"Doctor Who" WMG (SPOILERS)
I came up with a bunch of out-there/not-so-out-there theories about the events of last night's Doctor Who, so I thought I'd share them with you.
Feel free to contribute your own ideas, but if you've read spoilers and know something to be true/false, PLEASE DON'T TELL ME.
SPOILERS for NuWho seasons 4, 5, and 6, and classic Who episodes "Destiny of the Daleks", "City of Death", and the E-space trilogy.
This is regarding the Time Child we see at the end of "Day of the Moon". I strongly believe that she is Amy (and hopefully Rory)'s daughter, but I have several ideas concerning her origin/parentage/identity:
1) Amy is pregnant and traveling on the TARDIS will effect her baby, making it a "Time Baby" who can regenerate like a Time Lord.
2) Amy is pregnant but at some point the Doctor will need to help her by changing the baby into a Time Lord for some reason or at least giving it the ability to regenerate. He may not realize he's done this until later.
3) Amy wasn't pregnant, but after The Silence captured her, they implanted something in her that made her pregnant with a Time Lord baby; they may even have used the Doctor's DNA from him dead body in "The Impossible Astronaut" to make the baby, making it technically the Doctor's baby. Remember what River said about how valuable the Doctor's body is, even a single cell...
4) Amy is pregnant, and when The Silence captured her, they did something to the baby to make it into a Time Baby to help them for some reason (since they seemed to be keeping her in a room in the orphanage, so theoretically she had some use for them). This may also have involved using some element of the Doctor (see 3), making it technically Amy, Rory AND the Doctor's baby. Of course, if they did use the Doctor's DNA as taken from his dead body, that means he has to die or the child won't exist (or at least won't be a Time Baby)...
5) The girl is River Song, who in turn is a Fobwatched a) Romana, b) another Time Lady, or c) the daughter of Amy and Rory, which ties in with my above theories on how they got a Time Baby. I like the Romana theory best because Romana easily could've escaped the Time War by staying in E-space. Also, in the episode "City of Death", the drawing of her had a crack on it that eerily matches the crack in season 5. You can't tell me that's just a coincidence. Maybe the crack created a gateway to E-space, allowing Romana to slip through.
Also, there actually were rumours that we would see River as a little girl in this episode, so that adds to my girl = River theory. Assuming girl!River she knew that Doctor at that point, it would make sense that she'd hide from him (River did say she met him as a young girl and he knew everything about her). She also said he frightened her, so maybe that's why girl!River hid when she saw him.
Though this raises the question of why didn't River's sacrifice at the end of "Forest of the Dead" cause her to regenerate? Unless she wasn't able to (like the AU Doctor in "Turn Left") or maybe she was at the end of her regenerations.
6) The child is related to Susan or possibly is Susan somehow (but she isn't River because that would mean River is the Doctor's granddaughter which would make how she acts around him very disturbing).
7) The child is River and Doctor's daughter (SO not a fan of this idea, but I'll admit it popped into my head when the girl started regenerating).
8) The child is Lucy and the Master's daughter.
I'm pretty sure if she is Amy's daughter, she's Rory's daughter too. I'm avoiding spoilers as best I can, so these all come from my head and the ideas friends have passed on. I think the child definitely has a connection to the Doctor and maybe Rory, otherwise why would she hide from them (but not from Amy)? It also seemed to me like the child's regeneration was her first; the way she explained it seemed like someone had told her what would happen but that she hadn't experienced it herself.
I also just can't imagine anyone regenerating into a little girl unless a) they were a little girl when they first died or b) something went horribly wrong. Or possibly c) if the child is Romana, who can choose her regenerated body (as seen in "Destiny of the Daleks") and may have had some reason for picking a little girl's body.
Then I came up with a really bizarre theory about Rory, which I'm not sure even I believe.
SPOILERS for NuWho seasons 5 & 6,
Rory is the Doctor/a clone of the Doctor/partly the Doctor, or maybe just a fobwatched Time Lord like you said. Here are my "facts"/hints:
- This idea came to me after Amy said Rory "fell out of the sky"; now she says it was a figure of speech, but maybe it was more of a hint, given that we don't know how the two met.
- Rory is still a mystery to us. We know he's a nurse and he loves Amy. But we don't know his parents, his siblings (if any), or even much of his history with Amy prior to the Doctor.
- Amy is drawn to Rory just as Amy is drawn to the Doctor. Rory in turn is drawn to Amy and longs to protect her, just as the Doctor is. This is stretching it a bit, I know, but they do bring up the connection between the three an awful lot.
- Rory was not surprised by the TARDIS interior and even understood how the "bigger on the inside" thing works.
- When Rory was talking to the Doctor about how his memories of his 2000 years guarding Amy are behind a door (or something like that), it reminded me of what the Second Doctor told Victoria about his family and how sometimes he remembers them but most of the time he doesn't (been a while since I've seen the episode). Also, I read a Cracked.com article ("5 Reasons Immortality Would Be Worse Than Death") that discussed how the human mind would be unable to withstand being alive for that long without going insane and time losing all meaning; I know Rory wasn't technically human but it seemed like his mind was...but if he had a Time Lord mind, he could handle it.
- The Doctor is also used to spending vast amounts of time by himself, as Rory did, and yet also being close to people, like Amy.
- This also helps with my theory that the Time Baby is Rory's daughter; if he's a Time Lord, she would inherit it from him.
- He dressed up as the Doctor for Amy (another hint?).
- He likes the Doctor but argues and disagrees with him, much like the Doctor has done with his other selves.
- The "wrong" date on his nametag in "The Eleventh Hour" (if you don't know what I'm talking about, go here and scroll down to "Nametag controversy"); sure Moffat said it was an honest error and not significant to the plot, but who knows if he's telling the truth? Perhaps Rory's nametag is a hint that his identity is manufactured.
- And lastly, he's a nurse, which is similar to being a doctor (name-wise I mean, not getting into the job challenges, etc.). He was drawn to the medical profession but perhaps some part of him told him to avoid becoming the Doctor.
Rory could be only partially the Doctor, maybe something that Amy did when she brought him back as a Roman or when the timeline was restored. He could also be a fobwatched clone of the Doctor.
And finally, I came up with a theory about how the Master will return
SPOILERS for NuWho episodes "The End of Time" Part 1 and 2, as well as the Master from various Classic Who episodes.
One of the copy!Masters from "The End of Time" was protected by a radiation shield in the same type of booth Wilf was in when everyone on Earth changed back into themselves. The Doctor managed to filter out the change for Wilf, so logically a copy!Master could do the same. Thus, as the change didn't effect Wilf because he was protected, the change-back won't have effected the copy.
Think about it, do you really think on the entire planet there is only ONE booth like that? And considering the Master's intense desire for survival, I can easily see one of his copies running for the box the minute crap starts hitting the fan. I'm not sure if all of the Masters were psychically linked, but didn't the Master send out a signal to get them all to focus on the drums? So assuming they have some sort of connection, we can then assume they all knew what was going on with the original Master (re: the Doctor, the Time Lords, etc.) and can also assume they knew that being in the booth and modifying the settings would prevent the change from taking place, as happened with Wilf.
Of course this raises several questions:
How would the copy get out of the box?
I'm sure we all remember that in order to get out of the booth, another person must step into the other side (poor Doctor...). My idea is that the copy!Master has a nearby other copy!Master waiting; that copy changes back, then the safe copy!Master hypnotises him into stepping into the booth. Hell, depending on the type of booth, it may not even be necessary to have someone else open one door to let the other person out. Depending on how early on the copy!Master planned this, he could have even been working on the booth beforehand to enable it to keep him safe AND to open once the change-back had occured.
How can a man who had recently been everyone on Earth go about unnoticed after the change-back?
Depending on how busy the place is, the copy!Master could theoretically escape and go hide somewhere for a while, maybe at least wait until his hair had gone back to its original colour. The previous Masters (I'm thinking Delgado and Ainley in particular) have been really good at disguising themselves, so he could even do that.
He could also put on an act of being a normal person who hadn't been changed "for some reason", really play up the sympathy angle. There could even be an episode where the Doctor visits the copy in the hospital or at U.N.I.T. HQ and has a hard time figuring out if he's the real Master or some poor unfortunate who got stuck with the Master's body.
Or of course he could just regenerate. I can't actually picture him choosing to do this, as it would mean giving up one of his regenerations, which is a very anti-Master thing to do. But maybe he gets caught soon after emerging from the booth; he's shot, he changes, maybe kills the person who shot him so as to leave no witnesses to the regeneration. This would also solve the next problem:
What about the Master's botched regeneration and dwindling lifeforce?
If he regenerates, we can assume the problems with his previous botched regeneration are fixed. Also (and I don't mean to sound like I'm handwaving this) I just figure the copy!Master will not have these problems because he is just that, a copy. None of the copies we saw had the Master's laser powers or glowy skull or massive hunger issues either (that we could tell anyway). This would tie in nicely with the Master's habit of stealing other people's bodies for his own, as he did with Tremas for instance.
We would also get a Master who hadn't seemed tempted to join the Doctor traveling across the stars, and hadn't saved the Doctor's life. Now, I think these moments were wonderful (I do ship Doctor/Master after all), but this would give a new aspect to the relationship between the Doctor and the (new) Master. The Doctor would remember these little glimpses of the man he knew and the future they could have had together, while the Master wouldn't know what the Doctor was going on about (or, if he knew because of the previously mentioned psychic link, he would be removed from the emotional significance of it). The Doctor would keep trying to help the Master and have him join him and give up his evil ways, while the Master would refuse, and the audience in turn wouldn't know what the outcome could be.
This Master, on the otherhand, would be less likely to think of himself and his own pleasures than the original Master because of the way the Master programed his genetic code for the Immortality Gate. Think about it, if the world was populated by regular Masters, do you honestly think they would willingly take orders from anyone, even themself? There'd be so much trickery and backstabbing nothing would ever get done (I actually thought that's how the Master would be defeated)! The Master knows himself, so when he was programing the Gate, he altered it so that the copies would be slightly different and more willing to serve him. There could even be other differences he programed in that we don't know about yet.
But really this is all Wild Mass Guessing on my part, I'd honestly be surprised if any of it turned out to be true. But it was fun thinking about. Please feel free to contribute your own comments/ideas/theories.
Again: if you've read spoilers and know something to be true/false, PLEASE DON'T TELL ME.