User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-197.86.143.126-20200606192351/@comment-45692830-20200607090925

Let me note here that I'm responding with that comment to the line of thought that goes:

"However, they did write The War Games (TV story), and then, less than two years later, were two of the people who worked extensively on the Roger Delgado Master stories [...] But basically, the same people who created The War Chief also 'created' The Master. They didn't create Butterworth's character. [...] Saying "The War Chief is the Master" is like saying "Melody Pond is River Song"."

I fully agree that I would be putting too much weight into authorial intent otherwise, were this a general point about the thread. I figured that would be clear and I wouldn't need to quote, I apologize.