![]() ![]() During filming, newspapers The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph announced that Claire Bloom would be portraying the Doctor's mother. ![]() In a March 2009 email reprinted in Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter, on pages 622-623, Russell T Davies states that he created the character as the Doctor's mother and that this is what actress Claire Bloom was told when she was cast. In the final script, the identity of the Woman is not revealed.He asked her who she was, but she replied that she was lost, and vanished once more.Īt Donna Noble and Shaun Temple's wedding some time later, which the Doctor observed from a distance, Wilfred asked him who the Woman was. She told him that this was the Doctor's final battle, and he had to take up arms. She once more appeared to Wilf on the Vinvocci's spaceship. Before vanishing again, she warned Wilf not to tell the Doctor anything she had said to him. The Woman told Wilf that he needed to take up arms and that the Tenth Doctor's life could still be saved. She next appeared to Wilfred on Christmas Day, appearing on television during the Queen's Christmas speech. After suggesting that the physician would appear again, she vanished. She directed Wilfred's attention to a stained glass window that contained an image of the Doctor's TARDIS. The Woman was first seen by Wilf in a church, where she told him that the church had been a convent that was attacked by "a demon from the skies" in the 1300s, and was saved by a " sainted physician". How the Woman managed to do this is unknown, but she appeared older, with her hair getting greyer, each time she appeared to Wilf. ( TV: The End of Time)ĭuring the events surrounding the Master Race and the Tenth Doctor's regeneration, the Woman frequently appeared to Wilfred Mott in conventional human clothes at the same time she was on Gallifrey during the Time War. ![]() As the enraged Rassilon turned to kill the Doctor, she returned to her weeping position, just before the Doctor was saved by the Saxon Master. The Doctor then shot the diamond, severing the link in Rassilon's plan to return to reality, sending her and the other Time Lords back into the time lock with Gallifrey. When Rassilon and his retinue came to Earth via the Immortality Gate on Boxing Day 2009, the Tenth Doctor's gaze fell on the Woman and she briefly uncovered her face and looked at him, shedding a single tear and glanced toward the White-Point Star. The Woman reveals her face to the Tenth Doctor. ( PROSE: Lords and Masters) Rassilon condemned her and the patriarch to stand behind him in the Panopticon and cover their faces "as monuments of their shame, like the Weeping Angels of old” ( TV: The End of Time) and had her name erased from time as further punishment. ( TV: The End of Time)ĭuring the final phases of the Last Great Time War, when the War Doctor had turned against the Time Lords, the Woman opposed Lord President Rassilon's plan to destroy time itself, ( TV: The End of Time) along with the Patriarch of the House of Stillhaven. ( PROSE: Lords and Masters) So did the Doctor. The Master knew the identity of the Woman. Staring into the Untempered Schism as part of a Time Lord initiation rite, the Woman was inspired by what she saw in the Schism. At the age of eight, the Woman was taken from her family for the selection process in the Drylands. ![]()
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