Doctor Who: Series 5 and 6: An Analysis of -REDACTED- (spoilers up through 6x03)

[beneficia]

Disclaimer: First off, this post contains spoilers for Doctor Who series 5 and 6 (up to the currently aired episode, 6x03). Secondly, this post contains no spoilers for Doctor Who past season 6, episode 3. Please keep it that way in the comments.

So this is going to be long *puts on thinky thinking cap from Thinktown, Thinkania*

This is an analysis

Comments

[rosa_acicularis]

All of this is brilliant (and very helpful) but this:

And some point in this future, they encounter the Silence. They then begin a systematic extermination of them for no apparent reason. The Silence can't run. Wherever they go, they encounter humans, and humans always react violently to them, no matter what.

MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. You're right - it fits perfectly with established themes, and honestly, if it doesn't turn out to be where this is all headed, I'll be a bit disappointed. It just works so well.

Kudos, madam. Kudos. ;)

[lifeofmendel]

one thing that i've thought about that i don't think has ever been brought up is the possibility that Amy's ability to remember previous experiences with the Silence upon seeing a new one is unique to her. i'd have to go back and rewatch episodes, but i'm fairly certain that Amy is the only one that has been shown to remember prior encounters upon seeing the Silence anew.

i could see this as being true because of one or more of these potential reasons:

1. living with the crack in the wall for most of her life.

2. the fact that she has some sort of loose permanent link due to the strange nature of her pregnancy.

3. something that i shouldn't mention if you haven't seen The Almost People yet.

nice analysis. :)

[lifeofmendel]

oh, and if you passed up the review i did of TIA/DoTM, my whole theory about the pregnancy was that the Silence from the future had gone back in time to impregnate Amy with a Silent to breed their own race that they then brought back to the beginning of earth's history. so our past is their future, and then in their future they plant the seeds for their past in our present. timey wimey.

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