I'll give it a chance, it's just not a choice I would've made with the Doctor or the Master when the previous 50 years failed to mention it. Always seemed like stunt to me more than anything else. I have no clue how this new actress is going to be. I've never seen her in anything before.
Yeah I agree. It seems very publicity driven. Moffat was running the show into the ground, his ideas exhausted years before, so a big change like this was guaranteed to get the show back into the papers regularly like it was in the RTD era.
I didn't like the Master changing to Missy and like you say if The Rani was to reappear then I wouldn't want the same happening to her. If Moff wanted to use a female villain he could have brought back the Rani. Just because she hadn't been seen since 1987 doesn't mean he couldn't write a quick reintroduction of the character.
I'm still 50/50 on the Xmas special and if I'll have a cut off point in the episode, I.e. will I switch off just as Capaldi is regenerating. I've been watching since the 80's and have seen/heard all the episodes and a massive chunk of the audios/books, but for me this is just a step too far.
