Hearing his laugh in "Utopia" was a welcome delight but not entirely unexpected. Seeing him in the montage in "The Timeless Child" was the same. But hearing him not just among but before the laughs of the new series Masters? That was a surprise that I had to listen to several times to be completely sure but that is definitely his laugh. :') I'm not surprised he was chosen out of all the classic Masters though. Roger Delgado deserves all the praise for being the original Master, but the impact Anthony Ainley made during his time in the role cannot be denied. Not to mention he got to play it for nearly a whole decade and even got to come back for a swan song in "Destiny Of The Doctors" after he was technically replaced. And I guess his laugh is more iconic (sorry, Roger). I'm just glad he made it back into an anniversary special in some capacity. 😼
I look forward to many more of these "cameos" (even if just audio) - as long it is clips of the real thing because if they dare recast his Master, or worse, turn him into some AI digital puppet voiced by a "sound-alike" (which probably won't) or worse, an AI replication, I am gonna walk all the way to the UK if I have to so I can fight whose decision that was (and you all should too in the case of the latter for any actor). I miss him dearly but I don't want him replicated either because you really can't. Not with any human.
Anyway, I'm busy working on an addendum to my Anthony Ainley letters video(s) because even in writing a script for it I was so in a hurry that there's a lot I wanted to say that I forgot to. But even that's taking a while because this month has been... eventful. But I wanna get it out before Christmas so maybe I'll just wing it with the notes I have. IDK.
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29 сен 2024
