Doctor Who/WMG/Series 5: Difference between revisions

 

== The Dream Lord is Series 5's [[Big Bad]]. He's trying to bring about the end of the Universe. ==

{{quote|'''Mysterious Voice''': ''Silence will fall...''}}

* Someone has taken control of the TARDIS and is making it explode--and when I say "someone", I mean "'''Someone'''". When the TARDIS starts going apeshit and exploding (thereby causing the destruction/erasure of the entire universe), the Doctor tells River that it must be some kind of fault. River disagrees:

{{quote|'''River''': Someone else is flying it. An external force.}}

*** Or maybe the Doctor was lying.

*** Notes for this theory: River said she was taught to fly the TARDIS by the best in The Time of Angels. Yet she also says "Pity you were busy that day." How to reconcile this statement with the one in the Pandorica? Perhaps the Dream Lord taught her, somehow?

*** In addition, consider the following: Every enemy leading up to this point has been accounted for, except the Dream Lord. The Atraxi, Daleks, and Homo Reptillia are part of the Alliance, and we know they aren't the real [[Big Bad]]. The fish-vampires are still presumably in Venice and their matriarch has been killed. The invisible monster Vincent Van Gogh faced wasn't malevolent, just injured. The TARDIS-like spaceship basically imploded at the end of The Lodger. This means that the real villain behind the destruction of the TARDIS must either be the Dream Lord or someone entirely new to Series 5, which seems unlikely. Barring the return of an old villain like Rassilon or the Master, it seems to follow that it's probably the Dream Lord who is behind this

**** Agreed, but the Dream Lord may be working with other monsters, such as Prisoner Zero and the Starwhale. (He also may have worked with the Krafayis before it perished). Note that although Eleven thinks he knows evil when he sees it, and is convinced that the Dream Lord represents his dark side, none of the threats present in "Vincent and the Doctor" and "The Lodger" are actually malevolent, and the Dream Lord does nothing more than tell him the truth and manipulate his consciousness. Also, as far as Big Bang II is concerned, the Pandorica may serve no function other than that of a Void Ship. Eleven thinks it contains a memory of the universe, when in reality, ''he'' contains a memory of the universe.

== The cracks in time have been caused by the Doctor driving around time with the brakes on. ==

Well, what happens when YOU drive your car around with the handbrake on? You wear things down.

** Sort-of confirmed.

 

 

At the end of "Victory of the Daleks", the Daleks escape into the future. This means the surviving Dalek ship can travel through time unhindered, and could return to capture Davros and Dalek Caan before they build the New Dalek Empire, averting the creation of the half-human Doctor clone and the genocide of the Dalek race. They would do this in order to enlist Davros' aid in building the new Dalek race, and to make use of Caan's precognition. The Doctor remembers the invasion for the same reason he remembers the Master's enslavement of the Earth. With the events surrounding the stolen planets never happening in the new timeline, Donna Noble is no longer half-Time Lord but has clearly parted with the Doctor for some other reason at some point between the altered events and present (as she is not present currently). However, as the Doctor is seemingly unaffected by changes in the timeline, he still remembers events as they should have been instead of how they now turned out. Therefore, he still believes Donna would die if she remembered him, and did not realise something was wrong with the timeline until Amy informs him that she does not remember the Dalek invasion.

 

== The events of ''Blink'' were a giant [[Xanatos Gambit]] on the part of the Angels. ==

== Amy gave The Doctor brain damage ==

There is no way a Scottish redhead hitting you on the head with a cricket bat when you are still in the first 24 hours of your regeneration would not negatively affect the way your brain developed.

 

== The Clerics are a future version of The Church of the Assembly of Man from [[The Return (fanfic)|The Return]]. ==

 

 

Since Amy cannot remember the Daleks stealing the Earth despite it having been a completely worldwide event that was unescapable, then everyone else (except The Doctor) probably also doesn't remember. Besides the great continuity issues this raises (Donna, The 10th Doctor's clone, Davros, etc...), since Wilfred clearly remembered what happened before during ''The End Of Time'' this means that whatever happened to cause the erasures must have started after that. This means that part or nearly all of that episode may have also been wiped from existence, which probably doesn't mean good things to come for The Doctor, especially if the [[Fan Nickname|Dalek Rangers]] are involved.

 

* This troper thought he was referring to the line "Everything's gonna be fine."

* It was a different Doctor telling her to remember it, though. The one who came back had his jacket on, which he'd very clearly lost moments before. I reckon the Doctor who came back to her, and treated her in a much more kindly, fatherly manner, is a version of the Doctor who had travelled with Amy as a child, the events of which got unwritten from time, and he's still trying to get her to remember them.

* ''Confirmed''. Mostly. See a few entries up.

 

Eleven, along with all his memories, were created by Amy when she wished for someone to fix the crack in her wall. Because she was constantly exposed to the fracture in reality in childhood, the crack in reality absorbed images from her imagination and created the Doctor. No one can remember the events from previous series because they never actually happened.

* This kind of thing could tie in with River Song saying "After all, we're all fairy tales." at the end of Flesh and Stone.

* Semi-Confirmed, argubly.

 

* [[Jossed]]. The Doctor was talking to the audience member with the remote/mouse, not any camera man. Who looks directly into a lens to speak to a camera man?

 

* Technically confirmed. Well, it's the absence of the 2020 Rory that's important.

 

 

== The Doctor makes things up to explain what he doesn't have a clue about ==

 

But look at what evidence he'd got. As far as the Doctor knows the Angels have a habit of turning into stones when the only witness around is not looking. Not exactly familiar with the [[Fourth Wall]] and the thousands of tropers behind it, he jumps to the best conclusion at hand. Sensible enough?

 

* Support: In "Amy's Choice," Amy questions The Doctor on whether cold burning suns could actually exists. He's particularly flustered at the time and snaps at her: " I don't know! Why do people always think I know these things!?"

* Who says that Ten was right? As far as we can tell, everything he knows about the Angels in Blink he learned from a [[Stable Time Loop]]. There's no good reason that any non-essential knowledge [[Ontological Paradox|Ontological Paradoxed]] into existence need be correct.