Warning: Full spoilers below.
First things first, I think we should get out of the way the whole question of who Maisie Williams plays in this, the first segment of a two-part Doctor Who story. There’s been a lot of speculation that the character would be someone from the Doctor’s past -- perhaps one of his children or his granddaughter, Susan Foreman, regenerated into a new form. Could she be Missy’s daughter, who was recently mentioned? Or an old foe who has taken on a new body?
Nah, she’s not any of those things. Which, frankly, is a bit of a disappointment. And which, really, you can’t hold against the show or showrunner Steven Moffat. It’s not his fault that so many of us fans have been building up the character’s importance to the Doctor in our minds for all these months.
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First things first, I think we should get out of the way the whole question of who Maisie Williams plays in this, the first segment of a two-part Doctor Who story. There’s been a lot of speculation that the character would be someone from the Doctor’s past -- perhaps one of his children or his granddaughter, Susan Foreman, regenerated into a new form. Could she be Missy’s daughter, who was recently mentioned? Or an old foe who has taken on a new body?
Nah, she’s not any of those things. Which, frankly, is a bit of a disappointment. And which, really, you can’t hold against the show or showrunner Steven Moffat. It’s not his fault that so many of us fans have been building up the character’s importance to the Doctor in our minds for all these months.
Continue reading…
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