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such_heights) wrote2011-08-29 02:41 am
such_heights) wrote2011-08-29 02:41 am
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Doctor Who speculation
Thinking about it, I CALL SOME SERIOUS SHENANIGANS. Okay. The facts are these:
In this episode, a newly regenerated into Alex Kingston Melody Pond poisons the Doctor. He sends Amy and Rory off after her and staggers into the TARDIS, where a voice interface in the shape of Amelia tells him, time and again, that he has 32 minutes to live. He hears/imagines hearing her saying 'fish fingers and custard' and drags himself up to the TARDIS console and goes ... somewhere.
The Doctor then reappears in the hall where the Tessalecta is confronting Melody, changed into the top hat and tails he wore to the Ponds' wedding and seemingly fine, saying that "you should always waste time when you don't have any, time is not the boss of you, rule 408." However, he clearly now has far less than 32 minutes to live, and I think the Tessalecta says he has 3 minutes, at some point during that scene?
So what did he do for the other 29 minutes, other than get changed? Go back to Amy and Rory's wedding? Quite possibly, because there's a lot of unresolved stuff still going on there:
We don't know why someone made the TARDIS explode on their wedding day - to prevent River being conceived? To cause it, in a roundabout way? And how could River be there? Two things from the end of S5 that seem relevant are River saying that when the Doctor flies the Pandorica into the heart of the TARDIS they'll all wake up where they ought to be, and the Doctor telling Amy that if she just remembers her family who never existed, they'll be there, because she's special and has the whole universe pouring into her head. Amy brought back the daughter she hadn't had yet because that's where she needed to be.
And a couple of other observations - Mels calls Rory 'Mr. Perfect'. The best man she's ever known, perhaps? They're implying that River is going to kill the Doctor in a future point in time for her from this episode, but I'm not buying it that easily. The Tessalecta's records say that Melody Pond kills the Doctor, not River Song, and also I just think it's a bit too easy. What if, in fact, River's in prison for *not* killing the Doctor? Assuming that the Clerics are involved with the Silence, which seems very plausible. And maybe she doesn't kill anyone at all, or maybe it's Rory (temporarily) for Reasons of Plot. I can't imagine it's that easy for her to just walk away after she aborted her mission.
The Doctor lies. River lies. Amy has a magic brain. Rory always comes back. Melody Pond is a superhero and she's going to be amazing. Time can be rewritten. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN. *hands*
In this episode, a newly regenerated into Alex Kingston Melody Pond poisons the Doctor. He sends Amy and Rory off after her and staggers into the TARDIS, where a voice interface in the shape of Amelia tells him, time and again, that he has 32 minutes to live. He hears/imagines hearing her saying 'fish fingers and custard' and drags himself up to the TARDIS console and goes ... somewhere.
The Doctor then reappears in the hall where the Tessalecta is confronting Melody, changed into the top hat and tails he wore to the Ponds' wedding and seemingly fine, saying that "you should always waste time when you don't have any, time is not the boss of you, rule 408." However, he clearly now has far less than 32 minutes to live, and I think the Tessalecta says he has 3 minutes, at some point during that scene?
So what did he do for the other 29 minutes, other than get changed? Go back to Amy and Rory's wedding? Quite possibly, because there's a lot of unresolved stuff still going on there:
We don't know why someone made the TARDIS explode on their wedding day - to prevent River being conceived? To cause it, in a roundabout way? And how could River be there? Two things from the end of S5 that seem relevant are River saying that when the Doctor flies the Pandorica into the heart of the TARDIS they'll all wake up where they ought to be, and the Doctor telling Amy that if she just remembers her family who never existed, they'll be there, because she's special and has the whole universe pouring into her head. Amy brought back the daughter she hadn't had yet because that's where she needed to be.
And a couple of other observations - Mels calls Rory 'Mr. Perfect'. The best man she's ever known, perhaps? They're implying that River is going to kill the Doctor in a future point in time for her from this episode, but I'm not buying it that easily. The Tessalecta's records say that Melody Pond kills the Doctor, not River Song, and also I just think it's a bit too easy. What if, in fact, River's in prison for *not* killing the Doctor? Assuming that the Clerics are involved with the Silence, which seems very plausible. And maybe she doesn't kill anyone at all, or maybe it's Rory (temporarily) for Reasons of Plot. I can't imagine it's that easy for her to just walk away after she aborted her mission.
The Doctor lies. River lies. Amy has a magic brain. Rory always comes back. Melody Pond is a superhero and she's going to be amazing. Time can be rewritten. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN. *hands*
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So, y'know, I'm holding off on speculation and just writing porn instead.
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This should be a t-shirt or an icon or something.
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