Hi all,
Sorry if this has been discussed already, I did search the forums, but this wasn’t covered specifically in the search I did…
I have a problem with how the SimmMaster could possibly have become Missy…
According to the concise Wikipedia synopsis:
“The Doctor and his allies consider the Master’s fate before the Master is shot by his wife Lucy. The Master refuses to regenerate for the Doctor and dies in his arms, leaving the Doctor to believe he is the last Time Lord. The Doctor cremates the Master’s body on a funeral pyre and leaves, but sometime later a woman’s hand picks up the Master’s signet ring from the ashes.”
A woman’s hand picks up the ring from the ashes… If the SimmMaster’s body is now ash, how could he possibly have regenerated, as well as regenerating once he was already very dead? I do get he could maybe have regenerated earlier on in the pyre’s burning, but it doesn’t imply that…
Could Missy therefore, be another time lord who has just recovered his ring and is ultimately not an incarnation of the Master, but pretending to be one? Could Missy be some form of shape shifting being who is portraying the master because it screws with the Doctor? Or even screws with the SimmMaster when they reach him?
Also, they can’t possibly have killed the Master completely? Can they? It’d be very brave to do that in a series where the threat of the Master’s existence is fundamental to the ethos of who the Doctor is…
Plus, who do we think the new Doctor will be? If it’s Kris Marshall, I’ll be having stern words with myself as I’ll be incredibly reluctant to watch him! I cannot stand his fake acting style! It bugs me more than words!
