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:::To quote my original post: "Sure, often a newly-introduced character turns out to be the Master or Rassilon or whatever in that same story, but have they ever followed someone as a recurring character over multiple stories and then revealed him to be someone else?" Giving examples like Professor Yana doesn't answer that. --[[User:Falcotron|Falcotron]] 01:51, May 7, 2010 (UTC) | :::To quote my original post: "Sure, often a newly-introduced character turns out to be the Master or Rassilon or whatever in that same story, but have they ever followed someone as a recurring character over multiple stories and then revealed him to be someone else?" Giving examples like Professor Yana doesn't answer that. --[[User:Falcotron|Falcotron]] 01:51, May 7, 2010 (UTC) | ||
:::The Valeyard would seem the obvious answer, given that he appeared throughout the Trial of a Timelord arc. Although, to be fair, I think the majority of the X is Y speculation is merely wishful thinking by those who wish to crowbar characters from the classic into the new. [[User:RUMyMommy|RUMyMommy]] 15:23, May 7, 2010 (UTC) | :::The Valeyard would seem the obvious answer, given that he appeared throughout the Trial of a Timelord arc. Although, to be fair, I think the majority of the X is Y speculation is merely wishful thinking by those who wish to crowbar characters from the classic into the new. [[User:RUMyMommy|RUMyMommy]] 15:23, May 7, 2010 (UTC) | ||
::::But that just leaves the same question. If it's wishful thinking, why that wish? | |||
::::Sure, I can understand people wishing for the Rani to come back. But it would be much simpler to just bring the Rani back as herself than to write out River Song by turning her into the Rani, and that would leave us with both characters instead of just one. | |||
::::As for the Valeyard, [[Trial of a Time Lord]] is one story. To quote from the article on [[The Mysterious Planet]], "While listed [on this website, and by many fans] as a single story this story and the three others that make up 'The Trial of a Time Lord' are in fact one long story making this the longest Doctor Who story." | |||
::::On top of that, the Valeyard reveal didn't actually bring back a familiar old character--we already had the Doctor, and we never got any significant Doctory-ness out of the Valeyard after he was revealed. That would be like bringing back the Master as himself through series 3, and then right before the finale saying, "Oh, by the way, Martha's brother is also the Master, but now he's gone and we've got just the main Master." Nobody would be clamoring for that. --[[User:Falcotron|Falcotron]] 18:32, May 7, 2010 (UTC) | |||
