I think she's perfect as The Master..... The Rani was not as zany and comical. Plus she had a very cool TARDIS.
Your favourite pet theories of your own
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I think she's perfect as The Master..... The Rani was not as zany and comical. Plus she had a very cool TARDIS.
Yeah, The Rani is more serious. I mean, even when she did something stupid like dress up as Mel, her personality was very serious. Missy is a bit crazier then The Master's other incarnations were, but I can see how the character gets from Delgado to her with the craziness ramping up almost every incarnation.
Theoretically, she still can be...one day.
I don't know, Missy does feel like an organic continuation of John Simm's Master at least, IMO.
To me, she feels a bit like an Alice in Wonderland version of The Master. I think that's what makes her entertaining, but it also makes the other versions look like pillars of sanity compared to her. She's definitely better then Simm or Roberts, and she's not a bad version by any means. I'd put her in third place personally, after Ainley and Delgado.
While Missy is a lot more unhinged than Delgado or even Ainley, she is at least able to play a more serious brand of evil when she wants to, which seemed to elude Simm. (But then, I think Simm was hampered by RTD's loud, over-the-top writing.)
As for the Rani, my personal theory is that she survived the Time War by hiding out somewhere and chemically changing her species so neither the Daleks or the Time Lords could find her. I have this picture in my head of her coming back as a mutant snake woman.
As for the Rani, my personal theory is that she survived the Time War by hiding out somewhere and chemically changing her species so neither the Daleks or the Time Lords could find her. I have this picture in my head of her coming back as a mutant snake woman.
Maybe Colony Sarf haha........
Found a compilation of the times the Doctor has used a weapon.
I still like my crazy idea of Clara being a Dalek except where episodes contradict it
Now I have this twisted mental image of Danny Pink "gettin' jiggy" with a Kaled mutant travel machine!
Who was he?
Guy Crayford and Castellan Kelner were both played by Milton Johns.
The Richard Hurdnall incarnation was actually some kind of projection like the Watcher
The Third Doctor did a bit of wandering around in between visiting Metebelis 3 and returning to Earth in Planet Of The Spiders -in the 5 Doctors he looks older and acts like he hasn't seen Sarah in a long time
The Third Doctor did a bit of wandering around in between visiting Metebelis 3 and returning to Earth in Planet Of The Spiders -in the 5 Doctors he looks older and acts like he hasn't seen Sarah in a long time
I kind of wondered why, when the First Doctor and Susan entered the TARDIS in 5 Doctors, they didn't go "Wow, why's the console so different?" Susan just walks up and operates it like she's seen it all her life. But it didn't look like that when the TARDIS was "theirs"...
Particularly considering Tegan seemed to notice the change right away.
A couple new theories of mine:
When Susan was exposed to the Untempered Schism, she had a vision of the Daleks & the Time War. This would help to explain why she seemed so particularly hysterical when she first met the Daleks in "The Daleks."
In some episodes, it's said that Susan made up the name "TARDIS." In others, all the Time Lords call it that. My theory: Before she left Gallifrey, Susan entered the Time Lord equivalent of a Blue Peter competition to come up with a spiffy new name for the time-space capsules, and "TARDIS" won the contest and quickly moved into common use.
When it comes to Susan naming the TARDIS, a theory I've just thought of (although I'm probably not the first) is that maybe she was just the first to translate the concept into English? Obviously Timelords don't have English as their native language, so maybe what they call TARDIS's is so weird it can't be translated (like how we've seen that the TARDIS itself can't translate written galifrean for non-Timelords, at least once or twice).
So, maybe Susan translated the concept into an English equivalent. Maybe the Timelords have a single word that translates as "Time and Relative Dimensions in Space", and Susan was the first to translate that word directly into English and then use the single word "TARDIS" as an abbreviation. That's just something I thought of, but it feels like a decent possibility to me.
So, maybe Susan translated the concept into an English equivalent. Maybe the Timelords have a single word that translates as "Time and Relative Dimensions in Space", and Susan was the first to translate that word directly into English and then use the single word "TARDIS" as an abbreviation. That's just something I thought of, but it feels like a decent possibility to me.
The Doctor is one of those beings that has travelled so far, and visited so many places that he had a hand in the creation of the universe, so maybe that's why his true name is hidden. Uttering his name would damage or alter the universe.
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A couple of new pet theories of my own:
* The Doctor could've easily taken Sarah Jane to Gallifrey with him in The Deadly Assassin, if he had wanted to. But he didn't, because the last time he was there, the Time Lords took Jamie and Zoe away from him, and erased all but one adventure they'd had with him. He feared she'd get that treatment and thus, prefered that she left "in pastores new" and still remember about him rather than risk all of her travels being forgotten. Hence his "don't you forget about me" line.
* The Third Doctor's fear in Planet of the Spiders was his own, final death. If you remember, he had a tatoo in his arm in the shower scene in Spearhead from Space. That is the seal of death, preventing any Time Lord having it from regenerating. The Doctor feared that, with returning the crystal to Metabylis III and absorbing the fatal radiation coming from the crystals, that he'd be unable to regenerate. Its why he needs the "little push" from K'Enpo in order to regenerate to Four, from whom the tatoo, henceforth, must've vanished.
* Also, in the Wife in Space blog, Sue mentions that its weird that the Third Doctor returns to Earth after the Great One's destruction, rather than Gallifrey... but she forgets that the Time Lords banished him. Even if they're OK with it, he's clearly still not, and I think its because of my above pet theory, and the exile part, and taking the knowledge of time travel away from him, and the forced regeneration. Plus, Earth has been his home for years (either five or more) and they never treated him with anything but respect, even when he didn't.
* The Twelfth Doctor remembers Clara in The Doctor Falls because he never really forgot about Clara, or at least he remembered her over time. I just find the idea that the Doctor would actually forget about Clara (and thus, all of series 7-9) simply preposterous, and served no real purpose other than to have a fake twist of Clara outsmarting the Doctor - again.
* The old dude from Twin Dilemma and K'Enpo are the same Time Lord hermit the Third Doctor used to talk about.
* The Doctor could've easily taken Sarah Jane to Gallifrey with him in The Deadly Assassin, if he had wanted to. But he didn't, because the last time he was there, the Time Lords took Jamie and Zoe away from him, and erased all but one adventure they'd had with him. He feared she'd get that treatment and thus, prefered that she left "in pastores new" and still remember about him rather than risk all of her travels being forgotten. Hence his "don't you forget about me" line.
* The Third Doctor's fear in Planet of the Spiders was his own, final death. If you remember, he had a tatoo in his arm in the shower scene in Spearhead from Space. That is the seal of death, preventing any Time Lord having it from regenerating. The Doctor feared that, with returning the crystal to Metabylis III and absorbing the fatal radiation coming from the crystals, that he'd be unable to regenerate. Its why he needs the "little push" from K'Enpo in order to regenerate to Four, from whom the tatoo, henceforth, must've vanished.
* Also, in the Wife in Space blog, Sue mentions that its weird that the Third Doctor returns to Earth after the Great One's destruction, rather than Gallifrey... but she forgets that the Time Lords banished him. Even if they're OK with it, he's clearly still not, and I think its because of my above pet theory, and the exile part, and taking the knowledge of time travel away from him, and the forced regeneration. Plus, Earth has been his home for years (either five or more) and they never treated him with anything but respect, even when he didn't.
* The Twelfth Doctor remembers Clara in The Doctor Falls because he never really forgot about Clara, or at least he remembered her over time. I just find the idea that the Doctor would actually forget about Clara (and thus, all of series 7-9) simply preposterous, and served no real purpose other than to have a fake twist of Clara outsmarting the Doctor - again.
* The old dude from Twin Dilemma and K'Enpo are the same Time Lord hermit the Third Doctor used to talk about.
