Doctor Who Series 10: 10 Biggest WTF Moments
5. Missy Sheds A Tear
Forget perverting the course of Dalek history, or putting an
end to the Time War – the redemption of Missy has to be the Doctor’s most
ambitious of schemes. Neither party are all that confident that it can be achieved
and the audience isn’t quite prepared to accept that the Master could turn
good. But the Doctor is the eternal optimist and faced with the choice of being
Missy’s executioner or saviour he was always going to take it on.
He’s a pretty rubbish counsellor as it turns out, and cold turkey is probably an excuse for not wanting to face up to his own failings in the process. But the breakthrough appears to have come much sooner than he expected. 70 years of a 1,000 year rehabilitation program and Missy sheds her first tears.
It might not be an in your face WTF moment, but it’s just as shocking to witness. This after all is a character who was willing to resist regeneration in order to avoid being forgiven by the Doctor (The Last of the Time Lords). We might not have expected Missy’s redemption to be complete but it was a remarkable thing to consider the possibility and to see enough shades of grey to deconstruct the stereotypical pantomime villain.