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It saw the return of [[Kate Stewart]] and {{gomez}}, as well as [[Davros]], who was shown prior to his disfigurement for the first time on television. In the [[Doctor Who Extra]] for this episode, Steven Moffat explained that he liked the logic of how the Master always managed to somehow come back again to fight the Doctor, despite most of their past encounters seemingly ended with the Master succumbing to a fatal accident or facing hostile aliens. | It saw the return of [[Kate Stewart]] and {{gomez}}, as well as [[Davros]], who was shown prior to his disfigurement for the first time on television. In the [[Doctor Who Extra]] for this episode, Steven Moffat explained that he liked the logic of how the Master always managed to somehow come back again to fight the Doctor, despite most of their past encounters seemingly ended with the Master succumbing to a fatal accident or facing hostile aliens. | ||
The episode shows the first encounter between Davros and the Twelfth Doctor, as well as the first televised encounter between the two of them since their meeting during the Doctor's [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]]. The episode gives no explanation as to how Davros managed to survive after the events of ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'', nor when the Doctor discovered he had done so. | The episode shows the first encounter between Davros and the Twelfth Doctor, as well as the first televised encounter between the two of them since their meeting during the Doctor's [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]]. The episode gives no explanation as to how Davros managed to survive after the events of ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'', nor when the Doctor discovered he had done so. Though, much like the Master, Davros also had a knack for also surviving backfiring plans, betrayal and traps that should have killed him; its possible the Doctor always expected Davros to have survived the [[War in the Medusa Cascade]]. | ||
The episode also placed the Twelfth Doctor in a moral dilemma that he himself had brought up many years ago in his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]] in the television story ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'': "If someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives, could you then kill that child?", with the Doctor coming face to face not only with Davros in the present, but also as a child in the past. | The episode also placed the Twelfth Doctor in a moral dilemma that he himself had brought up many years ago in his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]] in the television story ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'': "If someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives, could you then kill that child?", with the Doctor coming face to face not only with Davros in the present, but also as a child in the past. | ||