User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-39450671-20200330222925/@comment-6032121-20200330232415

Yes, I think we're more in agreement than I thought. It's just that you spent rather a lot of time in that opening post trying to straight out "which incarnations we can number" and things like that, which seemed rather besides the point. But I may well have misunderstood your intentions.

(I would argue with the terminology you use in your proposal, by the way. If we're going to be counting the various stolen bodies as Masters in their own right, and I'm glad that you agree that we should, then why call them "bodies of the Thirteenth Master"? Even beyond the fact that Legacy of the Daleks suggests that the Master may not have been on his last regeneration at all when he got mutilated, simply being mutilated in a way that prevented regeneration, there is also the fact that there is no reason the Ainley Master or Bruce Masters couldn't 'count' in the numbering. If regenerations can fail to count, then body-hopping that lasts long enough could count in turn.)