Moffat Appreciation Week, Day 5: A favourite character arc
“Because it’s time to stand with him. It’s where we’ve always been going, and it’s happening now, today. It’s time to stand with the Doctor.”
We first meet Missy in the midst of an elaborate - and truly diabolical - plan. Missy has not come to destroy a mere planet or to conquer the universe. She sets out to slay the story itself. She walks into the history of Earth and takes its faith and its capacity for imagination and bent it to her purpose. The mythology of an afterlife becomes a storage place, human minds tempted into giving up their emotions, human minds utilised to wage destruction.
The Promised Land, the Nethersphere, is a cruel joke, with just more death as its punchline. And Earth’s dead are rising to mount a Cybermen invasion. The Mistress once weaponised humanity’s future against it, the nightmare of the Toclafane. Now she will defile and exploit its past. That this is done for what is essentially love - to woo a childhood friend - might only serve to make it more twisted.
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