Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-9435571-20130724194223/@comment-188432-20130812223509

But if we put him before the TVM then that makes the narrative picture complicated and begs the question — which we cannot answer — "How does he go from Ainley to MacQueen to Roberts?"

It seems easier just to say he's somewhere between Roberts (okay, the Beevers post-Roberts thing of Mastermind) and Jacobi.

I mean, like you, I'm not saying we know that it's one or the other. The truth of the matter is that Big Finish have actually written themselves into a hole. But for simplicity, and in the absence of any firm narrative detail, why not go for the thing that requires the least explanation?

(By the way, I'm completely rejecting your notion that the Doctor and Master must be in sync in terms of their own timelines.  That's claptrap you've picked up from The End of Time part 1.  But it's obviously not true, as there are stories in which the Delgado Master meets the Eighth Doctor.  And, the whole premise of UNIT: Dominion is that the Master is pretending to be the Doctor, something that wouldn't work even for an instant if Seven knew the MacQueen Doctor.  The only way it works is if MacQueen is from Seven's relative future, right?)