Re: USA Election

On 11/11/2024 07:30, solar imbecile wrote:

 The True Doctor wrote:
 

On 10/11/2024 22:14, solar imbecile wrote:

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The True loon let loose with:
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Ainley was infinitely superior. The Master was never a nihilistic
psychopath. The character is supposed to be based on 'Blackie'
DuQuesne from E E Smiths Skylark series, not Hannibal Lector.
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What’s your source for that?

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The Skylark of Space, etc. It's blatantly obvious from the whole
frenemies and went to school together take.
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Every interview with Dicks or Letts I’ve ever seen has said he
was based on Professor Moriarty.

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Who was also an influence for DuQuesne, exchange mathematics
for chemistry, but the Master like DuQuesne allies himself with
the mafia or criminals and gives the impression of working for them
but he's using them for his own ends whereas Professor Moriarty
  is the kingpin of every criminal organization to begin with. And
just DuQuesne the Master and the Doctor work together whereas
this does not happen in the case of Holmes and Moriarty.
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 In other words, when you say the Master is “supposed to be
based on” your Blackie bloke, you really mean there just happen
to be some stories where he just happens to remind you of
him.

No. What I said is that the Master IS based on 'Blackie' DuQuesne. The Skylark series could not have gone unread by Dicks and Letts. It stands as one of the primary foundational pillars of science fiction along with the Lensman Series, the Barsoom Series, the Foundation Series, Armageddon 2419/The Airlords of Han (Anthony 'Buck' Rogers), I Robot, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and the science fiction works of H G Wells. I'm in two minds whether to include Dune as it's a derivative of the Foundation and Barsoom series, and Flash Gordon was created as a derivative of Buck Rogers.
You obviously know very little about science fiction.

 Riiight…
 Do you do this with every Blackie character in old pulp novels? For
example, do you also think it’s “obvious” that the Doctor is
“supposed to be” based on Boston Blackie from the books of
Jack Boyle?
 (As for the the differences from Moriarty, that’s probably just
a side effect of the different genres. It’s possible to think that
Victorian London had an organised criminal underworld. It’s
a lot less likely that there’s an organised network of aliens all
taking it in turns to invade Earth!)
 

Boston Blackie may well have also been a source for the character of the Master, but Boston Blackie didn't go up into space and have adventures with space aliens and neither did Moriarty. DuQuesne did.
None of these characters were nihilistic psychopaths like Hannibal Lector which is all that degenerate modern writers can think of when writing villains. These imbeciles can't write intelligent villains that can rationally justify their actions any more. Missy was a shit attempt to characterize the Master, and John Sim doesn't fair much better.

I don’t remember them ever mentioning this Blackie bloke.
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 Well, can you cite any examples of Dicks or Letts mentioning him?
 

It's up to you to prove me wrong using logical argument and literary analysis. Dicks and Letts aren't going to reveal that they plagiarized E E Smith and other writers while they were still in copyright. Douglas Adams' The Pirate Planet is directly based on themes and ideas derived E E Smith's Lensman novels. It's blatantly obvious to anyone who has read them.

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You probably don't realize that Davros came from Edgar Rice
Burroughs The Master Mind of Mars and Synthetic Men of Mars which
is where the plot of Genesis of the Daleks came from. Davros is
Ras Thavas with his first and last names reversed (Thava Ras) which
is something ERB does with the name of one of the characters in the novel.
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 And now you shift the goalposts to a totally different Doctor Who
villain who just happens to remind you of a totally different character
from a totally different pulp novel for totally different reasons.
 And this one isn’t even called Blackie!
 

I'm not shifting any goalposts you stupid deranged imbecile. I'm giving you examples of the origin of other characters in Doctor Who to demonstrate your lack of knowledge.
Are you going to deny that the appearance of the Dalek creatures, ie. the Dals/Kaleds ultimate form comes from the end of H G Well's The Time Machine?
Here's another one. Superman was directly based on John Carter of Mars, also a character created by ERB (admitted by Siegal but obvious to anyone who has read the Barsoom series without knowing a single thing Siegal said). Also The Green Lantern was derived from E E Smith's Lensman series.
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