Jun. 1st, 2008

bagheera_san: (Ten)
I'm possibly going to write an essay about this for my "Posthumanism" seminar. This is sort of the first draft. And, why yes, it is fannish meta. So what! This is the seminar that pimped me into BSG.

If you look at the Master's history throughout Doctor Who, wow, does that guy go through a lot of transformations. And I don't mean the "usual", regeneration kind. Crispy!Master, possessing a Traken body, shrinking, turning into a cheetah and then an ectoplasmic green snake, dying, ressurrecting, turning human, turning Time Lord again, dying again and let's not forget Shalka!Master's life as a domestic android. Aside from being evil and stalking the Doctor, this is his most consistent theme. Somehow, this gave me the crazy idea that you could actually have a

Posthumanist Reading of the Master in Doctor Who
bagheera_san: (Ten)
I'm possibly going to write an essay about this for my "Posthumanism" seminar. This is sort of the first draft. And, why yes, it is fannish meta. So what! This is the seminar that pimped me into BSG.

If you look at the Master's history throughout Doctor Who, wow, does that guy go through a lot of transformations. And I don't mean the "usual", regeneration kind. Crispy!Master, possessing a Traken body, shrinking, turning into a cheetah and then an ectoplasmic green snake, dying, ressurrecting, turning human, turning Time Lord again, dying again and let's not forget Shalka!Master's life as a domestic android. Aside from being evil and stalking the Doctor, this is his most consistent theme. Somehow, this gave me the crazy idea that you could actually have a

Posthumanist Reading of the Master in Doctor Who

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