Can it ever be Omega? (Discuss)

Prior to the return of Gallifrey, there was a great deal that could have been done with the character as perhaps the sole surviving pinnacle of Time Lord society, the last of the great triad that ruled over their empire in the Dark Times, but nowadays I'd say it would be very difficult to make him relevant. Although, that said the presidential vacancy needs to be filled by somebody...

Of course it can be. Will it? I dunno. I'm not sure what Chibnall's favourite eras and characters are. If he's a big 3 Docs fan..who knows.

We've had Rassilon twice now though and he's not exactly done much. I'd love a "big bad" who was a new character. We kinda got that with The Silence and Kovarian I guess though Series 6 was patchy. The split didn't help.

I'd take inspiration, personally, not from Who's past but from the likes of Jack Kirby's New Gods and Marvel's Galactus. There's plenty of their mythos that would lend itself to a reimagining of Omega.

Isn't Omega going to be in the new K-9 film, or is that cancelled? It's almost certainly going to be him then

There's a theory floating around that he's a Time Lord who faked his identity in order to unite Gallifrey under one rule. It's a neat little idea, we could be watching a pretender to the throne rather than the genuine article.

Hm. This is an interesting question.

Omega kind of showed off the dark, strange mystery of the Time Lords in a way that wouldn't work if they were introducing him in the New Series. There would be a real sense of "...so?" if he were introduced in his original state, given that we've seen the Time Lords do far weirder and worse things. I mean, maybe if Timothy Dalton had been playing him instead of playing Rassilon...

I also think that part of what made Omega great was discovering his story as it went along, which is why I think his strongest stories are The Three Doctors and Omega, both of which deal heavily with what made him who he is. But we know now. And I think we've had enough "what happened to X during the Time War" stories.

So. Yeah. No. I agree.

Might as well say it because why not:

Probability of Suchet being Omega is 0000000000000000000000000000000000.001% possible.

AAAAnd we can officially cross that off.

Distance with Gallifrey always seems to work the best. Either that or turn it into a two or three-parter and just go all out with it. Go up to Mount Cadon where its peaks graze the transduction barriers, down to Lake Abydos with singing fish and flutterwings, into the sterile Capitol with the dusty politics of old Gallifrey, out onto the drylands where small oases of red bioluminescent-bulbed flowers bloom and wither. Make a day trip of it. There's a lot more to Gallifrey than just its main city.

With the Master out of comission for a few years, a new Omega could be a good stand in. The Time Lord war hero versus basically a Time Lord God.