Missy rumor (possible spoiler)

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2753724?lt_source=external,manual

I have not seen any other source for this, so take with a giant grain of salt.

Missy being forced to ally with the Doctor to fight a common enemy hellbent on destroying all Time Lords, traveling with him and Clara in the TARDIS all season long effectively becoming a full time companion.

It's a thought I had before and it could potentially be interesting with an evil chaotic companion who has a history with the Doctor.

I think I would have just prefered a couple more full stories with her as the antagonist before Spike-ifying her completely (if true).

 

[Guy Gardener]

I'm calling bullshit.

Although the scenario does sound familiar.

"They're going to kill me you have to save me!"

"I don't care."

"No I'm serious, they are going to kill me."

"And I'm serious, I don't care."

And then closer to episode 12, we're told that it turns out that she was her own threat that was chasing herself all along to trick the Doctor into doing something else entirely which he just did because he's an idiot.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

The Doctor has offered companionship to the Master before-sort of-in Last of the Time Lords and The End Of Time.


Then of course there was the companion robot master in Scream of the Shalka. Voiced by Jacobi, before he became an official Master as "Yana".


Also even as Gomez is signed on for the entire season, that doesn't necesarilly mean companionship. Delgado's Master was in every story in the original series season 8, and Missy did make several brief appearences last year in a few episodes before the full reveal.

 

[StCoop]

Missy being forced to ally with the Doctor to fight a common enemy hellbent on destroying all Time Lords, traveling with him and Clara in the TARDIS all season long effectively becoming a full time companion.

Given that they shot Three & Four first and she wasn't in those...

(And also, for those who don't know, Michelle Gomez lives with her family in America and has to fly back to the UK to shoot the show.)

 

[Guy Gardener]

I want her husband on the show more.

 

[The Wormhole]

While I acknowledge the story is likely false, there is some promise to the premise all the same. It would certainly make for an interesting storyline to have the Master and the Doctor work together. Since they were such close friends in their younger days, it would be interesting to see a long term partnership develop between them, even if they do eventually go back to being enemies again down the road.

Also, were this story true, it could also provide a reason for why Missy wanted to give the Doctor an army of Cybermen in the finale. Makes more sense if it is just a part in a larger, ah, um, master plan.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Missy being forced to ally with the Doctor to fight a common enemy hellbent on destroying all Time Lords, traveling with him and Clara in the TARDIS all season long effectively becoming a full time companion.

Given that they shot Three & Four first and she wasn't in those...

That's not definitive proof that she's not in those episodes, though. They could shoot scenes with Gomez based on her availability. (They have shot wildly out of order in the past; for instance, all of 7B's TARDIS scenes were shot late in the production schedule once the set was finally built.) That would limit what she can do in certain episodes, as sets or actors might not be available to accomodate her schedule, and I don't believe that Doctor Who has done much, if anything, with green screening and virtual sets.

(And also, for those who don't know, Michelle Gomez lives with her family in America and has to fly back to the UK to shoot the show.)

They could always relocate the production to New York or Toronto. I've sometimes thought they could have kept Matt Smith if they shot in North America instead of Wales.

Just to be clear, no, relocating is not a serious suggestion. There's no compelling reason to do that.

 

[The Wormhole]

They could always relocate the production to New York or Toronto. I've sometimes thought they could have kept Matt Smith if they shot in North America instead of Wales.

Meh, how much longer would he have stayed anyway? He put in his three years which the unwritten rules say a Doctor should commit to, and I doubt Matt Smith was ever interested in breaking Tom Baker's record as longest running Doctor.

 

[starsuperion]

I seriously doubt this rumour is true.. but if it is, it would be interesting to see, but I am not sure I would want to see Missy become a Turlough/Romana..

If they shoot in North America, I can't see them doing it in the USA often, as Canada seems much more inexpensive

 

[Mr Awe]

The idea is cool. An entire series would be too long to pull it off. There'd always have to be some reason why Missy just didn't kill the Doctor. But, to do this for 4 episodes or so would be cool. They'd have to drive home how extremely desperate the situation is to force the 2 to travel together. Have them both lose a series of battles and in full retreat when they run into each other and only barely escape by working together.

It could be epic.

However, given recent stories, I'd worry about their relationship being too much front and center and the threat taking a backseat--like the robot invader in The Caretaker-- an excuse for the story rather than a real threat.

The season long thing isn't happening but I wonder if a shorter set of stories could be in the works?

Mr Awe

 

[Nightowl1701]

Never mind that, you'd need a reason Clara doesn't kill Missy at the first available opening. "No excuses, no ifs, no buts. I don't care if our lives depend on hers continuing. Doctor, first shot you get, you take it - or I will."

 

[DWF]

The Doctor and The Master have worked together in the past and Capaldi and Gomez have a good chemistry, so I'm looking forward to whatever happens. I haven't been up to date about the spoilers but it seems so far that this might a Dalek free season.

 

[Mr Awe]

Never mind that, you'd need a reason Clara doesn't kill Missy at the first available opening. "No excuses, no ifs, no buts. I don't care if our lives depend on hers continuing. Doctor, first shot you get, you take it - or I will."

That only adds to the drama if their mutual survival depends on working together. Clara has to hold back.

Mr Awe

 

[diankra]

I just hope that the Master's first in-TARDIS line is "You've redecorated. I don't like it."
Folloeed by the Ship making her irritation clear.

 

[Lakenheath 72]

The Doctor had to work with the Master in the past because the latter came up with convulted plots that inevitably go bad for him. (I would think, after all these years, that the Master would have wised up. Oh, well.)

 

[Starkers]

Never mind that, you'd need a reason Clara doesn't kill Missy at the first available opening. "No excuses, no ifs, no buts. I don't care if our lives depend on hers continuing. Doctor, first shot you get, you take it - or I will."

That only adds to the drama if their mutual survival depends on working together. Clara has to hold back.

Mr Awe

Trouble is you risk ending up with Clara turning into Dayna in Blakes 7 who had countless opportunities to kill Servalan (who'd killed her father) yet failed to take every single one. (Ok there were rational reasons in many cases, but reason and revenge don't exactly walk hand in hand.)

 

[DWF]

Never mind that, you'd need a reason Clara doesn't kill Missy at the first available opening. "No excuses, no ifs, no buts. I don't care if our lives depend on hers continuing. Doctor, first shot you get, you take it - or I will."

That only adds to the drama if their mutual survival depends on working together. Clara has to hold back.

Mr Awe

Trouble is you risk ending up with Clara turning into Dayna in Blakes 7 who had countless opportunities to kill Servalan (who'd killed her father) yet failed to take every single one. (Ok there were rational reasons in many cases, but reason and revenge don't exactly walk hand in hand.)

Blake, Avon and even Tarrant had chances to kill Servalan and didn't though.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Tarrant thought that he was going to get his dick wet.

However, Servalan would have killed Tarrant if he stood between she and a can of beans.

Men are just more sentimental sometimes.

 

[Starkers]

That only adds to the drama if their mutual survival depends on working together. Clara has to hold back.

Mr Awe

Trouble is you risk ending up with Clara turning into Dayna in Blakes 7 who had countless opportunities to kill Servalan (who'd killed her father) yet failed to take every single one. (Ok there were rational reasons in many cases, but reason and revenge don't exactly walk hand in hand.)

Blake, Avon and even Tarrant had chances to kill Servalan and didn't though.

None of them had the intensly personal reasons for wanting to do it that Dayna did though, and whenever one of them did have her at their mercy they had practical reasons for wanting to keep her alive. I still think as well that Dayna had more clear cut opportunities then any of the others. Plus of course Daya was supposed to be this lethal killer and deadshot with any kind of weaponry.

 

[Mr Awe]

Never mind that, you'd need a reason Clara doesn't kill Missy at the first available opening. "No excuses, no ifs, no buts. I don't care if our lives depend on hers continuing. Doctor, first shot you get, you take it - or I will."

That only adds to the drama if their mutual survival depends on working together. Clara has to hold back.

Mr Awe

Trouble is you risk ending up with Clara turning into Dayna in Blakes 7 who had countless opportunities to kill Servalan (who'd killed her father) yet failed to take every single one. (Ok there were rational reasons in many cases, but reason and revenge don't exactly walk hand in hand.)

Totally agree. That's why I was saying earlier in this thread that I don't think it would work for the entire series, but maybe for a shorter length of time.

Mr Awe