User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1827503-20141102022000/@comment-26285440-20141109053948

Now that the finale has aired, you guys are all accepting of Missy's identity. Regardless of your reasons, you guys have been very biased in deciding what statements to question. Basically anything in the entire show could be a lie. If I wanted to, I could easily come up with a thousand conspiracy theories of the like. If I said "The asthma girl isn't dead! She was transported to a marshmallow planet!" you guys would say that there was no evidence to suggest that, but if I said that Missy was the Master you would say that Moffat's probably lying. That's pretty biased.

Really, I think we should follow a policy of innocent until proven guilty. Regardless, you have to treat all statements the same. You can't be skeptical of Missy=Master but not of Kate Stewart=Brig's daughter.

Another good idea would be to believe whatever the Doctor believes. If the Doctor didn't believe Missy's identity, we would have legitimate grounds to question it. But he did not. He believed it, so we should too. Basically this entire wiki is based on the Doctor's views.

No matter what, there was no reason to doubt Missy's statements except for Moffat's history. We only doubt something if we have an in-universe reason to do so.