‘Arya’ interested in who Maisie Williams will turn out to be?
Let’s have a look at the possibilities, old and new…
Jenny
Remember her? Mrs Tennant’s character from 2008’s ‘The Doctor’s Daughter’ is now rather overlooked by fans, only named when having a heated pub-based discussion about Time Lord biology and regenerations (ooh it gets heated down my local boozer…), or when, like now, discussing the identities of mysterious female characters.
Could Maisie be playing a regenerated Jenny? Whether you subscribe to that depends entirely on whether you believe The Doctor’s ‘daughter’ can regenerate. Meet me down the pub later and we’ll discuss it over a Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster. First round’s on me.
Missy Jr
Amid talk of Cloister Wars and President’s wives, perhaps the best throwaway line (is there ever such a thing as a throwaway line in this show?) in the opening two-parter was that Missy had/has a daughter.
So naturally there’s plenty of room to speculate that Ms Williams might play a Time Daughter to the naughty Time Lady, off gallivanting around the cosmos like a cheeky truant on rumspringa from Gallifrey and causing new strife for Uncle Doctor (he’d totally be the unofficial uncle).
Someone new
To some it’s perhaps the maddest, most far-fetched, most unlikely possibility of all: that Moffat’s telling the truth, and she is just a totally new character.
Because let’s face it, chances are pretty good that she’s not the Teselecta or Kamelion (the prop that still sets Peter Davison’s teeth on edge), or indeed anyone we’ve mentioned above.
Doctor Who is a show about time travel but it’s never too fond of dwelling in its own past for too long. The odd old companion or the rare meeting of Doctors gives older viewers a nostalgic thrill, and introduces young viewers to the show’s glorious, occasionally wobbly, past, but Doctor Who is always firmly pointed to the new, the extraordinary.
Whoever/whatever she is, it’s probably going to be more sideways thinking than anything above. The fact is, if you really want to speculate about Maisie Williams’ place in the show, it’s time to start thinking outside that big blue box.
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