Doctor Who Problems

A lot of people are annoyed because they think that Nine is now Ten, Ten is now Eleven, Eleven is now Twelve, etc….

because of John Hurt.

But, the Doctor says that he was “not acting under the name of the Doctor”

therefore, he’s not the “real” Ninth Doctor…

he can’t be any “Doctor” because he wasn’t acting under that name

personally I think he’s the Valeyard but that’s supposed to come in the future or something so I dunno you guys

but yeah: the way I see it, Nine is Nine and Ten is Ten and Eleven is Eleven…

and this new incarnation is something else entirely.

(they introduced him in the credit at the end as “the Doctor,” but I’m still interpreting this as him being another incarnation…but I don’t think it will officially through off the numbers.)

A theory on the Doctor’s soon-to-be newest companion:

Hmmm…

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Okay, no longer publishing questions/comments/freak outs concerning the Time Vortex.

You’re all right.

You’re all wrong.

fhgdfhgskfjgsdffh.

The consensus seems to be though:

-The kids weren’t affected because they were human

-Rose was human and looked into it, but she was the Bad Wolf at this point, and the kids had a pane of glass in the way

-They merely “looked” into the vortex anyway as opposed to “absorbing” or “understanding” it

-Time Lords look into the “Untempered Schism” as opposed to just the plain old vortex

-Christmas Magic

(Thank you for your input though, truly. I really do like debates/multiple theories about things, but right now it’s just a lot of people saying the same things, so I’m posting this thing right here instead of responding to the small pile of messages in my inbox concerning this topic. :] )

What was really behind The Doctor’s door…

I keep seeing all of these deep posts about how it was another Eleventh Doctor on the other side of the door in The God Complex and all that, but let’s be real here…since he said “Who else” after he opened it, that means that it can’t be a can of beans as previously hypothesized.

Which means it can only be ONE THING:

The eventual Twelfth Doctor tearing up Matt Smith’s contract, of course.

xxshawn asked: I like how old Amy complained that it took 36 years for Rory to get to her. Bitch, Rory waited nearly 2 millenia for your ass, 36 years is nothing.

Haha true.

But still…it really speaks for her character: that’s what defines Amy, she is “The Girl Who Waited.” Waited for The Doctor when she was little, waited to be saved for 2,000 years, waited for Rory for 36 years…

She has trust issues and a shell around her because of it: The Doctor “lied” to her about being back in five minutes, Rory and The Doctor “lied” to her about saving her in a timely manner this time, and then in the end, Older Amy really was ultimately lied to by The Doctor. (By the way, the part when he shut the TARDIS door on her was heartbreaking. Openly crying at that.)

Amy doesn’t enjoy having to wait around to be saved all the time, and I thought it was amazing how she figured out ways to defeat the robots with her sword and armor, and the symbolism that these robots were offering “kindness” wasn’t lost on me.

Amy is a guarded person, and seems wary to trust or open up to most people. The opposite of Rory, really. I especially liked the part when Rory asked if the people were “happy,” and The Doctor responded with something like, “You would ask that, Rory.”

As a writer, I really, really, really like the transformations their characters seem to be undergoing. We all know that Rory is becoming tougher, with more of a backbone and assertive nature, but Amy is a bit trickier. In some ways, she is more guarded than ever, but in other ways, a bit of a trusting nature has been breaking through (like with the female guard whose name I’m forgetting in A Good Man Goes to War, the one who gives her the cloth with Melody’s name on it).

I’m extremely interested to see how her character will play out eventually: will she become an aloof and hardened warrior, like Older Amy from this episode was, or will she become softer and more reserved, much like Rory was for the bulk of Series 5? Or will she become something else entirely: an independent who realizes that not only is it okay to sometimes trust others, but it is necessary?

I’m extremely interested to see where things go from here!

celestialcow asked: My friend has come up with a theory.
The eyepatch? How we see it on River in that brief second of the trailer? We're thinking that, because this is Moffat, that the eyepatch is some sort of way to control people.

Haha probably. I’ve heard interesting theories about it having to do with some type of rank as well. Personally, I’m gonna reckon a guess that it is some kind of perception filter of sorts. Everyone sees the wearer in a different specific form, like wearable psychic paper.

I am probably soooo wrong, but I think that would be cool all the same haha.

fathomed-into-constellations asked: The only thing that bothers me about people assume the regenerating child is River is that the little girl is most definitely American. Unless River is estranged from her family and the British eye patch lady for a while as a kid and then get picked back up later and gains a British accent, I don't see how the 2 are the same. I mean, we've never seen an American time lord. And if the Doctor regenerate into an American, all hell would break loose. I just don't see it.

I know that this question is from fooooreevvver ago (I tend to sometimes fail at answering things in a timely manner, hah), but now we know that River is the little girl. I’m curious too as to how she shed her British accent and picked up an American one: was it part of the regeneration process? Is she faking it for reasons currently unknown to us? We’ll have to see…