The Master's refusal doesn't need rationalising: it was practically spelled out. He was going to be in a situation where he would be the pathetic one in a Tweety Pie cage. That it would be metaphorical, to him, makes no odds: he's done the real thing and a metaphor is much worse.
RTD has many faults as a writer, but the way he uses visual high concept (or crudely unsubtle, if you prefer) to downplay the consideration of the image: self-image dichotomy (which is pretty much his recurring theme - see also Casanova) is not one of them.
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Date: 2007-07-01 10:45 pm (UTC)RTD has many faults as a writer, but the way he uses visual high concept (or crudely unsubtle, if you prefer) to downplay the consideration of the image: self-image dichotomy (which is pretty much his recurring theme - see also Casanova) is not one of them.