Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20151008023030/@comment-6032121-20191107175950

Schreibenheimer wrote: It's unclear if Gordon Tipple is supposed to be the Tzun Master or an unexplained incarnation, so I'm good with the next section being "Roberts". Whatever he is, I think it's extremely unlikely the Tipple Master is the Tzun Master, as A] he doesn't physically fit the description of the Tzun Master given in the VNAs, and B] Happy Endings apparently establishes that the Tzun nanites eventually fail the Master and he ends up reverting into Ainley. (Which is very convenient for writing the Master's biograhy in a chronological way, as it allows for Ainley's final end which turns him back into Beevers to be placed after the VNA Tzun Master, as is done on “The Master”.)

And as for keeping the section entitled "Roberts"… meh. It doesn't matter if we do not quite know what the Old Master was: we know it's a different body than the Bruce Master, and played by a different actor. Ergo, the Roberts Master simply does not appear in The Eight Doctors, and it therefore feels weird to have said book in the "Roberts" section of the template.

Also, future-proofing, people. I think it's only a matter of time before Big Finish, or someone, have a marketing coup of hiring Gordon Tipple again and finally making his Master a major presence in a story. If they don't do it, some novel will, someday. The point is that it's extremely improbable we've seen the last of the Old Master, in the long run; he's too famous an oddity not to be revisited.