Something I loved about the treatment of the Mistress in Doctor Who
Never once is the Master changing gender by regenerating treated as something weird or unnatural or creepy
It’s not portrayed as something that’s been done BECAUSE she’s evil it’s just treated as something Time Lords do sometimes and the characters all react to it in a very matter of fact way. The Doctor is surprised at first but only because he thought the Master was dead with no way of returning
Once the Mistress has revealed who she is the Doctor just treats her the same way he’d treat the Master in his previous forms and when Osgood works out that Missy is the Master she’s just ‘She’s the Master and this time she’s regenerated into a female body’ and doesn’t find it any more odd than any other Time Lord regeneration
This is very important to me
That the genderfluid nature of Time Lord’s is treated as totally normal
And when Clara finds out about it all she does is note that the Doctor could be a ‘Queen’ if he wanted as well as a king, she totally accepts the idea that the Doctor can be a woman as well and doesn’t find it the least bit odd and the Doctor likewise is all ‘That’s not a bad idea’ :D
This is something which makes me happy <3