Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-3999524-20141211184047/@comment-188432-20141212031054

It's not Susan thinking that there's no way for him to regenerate. It's the omniscient narrator saying that, flatly. Besides, he doesn't regenerate. That's the point. At no point in the book does it suggest that he in anyway regenerated when he went from being Delgado to being Pratt. They are very much the same incarnation of the Master at different points on his quite singular timeline.