there's almost a poetic justice about how things changed over the years. by Five Doctors, Rassilon is the wise sage, Borusa the one corrupted by power and the quest for immortality. But then Terrence Dicks wrote the Eight Doctors novel, and in a sense started that reversal, redeeming Borusa and hinting at how Rassilon was perhaps the more corrupting influence. Big Finish then ran with this, revealing Rassilon to have been the final betrayer of Omega, and much the monster in his own right. So once beyond the basic canon of the core tv episodes, this transition of Rassilon from worshiped savior/creator of the Time Lords to the most corrupted of all had already all been played out.
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Date: 2010-01-02 05:00 am (UTC)