Doctor Who/WMG/Series 6: Difference between revisions

== Character Copies, fakes and other WMG ==

=== The Real Amy was kidnapped before the start of the current series. ===

I would have theorised that she was kidnapped when the Silents grabbed her in the Day of the Moon, but she saw Eye-Patch Lady before that happened. Any way, far too obvious; we all know what The Moff is like when it comes to crazy-twisted, timey-wimey plot. Theories as to the exact time would be most appreciated. For now, I'm throwing out this one:

* She was replaced while in the Pandorica. On one hand, Rory the Roman was being extremely badass and protecting her, but on the other... you can't remember them while you're not looking at them. The Silents have been on Earth since, like, forever. And two thousand years is a REALLY long time for the Silents to manage something like this. Not out of the realms of possibility.

** They didn't need to take her from the Pandorica. Remember, they've been living together happily for quite some time by the first episode. Seeing how fast a clone can be made, it might be as simple as in-out in the night, while Rory's asleep, so he can't bust out his hand-gun (does he still have that if he's still Rory the Roman, Nestene copy?). She was probably flesh by the time the Doctor died, but any time they were separated in the meantime. Although a "long, long time" implies before his death.

*** [[Word of God]] is that she was switched before the start of The Impossible Astronaut, likely offscreen.

*** And later suspected as such, if not outright ''confirmed'' in "The Almost People".

=== The humans in ''The Rebel Flesh'' are also Gangers. The original crew are all long dead. ===

Something happened that wiped out the original crew, perhaps a very long time ago (the Doctor seems keen to point out that hours have passed when they think only minutes had, so something is clearly wrong). The entire state of the factory seems to be decrepit and in need of repairs, and there is absolutely nobody and nothing else on the island except them.

They are caught in a cycle that began when the originals died... the Gangers for some reason don't remember what happened and then make a new batch of Gangers, until they die and those Gangers take their places and make a new batch of Gangers, etc...

Each time that the 'originals' die, the memories of their Gangers are reset to the point where they first started working at the factory. They have been there for a long time but don't realize it, as this is the Flesh's way of keeping them alive (and sane).

The Doctor showing up and the solar storm has changed everything though... it will end with both groups realizing that they are just as 'real' as each other and their deceased originals, and just how much time has passed as they are finally able to leave the island. Their families, as well as anyone they once knew, are also long gone.

* This is just the kind of Aesop-inducing plot that the Doctor Who producers love to throw at us. Also, Rule of Drama demands that this happen somehow.

** Jossed, Jennifer-Ganger attempts to use machinery designed to detect whether a human or non-human is trying to operate it.

=== The Amy in the TARDIS is a Ganger ===

The vision of the eyepatch lady are feedback to wherever the original Amy is. At some point during Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon Amy was taken by the Silence and duplicated. That's why the TARDIS reads her as experiencing Schrodinger's pregnancy - either the Flesh is having trouble duplicating a pregnancy or Ganger Amy isn't pregnant but the original is, and the TARDIS is picking up information from both when she scans Ganger Amy.

* Confirmed. Whoever wrote this has earned the right to say "[[I Knew It!]]!"

** Which raises the question: if the sonic can distinguish between a human and a replicant, why can't the TARDIS resolve her pregnancy as fake?

*** Because, presumably, the pregnancy isn't fake. It's both real and fake, with real!Amy and ganger!Amy. That's what the TARDIS is picking up on.

*** And there were hints that Ganger Doctor and Real Doctor were having some kind of feedback between each other, so the non-pregnant Ganger Amy was getting the pregnancy vibes through time (probably) from Real Amy, hence the confused TARDIS.

=== The Gangers are the origin of [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|the Changelings]] ===

No noses, pale faces, born from (and reverting to) goop, able to switch between Ganger and human looks... Now they just need to get their own planet and cover the surface of it.

=== Rory is still not the original Rory. ===

He reacted the way he did during ''The Rebel Flesh'' because of his memories of being an Auton duplicate, and is starting to suspect that he ''still is''. When the universe was restarted, Auton!Rory was somehow made human but over time he is regressing back to his original form. It was already happening when he impregnated Amy, which is why the Doctor's scan can't decide if she's pregnant or not.

The original Rory died for good at the end of ''Cold Blood'', and is still dead. The universe reboot was only able to bring back those who were erased while they were alive, which Rory wasn't, so his Auton double was made 'real' to compensate. The Rory we've seen considers himself to be as real and alive as his original, and sympathizes much with the Gangers because they feel the same way. Note that Amy doesn't think that the Gangers are ''real'' during an argument with him... when the truth comes out about Rory, she won't be able to take it.

* [[Jossed]], at least partially. The Almost People" and "A Good Man Goes to War" establishes that it was Amy being stored in a Ganger body is what caused the scan to go "pregnant/not pregnant/pregnant". I also don't recall Rory sympathising with the Gangers as a whole, only Jennifer.

=== There are two Amy Ponds. Or two universes/timelines, and Amy keeps alternating between them. ===

Amy's "stupid face" speech via the communicator can be taken to mean either the Doctor or Rory (although she says "I know you think it should be him [that I love]", which Rory certainly does not think of the Doctor). It's both.

There's one Amy who loves the Doctor and one who loves Rory. One Amy who is pregnant and one who is not. One Amy who was whimpering and terrified when we heard her through the communicator, and one who was confident and defiant in the face of the Silence when we saw her in their captivity.

* This is a beautiful theory, and I'll tell you why: [[Reg Amy]] (Regular Amy) was drinking wine at the picnic, whereas [[Preg Amy]] (See what I did there?) wouldn't. I really hope this turns out to be true. Her child is in flux, schrodinger-style, oscillating between being real and not real.

* Maybe that's why she told the Doctor she was pregnant so...urgently? It's his baby. Only that version of events is popping in and out of existence. The way she refers to needing to tell the Doctor ''doesn't'' sound like how you tell a friend you're pregnant. "There's something I need to tell him, but it's like things always get in the way." In fact, ''all'' the dialogue seems to have these subtle double meanings. When he asks why she told him first, she says "Why do you think?...I traveled with you for so long."

** Or there are two timelines. One is where the Doctor got Amy pregnant. Another where Rory got Amy pregnant. The timeline where the Doctor is the father is the one where Rory never existed.

* No, it's not the Doctor's baby, and even if Amy is oscillating between two timelines, it's not the reason why the pregnancy scanner's all haywire. It's because she's been operating a Ganger body, but the "real Amy" is inside a chamber on Demons Run slowly growing a baby.

=== Ganger!Doctor will return from his ''shoes'' that he gave the Doctor. ===

Remember that the Doctor lost his shoes to acid, and then swapped his new pair with his Ganger? At the end of ''The Almost People'', he still had them on. Gangers are created complete with clothing, which means that the shoes the Doctor is wearing are Flesh and the last surviving part of Ganger!Doctor. The Doctor mentioned to his clone shortly before his death that it could be possible for him to come back, and one day he will fully re-form from those same pair of shoes (much like Meta-Crisis Ten grew from a hand) and be stabilized by the TARDIS.

Given that both Doctors are the same, it's not a far stretch that the original Doctor ''did / will'' die in ''The Impossible Astronaut'', and that Moffat is completely honest in saying that the Doctor is dead. For an alternate, possible [[Mind Screw]], one of the two will die but it will never be made clear to the audience as to which.

=== The Time Lords WILL return ===

In 'The Big Bang', the Doctor piloted the Pandorica into the exploding TARDIS. In doing so, he deleted himself and the TARDIS from exisance. And, in the Last Great Time War, The Doctor killed all the Time Lords(minus himself and the Master(So far)), and a majority of the Daleks with the Moment. But, if he never existed, he never could've used the Moment to do that. Hence, the Time Lords and Daleks are still in the Time Lock, duking it out in the Last Great Time War. Eventually, they will dissolve the Time Lock, and re-emerge into the universe. Cue a scared as hell Doctor.

=== The Time Tyke and Pregnancy ===

=== Pregnancy Timeline Shenanigans ===

* Someone has [[Word of God]] that Amy was switched with ganger!Amy pre-The Impossible Astronaut. At the very start of that episode, Amy mentions that it's been two months since they last saw the Doctor, and I think it's fairly safe to say that she wasn't switched while they were still travelling together.

There's a three month gap between 6.01 and 6.02. Other than that, there's no particular reason to assume lengthy gaps of time between any of the episodes this series.So. five months. But Amy can't have been four months pregnant when she was taken - she'd be showing by then, wouldn't she? She certainly would have noticed.

* Not exactly. My wife didn't show until five or six months, due to a stress and a combination of other factors, (Not eating right, and she didn't even know she was pregnant for the first two months..) so I wouldn't bet on that.

=== The Little Girl is Rory, Amy and the TARDIS's daughter. ===

In 'Day of the Moon' we get a conversation discussing the effects of time travel on a developing fetus. It seems unlikely that Moffat, who loves his [[Chekhov's Gun]] would include that if it wouldn't have something to do with the reality of the little girl. Furthermore, in the "Doctor's Wife" we learn more about the TARDIS. We learn that she exists simultaneously in the present, past and future, which could explain why the Amy's fetus keeps disappear- its travelling within its own time stream. Also, while the glow of the little girl looked like regeneration, it also resembled the way Idris glowed in the Doctor's wife. Since TARDISes have very close bonds with their Time Lords, and often aid in regeneration, it could be that the little girl's powers are more related to that, rather than an actual regeneration.

* Child of the TARDIS Confirmed.

=== The little girl is River Song is Lucy Saxon. ===

* http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3041653/ Unless IMDb made a huge mistake, the little girl is in fact Lucy Saxon, who could plausibly also be River, if she's a Time Lady under a Chameleon Arch or something like that. See above [[WMG]]s about the man River killed being the Master, etc.

** IMDb has now removed this entry...

=== The little girl of the most recent episodes is [[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E06 The Doctor's Daughter|Jenny's]] (half-)sister. ===

We know these facts:

* The Silence have been around since “wheel and fire.”

* The First Doctor's ''first serial'' took them back to the start of the “fire” part.

** Wait, what? They clearly know what fire and firemakers are in that episode already when the Doctor arrived.

** Hypothesis: During this time, the Silence noticed the odd man, and kept watch of the Doctor throughout all his adventures, and therefore know the “power” of a Time Lord. Which is also why they were trying to build their own TARDIS.

*** Second Hypothesis: The Silence want to have a Time Lord under their control, but don't have the technology (yet, technically) to insta-clone him like what happened with Jenny.

*** Confirmed.

* The girl appears to be Amy's daughter.

** Confirmed.

* Amy (almost randomly) decides to try “seducing” the Doctor the instant they get back to Earth, where there was likely a Silent in her bedroom.

** Hypothesis the Third: The Silence reached the same conclusion about Amy that the Doctor did about the Crack in Space/Time and decided to get the power of the Crack and a Time Lord by hybridizing Amy and the Doctor.

*** Hypothesis IV: The girl is Amy and the Doctor's daughter.

*** Jossed.

* The girl is dying, but can Regenerate. However, the Silence put her in a life support space suit.

* Doctor-Donna would have died because the Human body isn't designed to have all the knowledge and “power” of a Time Lord.

** Hypothesis E: A hybrid of Human and Time Lord is ultimately unstable and that's why the little girl is dying. Eventually, she may continue to die and Regenerate until the suit catches her again or she runs out of Regenerations.

*** Jossed. She seems fine after her first regeneration.

*** Hypothesis 0: [[Metaphorgotten|I've gone off on a tangent, haven't I?]]

=== The little girl in the spacesuit is Jenny ===

At some point she was injured and regenerated into the body of a child. She doesn't recognize her father because of his recent regeneration.

* Jossed. We see her birth in "The Almost People", while Jenny was "born" elsewhere and when.

=== On Amy's Kid ===

Alright, so the little girl in the spacesuit (the one that regenerated at the end of the episode) is Amy's kid. She was conceived on the TARDIS, and thus has soaked up Time-Lord powers like a little kid-shaped Shamwow. Amy (and maybe Rory) got stuck in the 1960s, and she gave birth to and raised the kid there- hence, the photographs. However, Amy had to leave, (or maybe died) and she was left in the orphanage. The Silence kidnapped her from the orphanage, planted their Silence babies there, and stuck her in the spacesuit. She escaped, and is now toddling around New York. That's why the TARDIS scanner registered Amy as both pregnant and not pregnant- there were two Amys at the time, one pregnant and one not. The question is how Amy got magically not pregnant in the two month time skip- did she forget giving birth to the child?

* The girl has the Silence's ability to make people forget about her. It's not immediate like the Silence but over time knowledge of her fades away (the Doctor mentions this in Day of the Moon). By the end of the second episode of the series everyone on the TARDIS crew has forgotten about her and forgotten to save her. They make no mention of her after the space-suit examination scene and Amy forgets the photos she saw in the orphanage.

** Actually, at the end of the episode, after they drop off River Song, the Doctor mentions that they should look for the little girl, or they could just go off to have a fun adventure instead, and then says that he picks adventure. Kind of a What the Hell, Hero moment, really. Amy does seem to have forgotten what she saw in the room, though.

* In broad strokes, yes. She has a Time Head, she's Amy's daughter and she was ''raised'' in the 1960s. Amy was left behind in the 52nd century, though.

=== The Silence and the girl ===

The girl is the daughter of the master of the Silence. The Silence try to keep her safe, but they can't just throw her in a cell, they're afraid of their master. So they put her in a suit to protect her, giving her some freedom, able to walk around, able to talk to who she wants. Their master is a timelord, as shown by the girl regenerating. The girl is very strong physically, something that isn't normal among timelords, so the timelord must be a special timelord, probably Omega. The Silence are the eqivelent of "Timelord Daleks," timelords mutated gentically and with temperal energy, posibly for the time war.

* Jossed. She's the daughter of someone ''very'' opposed to the Silence.

=== The little girl isn't a Time Lord at all. ===

Rather she was simply being born in a manner that mimics regeneration. The episode began 3 months after the previous, and the "regeneration" occured 6 months after that. Assuming the baby was conceived shortly beforehand, that means the regeneration happened 9 months after. The form we see is something else, a living potential due to the fact she's a Schrodinger baby at the moment, and the regeneration is into her true birth form, whatever that may be.

* Jossed. It's legit regeneration.

=== The little Time Lord girl will regenerate into Amelia Pond ===

It doesn't have to be this regeneration. But the inevitable Timey-Wimey Ball would probably explain that picture.

* Jossed. All of her regenerations are accounted for. Plus, she interacts with little Amelia for much of the 90s and all of the 2000s.

=== Aliens made them do it ===

The Silence are using their post-hypnotic suggestion abilities on the Doctor and Amy to make time-babies. Specifically, the Future!Doctor (who had been a very naughty Time Lord recently). This may have happened during the Silence "kidnap" of Amy, which, due to its consequences, resulted in the seeming defeat of the Silence. The TARDIS's inability to decide if Amy is pregnant or not could stem from the change in the timeline. Either that or....

* Jossed. It's not the Doctor's.

=== Amy was pregnant and has already given birth ===

To the little Time Lady, during her travels with the Doctor's travels in the TARDIS, but none of them remember it, due to the Silence and their memory wiping-ness.

* Jossed. She's pregnant, but piloting a Ganger body so it doesn't show.

=== The little girl will... ===

After regenerating the (not so little) girl, whoever she may be, will be the companion for Eleven's next season.

=== The Little Girl is a Time Lady. ===

...Oh wait. Never mind.

* Half-right.

=== The little girl is the Doctor. ===

The writers seem to have quietly scrapped the idea that the Doctor only has a certain number of regenerations, and he is potentially immortal. However, the two could work together; after a Time Lord uses all their regenerations, or is killed in some way from which they cannot regenerate, they outright reincarnate, losing nearly all their memories and starting again as a child. That's why the Doctor wanted them to get rid of his body; he didn't want them to see what happened next, as he knew it wasn't time for them to know yet.<br />The astronaut suit needed a child in it; it couldn't last with no-one inside it for too long, and was only built for a child, and for whatever reason, the Doctor had to give in. Rather than send an innocent child to that fate, he decided that he himself would have to do it, and arranged things accordingly.<br />So, the new little girl Doctor was taken to the past as soon as she came into existance. She retains only a few images from her past life; one of these is of Amy Pond, who she believes is her mother. When that woman appeared in the orphanage, she said "she's dreaming again", or something along those lines, suggesting the little girl's dreams can be projected in that room. That's why the picture of Amy was there; the little girl was dreaming of being with her mother.<br />However, the first time she saw Amy, Amy attempted to shoot her. Naturally, the little girl Doctor is scared and confused by this, so she runs away when Amy appears again.<br />The Doctor himself may have a subconscious suspicion of who the girl is, which is why he doesn't go after her at the end; he's simply scared of facing up to his fate. Eventually, he will realise what he has to do.

=== The little girl is Amy and Rory's baby ===

Ergo, Rory is a Time Lord under the effects of the Chameleon Arch, after all, we know literally nothing about his background,and Amy says he "fell out of the sky" (even though she says she was being figurative). CA'd Time Lords apparently age and die normally without regeneration as seen in John Smith's Flash Forward, but his genes were still Time lord, making the Girl a hybrid, NOT to be confused with the Metacrisis Doctor who was only part human and not naturally conceived. It's also why The Doctor allows Rory to help with the TARDIS, he subconsciously realizes that Rory is a fellow Time Lord and is capable of using it.

* Time Lords who have been changed with the Arch are humans for all intents and purposes, genetically as well. Also, they always carry the watch storing the original biodata.

* Alternatively, its still Rory's child, but the Time Lord nature comes from genetic alterations produced by prolonged in-utero exposure to the energies of the Time Vortex.

** The child got time-head?

*** And time body, from the looks of things.

* Confirmed, though she's human with a bit of Time Lord DNA, rather than anything Chameleon Archy.

=== The little girl was in the spacesuit when the Doctor died... ===

And she somehow managed to absorb his regeneration energy. Most likely this means she regenerates into River, since it's easy to see the Doctor sacrificing his life for her.

* Jossed. She regenerates into River BEFORE killing him.

=== The little girl is Amy's child... ===

She was pregnant during the picnic with Rory's Baby, and gave birth during the six month interlude between Ep1 and Ep2. The Silents got a hold of the Doctor's DNA during the picnic (or some other time) and tampered with her genetics, causing the baby to be born [[Time Lord]] for reasons unknown. Alternatively, (as they have a lesser TARDIS) the baby was born while she was kidnapped. However, the Doctor interfered with that timeline, hence his TARDIS can't tell wether she's pregnant or not: There are two Amy's running around while causality is trying to unbend itself: In the other timeline, Amy raised her child happily, but all the time-fuckery made that go away. This is why it was so important to mention to us that everyone wants to get a hold of a Time Lord's body and why they had to burn it: To establish this for later.

I had a reason why no one remembers but then...I forgot.

* Besides the fact that the interlude wasn't six months, but two, [[Jossed]]. The body of the Amy that appeared in Episodes 1 and 2 was a Ganger, and as far as we know, that was never pregnant, only the real Amy that was connected to it. By "The Almost People", this body was destroyed, and the real Amy begins giving birth on Demon's Run. THIS Amy's baby could well be the Little Girl, however.

=== The little Time Lord is... ===

* A regenerated Susan.

* An earlier incarnation of River Song.

** [Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar:confirmed.\]

=== The little Time Lord is Jenny ===

A little obvious, but it's about time they brought her back. Eventually, she did regenerate for real, into a little girl, and somehow found her way to Earth in 1969.

=== The Girl is an established Time Lord character. ===

So, the girl is a Time Lord. Well, that was unexpected. The Doctor, The Master, (likely) The Rani and every other Time Lord are dead. So, you wanna bring one back? Do it this way. I'd guess she's The Rani. It's not like she has enough of a backstory to make it impossible, so this could actually be from before she first appeared.

* The girl is young River Song; River Song is a Time Lord.

** Confirmed, though she wasn't established as a Time Lord before the fact.

* She could be Susan or Jenny.

=== The Girl is not a time lord. ===

The doctor allows the little girl, in the astronaut's suit, to shoot him so that his regeneration process will start, allowing him to share the regeneration energy with her and save her life. He arranged the meeting and everything that happened to the detail; he was always planning to do this. The question now is, who would he be willing to sacrifice like that for?

* Jossed. His death was a still point reworked as a fixed point. The Doctor never planned to go to Lake Silencio.

=== The Girl is Amy's, Rory's and the doctors. ===

Something that bothered most people about Daleks in Manhattan is the way that the time lord DNA got mixed with the dalek hybrids. He may have done it durring the mixing phase knowing the scenario was inevitable where it would be needed. However the way the episode is shown implies some [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]. Maybe through that his DNA somehow mixed in the fetus causing a human time lord hybrid that is capable of regenerating without changing their face. In the Jenny episode maybe it wasn't just purely the doctors DNA getting cloned but some human was thrown in too giving evidence that human time lord hybrids can regenerate without changing. I mean she did have the knowledge of war maybe other stuff was put in.

* Jossed, though Time Lord DNA does form in a weird way.

=== Amy chose her daughter's name as a whimsical play on "River Song." ===

Because it's [[Stable Time Loop|just the sort of thing]] Moffat would do.

* And it looks like he one-upped me. She named her after an old friend... who, unbeknownst to Amy, was actually Melody Pond in the incarnation immediately preceding Alex Kingston's.

=== The TARDIS was destroyed solely so the Doctor would reboot reality and cause the time pregnancy. ===

Because...well, there doesn't seem to have been any other lasting effect, and the Silence's plan appears to be in full gear despite the Doctor supposedly having "foiled" them in Series 5. Perhaps the Silence picked the spot outside Amy's house, on 26/6/2010, so that the Doctor would arrive there and then after the reset to pick them up so sexy time could occur? This would also mean that they created (or helped to create) the Pandorica, which doesn't seem like too hard a task for them.