Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20151008023030/@comment-38288735-20191119132236

To me, it just seems like a narrative convention: rather than inventing a new appearance, they just showed the Master who was telling the story, even though it almost certainly wasn't him. Going beyond that, illustrations from non-visual media have consistently been treated as a "secondary" canon by this wiki. This would fall under the same grounds as cover art that doesn't match its own story.

Also, it seems that this story is easy to "ignore" due to the Master not being the most reliable of narrators.