I just want to preface this by saying dorking out about Doctor Who is fun, so let's not take each other correcting each other personally.
That said, *pushes up glasses and sniffs aggressively* I know the TV movie counts (I called it "canon" in the article), but it's also notorious for introducing things that subsequent iterations of the show more or less ignore completely (mainly the "half-human" thing, though also the whole Eye of Harmony in the TARDIS thing). My "also, the TV movie" comment was joking about that.
I mean, Americans wrote it!
But, the "Bruce" Master is not a Time Lord regeneration; the Master had used up his last regeneration as established way back in the 70s serial "The Deadly Assassin". The reason why he's called the "Bruce" Master is because Bruce was an entirely different character who's body the Master stole. In fact, the previous version of the Master, the one that was (probably) executed at the beginning of the TV movie (and is the one dronon was complaining annoyed him in "Survival" earlier), was not technically a regeneration either. It was also a case of the Master hijacking another person's body to stay alive; in this case, Tremas, the Keeper of Traken way back in the serial, uh, "The Keeper of Traken".
When they brought back the Master in the new series, they established that the Time Lords had granted him a new set of regenerations in return for helping them fight the Time War (which he then proceeded to bail on them). So, the four versions of the Master introduced in the new series ("Yana", "Saxon", "Missy" and "O") are regenerations, as is the original Master from the 70s. Bruce, Tremas and the skeletal Master are official versions of the Master, however, and I think that's what you really mean.
I just want to preface this by saying dorking out about Doctor Who is fun, so let's not take each other correcting each other personally.
That said, *pushes up glasses and sniffs aggressively* I know the TV movie counts (I called it "canon" in the article), but it's also notorious for introducing things that subsequent iterations of the show more or less ignore completely (mainly the "half-human" thing, though also the whole Eye of Harmony in the TARDIS thing). My "also, the TV movie" comment was joking about that.
I mean, Americans wrote it!
But, the "Bruce" Master is not a Time Lord regeneration; the Master had used up his last regeneration as established way back in the 70s serial "The Deadly Assassin". The reason why he's called the "Bruce" Master is because Bruce was an entirely different character who's body the Master stole. In fact, the previous version of the Master, the one that was (probably) executed at the beginning of the TV movie (and is the one dronon was complaining annoyed him in "Survival" earlier), was not technically a regeneration either. It was also a case of the Master hijacking another person's body to stay alive; in this case, Tremas, the Keeper of Traken way back in the serial, uh, "The Keeper of Traken".
When they brought back the Master in the new series, they established that the Time Lords had granted him a new set of regenerations in return for helping them fight the Time War (which he then proceeded to bail on them). So, the four versions of the Master introduced in the new series ("Yana", "Saxon", "Missy" and "O") are regenerations, as is the original Master from the 70s. Bruce, Tremas and the skeletal Master are official versions of the Master, however, and I think that's what you really mean.
Bit nitpicky, but that's the point.