Doctor Who Series 9: Who Are The Hybrids And What Does It All Mean?
Who are the suspects and what does it mean for the Doctor?
Doctor Who series nine is almost at the end; we've had the return of Missy, Davros, Osgood, a Zygon invasion, ghoists stalking an under water base, Viking versus aliens and highwaymen. Many are arguing that series nine - or 35 for the purists - is the best series in years and with moments like the Doctor's speech to Zygella in The Zygon Inversion it is not a comment that can be easily disputed.
Like all series since Doctor Who returned to our screens in 2005, there is a theme. This time it is the prophecy of the hybrid. Davros referred to the Gallifreyan legend in The Witch's Familiar, suggesting that this might have been the primary reason the Doctor fled his home planet all the years ago. Since then we have been introduced to various incarnations of a hybrid in new and unexpected ways.
But what does it all mean and what is it leading to? The series finale Hell Bent should deliver all the answers on December the 5th but in the meantime, let's look at all the potential hybrid suspects - and consider some alternatives from stories past and try to get inside the head of Steven Moffat. Plenty of speculation and no answers guaranteed!
10. The Dalek - Time Lord Hybrids
In The Witch's Familiar, Davros tricked the Doctor into helping him by having him plug into the Dalek machine and fuse his Time Lord DNA with the Daleks. While the Doctor claimed he was aware of the trap in the first place, Missy was the one who saved him and that gamble almost unleashed an army of Dalek - Time Lord hybrids on the galaxy. Only the rejuvenated Dalek 'sewers' killing their live masters stopped this catastrophic war from taking place.
Of course, Dalek hybrids are nothing new. Davros used humans as fodder for his new Daleks in the Sixth Doctor story Revelation of the Daleks and years later Dalek Sec merged with Mr. Diagoras in the Tenth Doctor story Daleks In Manhatten, creating a hybrid of Daleks and humans before the rest of the Cult Of Skaro turned against him.
Someone as nefarious as Davros would surely have survived the events at the end of The Witch's Familiar and with Missy devising a new and cunning plan this is surely not the last time we will be seeing the Daleks. Will the hybrids have survived? And will they be back in the finale? The first of many hybrids in series nine, there is still a big question over what these Daleks will do next...