rambling thoughts on Bill
I kind of wish we had more scenes with Moira + Bill, or at least Missy + Bill, bc really… that stuff is the actual core of Bill’s story. All the focus on Heather in the first episode seems to set up the series as a love story/journey to find Heather, when overall, as a series, it’s actually about Bill’s fundamental anxiety about her identity and being ignored.
Bravo
thank you!
Honestly, as much as a love her, I was struggling to get a grasp on what Bill’s story was. And then you just illustrated it wonderfully.
I think, with Moffat Who, you just have to assume the Doctor is everybody’s Space Dad, and Missy is everyone’s Space Mom, and therefore they’re a sort of conduit for repressed family issues to be talked about in a show that doesn’t have a whole lot of room for a companion’s literal family.
I mean one of the first important things established In The Empty child, which is Moffat’s entire vision for Doctor Who, whole and complete, and that he has never really strayed from, is that the Doctor is a father. And he resolves the whole issue in that episode because of that. And by helping Nancy speak the truth about who she is. That’s the very basic template for like… every Doctor/Companion story in Moffat Who.
So I’m fairly hopeful it won’t all go screeching off the rails at the end, and make Bill the only Moffat companion to never get a resolution in her relationships because of some boring death. My main anxiety, I suppose… is if it will be triumphant and exultant enough to forgive what she had to go through.