It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it's really the Master's style.
I'll have to see how Mel actually appears in 13&14. I know she's a version of Mel that has met the Doctor before, but I don't know whether she was disgorged from the Matrix or actually plucked from time (and please not to tell me which). I've always assumed that after "carrot juice", the Doctor drops her off with her future-Doctor, and then goes off to have her first meeting with him, and then they go and actually have "Terror of the Vervoids" happen to them, which the Doctor finds particularly easy to do this time round because he's watched it on telly already.
The supposed relation to Ghost of Christmas Past/Present/Future is a bit of a stretch when it's the same pair of travellers in the Past _and_ Present stories, isn't it? From that point of view they'd have done better to have Peter Davison appear in the The Mysterious Planet, although even had Baker and Davison been willing, would hardly have been possible given the politics of the hiatus and the relative amount of time being spent on the Trial scenes.
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Date: 2010-09-07 03:51 pm (UTC)I'll have to see how Mel actually appears in 13&14. I know she's a version of Mel that has met the Doctor before, but I don't know whether she was disgorged from the Matrix or actually plucked from time (and please not to tell me which). I've always assumed that after "carrot juice", the Doctor drops her off with her future-Doctor, and then goes off to have her first meeting with him, and then they go and actually have "Terror of the Vervoids" happen to them, which the Doctor finds particularly easy to do this time round because he's watched it on telly already.
The supposed relation to Ghost of Christmas Past/Present/Future is a bit of a stretch when it's the same pair of travellers in the Past _and_ Present stories, isn't it? From that point of view they'd have done better to have Peter Davison appear in the The Mysterious Planet, although even had Baker and Davison been willing, would hardly have been possible given the politics of the hiatus and the relative amount of time being spent on the Trial scenes.