6. What If There Were Two Zygons Imitating Elizabeth I?
Back to 'The Day of the Doctor', and there were more than a few complaints over the mischaracterisation over Elizabeth I; the Doctor was right that Liz would never have proposed to any old Time Lord, and she certainly would neverhave gone through with the wedding afterwards. Elizabeth I is just the latest in the long line of historical women that Steven Moffat has molded into the Doctor's plot device, longing for him to show them the stars instead of giving them their own lives and power. Or... what if neither of these Elizabeths were the real Elizabeth? We know that there was more than one Zygon. We know that more than once, the Doctor was certain that he wasn't talking to Elizabeth I, only to be proved wrong. Or was he? somehow, we're meant to believe that one Elizabeth forced her lookalike to spill the beans of her race's masterplan, killed her, and then commanded the rest of the Zygons not to lock the door of the Doctors' prison "to see what they'd do"? And then, she went ahead with marrying a man she barely knew, despite a childhood of physical and sexual abuse -so history tells us - and her father marrying six times, killing two of his wives? The simple answer, really, is that there were two Zygons. I mean, which other Doctor would assume that Elizabeth I wanted to marry him? It really is a get of jail free card for the Moffat against his army of haters, and even if it's not the answer he planned, he might just want to borrow it to appease them.