The real journey's end?

[sensiblecat]

There’s been a very DW-shaped hole in the British press over the last week or two, as new series of “Robin Hood” and “Primeval” kicked off to grace our early Saturday evenings, and several critics complained that they lacked the Doctor’s lightness of touch. That’s probably why there’s been so much good publicity for POTD - we make the most of what

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Re: Bad Wolf

[sensiblecat]

I only mentioned Bad Wolf as an example of a Good Idea that RTD appears to have dropped. But...I am intrigued by what David said in this week's "RT" - that in the next story the Doctor will find out something very important about who he is and where he is, and after that he's on borrowed time.

And like you, I had this idea. What if, when she looked into the Vortex, Rose became immortal and the Doctor lost his immortality - she became the new keeper of the TARDIS, as it were. We know she has power over who lives and dies - if she said "Don't die!" someone wouldn't. And that's what she said to Ten when he was dying. Because of her word as Bad Wolf, the life energy went into the Hand and that was why TenToo could be born even when she wasn't around. Rose isn't aware that she has this power, but maybe the Doctor is about to find it out and to discover, somehow, that the next time he dies, he won't regenerate, but Rose now has the power of a Time Lord and is the heir to the TARDIS?

It's no more possible than 100 other scenarios, but it would explain Tennant's comment, that as soon as he finds out whatever he finds out, he knows he's going to die. I keep thinking about the way RTD says, "die" rather than "regenerate."