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Like the title says, will we ever GET this figure???
I am rather shameless in my preference; Delgado's Master was the first one I ever really liked. I had seen Anthony Ainley's performance, and it left me cold.
To think, that the writer's of the program took a charming, suave, urbane and educated villain and turned him into a psychopath that had about as much charm as a cockroach.
The Peter Pratt version of the Master, while scary in appearance, wasn't really all that scary after you got used to him.
Delgado could be much more menacing when he wanted to be, he just covered it up with charm and smooth talk.
As for John Simm, he did a good job as the Master, but he was still a complete raving nutjob. Okay, he was an effective raving nutjob, but still....
I have to admit, I first saw one of Delgado's appearances when I was around twelve or thirteen, and when his name came up in the credits, I turned to my mother in shock and said "MOMMY! THE BAD GUY WAS PUERTO RICAN!!!"
Yes, I was naïve enough to assume that he was Puerto Rican and that he had made it in a fickle business like acting. After all, if Jose Ferrer could do it with a very polished, urbane Continental accent, so could he.
I later found out that he was born in England, and had a Basque mother and a Spanish father, hence the surname Delgado.
Still, if there are any other versions of the Master to be made, the Delgado one is THE one to be made! He was the one that first played the character, and made it such an integral part of the Dr. Who mythos.
Come one peeps! Let's hear it from other Delgado fans!
I am rather shameless in my preference; Delgado's Master was the first one I ever really liked. I had seen Anthony Ainley's performance, and it left me cold.
To think, that the writer's of the program took a charming, suave, urbane and educated villain and turned him into a psychopath that had about as much charm as a cockroach.
The Peter Pratt version of the Master, while scary in appearance, wasn't really all that scary after you got used to him.
Delgado could be much more menacing when he wanted to be, he just covered it up with charm and smooth talk.
As for John Simm, he did a good job as the Master, but he was still a complete raving nutjob. Okay, he was an effective raving nutjob, but still....
I have to admit, I first saw one of Delgado's appearances when I was around twelve or thirteen, and when his name came up in the credits, I turned to my mother in shock and said "MOMMY! THE BAD GUY WAS PUERTO RICAN!!!"
Yes, I was naïve enough to assume that he was Puerto Rican and that he had made it in a fickle business like acting. After all, if Jose Ferrer could do it with a very polished, urbane Continental accent, so could he.
I later found out that he was born in England, and had a Basque mother and a Spanish father, hence the surname Delgado.
Still, if there are any other versions of the Master to be made, the Delgado one is THE one to be made! He was the one that first played the character, and made it such an integral part of the Dr. Who mythos.
Come one peeps! Let's hear it from other Delgado fans!
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