Thread:Turtle365/@comment-15395126-20151206015105/@comment-15395126-20151210013309

Thank you for the kind words! There will definitely be teasers at some point, yes. TORCHWOOD is on Netflix, so perhaps I'll check it out when I'm done re-watching all of New Who (I'm in the middle of Series 3 at the moment).

I see what you're saying regarding Missy's origins and the gender change experienced by the General in Hell Bent, but here's how I plan to get around that:
 * According to Hell Bent, the General was originally a Time Lady; her tenth incarnation was anomalous in that it was male. When the Twelfth Doctor shot the General, she went back to being female.
 * Missy, on the other hand, is the anomalous female regeneration of a Time Lord. In order to become female, the Master had to absorb large amounts of energy from a female source; this energy would change the Master's biology, forcing a gender change upon regeneration. The General, on the other hand, had to do something similar with a male source in order to become male.