general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: She’s warm and friendly to almost everyone she meets worst quality: Honestly I’ve never been able to pin down what Bill’s worst quality is. “Unsure of herself in some aspects” perhaps ship them with: Heather! brotp them with: The Twelfth Doctor, and also the Thirteenth Doctor if they ever meet, which they better needs to stay away from: British tabloid newspapers. misc. thoughts: Please be in series 10 Bill
I’ve been so excited for Bill’s return, but recently I read a quote (by Mackie?) that suggested this won’t be post-TDF
Bill and may not even be Bill but some kind of manifestation of her. Which is such a huge downer for me. But at least if this is true I know and can steel myself ahead of time instead of being disappointed upon transmission. (But still hoping it’s not true. Let us have actual Bill in all her transformative puddle glory!)
I’ve heard speculation about that too but oh maaaaan I hope it’s not true. This article says “there’s a bit of a mystery” about how Bill is back?
I was 20 pages into the script. It was going quite well but I thought, ‘I want Bill to witness this. I want Bill to notice that they’re the same man. I want Bill to say things to him.’
Steven Moffat in SFX
I can’t link to this (because it’s not online anywhere) but it is really interesting to me that she was’t originally planned to be in it. I have to wonder if it’s going to be her that’s the voice of the critique of the past because if so, very well played.
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.
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.
