Re: your brains--a retrospective on the Master as Project Manager

[x_los]

I cannot even deal with the hilarious brilliance of the Project Manager's guide to Classic Who: Castrovalva and War Games. ENJOY. DISCUSS. WRITE MORE OFFICE AUS, OR JUST FIC ABOUT THE MASTER'S TOUGH WORK-LIFE.

Thanks to tula_peiwa for finding it!

Comments

[tula_peiwa]

"Overall the project manager was competent, but would work better as part of a team" Is clearly an invitation for a multi-Master Castrovalva revisit, y/y?

Also this has made me realize that I've lost my screencap of Ainley's awkward see-through trousers incident from that episode.

Now my dream of compiling an "member-able moments from DW episodes" post is shattered.

[x_los]

...That pun. You did not. I. Tu. Look at your life. Look at your choices.

[tula_peiwa]

I'm looking and I see no problem. I would do it again too. I would in fact probably bold it. I live my life on the edge without fear of punishment

[tula_peiwa]

See...through...trousers? I must have seen Catrovalva at least three times and I've NEVER spotted those.

[aietradaea]

Oh, these are hilarious! Now I so desperately want to see that blogger pick apart the New Who ones. "End of Time" - now you can't say that wasn't working as "part of a team"!

Or "Time Flight". "Sharum-sharaaah...sharum-sharaaah..."

Or "Mark of the Rani" - was that the one where the Master was already standing around dressed as a scarecrow when the Doctor showed up? Now there's thinking ahead!

Or "Trial" - O.K., kill the Doctor, eliminate the competition, save the Doctor, steal the Matrix tapes, take over Gallifrey...taking on too many projects at once - it was bound to fail.

Someone do them? Or office AUs of them? Pweeeeeze...?

[dragonofmemory]

“Let’s have alpaca robes and a sort of hockey mask for the hunting party! With a Mardi Gras feel! And hats! Lots of hats! The biggest one for me! And some cobweb gloves! And bindis! Oh and can you base the city’s shape on these old mathematically-inspired paradoxical etchings so that we can fold time and space in on each other at the end cheers nyah hah hah.”

Yes. That was exactly how it happened.

[predatrix]

That was my favourite line too, particularly all the lulzy fashion-fail moments and then Escher tacked on at the end... because normally if asked to describe Castrovalva people think, "Oh, it's the Escher one", but there are plenty more things to point and laugh at...

[dragonofmemory]

There really are. So many, many things to laugh at. And yet, it's still a very endearing episode that is only actually cuter when you hear Peter Davison reading the novelization of it...