The answer for why the Master regenerated as a woman is stunningly obvious if one just watches the past season, other than perhaps she could have been a bit younger so as to be clearly of fertile age — but perhaps things are far different for Time Lords.  It is given right in an episode of the past season Time Heist where it was shown with a m…[Read more]

@WibblyWobbly: As Missy said to the Doctor, Time Lords can go up and down the time line better than anyone, arguably including Scaroth’s race.  That is after all why they are the Time Lords.

Isn’t it interesting the Doctor’s Tardis is always where he needs to be to thwart beings such as Scaroth?

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@charlottegiles:  As Danny was converted to a Cyberman, his DNA information might have been analyzed and uploaded to the Gallifreyan hard drive of Missy.

And as the classic Arc of Infinity storyline showed, as have many storylines since, once one has that DNA information, many things are possible for creating / re-creating people.

The thing is,…[Read more]

Isn’t the Valeyard supposed to emerge around this time in the Doctor’s life …

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Didn’t Romana regenerate to have the face of another person without even suffering grievous injury?  I would accept about any explanation at this point.

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I think Moffat is doing a stupendous job using a variety of concepts from classic Dr. Who.  It was already established long ago that the Master had penetrated the Time Lords Matrix, and it also was established that if one could obtain some sort of DNA blueprint, a person, in this case Omega, could be reconstructed by…[Read more]

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@ichabod  Well spoken.  The right non-tech like Clara thinks first of the Doctor after being thrown into having all of time and space open to them with the ability to speak any language; whereas I think a tech-oriented person like Perkins or Osgood would not be paying such emotional attention.

Back to the episode, I wonder if the Doctor fully k…[Read more]

Wasn’t it mentioned in Danny’s first appearance he was regarded by the other women to be a very good looking guy?  And better yet, he had a dark side …

Wasn’t a Time Lord being able to regenerate with someone else’s face established all the way back to Romana?  Although that was done for out-of-story reasons …

There is a very good reason in the crafting of the story for Osgood to die:  Having seen her technical competence, the Doctor would be expected to make an offer to her to be a companion, she would be expected to say yes, but as previously shown in Season 8 with Perkins, this can’t happen for the very reason she is too technically competent.  T…[Read more]