Great meta. I think I'll be returning to this off and on, as I ruminate upon it. But I wanted to mention one thing:
He calls the Toglofane ‘his friends’, and talks of them as his offspring:
Master: Down you go kids!
Master: My children - are you ready?
Of course he also does it so he can use them to take over the universe... ;)
::cough:: I don't think so. Where did those pitiful dregs of humanity get the technology, never mind know-how to transform themselves into pseudo-Daleks? Gee, who had a time machine, was an evil genius, and was in the general vicinity?
The Master.
I think he was their figurative father, giving them the means to transform themselves into the human equivalent of Daleks, and then, when that didn't work, provide them a means of escape. I think it was all aimed at getting back at the Doctor - making his pet species into the species he feared and hated most, destroying and enslaving the un-altered humans while the Doctor watched. Ruling the universe? Just a bonus.
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He calls the Toglofane ‘his friends’, and talks of them as his offspring:
Master: Down you go kids!
Master: My children - are you ready?
Of course he also does it so he can use them to take over the universe... ;)
::cough:: I don't think so. Where did those pitiful dregs of humanity get the technology, never mind know-how to transform themselves into pseudo-Daleks? Gee, who had a time machine, was an evil genius, and was in the general vicinity?
The Master.
I think he was their figurative father, giving them the means to transform themselves into the human equivalent of Daleks, and then, when that didn't work, provide them a means of escape. I think it was all aimed at getting back at the Doctor - making his pet species into the species he feared and hated most, destroying and enslaving the un-altered humans while the Doctor watched. Ruling the universe? Just a bonus.