H G Wells and turning the sound down on the Doctor's waffling with the comment: "In reminiscent mood are we, Doctor? Poor Miss Grant, you have my deepest sympathies."

5. Posing as a vicar in The Daemons. He wants to be good, if only he could manage it.

I should add I do like the other Masters, so as a bonus:

Top Five Other Master Moments:
1. Anthony Ainley trying to convince various Doctors, none of whom will listen, he's on their side in The Five Doctors. It's very entertaining, plus: "A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about."

2. Geoffrey Beevers gloating in The Keeper of Traken and being twisted and insane.

3. The Simm Master taking over the world to a sound track and - still being the Master - knows the proper meaning of the word 'decimation', making pedants happy everywhere.

4. The Movie Master: "I always like to dress for the occasion!" How can you not love it? (Well, all right, but I do.) Plus, john_elliott and daibhid_c will know that this moment has given me no end of inspiration. Not just me, either. (Anyone remember the benign, cross-dressing alt-Master from the IAs?)

5. The Master fighting his animal nature in Survival. (And you've got to love Ace's reaction, to the Doctor: "Don't you know any normal people?")

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For ghost2.
This took some thinking about. "I'm not that mad about UNIT," I said to myself. Then I looked at TEaspoon page again and saw that something strange has happened. It was hard to do this without slipping into Top Five Brig Moments, but I pulled myself together and came up with something.

1. Storming the warehouse in Ambassadors. All right, it ends with a slight limp, but for once UNIT look absolutely convincing as an army outfit and there are more than two of them. I don't usually get fussed by gunfights, but I liked this very much. Oh, Season 7, how we missed you, fun as the rest of the UNIT era is.

2.Their first appearance in The Invasion, when they have a mobile HQ and everything's state of the art, but the Brigadier'll still make you a cup of tea and we meet Sergeant Benton for the first time.

3. The Brigadier interviews Liz Shaw in Spearhead and explains what UNIT is and it sounds like it's going to be the X-Files in 1970 and UNIT could have run without the Doctor. Plus, it has one of the Interchangeable Jimmys in.

4. Invasion of the Dinosaurs - UNIT fight dinosaurs and go on the run from the regular army yet again, Yates is a traitor, Benton punches a General and the Brig merely looks put upon when the Doctor throws unreasonable requests at him ("Get me a dinosaur!") and confronted with a prehistoric giant in the underground, suggests the Brig "Keep it busy". It's at times like this the Brigadier must surely be wondering whether it would have been better to have the Master on board instead. He would at least have asked nicely.

5. Silurian. How many men does the Brigadier have? "FIve - and Captain Hawkins!"

Oh, that was a bit silly, wasn't it? Okay then, real number five:

5. The Green Death. The Brigadier doesn't trust Global Chemicals, Mike goes undercover, Jo does what a girl's gotta do and they manage for two episodes without the Doctor coming anywhere near Wales. Then the Doctor dresses up and Benton feeds the maggots.

I think I'll have to continue in another post now.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Then the Doctor dresses up and Benton feeds the maggots.

LOL The Doctor CROSS-DRESSES - which absolutely cracked me up when I first saw it!

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I put dressing up, because he starts with being a milkman. He really should have stayed at home and been the leading light of the Gallifreyan Amateur dramatics society.

And Yates: "I like your handbag!" Priceless!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the milkman schtick isn't half as funny as the charwoman one!

It's a wonder Three ever talked to Mike Yates again, to be honest!

And I SO agree about the Doctor and the AmDram society! :D

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I harbour a certain carefully-concealed soft spot for the Movie Master, too, as wrong as I know it to be. ;D Another really great UNIT/Brig moment I noticed the other day, in Robot; when the Brig cleverly shoots said robot with the disintegrator gun...his look of disgust as it starts to grow to the size of King Kong really does say it all.

[thisbluespirit]

It's not wrong. He pulls off the camps moments while not diminishing the threat of his person - he murders Bruce and his wife, Grace and Chang Lee and tortures the Doctor. The fact that you also get this totally improbable OTT Gallifreyan gear moment makes him the Master, because after all, the Master is rather improbable at heart.

Robot is great. Mind you, the Doctor did tell the Brig not to do that and he really should have learned to listen by now. (As you were saying, Harry undercover & everything - Sarah's disgusted "James Bond!" is lovely).

[john_amend_all]

Frontier in Space: All of what you've quoted, but I think "My strength is as the strength of ten / Because my heart is pure." deserves a mention too.

The Master fighting his animal nature in Survival.
Oh, so very much. "A will as strong as mine... how much longer?"

"Five — and Captain Hawkins!"
Well, Hawkins isn't a man. He's an officer. The two species are quite distinct :-)

[thisbluespirit]

I nearly did quote that bit, but then I thought I was going to end up quoting the whole thing. (There's the traffic offences he wants the Doctor and Jo for, too...)

What's more, Captain Hawkins is Paul Darrow. :lol: Mind you, he is probably called Jimmy.

[clocketpatch]

Hey, two for the price of one. Nice. And Simm!Master knowing the proper meaning of the word decimate rather tickled me pink too. That, and the fact that his naivety towards dubious children's programming obviously hasn't changed any (Tellytubies)

"Then the Doctor dresses up and Benton feeds the maggots."

I lol'd

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, although the Teletubbues moment distracted me. It made me smile, but it was such a direct homage to the Clangers moment, I remain unsure about it. On the other hand, the Master on the subject of children's TV, can we have enough of it? Why did the Ainley Master never watch Bagpuss? :lol:

Heh. Well, the Doctor does dress up and Benton does feed the maggots!

[ghost2.livejournal.com]

With the UNIT list, I like the first #5. :D I also like the second #5, though.

There were a lot of good UNIT moments in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, yet.

I have huge gaps in my Two and Three viewing, to be filled as I keep going through the show in order.

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you. (first #5 - Who can resist an unintentional joke at Paul Darrow? :lol:)

Yes, there's a lot against Invasion of the Dinosaurs, but it really is a great UNIT story in many ways.

I have massive gaps in seasons 8 & 9, which is really the main UNIT family bit, so what I'm doing writing all this Three!fic, who knows? Two - all of us have massive gaps there unless we were alive between 1966 and 1969. :-( (I'm still hoping that wishing hard enough might cause The Power of the Daleks to pop into existence.)

[pedanther]

(Anyone remember the benign, cross-dressing alt-Master from the IAs?)

I do -- that alt-universe was all the rage when I first stumbled into the online Who fanfic community. (I even essayed a small contribution to it myself, addressing a gap in the backstory; I'm rather embarrassed about it now, partly because -- well, you remember what that alt-universe was like, yes? -- but mostly because it's not at all well-written.)

[thisbluespirit]

Hah! I never contributed anything to the alt-verse of Altered States , I can happily say (although had fate not deprived me of internet access, I was going to write a Christmas story that involved the Doctor, Wil, Jadi Angela, the alt-Master and, as it turned out, the real Master, all stepping in to help out with a local pantomime of Cinderella. I still regret its unwrittenness from time to time.

(But I know what you mean. One of my earliest bits of fanfic is still out there and it's not spellchecked. I used to post draft versions of things on adwc because it felt so ephemeral, and then post the final one... and someone's archived the draft version. At least, I'm assuming that's my excuse. I'm not entirely sure it's Mary-Sue free, either. *whistles*)