Doctor Who: 8 Game-Changing Things To Expect From Series 9

3. Maisie Williams

Giphy 25 Gif It looks like Doctor Who is on a mission to capitalise on the success of Game of Thrones in Series 9 as it's enlisted the dramatic services of one of the latter's most prominent rising stars, Maisie Williams. There she is in the GIF above being totally badass with a knife (and there's plenty more where that came from!) in her role as headstrong tomboy Arya Stark and her upcoming involvement in Doctor Who has already sent the speculative minds of the show's fandom into overdrive. All they've been told thus far is that she'll be playing a cryptic character "who will challenge the Doctor in unexpected ways", which sounds pretty game-changing in itself. The obvious theory that she's a younger version of Clara Oswald has already blossomed into the realms of unattainable inconceivability - surprise, surprise - but the Doctor can seemingly never have too many enigmatic women in his life so it's about time he got us scratching our heads once more with another ongoing mystery wrapped in an enigma. She's probably River Song anyway, let's be honest. Just putting it out there.
Doctor Who Editor
Doctor Who Editor

Dan Butler is the Doctor Who Editor at WhatCulture.com. When he isn't writing his own articles or editing other people's, he can be found trawling the internet for gifs of Steven Moffat laughing. Contact him via dan.butler@whatculture.co.uk.