Who Speculations...

[tencrush]

As is my wont after just one Who episode, I have many theories which I shall now expand upon...

• As I theorised earlier, I think Amy's line "you've had all summer" is a red herring, supposed to con us into believing it's been a few months at most in The Doctor's timeline. I think the new coat is a giveaway that it hasn't, in fact, been a few months in the Doctor's timeline, it's been 200 years that he's been looking for Melody and he is now the age he is when he gets shot in The Impossible Astronaut.


• Future River tells Amy and Rory in A Good Man Goes to War that the Doctor will find Melody and take care of her. As of this epiode, he hasn't found baby Melody at all, she's been kidnapped, brainwashed and grown up without seeing Amy and Rory again until lateish childhood. There two facts don't gel. Now when time was rewritten in The Big Bang, in Amy and Rory's timeline the events of Series 5 never actually happened (although they regained their memories of them, they never took place, or Rory would be plastic), but I think it is safe to assume that in the Doctor's timeline, they did happen. The Doctor is a Time Lord, after all, and it would seem that time is rewritten around him all the time. All these things actually do happen from the Doctor's perspective, are subsequently perhaps undone and unhappened, but have still happened to him. Everyone has been harping on about River's regenerations as being the only Time Lordy thing that she's got going on, but I doubt that that's the case. My theory is that River's past can be rewritten even though it's already happened to her. River is a Time Lord in that respect as well, things can unhappen or change around her. Every single thing that we have seen happen to Melody/River are things that have happened to her, even though the timeline in which they happened may well be rewritten at a later date, she will have experienced these things, even if they didn't take place. The Doctor and River are two Time Lords whose pasts and futures are intertwined through seemingly paradoxical events that are both cause and effect, both their histories and their futures are subject to change as time is rewritten around them. Which is why River needs a bloody book to keep track, the Doctor's got a massive alien brain, but River's is, in all likelihood, human.


• Taking it as read that the above probably makes no sense whatsoever, my prediction for the end of the series is that, whatever happens, River will turn out to be the wife the Doctor never actually had. They will be married in a timeline they both experience, but a timeline that is subsequently rewritten when the Doctor eventually does rescue the baby and return her to Amy and Rory. Given that the previous point didn't make much in the way of sense, this point now makes even less sense, but still. Most of this theory is based around my possibly misplaced faith in Moffat agreeing with me that "she turns out okay in the end" is not an adequate resolution to a "young mother and father have their newborn stolen from them" storyline. It just isn't. No way.


• The Doctor's wearing a tux in Let's Kill Hitler because he popped off to marry River in the future. That sounds like a rather flippant prediction, but watch this space, that's definitely the truth, I'd stake something or other on it, I won't specify what because it could be utter bollocks.


• ETA: Actually, reading all this back, a much simpler and Moffaty explanation for everything comes to me and it's this: The Doctor has been fruitlessly looking for baby Melody for 200 years. He's been unsuccessful because he's not the one who is supposed to return Melody to her parents. I think the final reveal will be that River herself will be te one to return the baby to Amy and Rory, thus rewriting her own history and undoing her marriage to the Doctor and her murder of the Doctor in one fell swoop, because the River that marries the Doctor is the River that murders the Doctor and in order to stop herself doing the latter, she has to also undo the former. Yeah, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

Now my brain hurts and I must lie down.

Comments

[radiant-pip.livejournal.com]

Finally got to watch it! Very good...and entertaining! Fancy that.

All right, I'm confused...is that supposed to be the Time Agency?

[tencrush]

I kind of assumed it was something to do with the Time Agency, yeah. Maybe they later went more sensible and became the Time Agency? Or they're a rogue spinoff? Who knows.

[radiant-pip.livejournal.com]

I was hoping it would be leading up to a Time Agency reveal at some point (maybe season 7?). 'Cause really, do we need another time player in this wonderful mess? And there was the whole wrist strap thing...that idea could definitely use some tweaking. LOL