^ Gomez being in the first two episodes says "recurring season 9 character" to me.
Series 9 Set Reports Thread (SPOILERS)
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I don't have any objection to that. Once her identity was revealed, I thought Missy worked quite well.
I wonder if Moffat would do an episode with both Missy and River. Or, would that be too Coupling? The Doctor, caught between his arch-enemy (who lusts after him) and his wife (who also lusts after him)?
Entertainment Weekly did a piece today that indicated that Higgins would be playing Ohila in that episode, which would be interesting. They also mentioned Kelly Hunter would be returning as the Shadow Architect we met back in Series 4.
Me neither. Missy was great, and I think there's much more to be done with the character.
Me either because as much as I loved John Simm's daffy master, I really love Michelle Gomez's I just want to pop a balloon master.
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"An apple a day keeps the ....never mind".
Interesting that we might see Karn again. Night of the Doctor did establish I think in the Sisterhood's dialogue that their potions could change the gender of a time lord, and in it's first appearence in Brain Of Morbius it was established that the elixirs were mainly used to help time lords regenerate (although it could also bring them from the brink of dying as happened with the Fourth Doctor and later the Eighth). Also in End Of Time there were "The potions of life" used to bring back the Simm master so maybe there's a connection there too.
The End Of Time version of Simm also was dying, and possibly unable to regenerate (when he's talking to the homeless guys, he says he's stuck looking like "Saxon".) So it's possible he fleed to Karn once escaping out of the other dimension or wherever Gallifrey is. It's also established in Brain Of Morbius that Karn is near Gallifrey.
Then there's all that Pythia stuff from the novels, but I think that can be ignored.
Interesting that we might see Karn again. Night of the Doctor did establish I think in the Sisterhood's dialogue that their potions could change the gender of a time lord, and in it's first appearence in Brain Of Morbius it was established that the elixirs were mainly used to help time lords regenerate (although it could also bring them from the brink of dying as happened with the Fourth Doctor and later the Eighth). Also in End Of Time there were "The potions of life" used to bring back the Simm master so maybe there's a connection there too.
The End Of Time version of Simm also was dying, and possibly unable to regenerate (when he's talking to the homeless guys, he says he's stuck looking like "Saxon".) So it's possible he fleed to Karn once escaping out of the other dimension or wherever Gallifrey is. It's also established in Brain Of Morbius that Karn is near Gallifrey.
Then there's all that Pythia stuff from the novels, but I think that can be ignored.
I like that Michelle Gomez is back, but I'm really tired of Kate Stewart's new UNIT and it hasn't been very long. They are simply incompetent. And with Osgood gone, what's the use?
The main problem I have with Kate Stewart's UNIT is that they really haven't established any continuing characters other than Kate herself. With classic UNIT there was the Brigadier, Mike Yates and Sgt. Benton. What they should have done, IMO is kept Osgood and the "man-scout" from last year's finale to complete a modern day UNIT trio.
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^Although it did take a season for that dynamic to really form (Yates doesn't appear until season 8).
By the time this episode airs, Kate Stewart will have been around for almost three years. Granted, she's only appeared once per year, compared to the Brigadier and Benton who had several appearances within their first three years after being introduced. Still plenty of time to establish a new UNIT team. Hell, I could be satisfied if it were just Kate and Osgood who were the UNIT regulars, but unfortunately Osgood's out of the picture now.
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Interesting-maybe this is the Fires Of Pompeii sequel of sorts, which will explain why the Doctor looks like Caecillius (Something Moffat mentioned in interviews a few times, but not resolved last season). If so, it also may be the first Doctor meets Doppelganger episode since the Troughton era in which the double isn't some robot, temporal anomaly, villain in disguise, hologram or clone. (Although Romana and Nyssa also had identical lookalikes too)
I ain't holding my breath we're ever getting this supposed explanation on screen regarding why the Doctor resembles Caecillius. Besides, Moffat said he was going to use RTD's story for it, which is revealed on the Children of Earth DVD for anyone who just has to know.
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I wonder if they'll in some way reference Night/Day of the Doctor ala "Listen".
If I remember correctly, RTD's explanation for why Caecilius and Frobisher resembled one another was this:
Caecilius and his family were supposed to die in Pompeii. In saving them, the Doctor threw the universe out of whack, and Caecilius' long-distant descendent Frobisher had to die to atone for/fix the universe being out of whack.
On a poetic level, this works. As a matter of biology, it doesn't. Mathematically, most of Europe would be a descendant of Caecilius. Frobisher and his family dying don't suddenly right the balance that the Doctor knocked askew by saving Caecilius and his family; Caecilius and his genes have been part of the European gene pool for two millennia, and he has millions of descendants.
I don't know how this ties into why the twelfth Doctor resembles Caecilius, unless Moffat's spin on the Caecilius-Frobisher connection is that the Doctor also has to atone for his monstrous crime against history by saving the family. Frankly, that's just silly.
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