Being a Doctor Who fan, one of the things that I do is visit
all the Doctor Who sites. One of the regular ones I go to is Kasterborous and a
headline link was MAISIE WILLIAMS ISNT A RETURNING CHARACTER and the article
was what Steven Moffat has said somewhere and implied that Williams’ character
was not a recurring character because people had thought she might be Susan or
Jenny (from The Doctor’s Daughter). My instant reaction was well of course and
I cant believe that people would think this.
If it were Susan which is what people seem to think it is
then it would require a lot of explaining in the story and people who have only
watched new Who and haven’t perhaps got to and also bearing in mind the
character hasn’t been on TV since 1983, would it be worth bringing back another
timelord bearing in mind there would have to be a believable plot idea to bring
her back bearing in mind that the Doctor and Missy/The Master are suppose to be
the only Timelords left.
Here is the main reason why Maisie Williams’ character is a
returning one. She plays Arya Stark in Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones is one
of the most talked about TV shows on the planet. I can’t watch TV for more than
five minutes without an advert or some news article talking about it. She isn’t
going to quite that just to take part in Doctor Who which is also a much talked
about show but G.O.T is a bigger show and from what I understand her character
is quite important so it’s obvious that Williams’ character in Doctor Who isn’t
a regular one.
Moffat said in this news article that the character was a
brand new character and of course he has a long track record of misleading people
but let’s just assume for the purposes of this piece that he is telling the
truth and that the character is new.
It frustrates me sometimes when people try to read into
things that clearly aren’t there. I know that it could be seen as a bit of fun
and I have no problem with that but there are times when it seems like common
sense has given way to madness. Go back twelve months and on the same website,
Kasterborous do an genuinely interesting article about who Missy was and
probably try to debunk some of the ideas or lend weight to the more plausible
ones.
One of the suggestions was that she could be the Rani. This
actually appears on several websites such as the Radio Times and Digital Spy
ones but for now I am sticking with Kasterborous because they have the best
articles.
Now first of all they actually blow a raspberry at this one
because it had been revealed that the Rani would be appearing in a Big Finish
piece and generally the rule (before Big Finish started blurring the lines) was
that if a character appeared on TV then it couldn’t be used by Big Finish so if
they were using it then it would mean that the character wasn’t appearing on
TV. I remember when the Master was suppose to appear in The Hollows of Time
which was released in February 2010 just a month after the Master had appeared
in David Tennant’s final story. They had to take the Master out of that story
which is probably one of the reasons why the story didn’t work.
Another name that always seems to be bought up is Jenny. Now
Jenny made her one and only appearance in a less than entertaining episode
seven years ago. The Doctor thinks that Jenny is dead and since that time has
not mentioned her once (to my knowledge) and the viewer hasn’t been reminded of
her existence since the 2008 series finale. I personally think that the show
has moved on that bringing her back would require more explanation that Susan’s
and also what would be the point as the character hardly had anything to
suggest she could withstand more than one episode in the viewers attention.
Maybe casting someone other than Mrs David Tennant would breathe new life into
the character but I doubt it very much.
Going back to Digital Spy for a moment their article about
who Missy was is hilarious because they actually go to the trouble of revealing
who agrees with these ideas. First idea is that it’s the TARDIS with one person
(polite word) saying “"A physical aspect of the
TARDIS was played by Suranne Jones in a previous episode, it doesn't mean it's
going to keep the same appearance later on." Another one says "I see
what you mean now. Of course it makes sense the aspect would change just as the
Doctor has, and what with the new aspect mimicking his Scottish accent and the
'girlfriend' comment, I think you are spot on."
Everytime there is a mysterious female character introduced
to Doctor Who then its either Susan, Jenny or the Rani. I think that none of
these characters will EVER feature in Doctor Who but of course I could be wrong
and if that is the case then I will happily post an apology but the whole point
of this article is that people don’t use common sense when they wonder what a
mysterious character could be and go for a mixture of the possible idea and the
ludicrous ones and as much as sites do to try and dismiss the idea the fact
that it gets mentioned.
I know that there is nothing wrong with having a bit of fun
but to be fair after a certain amount of time, this routine gets a bit boring.
Sadly as much as I would love it to stop, I don’t think that this will ever
change because even if websites such as Kasterborous and other related websites
stop doing it there will still be forums doing this.
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