10 Huge Questions After Doctor Who: Legend Of The Sea Devils
1. What Next For The Doctor And Yaz?
After a somewhat one-sided heart-to-heart, where Yaz isn’t asked for her opinion and passively accepts the Doctor’s choices, the Doctor tells her lover that they should focus on the present and not think about what could be between them. Enjoy what we are now, before it’s over. It’s one huge prefiguring of what is to come in the Autumn.
A brief pre-credits trailer shows a number of returning characters, including Tegan and Ace from the Doctor’s distant past. The two '80s companions may be the biggest talking points because of how long ago they were last seen on screen, but the clip ends with the Doctor calling for Yaz. This is going to be a heart-breaking end to the 13th Doctor’s journey, and Yaz is going to play a central role.
Whether Yaz can keep to the Doctor’s boundaries will almost certainly be asked in the next story, especially as it looks like the Master is using her in some way. It wouldn’t be the first time the Master has manipulated the Doctor’s friends to get to her. Instead of ending on a note of dark foreboding, of the kind we have become accustomed to seeing under both Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat, we are left with two characters in blissful denial of what is about to befall them. Clinging on to what little time they have left to love each other.