Kamelion Q and A

[magnusgreel]

Hello. I suppose you're wondering why I've brought you all here tonight.... But before I name the murderer (and it might be me), I'd like to ask for background info. on Five's elusive companion Kamelion. See, I'm caught up in writing a stupid story about why we didn't see much of Kamelion for so long. This led to a stupid marathon of King's Demons, Time-Flight, and Planet of Fire, for every scrap of pertinent data on Kamelion and his origins, not because I was interested, but just because I started writing this thing, it started to be funny I thought, then I realized I had to get the facts straight to finish. Woe = me.

I like a great deal about Five's era, but I really did pick a lousy marathon. There are bits I like in all these stories, but watching them together led to my coming very close to hating these stories. I overloaded myself on questionable Who. I started to wonder if I'd been away from old Who for so long that I somehow did grow out of what might after all be the children's show I always said it wasn't. See my new signature.... I'll be better soon though.

Anyway, Kamelion and the Master had a "fateful meeting" on the planet "Xeraphass" after the Master was whisked away there after Time-Flight. The planet's radiation had cooled down, and the Xeraphim would have started to individuate after spending a fair stretch of time on Earth during the Jurassic Era in the form of one single corporate creature as a survival tactic. (I hope no one catches me typing this... fingers crossed! Wait, I can't type that way...)

Okay, so a shape-changing robot was hanging around for millions of years while the planet's inhabitants were holidaying on Earth but not in a peak season. Was he like Marvin the depressed android, parking cars all that time? For nobody?

The Master got his broken circuit fixed which was supposed to blow out after the trip according to Five. Wait, the Master got to Heathrow so I'm confused. So you're all saying, only NOW are you getting around to being confused Magnus?

One way or another, Master stuck on Xeraphass, fateful meeting with robot, robot helps Master somehow get away by impersonating newly-reborn Xeraphim and stealing stuff from them like components I guess. Master high-tails it to RenFair 13th century England, and uses K to insert monkey-wrench into Magna Carta as part of grand design to create cosmic chaos which he would rule over somehow. He's following Sutekh's master plan I think.

K hitches ride with Five, and... Q: Does he stay controlled by the Master all this time? There's a line at the end of Planet of Fire that I can't make out and I must have played it five times, because who needs sleep when you can stay up and drive yourself crazy with things that aren't important in any way shape or form. The Master might be saying that he has controlled K ever since Xeraphass, including all those months he played hide and seek in the Tardis corridors apparently.

Goodness me, I done tuckered myself out. Beyond that one question, I'll just ask in general if jjpor or anyone else can add anything significant (Significant? Did I say that?) or correct anything I've said.

I'm describing K's situation and thoughts while secluding himself in the Tardis someplace. His basic situation between King's Demons and P of Fire is what I'm asking about. Under Master's control? Did I get his past right?

Thanks profoundly to anyone who stayed with this post to the end. You're troupers, each and every one of you.

[merrythemad]

Magnus, I have no answers for you (I was a wee scrap of a lass when I last saw any episodes involving K). I just wanted to say whatever you write tends to be a joy, so I'll ALWAYS read it.

[jjpor]

I can't shed any light on what Kamelion spent all of that time on Xeraphass actually doing, as it has been some time indeed since I last saw Time Flight, and strangely enough I'm not all that worried about that! ;D I think it was implied in Planet of Fire that he had been under the Master's control the whole time, at least you saying that does ring a definite bell with me.

I guess the big questions here are:

Just what on earth did the Master think his harebrained Magna Carta scheme was going to achieve? It was...muddled, even by his standards.

What did Kamelion do for all of that time he spent offscreen? I suspect he was probably having conversations with that Cyberman who went missing somewhere in the TARDIS in Earthshock...

And how did the Master survive Planet of Fire? I have worked out now, to my own satisfaction, how he survived Survival, but that one still stumps me.

[clocketpatch]

How did he survive Survival? For that has been perplexing me (and I'm not even going to think about Planet of Fire, because the nonsensical return from that was O.o but then, the Master does that a lot...)

As for Kamelion, I always figured he flirted with the TARDIS while the others were off adventuring.

[jjpor]

May 1, 2009 22:34:06 GMT clocketpatch said:

How did he survive Survival? For that has been perplexing me

Well, I think he jumped "home", the same way the Doctor did at the end, after their little fight (IF WE FIGHT LIKE ANIMALS, WE DIE LIKE ANIMALS!!!); now why he did not do so earlier, or where the Master might consider to be "home" is another question entirely.

[clocketpatch]

Just wondering, if the Doctor had the ability to 'jump' home, does that mean that he to was infected by the cheetah virus?

I love Survival, but I really do have very little clue as to what was actually happening in it.

[magnusgreel]

Thanks very much, merry! And thanks everyone for adding further confusing questions!

I don't want to watch Earthshock again, though it's a good one, but I may have to to provide K with someone to hide out with. So far it's a bit like one of jjpor's thought-essays, only not serious.

[primsong]

I read somewhere that it was postulated Kamelion was simply turned off and left in a closet like a vacuum cleaner when they were off and about... sounds reasonable to me. Tho' I really like the idea of his hanging out with the lost Cybermen somewhere in the bowels of the TARDIS, lol...

Who was it that wrote the story where there was a maid that Four hired to do some spring cleaning and then forgot about? She was in the endless halls, cleaning and dusting away for years...finally gave up on ever being paid and left during Five's tenure... dang, I hate it when I have the story in my head and loved it, but can't find the title or the author again. Surely she could have made good use of Kamelion and the Cybermen, put them to work polishing floors.

[magnusgreel]

I don't remember, but I did read that story. As for the closet, you must have a spy planted in my apartment somewhere....

[magnusgreel]

I may not have asked this yet. I don't think so. When Kamelion morphs, does he just appear to do so to an observer, or does he actually physically change? I remember Five or somebody testing what he was truly made of, by kicking K in the shin at some point, I think. There was a metallic clink I think.

The Master's control, that I can negotiate my way 'round. This other thing is harder. I've already written paragraphs that I don't want to edit out, in which I talk about his actually changing form.