WARNING! THERE MAY BE UNMARKED SPOILERS!
- Moffat said he felt a new Doctor should fight the Daleks early on to show he is the Doctor. So it seems likely 12 will meet them and beat them. Anyway I think the contract with Nation's estate means the Daleks have to appear every year.
- They seem popular enough for another appearance. They could fight a Rutan.
- Seemingly confirmed by Neve McIntosh (Vastra's actress), as well as a Moffat-judged contest on Blue Peter. They'll apparently get their own sonic devices, as well.
- Truly Confirmed! They were seen in the filming for 12's first episode.
- And with the release of the first episode, they do indeed appear in it.
- For another present-day Earth-based story.
- Confirmed, she appears in the anniversary special.
- AND the season finale.
- See my WMG above.
- As said on this page, one of Mark Gatiss' episodes is supposedly called The Robots of Sherwood. Not only that, but on-set images seem to have the Doctor competing to win a golden arrow, a known weakness of the Cybermen. A similar golden-tipped arrow previously appeared in ''The Silver Nemesis'' Since the episode involves Robin Hood, it likely takes place around the 13th/14th century. Nemesis takes place in the 17th century, so perhaps it's meant to be some sort of prequel.
- Confirmed! Though not for "Robot of Sherwood" but for the series finale itself.
- More than likely. Any suggestions?
- The Master could appear. If the 50th anniversary features the Time War, the Master could break out.
- Davros could return.
- Perhaps another enemy who hasn't appeared in the New Series. Every Series has one (if you count the Adventure Games The Gunpowder Plot).
- Omega.
- Celestial Toymaker.
- Black Guardian (though there is the Trickster).
- Unlikely but Rani or Meddling Monk.
- The Valeyard
- The Wirrn
- Sutekh
- Magnus Greel
- The secret message in Sherlock's credits could be a hint.
- Sandminder Robots
- The Yetis
- Rassilon
- The Krynoid will appear in "In the Forest of the Night".
- confirmed - The Master returns in "Dark Water".
- The Daleks might take this role. Or others who were involved in the Time War.
- Confirmed! Though earlier then expected.
- Possible. Twelve mentions "seeing [his own] face before" - though it's unknown whether he'll follow up on this, what with the threat of Missy.
- The Master? Rassilon?
- possibly confirmed by "Dark Water"
- Confirmed.
- Oh yes please!
- The Master is revealed the two-part finale, but is played by Michelle Gomez.
- Confirmed. They're dating.
- How would the Master know that the Doctor calls Clara "Impossible Girl"? Even she didn't know about that until just a few episodes before "Deep Breath", and her duplicates couldn't tell because they don't remember anything except that they need to save the Doctor.
- Missy could be short for "Mistress", the female version of "Master".
- When we last saw The Master, he seemed to have redeemed himself. All his insanity over the years was put as being the result of what Rassilon did to him. and he and The Doctor seemed to be on good terms again, as The Master even had The Doctor get out of his way so he could direct all of his hatred, fury, and madness at Rassilon instead. So if Missy is The Master, maybe she considers all that enmity between her and The Doctor to be over with, and instead decided to take the Ho Yay and direct it into utter affection, though still remembering their past battles ("He can be so mean.")
- Confirmed, even up to "Missy" being short for "Mistress".
- She could be forming a Legion of Doom. Or she could be manipulating the Doctor into stopping a Bigger threat, something which is trying to get into the Nethersphere.
- I think in each episode she will meet someone who dies.
- One's confirmed, the other seems to be very plausible
- I think in each episode she will meet someone who dies.
- In the events leading up to Eleven's regeneration he was faced with one of the darkest times of his past that showed just how far he could fall when pushed far enough. Post-regeneration, he seems unsure of himself and makes it a point to ask Clara whether she believes he is a good man or not. When he finally gets a look at himself, he can't figure out why he has this face and wonders if there was a reason. Out of a fear he could be heading down the dark path again, he subconsciously (if not intentionally) chose this face to be a reminder of a time he went against his every instinct and said Screw Destiny to do the right thing, even if he has yet to realize it yet.
- 'Into the Dalek' seems to touch on the moral ambiguity of being a soldier fighting a war, as shown with Journey and Danny Pink. In the case of the latter, the students' and Clara's treatment of him does not appear to be portrayed positively, and the last line of the episode being devoted to the Doctor's problem with soldiers possibly indicates future significance. Perhaps the Doctor will see that he and soldiers are not so different, or perhaps he already knows. In that case (and I know I'm probably treading on familiar ground for most of you), he could learn to stop projecting his own feelings of self-loathing onto every soldier he meets. If it was just the obviously corrupt/bloodthirsty/immoral soldiers, that would be one thing, but he's gotten to the point where he treats every soldier he meets, whether or not he knows anything about them, with contempt.
- Confirmed!
The Twelfth Doctor is a Doctor who dislikes his mistakes, and because of that he's far more hesitant to do anything that might make the situation worse, even if it means sacrificing lives (letting Ross die in the event that confronting the antibodies would harm them all). This makes him come off as crass, and insensitive. Danny, conversely, is awkward and shy around people. When confronted about his past, he becomes hesitant and resigns himself to the assumptions people make about him. Furthermore, Danny wants to stay out of sight; he declines Clara's invitation not because of his awkwardness but because of his shyness. Declining offers to communicate and socialize has become second nature to him, which is why he viciously punishes himself after the fact.
When the two finally meet, however, they will end up teaching each other. Danny will teach the Doctor that it's okay to have been a soldier, and that no matter what mistakes have been made, Clara is right. Trying to be a good man is what counts. The Doctor will teach Danny that he can still live a full, fun life with all of its twists an turns, that he doesn't have to hide away. They will even inspire each other to respond in the opposite manner of their usual behaviours: the Doctor will try to be more sensitive and try harder to make the best out of the situation, even with the risks; Danny will step up and assert himself, stepping out of his shell when it matters.
- Essentially confirmed.
- It will be awkward and he might act like Sheldon, but he'll do so.
- Jossed unless she comes back later in the series; Clara storms out over what she sees as his patronizing attitude in "Kill The Moon", and neither one of them gets a chance to try to reconcile.
- Now Double jossed. She's no longer going to leave
- Confirmed as of "Death in Heaven". But the hug is a complete mixed bag.
- The Rani
- The Master
- Valeyard
- Someone from the Doctor's past
- The Doctor's Niece
- Romana
- The Black/White Guardian
- The Gold Guardian (Life and Death)
- Time (apart from the TARDIS, who could claim to be the Doctor's girlfriend?)
- The Doctor himself.
- Clara
- The TARDIS
- River Song
- Related to the Bad Wolf
- Someone from completely left field.
- But in a trailer Mary Psychopompins tells the Doctor "You know who I am."
- Rassilon
- Rusty
- Susan's grandmother
- Tasha Lem (assuming Tasha is not River Song)
- A Valeyard-like clone of someone
- Kovarian
- An Eternal
- etc.
- Here are some more odd ideas.
- The Master CONFIRMED!
- The Matrix
- The Cyberiad
- Semi-Confirmed. The Nethersphere is adapted from Matrix Tech.
- Against the Cybermen?
- With the Cybermen?
- Missy could be building the army against the Big Bad of next series.
- Recent footage seems to show Missy is allied with the Cybermen.
- Not just allied, she's building them from the brainwashed and "upgraded" dead.
- Recent footage seems to show Missy is allied with the Cybermen.
- Her grandmother?
- Danny? He might be hit by a car while talking to her.
- ...Why a car?
- He was seen talking on the phone while next to a road.
- Well, he meets Seb rather than Missy, but otherwise confirmed.
- ...Why a car?
- Alternatively, they will overcome their programming to help the Doctor - but still have to be put down.
- Confirmed! Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart returns to save his daughter, kill the Master, and get the salute he'd always wanted from the Doctor.
- Seems to be possible and very likely, given that she's all but being set up to be the next companion due to her (somewhat creepy) fascination with the Doctor. And then she'll be disintegrated instantly as a parting shot in a scene not unlike what Darkseid did to Dan Turpin. The end.
- Which is exactly what happens.
- The Osgoods were the only ones that knew which was the original and which was the Zygon, unlike all the others (which begs the question of how they figured it out and where all the copies went afterwards, but that's for another WMG). The Osgood in this episode showed no signs of being anything but human, so this is extremely unlikely.
- In that episode we could see what happened to that Cybermite.
- Jossed.
- He was a future Doctor who was pulled back to the Time War. Thus he is an ever-present threat and could be trying to make the Doctor regenerate into him.
- Jossed. He was the Time War Doctor, and the anniversary special ensures he won't be a villain if he appears again.
- Similar to this the Valeyard could be mentioned more.
- In a prequel to The Name of the Doctor. The Doctor will name-drop Trenzalore and GI will go there.
- Jossed.
- A Dream Lord Dream. A hint was dropped in the Name of the Doctor about the Valeyard. Hurt's Doctor brings Matt up to Number Twelve, meaning that at Christmas the Valeyard-making regeneration will occur. The trauma will cause the Doctor to forget about the Valeyard being meant to happen. Psychic pollen will somehow get into the TARDIS, causing the dream. Eventually, in the final episode, the Doctor will become aware of the Dream Lord having been there several times in the series and wake up, only to find that the Dream Lord has manifested itself as the Valeyard.
- Perhaps she will stop the Valeyard.
- Jossed.
- There have been rumours about this.
- Jossed.
- Not just Romana, anyone the Doctor knew on Gallifrey could show up. Romana, Leela, Andred, the Rani, a elderly Commander Maxil...
- The Time Lords will vote him Lord President of Gallifrey. He'll delay the inauguration for as long as possible before appointing Romana his deputy and popping back in the TARDIS again.
- Recently released pictures that involve the Eleventh in a cloak and wielding a Dalek eye piece imply a costume change that supports this theory.
- This bit at least is Jossed; the Eleventh Doctor is just trying to impress the beings who operate the ship he's found himself on, except they turn out to be Daleks.
- Better yet, Paul McGann comes back as the Valeyard
- Jossed, Jossed and Jossed. The Big Bad is The Mistress who isn't played by Matt Smith, and the Valeyard does not appear.
- They will team up in order to depose Rassilon. Then, the Doctor will once again be offered presidency, but this time, he will actually remain the president for a few episodes before getting bored and running off once again.
- Or we might just get a mention they have been defeated by the Papal Mainframe.
- Possibly. But considering that The Silence, like the Weeping Angels, were such popular monsters it seems likely they'd want to keep the possibility of them returning to face The Doctor around.
- Or, you know, just maybe, Clara will travel with the Doctor for a series or two and decide to leave on her own instead of being Stuffed in the Fridge.
- This could be jossed, as Clara was Put on a Bus on "Kill the Moon".
- As of Flatline, Clara has left the bus.
- Jossed. Clara makes it through Series 8 alive.
- Moffat has said that RTD had always intended for Capaldi to be the Doctor at some point, and that his past appearances in the Whoniverse were meant to be a setup to... something. When Capaldi was officially cast, Moffat actually contacted RTD to make sure that his plan would still work. More here.
- No, what Moffat actually said was that RTD originally had an explanation for why Caecilius and Frobisher looked the same, and that Moffat himself recently asked RTD if the explanation still worked now that Capaldi is the Doctor, and that since it did, he has chosen to implement it. He did not say that RTD always intended for Capaldi to play the Doctor. The original Caecilius = Frobisher explanation has simply been adapted to include Twelve.
- Moffat has said that RTD had always intended for Capaldi to be the Doctor at some point, and that his past appearances in the Whoniverse were meant to be a setup to... something. When Capaldi was officially cast, Moffat actually contacted RTD to make sure that his plan would still work. More here.
- Maybe they could do something similar to "Interference", where an enemy attempts to alter the Doctor's past. Like a Wirrn egg that takes a long time to hatch.
- Alternatively, he doesn't return as the Doctor. He returns as the Valeyard. The Curator showed that you can re-use actors.
- After all, he doesn't remember how to fly the TARDIS when he regenerates, and seems very confused when he sees Clara. While he can tell the difference between the old and new kidneys, which means that he obviously has some kind of memory continuity with his past regenerations, he sort of is starting with somewhat of a tabula rasa, as this is a whole new set of regenerations distinct from the old set. Perhaps he needs Clara to sort of be his nanny (seems to be her theme in general...) and reacclimate himself to what the Doctor is, what he stands for, etc. It could be an interesting way to vindicate her character- because she's spent all this time in his shadow, as a plot device to be a foil of sorts to him, she has the unique position of being able to tell him how he should really be and rehabilitate him and guide him in this new regeneration.
- Possibly supported by the latest teaser:
Twelfth Doctor: Clara, be my pal: tell me, am I a good man?Clara: I don't think I know who the Doctor is anymore.- Jossed. He does retain his memory, even if he's a bit loopy after his regeneration.
- Why? Besides it being a cracking good idea, IMO, my friend is writing a fanfic about it so it was just stuck in my head. After all, we've heard that the TARDIS herself guided him to her, that Clara told him which to take... there's an interesting contradiction that definitely has possibilities. I won't give away the plot to my friend's fanfic, but can I just say, definitely VERY intriguing possibilities.
- Next Big Bad?
- Oh so jossed.
- It does run in his family...
- Probably very brief.
- If not maybe she is one of his agents.
- Jossed.
2: Danny Pink joins the TARDIS team. We might meet never-aged-since-the-60s Ian/Barbara, and/or (possibly regenerated) Susan Foreman.
3: Twelfth, Clara, and Danny go to Gallifrey to do stuff and have nostalgy-type feels. We might meet companions like Romana and Leela, and learn a bit more about Time Lord-type stuff. The Doctor might get a new title or knighthood of sorts, or whatever. He might even get a Gallifreyan apprentice. K-9 might join the team again at the end of the episode.
4: Dalek episode, of course. Every Doctor needs at least one of them.
5: Twelfth, Clara, and Danny go on the puzzling planet and meet an Human Alien banker by the name of Ms. Delphox. (No relation to Pokémon XY.)
6: Paternoster Gang-based episode. Helping the Doctor doing something such as experiments or similiar-ish things. Curator and Osgood also appears, revealed to be the (or at least a possible) 24th Doctor and Tom Osgood's daughter that propably just happens to also be Sarah Jane Smith's grandniece/first-cousin-once-removed (or even related to other companions) on her mom's side, respectively.
7: The Master reappears, played by a new actor. (Possibly Sylvester McCoy. If it is, wonder how much it would be weird, by Twelfth's PoW, for the seventh self of the new regeneration cycle of his archrival, to look like an older version of your seventh self in your previous regeneration cycle? It would be creepy-ish, at least.) Master and Doctor battle, possibly Jenny reappearance and reunion with her father. the Rani might appear too.
8: "School Reunion"-type episode, only this time to reappear, it's everyone's favourite Mouth on Legs: Tegan Jovanka. As Janet is 61 and Tegan herself would be around 54-55, maybe she would not become a full-time companion again, but could as easily turn into the main character of a spinoff to replace SJA. "Tegan Jovanka Adventures", anyone? But as a different dynamic, Ms. Jovanka here believes her adventures with Fifth were just her imagination. (Janet tweeted a pic of Capaldi hugging her, saying something like "what are we up to? Only Time knows so...". DW-related, or else?) (P.S. Ok, i know, as Fielding also auditioned for a villain in Seventh's era, it's very well possible that she plays a villain and not a companion, like the Fifth Rani, Kate O'Mara having been the Third.)
9: Probably an episode either about the Weeping Angels, or maybe some mooks from "Doctor Who Part 1". (AKA Classic Who. New Who is Part 2, just because it is not that "new" anymore.) If Danny does not leave in this episode, he would leave in episodes 10 or 11. If Tegan manages to become a full-time companion again, Danny might even leave at the end of episode 8. (Just do not make Danny have the same fate as Adric!)
10: Either a "Deca Reunion\Time Lord Academy"-type episode, or maybe a fight-less, more "relaxing" one, where Team Twelfth Doctor (Twelfth, Clara, Danny at least. Tegan if she stayed, possibly K9 too, and if Tegan is here, Adric, Nyssa, and Turlough would propably be there too. Adric would be revived by Nyssa's kiss in some "special" type thing annexed to Episode 9.)
11: Cyberman episode. Every Doctor also needs at least one of them.
12: Episode where Clara goes away from being Twelfth's companion, and gets replaced with a new girl that becomes Thirteenth's "signature companion".
13: Probably an episode where Twelfth meets Tasha Lem and\or River Song again, and gives River his Sonic Screw Driver. Maybe also a Gallifrey-centered episode.
14: Part 1 of a 2-parter episode explaining stuff like why Twelfth looks the same as John Frobisher and Caecilius.
15: Part 2 of the same 2-parter. At the end of it, Twelfth regenerates into Thirteenth- probably creating the Valeyard in the process, if it had not already been created at the start of the series.
- An alternative is that Twelve will be genuinely, but it's a future version of him. The present Twelve will stop himself from becoming evil, though unfortunately the aborted Valeyard will have ensured he still exists.
- We know it will feature the Paternoster Gang, clockwork droids, and Jack the Ripper. Here is what may happen. The Master escaped through the crack, having gained a new regeneration cycle, and got onto one of the ships round Trenzalore. We know the Doctor was on Trenzalore around the events of The Girl in the Fireplace, set in the 51st century, as The Papal Mainframe was around in the 52nd century as shown in A Good Man Goes to War. The ship the Master got to uses clockwork droids. He transports them to Victorian London, where 12 is recovering from his regeneration, and steal organs, causing them to be thought of as Jack the Ripper. The clockwork droids may have been sent after the Doctor, perhaps the Master is still weak and wants the Doctor's body. Or they are acting on their own and the Master being responsible for their ship being damaged will be The Reveal, possibly in a later story.
- Seemingly jossed, as Jack the Ripper doesn't appear in the episode, nor does the Master appear to until the finale's reveal.
- Following on from the one above. Rassilon enabled the Master to regenerate, though into someone easier to control. He then sent him through the crack as his agent to enable his return. Rassilon might even try to escape without the other Time Lords. But he wants the Doctor dead, though doesn't want to reveal himself. Potentially the Master might be plotting against Rassilon but is being controlled in some way, with the offer of a full regeneration cycle, so the Master tries methods to free himself like taking the Doctor's body. Rassilon or the Master might have other agents, like Ms Delphox.
- It turns out he is playing the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- Instead he will be a simulation, perhaps from something like the Land of Fiction.
- Or he'll be a deconstruction of Robin Hood; perhaps the real Robin of Loxley, who was more self-serving than legend permits. Perhaps it will be up to the Doctor to make him into the legend we know him to be.
- Nope, the Master isn't ginger or played by Charles Dance. She's been played by Michelle Gomez all along, as "Missy".
- YMMV on this one; the mention of the clockwork droids being from the 51st century and getting stuck in the 19th does seem rather familiar, but the story isn't explicitly referenced.
- Jossed, it's a reference to "The Girl in the Fireplace".
- Jossed by the mere presence of "P.S.".
- Jossed!
- And subverted. Instead, the 11th Doctor complains he's going to become grey.
- With UNIT.
- Or maybe the Doctor brings him back? Think about it. Sutekh is one of the most destructive beings in existence, the Daleks are nigh unkillable. Maybe the Doctor gets desperate enough to unleash Sutekh on them, thus kickstarting a new story arc where the Doctor has to stop Sutekh once again.
- Or perhaps Sutekh does honour the deal by wiping out every single Dalek-then he decides that the Doctor and his allies have to go too.
- Perhaps it will turn out that part of GI survived and he will possess a Yeti.
- Judging by the latest teaser trailer, it's going to be 'listen'. This may herald a Doctor who listens to what others say, rather than rides roughshod over them to do what the hell he wants.
- They can't return but they can communicate with the Doctor, like ghosts. They will warn him of various threats. Perhaps they could warn him of the Master escaping, which would be a nice Call-Back to the Master's first appearance.
- It could also be their way of saying "Thanks for saving our asses" to the Doctor.
- Meaning it could be used to find Gallifrey.
- Jossed; it's evidently a Time Lord-tech repository similar to the Library's.
- But perhaps on a lower scale. If they are Valar, she is a Maia.
- Or she is a Time Lady. Romana, Rani, the Master?
- If she is the "Maia" of a Guardian, the Maia of the Gold Guardian of Life and Death?
- Jossed; she's the Master, but her "Gatekeeper" role is apparently a ruse to recruit the dead as new cybermen.
- This is simply going by the way she's looking at him in the photographs from recent film shoots as they take on the Cybermen. It makes sense as they're age appropriate. At the very least, she'll probably fancy him.
- Or the Doctor won't have a love interest.
- It definitely sounds like him. Another popular WMG amongst fans is that it's the Dalek time controller from Big Finish.
- I'm one of those fans. And I would prefer that to Davros.
- Jossed on both counts.
- Jossed; the Master is now the Mistress, Michelle Gomez, aka "Missy".
- "Robots of Death," "Robots of Sherwood"...similar titles, and that sure looks like an armored Voc robot at 0:43 in the trailer.
- Because there are clearly dinosaurs in London, and it would be — improbable — to have some other bunch of people try to pull the same stunt.
- Seemingly jossed; unless there is another episode with dinosaurs. The dinosaur shows up because it swallowed the TARDIS.
- When asked, Vastra mentioned that Jack the Ripper was "a bit stringy." We know the villain in "Deep Breath" will be Jack the Ripper. At the very least, some reference will be made.
- Except Strax seems to be there. And he joined them after "A Good Man Goes to War".
- Jossed; Jack the Ripper doesn't appear and is not mentioned. The episode mostly takes place after "A Good Man Goes to War" in all of their personal timelines.
- They're filming an episode in the same location as "Planet of Fire," and it's an episode in which the Doctor is said to return to the site of an old adventure to find that sinister changes have occurred since his departure.
- Another Silurian pet.
- Jossed; it time-traveled from eating the TARDIS.
- He could revisit Pompeii, London as the dinosaurs invade and Sarn.
- We see Clara with someone who looks like one of the Sibylline Sisterhood.
- Maybe not exactly the same, but they will be very similar. In Deep Breath the Doctor mentions something about how he's seen his face before, and must be sending himself a message. His face is the same as Caecilius' in "The Fires of Pompeii" (because of the same actor playing both) which may just be a small reference or part of a story arc. He also encounters clockwork robots that are using humans for spare parts, which are from the sister ship of the SS Madame de Pompadour (which also had these robots). The trailer for "Into the Dalek" has a captured/chained Dalek that is apparently 'good' and asks for help. This could be similar to the "Dalek" episode (Christopher Eccleston) where the Dalek is in captivity and eventually becomes good, then asks rose for help (sort of), wanting to be ordered to self destruct. It may also be similar to how Dalek Sec eventually became 'good'.
- We see Clara with someone who looks like one of the Sibylline Sisterhood.
- His meetings with Vastra are out of order. He will survive the events of his episode and travel/be sent back in time, only to encounter her again and get eaten by her. When meeting him a second (his first) time, Vastra will say "Didn't I kill you before?", or something to that effect.
- Or it may be an attempt to perform the Ripper murders but Jack arrives at the wrong time. Vastra eating him means she knows this isn't the real Jack.
- Jossed. Jack the Ripper has absolutely nothing to do with the episode, although Jenny mentions that Vastra is going to have a child abuser "for dinner".
- The Victorian-dressed cyborg that many viewers assumed was Jack the Ripper actually is a time-traveler, however.
- Jossed. Jack the Ripper is not mentioned or seen.
- Possibly confirmed, depending on how you interpret the episode "Listen"
- Something about her attitude toward the Doctor and the layout of her "Heaven" struck me as the Time Lady in her TARDIS. Plus, Moffat has been teasing another "old foe" while also supposedly dismissing rumors that the Master would be returning.
- Jossed. Moffat lies, she's the Master.
- Scaling from when it upchucks the TARDIS, it is roughly 140 metres (450 feet) long, over 10 times the size of a normal T. rex. Obviously the reason why it was so large is because the Rani was running more experiments with dinosaurs.
- When the Doctor changed his own fate by not winding up buried on Trenzalore, the paradox of not meeting her death there caused Sexy to malfunction and develop a crazy-obsessed new personality. This "Missy" used the connections that Eleven jury-rigged to link her controls (and Handles) with the interior phone line — the same ones that'd made it necessary to make calls via the phone box's handset — to phone out and arrange for the ad in the paper, getting the Doctor back together with Clara so she could help him get his head together. She also scanned the Half-Faced Man's structure and produced a duplicate of the cyborg, complete with identical programming and implanted memories, so she could have a fellow-construct as an ally for future plots. To recruit him to her service, she made him a "Promised Land": either a virtual one, or an actual room inside the Tardis where she's secretly keeping him.
- As for the humans she's "welcomed to Heaven", we already know the TARDIS is capable of producing duplicates of people, complete with their memories, because House made an aged copy of Rory to mess with Amy's head when he temporarily took control in "The Doctor's Wife".
- In "The Caretaker", the latest dead character to find themselves in the Promised Land is greeted by an assistant of Missy's, because she's "busy". At the time of this character's death, the TARDIS was actively helping the Doctor to engineer an elaborate temporal-vortex trap for the Alien Robot Of The Week.
- In "Flatline", Missy's appearance is not the very last scene in the episode for once. What does the shot immediately after they cut away from her face show us? The TARDIS.
- There's some interesting hints about that possibility. Throughout the episode "Deep Breath", allusions are made to The Doctor being Clara's "boyfriend" by various characters, including The Doctor asserting that he isn't. His phrasing is interesting. It isn't your standard She Is Not My Girlfriend, but "I am not your boyfriend." And how does Missy refer to The Doctor? As her "boyfriend."
- Perhaps one Clara merged with GI or went through another strange experience.
- On the more obvious side, of course, "Missy" is often short for "Melissa" which is clearly related to "Mel".
- 1) Missy is someone the Doctor has dated in the past or future, but we haven't seen her before. This is possible, but since the series has a habit of bringing back old characters for their seasonal big bads, it seems a bit unlikely.
- 2) Missy is Rose Tyler. She would call the Doctor her "boyfriend", because she is/was dating a version of the Doctor, the human incarnation, as seen in Journey's End
- Romana is a Time Lady to his Time Lord, they certainly had buckets of subtext indicating they were a couple during her time in his TARDIS, and her fate is completely unknown.
- jossed
- Also, it's worth noting that the "Paradise" garden used in "Deep Breath" is the same one Amy Pond stayed in in "The Girl Who Waited". While it probably isn't supposed to be the same exact location (the real garden used for those apparently is located just outside Cardiff, making it convenient for BBC Wales to shoot there, which is why it's also been used in Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures), using the same garden certainly draws parallels between the two episodes. And "The Girl Who Waited" is about a companion who has been abandoned by the Doctor (at least she thinks she is), so the visual parallel might be used to hint Missy has suffered the same fate.
- It'd be just like her to be eccentric, spin around with an umbrella, and call the Doctor her "boyfriend".
- ...is herself. It could be either this Clara, but in the future, closing a stable time loop.
- ...is herself, but a version of Clara who entered into the Doctor's timeline, ending up in the Doctor's Future, and either being told to do so or knowing she has to, closing a stable time loop.
- Clara said the number was given to her by "the woman in the shop". You'd think she would've noticed if the woman looked exactly like her?
- She could have been in disguise, significantly aged, and hundred other things.
- Clara said the number was given to her by "the woman in the shop". You'd think she would've noticed if the woman looked exactly like her?
- Jossed, although it seems perfect, doesn't it.
- It's a little unlikely Danny's from the future now, now that it's been revealed after "Listen" that Danny seems to be born in the present day. However:
- The show keeps referencing Danny's "bad day" in the past as if it will serve as a plot point in the future.
- This may be Jenna Coleman's last season, so something (fatal) could happen to Clara in her future to keep her from travelling with the Doctor.
- This is a show that loves to play around with non-linearity.
- It may just follow that sometime in Danny's past as a soldier he killed a time-travelling Clara. Now, there's the problem of Danny not recognizing Clara when they meet in the present day, but if Clara was, say, an old woman (or unrecognizable in some other manner) at the time she was encountered and killed by Danny...
- Jossed; Danny accidentally killed a young boy while his unit was fighting urban insurgents.
- Jossed. Journey's brother's name is Kai, which we hear in the opening scene a couple of times (when the Blues are getting shot at, and later when Journey demands the Doctor bring her back to the Aristotle.)
- Journey and Kai could be descendants of Danny Pink, so brother Kai, like Orson Pink, could be identical to Danny. The episode Listen has set up that possibility. It remains to be seen why they changed their surname to Blue...
- Perhaps not everybody will go to Heaven.
- From what we see Jossed.
- No, it's the Doctor. Not to ruin your WMG though.
- Orson's parentage is completely unknown, but "Rupert" is the sort of ridiculous name the Doctor would come up with. The doctor used "dad skills" on young Rupert in the orphanage, Orson's descendant saying that "Time travel runs in the family" could be a reference to his Time Lord heritage, and one companion becoming the Doctor's daughter-in-law after the previous one became his mother-in-law is the sort of mirroring that Moffat loves.
- Jossed.
The Doctor's outburst of "Sontarans! Perverting the course of human history!" during "Listen" was not just a random quote. Nothing about the Doctor or the series is random. The thing under the bedspread, in the brief moment we saw its head uncovered, looked suspiciously like a Sontaran. It's possible it was Strax, who was called up by his own people to betray the Doctor and his friends, but found himself unable to do so when the Doctor allowed him to go.
- Jossed.
When it got curious about what he was writing on the chalkboard, the Doctor got a better look at the stowaway. Realizing it was only a child, he didn't tally-mark himself (which would suggest danger), but started to write "Listen for the child Silent" on the board instead. Seeing what the Doctor was doing, the Silent got scared that its presence would be documented - something its caregivers had warned it must never happen - so it ran away, leaving the Doctor with the chalk out of place and a single inexplicable word on the chalkboard. The Silent, feeling sad and lonely after its narrow "escape", started following Clara around for a while instead; when she and Rupert ducked under the bed, it took the risk of appearing to them while covered in a blanket, desperate for some sort of interaction with somebody who wouldn't immediately attack or forget it.
- Or have some connection to the Mummy.
I mean, think about it. Moffat loves throwing us for loops, and what better loop than this? Plus, who's more likely to hide in a barn crying himself to sleep; The one who ran away from the Untempered Schism, or the one driven mad by it?
- Is he crying from the events of Master?
- So how could this Clara, who's never met the Master, lock onto his personal timeline? Some of her duplicates may have encountered the guy, but this one would only know of him as ex-PM Saxon.
- But she has met the Master now, albeit as Missy, so he is part of her personal timeline.
- We know the Doctor had at least one terrible bout of sadness as a child from Three's recollection of his "black day" and encounter with the Hermit. And in the one shadowy glimpse we get of the crying boy in "Listen", his silhouette looks very different than the young Master from his Schism flashback.
Missy could have wanted to use it bring people back to life and/or upgrade them to Cybermen? Even if it's not a big part of the episode, I'm near certain they'll at least reference it when tying up the season.
And also, she enjoys spying on the Doctor and Clara and since she most likely saw Clara giving her What the Hell, Hero? speech to the Doctor in Kill the Moon, she wouldn't have wanted them to separate and would've given the Doctor the tickets to bring them back together again.
There's also other pieces of evidence like:
- Missy has the TARDIS' phone number as she gave it to Clara in "Bells of St. John". And so that means that Missy was probably the one to call the Doctor and give him those free tickets!
- Gus knew about the TARDIS, which could also point to Missy because she's the Master.
- Missy was obviously an influtential person, as shown by 3W, the Nethersphere and her other bodies' exploits. So it's not that far fetched she'd be able to bring a bunch of high classed professors and scientists to the train.
- Missy has been around for a long time, as shown by the entire concept of the afterlife being based on the Nethersphere and Kate Stewart saying her and UNIT have been studying 3W for "a while now". And as you've pointed out and as it was also said in the episode, the Foretold and Gus have been around for a long time as Eleven also got a phone call for free tickets to the train. And it was noted that the Foretold has been on many different trains before the Orient Express. Missy could've very well set those up as well, as she's the Master and he/she's always been a complicated planner.
- This area could be a transitionary stage, like the Halls of Mandos. It is not known what happens after that.
- Turns out it's not the Afterlife at all, but a ruse to convince the dead ("saved" in the manner of the Library) to shut down their own personalities and emotions, becoming new drone minds for Cybermen.
- In the latest episode ("Flatline") the Doctor says being good has nothing to with being the Doctor: he is the one who has to make the hard choices, who has the decide whether it's worthy to sacrifice some so that others may live (as we've seen in the previous episodes like "Into the Dalek" and "Mummy on the Orient Express"). But what Missy's being doing so far is saving people the Doctor couldn't, so it's possible Missy is like a version of the Doctor who thinks she can be good and save everyone. In "Flatline" Clara becomes the Doctor for a brief time, in a symbolic sense, but maybe somehow in the future she will literally become the Doctor, and Missy is a reincarnation of her who feels she can be better than the previous Doctor was?
- Jossed.
- He escapes at the end and Moffat claims he has Series 9 planned.
- Jossed.
- The trailer for "Dark Water" showed them in a place of fire.
- Jossed. It was a Volcano.
- Jossed.
- It may be a gateway across the Multiverse. It could enable them to take the dead.
- Jossed; it's a Time Lord-tech memory repository that Missy's using like the Library, to store the minds of the deceased and convert them into Cyber-minds while their remains are being "upgraded", thus turning the dead into a whole new population of Cybermen.
- The Mummy technology will be used.
- Letting the Cybermen in.
- Is Seb the Half-Face Man?
- Will Davros appear? And escape...
- Will somebody escape?
- By shutting down the Nethersphere to defeat the Cybermen.
- Confirmed, but only because he thinks that Danny came back for her and doesn't want to interfere with her happiness any longer.
- Actually Jossed. Jenna Coleman has been confirmed to return for Series 9
- Considering her exact words were 'I couldn't well keep calling myself the Master', which rather explicitly spells out that's what she was calling herself before.
- Or, she is half of The Master, who has branched off to become someone the same yet very different. Remember how screwed up he was when we last saw him? He regenerated, but something went wrong causing him to split into two different people. The other half is Seb.
- Oorrr, go the other way....maybe, instead of the Master regenerating and splitting into two, two Time Lords fused to create Missy; she "couldn't well keep calling [her]self the Master", because only part of her used to be the Master...the other part was the Rani!
- What, so we have a "no more than one evil Time Lady allowed" rule now, so we have to eliminate the old one in order to bring in another?
- Or, she is half of The Master, who has branched off to become someone the same yet very different. Remember how screwed up he was when we last saw him? He regenerated, but something went wrong causing him to split into two different people. The other half is Seb.
- Wouldn't there be more evidence? She's certainly hiding it well if this is true. There was one theory that the 'three months' notes on her bookshelf had something to do with this, but that seems to just be how long they've been dating. The only other possible clue is "watch out for fluid retention", but that's from before they ever even spoke to each other.
- For all we know, Danny already had an ex-wife and kid when Clara first met him. We know very little about Mr. Pink's life between the orphanage and the war, or between the war and his arrival at Coal Hill School.
- There have been a lot of pregnancy mentions/allusions this series. The 'pregnant' moon and the whole 'abortion' angle in "Kill the Moon" for a start, which put Clara in the position of making the decision. It's a decision she may have to make if Danny is really dead. Then at the end "The Forest of the Night" the Doctor mentions that humans have the superpower of forgetting, which is why we still keep going to war and 'having babies', at which point the camera paused on Clara's face. Then he tells Clara she's a mess of chemicals in "Dark Water". Then there was something, also in "Dark Water" on her post-it notes about 'three months'. So there is a pretty good chance she's pregnant. Remember that the Doctor knew that Amy was pregnant, and kept telling her to breathe. Breath has also been mentioned more than once in this series, including the first episode title 'Deep Breath'. So it's not beyond the realms of possibility that Clara is pregnant. This troper has noticed that he keeps moving the scanner out of Clara's view.
- This troper is inclined to agree and was just about to post something similar, having watched "Deep Breath" again. When the Doctor returned with the Tardis, after they'd defeated the droids, he was watching Clara quite carefully. He also seems to have been trying to teach her a lesson all the way through, particularly in "Kill The Moon", about the choices he has to make and whether it makes him a good or bad man. This is because he has already lived all the stuff with Missy and knows that Clara will also be faced with a very difficult choice.
- ...Rani?
- ...Part of the Master's mind?
- ...the Half Face Man, whom Missy kept adding bits of human to until he had no robot parts left?
- Turns out just a computer interface.
- In the preview to the season finale there was a scene where she claims that "Clara Oswald" doesn't exist. And we now know The Master can regenerate as a woman, and that Missy has some connection Clara. So what if Clara is a different incarnation of Missy/Master, but she doesn't know it herself because of some complex Memory Gambit? (It wouldn't be the first time The Master has used a memory gambit to disguise himself as human in order to fool the Doctor.) And the mysterious "woman at the shop" who originally gave Clara the Doctor's number was actually Missy, who needed to ensure that Clara would meet The Doctor, so that whatever she's planning to do to him would come to be.
- Clara seems to be saying that to a Cyberman specifically, not the Doctor or herself, which means it's probably not a taunt or a statement of self-recognition as somebody else. It's possible she's attempting some kind of Logic Bomb on it, convincing it that she's not its designated target in order to get away.
- Jossed, Clara was trying to convince the Cybermen that she was the Doctor in order to buy time until she could get away.
- Danny did say that he hadn't gone by that name in years, though. And it's entirely possible that he was adopted during the time between his encounter with the bedsheet-creature and his adulthood, meaning he would, indeed, have a family.
- Clara's link to Danny wouldn't have guided the TARDIS to Danny's brother, since it's so early in their relationship she probably hasn't met his family yet. Danny having a twin ("family stuff") is still a good idea though, as it'd account for Orson Pink's existence: he's descended from Danny's nephew, not Danny. The other Pink twin inherited the "Dan the Solider Man" figurine after Danny's death, along with a journal of Danny's in which his frustration with Clara's time-travel hobby is described. Not knowing Danny meant it literally, the twin assumed Clara (who teaches English and literature) had been writing science-fiction stories about it; in his grief, he blamed her for neglecting Danny due to her sci-fi preoccupation and, many decades later, groused about time travel being a bad thing where young Orson could hear it.
- Jossed
- Jossed, for now
- At the end of the Anniversary Special, Tom Baker cameoed as "The Caretaker", who many assumed would be a future incarnation of The Doctor. However, we don't see him interact onscreen with any other character, which may indicate that he is just in The Doctor's head.
- Add to this the fact that the Twelfth Doctor's penchant for talking to himself, and the fact that he was talking to himself in an impersonation of Tom Baker's voice in Mummy On The Orient Express.
- Possibly Jossed, as Clara says that there was an old man who she thought was the curator (not caretaker) who requested to see the Doctor. Unless the Doctor hallucinated Clara saying that as well...
- With "Name of the Doctor", Clara's story with the Doctor is officially finished. This means Moffat is free to kill, send away, or pretty much do anything he wants to her. She'll probably stay with the Doctor (after he regenerates) for a few episodes before something happens that will force her to leave.
- Or, you know, she can just be a regular companion instead of having a myth arc - I mean in Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, Eleven figured out that Clara was just Clara and there was nothing abnormal or non-human or wrong about her, she was just Clara and that was wonderful.
- She could just crack under pressure much like Martha Jones instead of dying, and perhaps return in an episode or two in a season after that.
- Half confirmed, half jossed. She leaves at the end of "Death in Heaven", but returns as a companion in the Christmas special.
- ...is in the painting, Gallifrey Falls No More. Hidden in Plain Sight.
- This leads to my theory below...
- Better yet, it's in Ireland.
- He will be contacted by his previous self or remember to go there.
- My thought is, he'll be in the middle of something important and the TARDIS console will go "ding." (Or possibly "bing!") The Doctor will say "half a mo...", pop off for three seconds to say "No sir. All thirteen!", then come back for the rest of the plot of the episode. Either that, or just before he regenerates into Thirteen.
- Perhaps that was what he was doing between leaving in the TARDIS and returning for Clara with new clothes. Just making sure to get closing the Stable Time Loop out of the way.
In the original time stream, the Moment killed those absent from the battle as well. However, given the change to history made by the Eleventh Doctor, the Moment was never deployed. The Dalek fleet was destroyed by their own crossfire and Gallifrey was vanished into a stasis cube, but without the Moment, that still leaves every Dalek and every Time Lord who wasn't there at the fall of Gallifrey alive and well - quite possibly alongside the various horrors that were birthed during the Time War.
- The Moment being activated would not have actively sought out Time Lords and Daleks. The Time Lords had been forced back to Gallifrey and the Daleks were all there to fight them.
- Wasn't the general implication that Gallifrey being sealed in the painting was always the original course of events, and the Daleks and Time Lords are still sealed, making it look as though they had all been destroyed? The Doctor just didn't know because he had meddled in his own timestream, and the Eleventh Doctor was the first to actually realize that Gallifrey could be found again.
- Big idea confirmed, specifics Jossed. Flatline is probably the closest gotten to this WMG
- Vastra's "here we go again" line seems to imply that she, at least, has experienced this scenario before. Seeing as how all other post-regenerations have been televised, the only candidates for theory are Nine and War, but, seeing how the Paternoster Gang are oblivious to War's existence, it would seem that Vastra helped out a post-regenerative Ninth Doctor.
- Alternately, she has already helped one of the Doctor's future incarnations with his post-regeneration trauma.
- Half confirmed, half jossed. The Master's back, but Clara doesn't die.
- As said above Rani? Romana?
- semi confirmed
- In "Waters of Mars", she remembers how a Dalek looked right at her during the events of "The Stolen Earth", but it didn't kill her. The Doctor presumes it had sensed that she constituted a fixed point in time, but if it was Rusty that she's encountered, and the defect that caused Rusty to become capable of remembering its own non-hateful feelings had already occurred, then the Dalek's nascent Heel–Face Turn could have kicked in, just in time to save the girl's life.
Clara has been scattered throughout the Doctor's life. The Doctor likely would have brushed by her plenty of times. Maybe, everytime he does, he gets a sense of deja vu. Since he can't figure out why he gets that feeling, and having two thousand years to ponder it over, he theorised that a creature is following him. Then finally, he resolves to figure it out and enlists Clara along for the hunt, not realising Clara IS the 'Creature', in a sense.
- Combined with the Doctor's scrambled memory post-regeneration, it's likely that his childhood fears resurfaced unexpectedly, which would explain his unhealthy interest in trying to prove his fears were rational.
- Wanting to speak to this sudden arrival but not realising the damage they could cause.
- Irving could be one of the other boys the Doctor doesn't want to hear him. Though one of the Gallifreyans could be called Braxiatel if that is the family name.
- In the background shots of the planets, the 'last planet,' is redish rock, suggesting iron based rock. Midnight, we know, was made of pure diamonds, and therefore, carbon. There is no way a planet can go from a planet made of pure carbon, to an iron based planet. And the diamonds weren't red diamonds either, containing no traces of anything other than carbon. (Oh, and a couple of dead carbon based bodies or a H2O waterfall is not going to make much difference.) The planet has also endured billions of years of radiation so it is evident that the radiation isn't affecting the atomic structure. of the planet. In other words, there is no way the two planets are the same.
- In "Deep Breath", it's the War Doctor. He pledges to save a powerful, ancient entity that's been taken out of time, only to see what once seemed invulnerable (the dinosaur, the Time Lords) crashing and burning. He seeks to right this wrong and end the killings, only to be faced with a not so different dilemma (Rassilon as bad as the Daleks, himself as patchwork as the Half Face Man). He takes an action that would seem unthinkable for a Doctor (preparing to use the Moment, abandoning a companion in danger), but subverts this apparent betrayal in the clinch. In both stories, the question of whether the Doctor would kill someone (all of Gallifrey, the Half-Face Man) goes unanswered.
- In "Into The Dalek", it's Nine. The Doctor isn't sure he can be a good man anymore — not after what he's done, not after the mistakes he's made — and seeks absolution from his companion's approval. He faces his hated enemy, a lone Dalek, in human hands. He tries to dig deep for the good side of himself, to re-awaken his joy in exploration and the wonders of the universe, but a part of him is boiling with anger, and facing Daleks still brings it out. Like Nine, he can't feel easy in his own skin, and he has to turn away a potential companion on ethical grounds (as Nine, for threatening to change history out of greed; as Twelve, because she's a soldier and might bring out the worst in him to work with).
- In "Robot Of Sherwood", it's Ten. Robin is too gallant to be true, an over-the-top medieval superhero whose reputation far outstrips him and who milks and fosters it for all it's worth: the same approach that Ten relied upon for years, only to have others' hero-worship turn around and bite him in stories like "Journey's End". Twelve isn't having any of it, and his non-stop bickering with Robin isn't that unlike how Twelve and Ten would probably interact in a multi-Doctor storyline. Eventually, when Robin does acknowledge that his conduct is a pose, the Doctor has to admit in turn that it serves a purpose, and the possibility that he can still play the hero even if he no longer feels like he is one is broached. Not that close a correspondence, but it's a Lighter and Softer episode, so naturally not as deep.
- In "Listen", it's Eleven. Matt Smith was by far the most childish Doctor, and in retrospect it's very obvious that he was that way out of denial: the One Who Forgets, hiding from his fear, guilt, and loss. Like his predecessor, Twelve grows dangerously broody when he's without a companion, and he's equally in denial about his fears, that stem from the childhood he barely recalls and Eleven regressed to. The fact that Twelve is also the first Doctor to have accepted the War Doctor as a part of himself from the start, and hence, to process the horrors of fighting in the Time War as something he did, means he can't hide from the trauma behind a facade of raw anger or heroism or childishness or "that wasn't a Doctor, that was someone else". Between that and his shaky relationship with Clara, he's got a lot to be haunted by ("That's a hell of a lot of ghosts..."), and as with Eleven, it's up to Clara to step back into his past and shield him from the lurking shadows.
- Apparently she becomes the President of the United States, but the Doctor may have been joking.
- For a while I thought it could be the Star Whale from "The Beast Below". The Doctor notes however that it is a new lifeform, while the Star Whale are apparently a known species.
- The Mummy?
- We have seen before than Time Lords can apparently share their DNA through kisses (as the Doctor did with Martha to fool the Judoons, and later when the cult of the Master retrieved his DNA from Lucy Saxon's lips). So, what if that kiss was used by Missy to steal some of the Doctor's DNA (or force some of hers to him), for instance in order to fool the TARDIS later or some other nefarious plot requiring either one to carry the other's DNA.
- Or she has a mutant human, like Saibra, around, who could take the Doctor's form.
- Here are ideas as little time. http://cynicalclassicist.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/thoughts-for-death-in-heaven.html
- And she'll do so by having been automatically uploaded to the Nethersphere when the Cyber-Brig shot her, same as anyone else killed on Earth has been for decades. Unknown to Danny, she's got a second bracelet hidden there, which she used to escape.
- Alternately, she'll turn out to have secretly modified the weaponry of all her "boys" so that if any of them tried to shoot her, the beam would work on her like the shredders from "Time Heist" instead, faking her death while teleporting her to safety. It'd be a sensible (for a psychopath) precaution for her to take, just in case the Doctor turned his "birthday present" against her.
- She will return in the future but will have regenerated into the form of Osgood.
- "The Time of the Doctor": In the next episode, Strax's scanning confirms that Clara has aged three years since "The Bells of St. John". Taking into account her breaks from the TARDIS, that puts "present day" scenes on December 25, 2016.
- "Into the Dalek": A new school year has started at Coal Hill, placing it near September 2017.
- "Listen": Clara and Danny are on their first date, so still 2017.
- "Time Heist": Either late 2017 or early 2018.
- "The Caretaker": Danny was present at a previous Parents' Evening. Since he joined the school in "Into the Daleks", this means a whole year has passed, so 2019.
- "Kill the Moon": Courtney is still interested in TARDIS travel, so still 2019.
- "Mummy on the Orient Express": It's been at least a few weeks since "Kill the Moon", but still seems to be the same year, so still 2019.
- "In the Forest of the Night": Still seems to be 2019.
- "Dark Water" / "Death in Heaven": Clara has had enough time to decide to tell Danny the whole truth, so still seems to be the same year, 2019.
- Alternatively, the Doctor seems to imply that "In the Forest of the Night" takes place in 2016, which still works. Clara is 27 in "Deep Breath", but her time on the TARDIS is separate from the present day, so while *she* is three years older, Earth would not be, which would put "The Time of the Doctor" at Christmas 2015. "Into the Dalek" would then be September 2016, and then "The Caretaker" through to "In the Forest of the Night" in that same year. (As for the "previous parent's evening," Courtney's parents could have easily been referring to the school collectively as opposed to Danny in particular - Danny doesn't say that she's "still" a disruptive influence; instead, he's confirming what her parents prompted ("I would say yes, I'm afraid Courtney *is* a disruptive influence.") and would she really have him two years in a row anyway?). And then "Dark Water"/"Death in Heaven" comes in at late 2016-early 2017, probably depending on the Christmas special.
Seeing as she could control who lived and who died for countless eons. She was probably the reason, The Master constantly kept coming back from the dead. She was bringing himself back to life each time.
- Maybe even perhaps, a later episode can transplant his brain into a different robotic body that looks exactly human. So in a sense, The Brigadier regenerates. Bonus points if the new body looks almost exactly like he did in his UNIT days. But then again... people will likely scream blasphemy preferring to just let the character die in peace.
- Alternatively, his body eventually falls apart leaving just a head... as Handles. We don't know at what point in time the Doctor found Handles after all, it could be far into the future.
- Most likely he did blow himself up, because existence as a Cyberman is pretty much non-stop torture if you're still mentally yourself. But he made sure to fly away first, to ensure that the Doctor wouldn't ever have to tell Kate that he'd seen her Dad committing suicide.
- Alternately, she told the truth about where Gallifrey is, but neglected to mention that it's under some kind of concealment. The surviving Time Lords, realizing that the Time War had exhausted their arsenals and left most of the universe as hostile to them as to the Daleks, concluded that maintaining the pretense that Gallifrey had been destroyed was their best chance at avoiding a whole new round of warfare. So, they devised a means of concealing their homeworld from every possible means of detection — even those available to the Doctor — and are keeping their heads down while their civilization rebuilds.
- Or — The Doctor simply forgot to turn the safeties off
- Jossed: Two weeks are shown to have passed since. If it was poison, it's really really really slow. Besides, she wanted to use The Doctor to lead the Cybermen army kind of counter-productive if he's dead.
- On the other hand, she might have used the kiss to get a sample of the Doctor's DNA for some nefarious purpose.
- Just thought of another guess below.
- On the other hand, she might have used the kiss to get a sample of the Doctor's DNA for some nefarious purpose.
- Why would the Master want the Valeyard to exist? He was massively obsessed with killing the Valeyard.
- Actually, she teleported herself away using the energy of the shot to power the device.
- To bring it even further, he was a companion after The Doctor had regenerated into a woman. Making that line all the more meaningful. And perhaps they even had a little romance, which is why Perkins turned down becoming Twelve's companion. It would be way too awkward. Not to mention... if this WMG is the case... regardless of gender, they'd just be retreading the whole "River Song Timeline" thing all over again.
- Or maybe Clara just doesn't instantly recognise the face of someone she met once in a shop after what must have been three or four years in-universe.
- Or maybe Missy wore a disguise when she gave Clara the phone number, knowing she didn't want Clara to recognize her and spoil her fun when she finally got her chance to confront the Doctor face-to-face again. It's not as if the original Master, Roger Delgado's version, didn't employ Latex Perfection every other story-line...
- This is definitely possible for Vastra, but in "Deep Breath", Jenny's initial reaction makes it clear she had never even heard of regeneration before. She initially has no idea who the Doctor is when he comes out of the TARDIS and starts babbling like crazy.