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tenlittlebullets) wrote2011-06-03 03:52 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2011-06-03 03:52 pm
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Cards on the table: s6 speculation
Mid-season finale of Who tomorrow! Which means I'm going to lay out my theories for WTF the Grand Moff's plotting for us, so that if they're right I can point to this post and say "I told you so," and if they're wrong we can all point to this post and laugh.
This is pretty vague speculation, but Moffat mentioned in an interview at one point that with all the things the Doctor had done he was bound to become a bit of a legendary figure to many cultures, the kind of man who can send enemies running just by telling them to look him up. And that this was something the writers had to acknowledge but that it could cheapen the stories if it was used too often, so he was trying to bring that to a head and end it. What have we got now? The Doctor calling in favors, wringing as much leverage out of his past heroic escapades as possible--and foreshadowing of a fall. I don't know exactly what Moff's got up his sleeve, but I suspect that it will become absolutely necessary for the Doctor, the hero, the legend of a thousand races, to die--and that some version of him will survive, by some brilliant plot machination, but that afterwards he'll just be a madman with a box having adventures in time and space, unable to cash in on his staus as a legend, because that man is dead. And I wouldn't be surprised if River were the agent of that.
Basically, just as Ten's God complex got brought to a head in Waters of Mars and brutally shot down, I think Eleven's cocky reliance on his reputation is about to be made absolutely explicit and then taken down a peg. Several pegs.
Forest of the Dead: Now my Doctor, I've seen whole armies turn and run away. And he'd just swagger off, back to his TARDIS. And open the doors with a snap of his fingers. The Doctor. In the TARDIS. Next stop: Everywhere.
Another thought: if all this vague speculation is anywhere near the mark and the Doctor is dead, long live the Doctor, then River could also be involved in whatever trick is used to let some version of him survive. At least, I assume it would involve River and/or the regenerating girl who may or may not be Amy's kid and/or the Doctor's consciousness, memories, etc--which may be tied to how she knows his name. She died using her brain as a conduit for all the information in the Library computer system; who's to say we won't see a similar trick again?
So maybe the insistence that the gangers are the same people as their human originals is going to be brought back in order to convince us that really, it is the Doctor, even though the original Doctor got killed by the lake. Maybe it'll even be a ganger!Doctor who survives, though I doubt it'll be that simple.
This is pretty vague speculation, but Moffat mentioned in an interview at one point that with all the things the Doctor had done he was bound to become a bit of a legendary figure to many cultures, the kind of man who can send enemies running just by telling them to look him up. And that this was something the writers had to acknowledge but that it could cheapen the stories if it was used too often, so he was trying to bring that to a head and end it. What have we got now? The Doctor calling in favors, wringing as much leverage out of his past heroic escapades as possible--and foreshadowing of a fall. I don't know exactly what Moff's got up his sleeve, but I suspect that it will become absolutely necessary for the Doctor, the hero, the legend of a thousand races, to die--and that some version of him will survive, by some brilliant plot machination, but that afterwards he'll just be a madman with a box having adventures in time and space, unable to cash in on his staus as a legend, because that man is dead. And I wouldn't be surprised if River were the agent of that.
Basically, just as Ten's God complex got brought to a head in Waters of Mars and brutally shot down, I think Eleven's cocky reliance on his reputation is about to be made absolutely explicit and then taken down a peg. Several pegs.
Forest of the Dead: Now my Doctor, I've seen whole armies turn and run away. And he'd just swagger off, back to his TARDIS. And open the doors with a snap of his fingers. The Doctor. In the TARDIS. Next stop: Everywhere.
Another thought: if all this vague speculation is anywhere near the mark and the Doctor is dead, long live the Doctor, then River could also be involved in whatever trick is used to let some version of him survive. At least, I assume it would involve River and/or the regenerating girl who may or may not be Amy's kid and/or the Doctor's consciousness, memories, etc--which may be tied to how she knows his name. She died using her brain as a conduit for all the information in the Library computer system; who's to say we won't see a similar trick again?
So maybe the insistence that the gangers are the same people as their human originals is going to be brought back in order to convince us that really, it is the Doctor, even though the original Doctor got killed by the lake. Maybe it'll even be a ganger!Doctor who survives, though I doubt it'll be that simple.