Originally posted by Eclipso
Again, that example is not applicatible, The Master wasn't chopped into bit or mushed, his body underwent a complete metamorphisis.I liken it to if a person was mutated into a frog, your genetic make up is no longer that of a human, it is of a frog, even if you somehow retian your mental capacity.
Race is determined by your genetic structure, in the movie he no longer possesed the genetic structure of a Gallifreyian, hence he was no longer one.
Whatever happened in the series wasn't the same circumstances as the movie, in the series he wasn;t out of regenerations and a pile of goop. It was a different situation.