It seems to me in the classic Dr. Who the Doctor’s enemies were mainly bureaucrats.  That’s what the evil incarnation of the Doctor, the Valeyard was, a bureaucrat.  Or perhaps I should refine this to say the Doctor’s enemies have been mainly politicians, which pulls in supremacists such as Daleks, Cybermen, and Sontarans.

Perhaps in reaction t…[Read more]

While the Daleks are the Daleks as they are now, they must forever seek to conquer the universe, and even time and space itself.  If there is a Gallifrey that is at a known place, there must therefore be a Time War.

The easy way out would have been for there to be a renegade faction of Daleks who are somehow good and can coexist with other…[Read more]

My idea is that many of the monsters in the Dr Who universe with unexplained origins such as Dream Crabs, or Weeping Angels, are going to soon have a horrifying one:  They are Time Lords, horribly mangled because they tried to take what they did not have the right to take.

I speculate the Doctor is being manipulated to help the Time Lords…[Read more]

Missy asks why no one has thought before of the idea of uploading minds to a Gallifreyan hard drive. Oh but they have. This is the technology of the Peter David-era Arc of Infinity.

To me there is at least one classic villain left to re-introduce, Omega. However, Omega is relatively boring. There was to me one poignant interaction between the…[Read more]

Among other questions the episode asks if the Doctor and Missy (Master) are the same.  On the surface it would appear they are not.  Yet why could the Time Lords not be manipulating the Doctor as much as they did the Master as a failsafe?  One supposedly rogue Time Lord a psychopath, a lunatic, the other a humanitarian, both of whom were very cl…[Read more]