10 Huge Questions After Doctor Who: Legend Of The Sea Devils
2. Should Di Be Trusted?
There was something touchingly sweet about Dan’s
relationship with Di, but since the events of Flux, that has all turned sour.
Di oddly rejected him at the end of The Vanquishers, unfairly holding him
responsible for what happened to her. We speculated at the time that something
changed for Di when she was inside the Passenger, suggesting she may have even
encountered the Master there. Given that both are set to return in the next
special, we are sticking to that theory.
The phone call with Dan, interrupting his sweet voice message, sees her in an apparently forgiving mood (but hang on, what does she have to forgive him for in the first place?). But it feels somewhat staged, as if she is following the directions of an off-screen character.
This may be wide of the mark, but trusting Di right now is
not something we’d recommend. One feels that Dan’s love is about to be taken
advantage of. Just like the strange ending to Eve of the Daleks, where Karl may
well be talking to an unseen figure as he watches the impromptu fireworks,
could the Master be working in the shadows, preparing the ground for the Doctor’s
end by getting all the players in position?