Hey youtubers it’s Charlie, you guys submitted a lot of good questions for my Episode 2 Q&A.
I’m almost done moving too so eventually this will all look like I’m not making these
videos from limbo or something.
You guys picked up on a lot of good easter eggs I missed.
And lots of good Missy and Danny Pink theories.
Let’s get in it, careful for spoilers from the episode if you haven’t seen it yet.
I’ll wait just a sec...okay, here we go.
1 - Action vids asks Why didn’t the Dalek recognize the Doctor?
All because of the regeneration.
His memory banks only went up to Matt Smith.
There was a little confusion because of souffle girl Clara erasing the doctor from their collective
memory and then the Daleks re-learning about him in the christmas special after assimilating
Tasha Lem.
The Daleks have independent minds, the khaled mutants do.
But they also have the machine parts with data banks that record and distribute new
memories each individual dalek picks up.
Rusty rejoined the Dalek Fleet at the end of the episode so it’s possible he withheld
new information about the Doctor.
I think they’ll follow up on it at some point.
2 - Walking Who asks What do you think of Danny Pink’s Story so far?
I like him a lot, we haven’t gotten a long Danny Pink episode yet, so I’m withholding
a lot of comments till then.
There were pictures from the set of people connected to him.
I think Episode 4 is supposed to add a lot of backstory.
Like I said in my review, Samuel Anderson does a good job of going from funny to dark
in a heartbeat, he’s not quite as grand as Capaldi but I think being able to turn
on a dime like that is really important for Doctor Who stories.
As far as new characters go I think he’s an interesting new flavor, there are going
to be a few more new characters we haven’t met yet.
I think they did a great job casting them all so whatever their stories are I’m sure
they’ll be interesting and fun.
3 - Tigerblood asks Do you think "Rusty" will be a returning character?
Definitely, it felt like Moffat created something so unusual in this “good” dalek that it
would be a complete waste to not use the opportunity to throw a wrinkle into all future Capaldi
Dalek stories.
Rusty is the new Handles.
What I’d really like to see is a Rusty scene several episodes down the road where he comes
back with his own armada.
Like Rusty has started converting other Daleks to his cause bit by bit.
Then rides in like the cavalry to help the Doctor in a moment of need.
I think it will have something to do with the Missy plot, when it comes to whatever
the final conflict is in the finale.
I’m always a fan of enemies working together as friends for a brief period.
And the Daleks are the Time Lords greatest enemies.
Unless you consider the Time Lords to be their own worst enemies.
4 - Davijoman asks Do you think that Missy will snag everyone that dies in all the episodes?
So that they all can appear with her in the finale.
She has shown up in consecutive episodes so it does seem that way.
I do think the circumstances of a person’s death is important to being snatched.
It’s still a bit unclear as to what part of each person she’s snatching.
Life Force, full on teleportation at the moment of death or if it’s a Silence in the Library
situation, where copies are made of people.
It seems pretty clear that she wants to win people over with very sinister kindness and
going so far as to call her domain Heaven be it TARDIS or be it Pocket Universe, makes
it sound like she’s got plans for the Doctor that require all those people.
If she wanted to kill him she wouldn’t have called him her boyfriend and she wouldn’t
have said she’d keep the scottish accent.
So the question we need to ask is, what does she want to help the doctor do that requires
an army?
I’ve spent a lot of time talking about Series 8 and broken promises.
But what if Missy is collecting people as a way of fulfilling a promise to the Doctor.
It would be an interesting twist if everyone the doctor considered close to him broke his
trust, but the sinister person was the only one who didn’t break a promise.
Then there’s the question of what that promise might be.
I love how Capaldi’s doctor has so many questions and works everything out by lecturing
to himself using a chalkboard.
That should be his catchphrase, just “Question?”
5 - Benjamin asks, if Heaven is like the TARDIS then shouldn’t the dead soldier have been
tiny when she woke up?
Very interesting, yes.
Missy’s garden does look a lot like a TARDIS console.
If it is, you would think they’d still be small after she materialized it around them.
I think it’s more evidence that she’s only saving parts of people.
It’s still unclear whether it’s just their consciousness.
Like a Silence in the Library situation or if it’s their soul or life force.
Those are things we’ll need more missy scenes to figure out.
Right now she’s only been on screen for a few moments.
All that is clear is that she is very similar to the Doctor and they have a history together.
6 - Alex asks do you think Danny Pink would leave the show if Clara left or would he stay
as a companion?
I think he would stay, someone in the comments said Samuel Anderson claimed he wasn’t a
companion in an interview but it could just be misdirection.
The Doctor will not travel for a whole series without a companion.
There might be episodes where we don’t see companions, but the foundation of the show
is that The Doctor travels with someone or something.
It wouldn’t be doctor who if he didn’t have someone besides himself to listen to
him.
If Jenna and Samuel Anderson are both leaving by the christmas special I think we’d also
see a teaser for who the next official companion is in that episode.
So regardless of what happens, all questions will be answered by the special.
We still don’t even know what the title is, last year they didn’t shoot Matt Smith’s
christmas special till around this time in the year.
So we might get some new info over the next several weeks.
7 - Sandrine asks Do you think that the missy situation will trigger darker instincts in
the Doctor like the Time Lord Victorious moments?
I think it would be really cool if the Missy plot became a huge callback to the moment
in episode 1 where the robot asked, do you have it in you to kill me doctor?
Like Missy will force the Doctor to kill her.
That would be as dark as the show could go.
All of episode 2 was about the Doctor showing himself to be a good Dalek.
He’s going to continue to wrestle with his dark passenger.
For those that watched Dexter.
I think Doctor Who as a series will always end things on a note of closure even if we’re
crying during the finale.
So I don’t think the Doctor would completely trash his motto.
“Never cruel or cowardly.
Never give up, never give in.”
I think killing Missy would be the cowardly act.
8 - cajun asks Will Souffle Girl Clara turning into a Dalek be important to anything going
on in series 8?
I think the Impossible Girl persona will be referenced, but I don’t think that specific
version of Clara will play a critical role.
Regardless of which Clara explanation you believe, like which version of Clara she is
right now, be it a copy or the original.
I think that’s pretty much done with.
I think all future references to multiple claras will be jokes or subtle references
the characters make, like clara making fun of herself.
I don’t think it’s going to play a huge role in the missy storyline.
Keep your eyes peeled for references the other claras, but I think they’ll just be that,
winks to series 7b.
9 - Dova Kain asks, when the doctor healed Rusty and we saw the crack in the wall was
the root cause, did it have anything to do with the timelords?
I think that was a visual reminder about the time lords, but I don’t think the time lords
or the real cracks in the universe had anything to do with Rusty.
When the doctor was showing him his memories there were a lot of flashbacks to different
moments in doctor who history.
But I don’t think the physical cracks in the universe were there to purposefully alter
rusty.
If the time lords wanted to contact the doctor again, they probably would have done it in
a more direct way.
I think Rusty was an anomaly that the doctor just seized on.
I know Moffat also writes Sherlock and on that show, Benedict Cumberbatch’s character
says there is no such thing as coincidences, the universe is rarely so lazy.
So I’ll say it is possible that the cracks in the universe are somehow related to Rusty.
But I think Rusty’s story will be much less complicated than that.
It’s Danny Pink, Clara and Missy that are the complicated ones.
10 - Zombiestabber asks How do Daleks reproduce?
There are a couple of things they do, primarily they just clone themselves.
But over time as their genetic templates degrade and they assimilate new more advanced beings.
They update the template.
Changing the template was something that happened in series 5.
The new Dalek Paradigm re-booted their genetic code to it’s original khaled mutant state.
Those daleks showed up in a tie-in video game but they were later retconned out of the series.
The Daleks we met in Asylum are the most current version, those are the ones that we also saw
in the christmas special.
From a reproductive standpoint, they’re just the same old daleks.
I think all the converted humans and Oswin Dalek were one-offs.
Fun fact: If you consider the novels to be canon, then the time lords also reproduce
in a similar non-traditional way.
They use something called the Loom, a device developed by Rassilon to resequence Old Time
Lord DNA and weave new Gallifreyans into existence.
I should say that’s how they reproduce on gallifrey, because not all people on gallifrey
are time lords.
There’s a theory that the doctor was created from the re-sequenced DNA of The Other, the
third being that founded the Time Lord society with Omega and Rassilon.
Thanks so much everyone for submitting questions, like I said I’m almost done with my move
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