Doctor Who Flux: 10 Huge Questions After The Vanquishers
8. Why Was Di The Only Prisoner Kept Alive In The Passenger?
Keeping Di alive inside the Passenger was a big mistake by
Swarm and Azure. It’s true that they underestimated her, treating her and all
the Doctor’s human companions as insignificant. Di wasn’t wrong there. But isn’t
that how they saw all their victims? What happened to the rest of them?
In Survivors of the Flux, we saw other victims taken out of the Passenger and turned into an energy source to enable the Ravagers to get to Tecteun’s ship. Was Di the only one able to hide from them, because surely she would have served their purposes just as well as the rest of them?
When Azure first took Di, they were using her as a plaything, a means of getting the Doctor’s attention. And right to the end, they were still wanting to use the Flux for entertainment. They couldn’t wait to see the Doctor watch her precious universe be destroyed, again and again. Saving one human to taunt the Doctor would make sense, though it’s an odd choice of victim.
There’s something not quite right about how Diane’s story
ends, she all too easily rejects Dan’s advances, raising a suspicion that
something else has happened to her inside the Passenger. Will she be revealed
as a double agent, working for the Master perhaps? Was he also inside the Passenger
and has he been keeping Diane alive all along?