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=== "The Question" of Series 6 is... ===
[[The Holders Series|"When will they]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140105211848/http://theholders.org/?Holder_of_Time come together?"]
* Jossed. As Dorium reveals in "The Wedding of River Song", the Question is "[[Title Drop|Doctor Who]]?"
 
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=== Fall of the Eleventh will take place somewhere in the Medusa Cascade ===
* In Fires of Pompeii, Evelina claims the Doctor's name is "Hidden in the cascades of Medusa herself". This is where Trenzelore is located. Speaking of, unless my memory is faulty, the Question is slated to have been written in the stars. A quaint shout out to Five, if you ask me. When his episodes open, just look at how then show's title appears- written with and in stars.
 
== The Dead(th) Doctor ==
=== Real!Doctor wasn't actually sure the Teselecta!Doctor plan could work. It wasn't an example of The Doctor coming up with a perfect answer to his problem, but an example of The Doctor performing one final, desperate gambit. ===
The key is that The Doctor doesn't actually know ''why'' his death is a fixed point in time. All he knows is that the Silence went out of their way to force it to become one. Now, the reason a fixed point in time is immutable is because so many other events are so casually tied to the fixed!event that attempting to changed the fixed!event causes so many other things to change that the universe gives up in frustration. The fixed!event is the load-bearing block of a universal jenga puzzle. So why is The Doctor's death fixed in stone (and how would that affect his gambit?)
 
1) ''The future of the universe must unfold in a way that requires The Doctor to have absolutely no more influence on it whatsoever.''
If this were true, then the plan using Teselecta!Doctor simply wouldn't work. Teselecta!Doctor touching Married!River would not set time straight again, and Real!Doctor would've eventually had to shrug his shoulders, climb out of the Teselecta, and set things straight himself.
 
2) ''The future of the universe unfolds in a way that's dependent on the news of The Doctor's "real" death.''
Hence, it's not The Doctor's actions that create the fixed point, but actions of other people that create the fixed point. So it doesn't matter if The Doctor lives or dies, just that other people act as if that he did. That's why the Teselecta!Doctor plan worked.
 
3) ''The universe hates people that try to mess with it.''
The Doctor's death didn't start out as a fixed point in time, but the Silence had made it so. The universe remembered the original version of events, decided to flip off the Silence for telling it what to do, and sided with the Time Lord Victorious just this once.
 
 
=== The astronaut is Old!Amy ===
Somehow Old!Amy doesn't die in ''The Girl Who Waited'' but gets rescued (by the Silence?) and is ''really'' angry with the Doctor for lying to her about sustaining the paradox (of both Amys surviving), in order to get her to help Rory save Young!Amy.
* Jossed.
 
=== The astronaut is not River Song ===
In The Impossible Astronaunt, River seems just as surprised as everyone else is that the Doctor is dead, and when he returns, she doesn't see it coming at all, even though she supposedly was the one who killed him. Also consider the fact that she seemed pretty clueless as to who the little girl was, and we can deduce that River has completely forgotten being the little girl, or is not the little girl. We never saw the little girl regenerate into Mels, we only saw the beginning of her regeneration. I think Moffat's messing with us.
* Why didn't Mels kill the Doctor in the cornfield? "''We'd only just met.''" Mels had never met the Doctor before this, but the Doctor seemed to know who the astronaut was. If it was River, surely she would remember seeing and killing the Doctor when she was younger.
* Jossed.
 
=== The astronaut/child is Jenny ===
When Mels/Melody meets the Doctor in the beginning of "Let's Kill Hitler!", she seems like she has never met him before. The young girl in "The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon" did at least get a glimpse of the Doctor, and spoke on the phone with him. Even if it was River, and, at the time, she was too young to know it was the Doctor, you would think she would have "studied" the Doctor enough to at least retroactively realize who it was.
 
I don't think it was ever explicitly mentioned that the astronaut/child was River, but it was made pretty clear she was Timelord. If I remember correctly, at the end of "The Doctor's Daughter" Jenny is shown to start regenerating. Honestly, I'm surprised Jenny hasn't at least been mentioned here.
* Jossed.
 
=== The Vashta Narada killed the Doctor ===
A space suit and River Song, and living in the Library they'd be able to figure out time travel and how to kill the Doctor.
* Jossed.
 
=== The Doctor who died in The Impossible Astronaut is the Ganger version. ===
 
He really is the doctor, and yes he is dead. However, he's the Ganger Doctor and not the original Doctor. This might be the [[Occam's Razor|simplest answer]] as opposed to one involving multiple time lines or time travel or something.
** Alternatively, the Doctor who died in the Impossible Astronaut was the 'original' Doctor, but since there's no fundamental difference between the Ganger and the Original, [[Just for Pun|Doctor Two]] can take his place, allowing the show to continue.
*** There is a fundamental difference-Ganger Doctor will have a 200-year difference with the Doctor who dies.
** Jossed. It's actually the Doctor operating a Teselecta of himself.
 
=== The Doctor who died in The Impossible Astronaut is not the Ganger version. ===
Because that would be too easy. It was the real Doctor. The original Doctor. The Ganger will replace him. Has anyone else noticed The Doctor's recent habit of being cloned, by the way? First Jenny, then 10.5, now Odo - I mean - the Ganger?
* Ganger!Doctor is simply a [[Red Herring]]. By the previews for ''The Almost People'', he seems to be at the very least psychotically unhinged and most likely will die in the same episode. The 'theory' that the future Doctor is his clone will probably be brought up between Amy and Rory to make the audience think it may be possible, but then he'll end up being killed. Also, Ganger!Doctor wouldn't probably be able to regenerate, whereas Future!Doctor seemed to be starting to before being killed.
** Why would the Ganger!Doctor be unable to regenerate? The Gangers are exact duplicates of the original people, down to the very last detail. If the Gangers are identical to their originals, then there should be no physiological differences between them (excepting the cellular/DNA/whatever destabilisation). The Ganger!Doctor should therefore be able to regenerate to some degree. Due to the destabilisation the Gangers suffer, perhaps the process cannot be completed, but there does not seem to be a reason he couldn't at least /begin/ to regenerate (Ten pulled that trick off in Journey's End, remember?).
** Also, wouldn't anybody be 'psychotically unhinged' if they realised that they weren't really who they thought they were, but just a copy? Since the preview scenes have been taken out of context, we don't know which Doctor is which or what happened to make either one act the way they did. We all know that the Doctor has a nasty habit of winding people up, and that almost certainly includes himself (all Nu-Who Doctors so far have suffered a huge amount of self-hatred). Er, anyway, point I was trying to make is that anything can happen and the Moff is obviously never going to stop screwing with us. (Long-winded comment got so long I had to cut it in two...)
** Given some credence. The Ganger Doctor was deactivated, but otherwise was sticking pretty well together.
** Confirmed. He's not a Ganger.
 
 
=== The Doctor who died in The Impossible Astronaut is a different Ganger version. ===
Amy and Rory tell him about being killed, and he uses the ganger machine to complete the stable time loop without being killed.
* Jossed.
 
=== The Doctor will come back through a Ganger. ===
Prior to his death, the Doctor created a Ganger version of himself. Containing all his heart, mind and soul, it'll effectively be a [[Replacement Goldfish]]. Since Gangers are supposed to be indentical, the Ganger Doctor will be capable of regenerating. Indeed, since that clone never regenerated, he'll get 12 more lives.
* Jossed. It was a ruse.
 
=== The Doctor that was killed is really the Teselecta robot. ===
It's not like the Doctor to leave a perfectly working transforming robot in the middle of Nazi Germany. We've seen that it can take the form of anyone it has data on, so why not the Doctor? At that moment it only seemed to respond to Amy commands, but I'm sure with a little Time Lord know how, he could adjust it so that it would take his appearance. I'm sure the Doctor would adjust it so that it's movements and interactions won't be as stiff. The Tesselecta is a perfect stand in to take a blow for the Doctor.
* By extension, he could theoretically control it remotely with a ganger-harness or some such device.
* Confirmed! Although he didn't pick it up in Germany. And he was inside, not controlling from afar.
 
=== It will be River's plan and not the Doctor's that saves him from his death in The Impossible Astronaut ===
To echo her saving him in LKH. everyone is expecting the Doctor to have some plan to save himself from death. Last season finale he had managed a last minute plan to set up Amy bringing him back from being erased, so we expect he should manage to change his own death.
* After "The God Complex" he's starting to look like a [[Death Seeker]]. He seems to have resigned himself to dying for real and might even welcome it. It's probable that someone else is going to have to come up with and pull off a clever plan to save his butt this time around.
* Jossed, sort of. It's complicated.
 
=== It was the real Doctor, but he isn't really dead. ===
A couple quotes:
{{quote|"You cut off my hand...And now I know what sort of man I am. I'm lucky. 'Cause quite by chance, I'm still in the first fifteen hours of my regeneration cycle. Which means I've got just enough residual cellular energy to do this." (regrows hand) –Tenth Doctor, "The Christmas Invasion"}}
 
{{quote|"Never shoot a girl while she's regenerating." (blasts Nazis with regeneration energy) -Melody Pond, "Let's Kill Hitler"}}
 
And, above all, '''Rule One: "The Doctor lies"'''
 
He's not going to die, obviously. Matt Smith has signed on for the next season. The question is, how is he going to get out of it? We learned way back in Christmas, 2005 that a regenerating Time Lord can heal injuries, and Melody/River kindly reminded us in "Let's Kill Hitler". The Astronaut waited until the Doctor started to regenerate before shooting again. It was implied that this was because that's when he was vulnerable, but what if it was the opposite? What if the Astronaut, whoever that is, didn't want him to die? He was shot again, but it had no effect. River said he was dead, but it was probably an earlier version of her in the suit, so she knew what was going on and lied to keep the continuity stable. The Doctor stayed quiet while they burned him alive because he's guilty and masochistic like that. Once they were all gone, he popped up gasping and swam to shore. He then lied, lied, lied to the entire Universe, made them all think the Doctor we know to be 11 had been the final regeneration. That's why he told Amy, Rory and River he was 1100 when we've seen him in trailers donning a cowboy had and telling the Tardis it was their last trip. The Doctor lied, River lied, and Stephen Moffat lied. Are you reallly surprised?
* To the argument that the Tessalecta people said his death there was a fixed point in Space and Time: It's canon that Time Lords somehow see how fixed certain points in Time are. Presumably, these Justice Department blokes have a computer program, because they are certainly no Time Lords. No computer could rival the Doctor's own brain. I wouldn't be surprised if he planted that fact himself, so people would stop trying to kill him at other times.
* Confirmed, at least in part. He faked his death, and used a Teselecta to do so.
 
=== The Doctor Killed The Doctor. ===
* Either through a bizarre timeloop or something Ganger related, the Doctor was the astronaut as well, and the "death" was something quite different then what everyone else thinks it was.
* Jossed.
 
=== The Doctor's death only became a fixed point in time after the Big Bang 2 ===
When River Song tries to work out what point in his timeline the Doctor is in relation to her in Silence of the Library, one of the occasions she asks him if he remembers is the crash of the Byzantium. This happens in the Time of Angels, during which the Doctor is in his Eleventh incarnation - the same incarnation that River witnessed him die in. But when she asks his Tenth incarnation if he's gone through that adventure yet, she has to believe that the Doctor could be in an incarnation following his Eleventh, otherwise the question makes no sense - if he died in the same incarnation he witnessed the crash she's talking about, she'd know a different incarnation can't have witnessed it, and therefore the question is pointless (and potentially dangerous, given the views of herself and the Doctor on "spoilers").
Perhaps when the universe was destroyed and rebooted, someone or something took advantage of the re-creation to try and make some alterations to what normally couldn't be altered, such as changing the time and events that cause the Doctor to die. He can't have always been destined to die in his Eleventh incarnation, as we know from the events in the Sixth Doctor's trial that the Valeyard split off from him between his Twelth and Final incarnations. So perhaps the universal reboot allowed a new fixed point in time to be created. And maybe this is the Doctor's chance to survive. Protected by the Pandorica, he still counts as being from the original version of the universe, not the new version, so maybe he's not as bound by fixed points in time as is made out to be.
 
=== The Doctor used the Two Streams facility on himself to deliberately create a paradox, after seeing what happened to Amy. ===
The Doctor wasn't shown often during the episode, so it is possible that he had wandered off into his own personal stream for a while. He then found another stream from some time into the future and rescued his older self, who then took his place as the Doctor. Due to being a Time Lord and near the Vortex both versions of him could, for a while, be able to exist together. The present Doctor hid in the TARDIS away from Amy and Rory, and soon left for Lake Silencio after careful discussion and planning with his other self, while the future Doctor took over the Doctor's role. From ''The God Complex'' on, the Doctor we've seen is a paradoxical future-self that shouldn't be able to exist.
 
The present Doctor is the one to be shot by the astronaut, who is actually the future-Doctor about two hundred years older. Once he dies, the universe can't quite make up its mind whether his other self should be dead or alive. After everyone else was gone and the Doctor's body reduced to a mere skeleton, he recovers it and does much the same thing that River Song did to him in Berlin... he uses up his remaining regenerations, and indeed his entire life force, to revive the Doctor. He is completely absorbed into the 'real' Doctor, leaving no body behind, making them one once more with all the memories and experiences of both and ending the paradox.
* Time goes wibbly, but it has nothing to do with Two Streams.
 
=== The Eleventh Doctor will be the last ===
If his future self's death ''The Impossible Astronaut'' was [[Killed Off for Real|for real]] and won't be retconned, then there will never be a twelfth doctor. There is unlimited time for the series to continue, as the Doctor lives another two hundred years, but he will not regenerate again.
* It turns out that he didn't die for real. Rule One in action.
 
=== Canton Everett Delaware III was lying. ===
Either the Doctor isn't dead, or he was a copy or a robot or something. But, for reasons yet unknown, the Doctor needed everybody to think he had died. But since this would be the last time Canton would see Amy, River, and Rory, there would be no way for them to discover this until the Doctor Revealed that he wasn't dead. Why do this? [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Who knows]]! The best theory this troper can imagine is that, for some reason, they needed to see the Doctor die so that Amy would try and kill the astronaut in an attempt to save him, for some reason I can't determine because we're only two episodes in as of this writing.
* He was in fact a robot. Or something.
 
=== The Astronaut is some incarnation of Susan Foreman. ===
A bit out there, but the impossible astronaut can be thought of as unearthly, a call-back to ''An Unearthly Child''.
* Jossed. It's River. And NASA astronauts are ''from'' Earth, so what does that even mean?
 
=== It was River who... ===
killed The Doctor (or whoever it may actually have been) in "The Impossible Astronaut. Seems likely. She's Amy and Rory's daughter and after firing at the astronaut, she says, "Of course...". Seems like she knows why it didn't drop dead at the very least.
* Confirmed. Sort of.
 
 
== 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.
 
 
== River Song ==
=== Crack theory: River is the sonic screwdriver ===
* We already had the TARDIS embodied in a human form, so why not the sonic screwdriver?
* The Moff said that we would realize we knew from the beginning who River is. In Forest of the Dead her consciousness was preserved in the future!screwdriver.
** If he really means from the 'beginning', does that mean she can't be at all related to Rory or Amy, because we didn't know them yet when we first met her?
* She killed "the best man she ever knew." The sonic screwdriver was the instrument used to kill ganger!Doctor, among other people, in The Almost People.
** The "best man" is not the Ganger.
 
=== River Song... ===
* ...'''is just someone that we have yet to meet properly.''' She isn't some character from the classic Who, she isn't Amy or Rory or Jenny or Rani or any of those other theoretical Rivers. She isn't going to kill The Doctor and she isn't a time lord. She's a companion, just like all the others were/are. She is new, and we just happen to be experiencing her character in the opposite direction than we're used to, as we're seeing her timeline in reverse. We won't ever know who she really is until the day that she first meets the Doctor, as a young girl, which will unfortunately probably mark the last time we ever see her. Maybe she is the Doctor's wife. Maybe she just happened to be the one perfect woman for the Doctor. Maybe it's more complicated than that. We'll just have to wait and see.
** Partly confirmed, partly not. She IS ''part''-Time Lord, and she's the daughter of Amy and Rory, which barring [[My Own Grampa|extenuating circumstances]], means it's not them. Also, she technically first meets the Doctor as a baby while we still know relatively little about her, but that's grasping at straws, as River couldn't remember what she did when she was one month old.
* ...'''is the daughter of someone who travelled as a companion with Jenny (as in Jenny-the-Doctor's-Daughter.)'''
** [[Jossed]]. The parents are Amy Pond and Rory Williams, the Doctor's companions.
 
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My evidence for this is mainly circumstantial and comes from musing upon:
1) Observed strong similarites in the personalities of Jenny and River.
2) The behind-the-scenes story behind Jenny's continuing existance
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(1) Jenny, the Doctor's daughter (created from the Doctor's DNA using a progenation machine), is a character introduced to us in the Tennant-era episode titled 'The Doctor's Daughter'.)
Since this episode occurs shortly before Silence in the Library, when we first meet Jenny, we have not yet met met River Song.
Watching The Doctor's Daughter again now though, after getting to know River somewhat, I see so much of River Song in Jenny that it is just screaming at me there must be a connection.
They both basically do the whole sassy, sexy, good-with-guns thing, which could be a coincidence (and Jenny seems somewhat more 'innocent', which is not surprising since she is only a few hours old) .
But what is striking to me is that they play this character in ways which echo each other not just generally, but actually *very* closely, as if one of these gals had spent time with and learned from the other at some point, not just as if they are playing the same general type:
* When River escapes the Stormcage by kissing the guard with hallucinogenic lipstick, this echoes the way Jenny frees herself from a cell by distracting the guard with a kiss and stealing his gun.
* When Jenny wakes 'from the dead', scaring the wits out of the two guys preparing (what they thought was) her corpse for her funeral, she smiles broadly and drawls 'Hello Boys!', and that is River all over.
* And they are of course both rather good with guns.
 
Not that Jenny could BE River, not after ''that'' kiss. But could there be some other connection?
So what I am speculating is that perhaps, as Jenny was going around ''Saving planets, rescuing civilisations, defeating terrible creatures, and doing an outrageous amount of running'', she became lonely. Then, echoing her father, perhaps she collected up a few strays of her own.
So perhaps River was one of these, and Jenny influenced her strongly. Or, maybe River was the daughter of one of these companions, and River picked up mannerisms and attitudes from an already adult Jenny as River grew up.
So, all of the above was my first strand of evidence. My second is again very circumstantial:
(2) Why the continuing existence of Jenny? What has she done for us lately? Is she going to make another appearance in some way?
Originally Jenny was going to stay dead at the end of The Doctor's Daughter, but someone suggested that she be kept alive. Now this was obviously someone who loved the character, and by extension loved the potentials for future marvellous adventures that her continuing existence could give rise to. And the person who made this suggestion .... just happened to be ...... '''Stephen Moffat'''!
 
* ... '''is the death of the Doctor.''' (See below, next section)
* ...'''is the daughter of Captain Jack Harkness.'''
** Growing up with Jack, she heard many stories about the Doctor. She grew to idolize him and seek him out. Archeology? What's a better way to find a Time Lord than messing with ancient technology that could easily cause trouble? Her "murder" was a plan thought up between her and Jack to get the Angel. She "killed" him, he pretended to stay dead, she went to jail and was able to get to where she could deal with it.
*** Addendum: Her mother is Amy. Because we all know that if Amy and Jack met without The Doctor or Rory to step in it would end in some very crazy, very kinky, most likely Jack-killing (temporary, as always), sex.
*** Addendum to the addendum: She was conceived in the TARDIS on hers and Rory's wedding night, and so far as we can tell, there was no opportunity to have met Jack, not even if Miracle Day happened before the beginning of "The Impossible Astronaut" with the two.
* ...'''is a fez in disguise.'''
** ... or possibly a regenerated version of the fez she shot.
** The universe was rebooted. The fez she shot and the museum it came from never existed.
* ...'''is (or is somehow related to) Bad Wolf'''
** Not too far off the mark. She was conceived in the TARDIS as it travelled through the time vortex.
* ...'''is the Rani,'''
** ...'''but doesn't know it.'''
*** There's a pocket watch out there with her name on it. The 'human' forms of the Time Lords seem to be counter to their normal personalities. John Smith was (at first) meek, dull, and not overly adventurous; Yana was compassionate, kind, and wanted to do good; River is reckless, kind, an archaeologist (a joke of a career for a Time Lord), remorseful about killing, willing to pay for her crimes, and probably loves Children and Christmas.
*** What's more, it is the Rani herself who changed and asked the Doctor to help her and hide her watch. The Doctor found her, broken and lone, another victim of the Time War, in River's form. He realizes what's happened and tells the Rani of who she could be. The Rani, wanting a better life and a second chance, becomes River. That's also where she knows the Doctor's real name from.
**** To do a crossover with "what are the Silence?" theories: the Silence got hold of her pocket watch (or whatever her chameleon arch object it), and from it they learned all kind of scientific and technological information that's far in advance of anything else in the universe, since the Rani was one of the foremost scientific minds. Their ability to make people forget? The ultimate perception filter. That control room in "The Lodger" and "The Impossible Astronaut"? Their attempts to build a TARDIS based on the Rani's memories and knowledge.
*** [[Jossed]] on the Chameleon Arch front. She's the human daughter of Amy and Rory, but with Time Lord DNA
** ...'''on her last regeneration.'''
*** Somehow she was able to hide this from The Doctor (for a while), and supposedly being taught by him how to fly the TARDIS and read / write High Gallifreyan could be a fabrication as she would already know how to do so. Her recent appearance suggests that it's still somewhat early on in her personal timeline, as she's not yet a Professor. She ''is'' using The Doctor for something not yet revealed, but will either be foiled in her attempts or change her mind, and eventually be reformed.
*** Vastra suggests that she can regenerate, whether or not she's the girl from "The Impossible Astronaut". It's unknown if she's on her final regeneration as in "she can never regenerate", as on her death in "Forest of the Dead" she points out that even the Doctor (who still has at least three lives left at this point) wouldn't come back from using his mind to rescue 4022 saved.
*** Alternatively, as [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E02 Day of the Moon|"Day of the Moon"]] implies, she's the girl, and used up all her regenerations trying to keep alive until she met the Doctor. And that's why she killed him.
*** Confirmed, but in a roundabout way. In the episode, "Let's Kill Hitler", River poisons the Doctor to within an inch of death, but [[Heel Face Turn]]s at the last minute and uses [[Heroic Sacrifice|up all of her remaining Regenerations to save his life]]. So, it's NOT her 13th Regeneration, but it ''is'' her last, since she gave up all her future ones.
* ...'''is the Eleventh Doctor's first companion.'''
** River Song is a companion that the Doctor hasn't had yet, who first appeared in an episode written by Steven Moffat, who will be taking over as executive producer in 2010, which David Tennant may or may not be appearing in. River says the Doctor is younger than she's ever seen him - implying that, when she knew the Doctor, it was in another, older regeneration. Perhaps, in an inversion of their meeting in series 4, the newly-regenerated Doctor casts about time and space for someone he knows and ends up with River?
** The "picnic at Asgard" and "crash of the Byzantium" must be with the Tenth Doctor, or she wouldn't need to ask him about them. Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean the Eleventh Doctor won't also interact with her, but it can't be the first time they meet (from his perspective) after this episode.
*** C'mon, people, Song isn't surprised ''at all'' that the Doctor is in his 10th regeneration. She would immediately know that this isn't "her" Doctor if he looked like someone she saw die and regenerate. She only knew him as #10, although possibly centuries into this regeneration's future.
*** One way it could possibly work is if she knows him in at least three distinct regenerations (an "Asgard" regeneration, a "Byzantium" regeneration, and a "singing towers" regeneration), and has reason to believe he might have had more in the middle somewhere. And if the Doctor doesn't keep a photo album around (or at least doesn't keep it well-organized), so she doesn't immediately recognize Ten as being a pre-her regeneration. And if she doesn't actually see him until after he regenerates into Eleven.
**** On set pics from when they were filming the episode with River showed some kind of metal case with "Byzantium" on it. So the "Crash of the Byzantium" is the adventure they have when 11 meets her next.
** If she is a companion, she must be a sporadic one. Their timelines are not contiguous. This doesn't apply to the other companions - they experience events in the same order that he does, which (for whatever reason) is not the case for River. They know this, hence their system of comparing diaries.
** Maybe due to the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]], she did originally meet him as the tenth doctor, but now she does as the 11th.
** It's been confirmed River Song is returning in Matt Smith's first series by on set pics. It's not known though if it'll be her "First" meeting with the Doctor.
** Status: '''[[Jossed]].'''
* ...'''is the Doctor's Final Companion.'''
** The diary isn't just a record of River's various adventures with the Doctor, it's a record of his adventures with everyone. He told her all kinds of things he told none of the others - like his name - because he knew that when he died, none of his still-living selves from earlier in his personal timeline would have all the memories that he did. As to why she knows Ten, well, we still don't know everything he did in between seasons and specials.
** She does claim that the reason she was imprisoned is that she killed the greatest man she has ever known. Sounds like the Doctor to me. And if she was his companion when she did the deed, that would indeed make her his "last" companion.
* ...'''is Amy Pond.'''
** Ok, it's crazy and won't be true but I briefly had this thought. So far my only evidence for this is the following:
*** We know that Amy has already changed her name once.
*** Their hair colour.
*** Who can't see Amy using hallucinogenic lipstick?
*** In "The Big Bang", River gives Amy her TARDIS book. Except it's blank. And given that the [[Stable Time Loop]] is one of Moffat's favorite plot devices...
*** Didn't the writing come back when Amy brought back the Doctor though? I believe he gave it back to River at the end of the episode too.
** There's actually a decent amount of evidence for this one. [http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=4951322=11 Here's a list.]
** Denied by Moffat. The memories River revealed in "The Impossible Astronaut" pretty much disprove this, too.
** [[Jossed]] in canon by "A Good Man Goes to War", too. She's Amy's daughter.
* ...'''works for the Valeyard.'''
** Note: if Eleven is the Valeyard, then this will probably become true.
* ...'''is the Doctor's mother.'''
** Ask anyone in [[Real Life]] [[Only Known by Their Nickname|whom goes through life by a nickname only]] and, nine times out of ten, they'll say the only people whom insist on calling them by their true name are parents.
** Denied by Moffat.
** Plus, River and the Doctor kiss. It's Jossed.
* ...'''was a Gallifreyan bureaucrat who miraculously escaped the Time War before it became time-locked.'''
** She was on the Gallifreyan population control board.
** Plus River said that some one thought her how to fly the Tardis the some one? her husband.
** [[Jossed]]. She's the human daughter of Amy and Rory with Time Lord DNA as a quirk of when she was conceived. She was born long after Gallifrey was Time Locked.
* ...'''is the same person as [[Firefly|River Tam]].'''
** She grew up, got rid of the insanity that plagued her, and somehow changed ethnicity when she travelled to our galaxy. She then fell in love with the Doctor because he reminded her of how crazy she was; she missed that.
* ...'''has ''already'' had her travels with the Doctor, off-screen.'''
** After Ten lost Donna in such a heartbreaking manner, he rushed off to grab a companion who he knew wouldn't get a unhappy ending... well, living in a gigantic library for eternal un-deadness... let's say he wasn't thinking straight. He spent the equivalent of a ''holiday'' seducing and loving River. Then he reached the end [[Stable Time Loop|(thanks to River telling him)]] of their relationship; he then swore that he would never again put another human being through that. Enter "The Next Doctor," where he isn't a emotional wreck.
*** Not an emotional wreck? The Doctor specifically mentions near the end of that special that companions end up breaking his heart, and for the rest of his run he is pretty miserable. The end of ''Journey's End'' destroyed him like nothing had before, because he had to for all intents and purposes kill his best friend.
** Jossed. Even by the Series 6 opener, ''Eleven''''s only just starting to be romantic towards her.
* ...'''is a former companion of the Master.'''
** In ''The Time of Angels'', she says that she learned how to fly the TARDIS from the best—too bad the Doctor was busy that day. Assuming she wasn't just teasing him, then who ''did'' teach her? She was also apparently in prison, and that River was in prison for "killing a good man". So perhaps the Master taught her how to use the TARDIS, along with the awesomely smug attitude, and she first met the Doctor while traveling with the Master. Then, somewhere along the line, she killed the Master, landing her in prison.
*** That makes her Lucy Saxon.
*** Jossed on the Lucy Saxon front. Lucy and River died in two conflicting ways. Not to mention that Vivien Brook told Lucy that her backstory on Earth is clearly not faked, and that's how she figured old Harold Saxon was a fraud. Also, her first meeting was as a baby on "Demons Run", and the first she can remember was as a child when the Doctor crashed into her life, long before she could conceivably be incarcerated.
*** Rather than literally killing the Master, she would have "killed" everything he was if she was the one who threw the switch for his Chameleon Arch. What jury's going to buy "I didn't kill him, I just rewrote his entire genetic code and made him a different species" as a defense?
* ...'''is descended from Donna Noble.'''
** The metacrisis left an epigenetic imprint on Donna's DNA. A hundred generations later, the bloodlines reconverge on River Song - all her ancestors for the last 1500 years were descended from Donna in some way.
** This explains why River Song was overawed when meeting Donna, why she can fly the Tardis (and do things that the Doctor would never do, like using the stabilisers and turning the noise off), and why she speaks Old High Gallifreyan. She implies in ''Time of the Angels'' that her relationship with the Doctor is not marriage, but something much more complicated.
*** You're implying that knowledge of the language and TARDIS piloting skills are encoded in Time Lord DNA? How does that even make sense?
**** Yeah, you're right, a species who's members can rewrite their entire DNA at will to cheat death and who with the aid of a piece of technology the size of a pocket watch can transform themselves into whole new ''species'' having language or piloting skills encoded into their DNA makes no sense at all.
*** It's the Imprimatur of Rassilon - the epigenetic imprint she inherited was a copy of the Doctor's bond with the TARDIS. This explains the line "I learnt from the best - pity you were busy that day". The TARDIS taught her to fly it.
*** Jossed. River's parents were born circa the late 1980s-early 1990s and were Amy Pond and Rory Williams, long before Donna had her memories wiped in 2009 as a metacrisis and her marriage to Shaun Temple in 2010. Though she DID learn how to pilot the TARDIS from the TARDIS.
* ...'''''is''''' '''Donna Noble.'''
** She lived out her life with Shaun before succumbing to old age, but still had enough regeneration energy from the metacrisis to somehow be able to regenerate one time. This restored her memories and repaired her brain but she does not have a mind at the DoctorDonna level (or a second heart), but still retains much of the Doctor's knowledge. Perhaps through disorientation or choice she ended up in the 51st century, possibly through a crack in time. After recognizing her new form (albeit younger than when she saw her in the Library), the new identity of River Song was born, making her name and existence a [[Stable Time Loop]] as she had met Future!River many years before.
** Donna and the Doctor each considered the other to be her or his best friend more than anyone else, and knowing that River was going to have many adventures with and be very special to the Doctor, River decided to become who she is ''because'' of him. She knows full well how she is eventually going to die (and having the Tenth Doctor's memories, has ''seen'' it) but knows that, like many decades ago, the journey is more important than the destination and they'll be best friends again. The reason why she reacted the way she did over Donna in the Library was because it had been so long since she had seen that face that had once been her own that young, and because her own time was soon to be up. Seeing the Tenth Doctor again after so many years must have affected her deeply as well. She can also fly the TARDIS and read / write High Gallifreyan because of the Doctor's ''memories''
(this is also how she knows his name), meaning that [[From a Certain Point of View]] he ''did'' teach her. Also, in the case of the former, the Doctor was shown to be giving Donna rudimentary flying lessons near the beginning of ''The Sontaran Strategem''.
** The main reason River is adamant against giving out 'Spoilers' is because the Doctor does not know who she is during certain encounters, and eventually she plans on telling him [[Incredibly Lame Pun|when the time is right]], possibly by whispering something Donna would say into his ear (Spaceman?) paralleling the events of ''Silence In The Library''. Eventually, a part of her will also live on with the two 'children' she once had in the Library.
** All of this seems to be very unlikely as [[Word of God]] has said that no RTD-era companions will be appearing again, meaning that if River secretly ''is'' someone she is probably a character who appeared before but wasn't given official companion status, someone introduced by Moffat in Series 5+ , or a character from Old!Who.
*** Look at how prepared and willing Donna was to find the Doctor in ''Partners In Crime''. She also said that even if it'd take a hundred years, she would find him. If something like this is possible, then she would stop at nothing to be with the Doctor again.
** Another possible scenario is that due to Donna's unique situation, she gained multiple regenerations in addition to the Time Lord mind. After her first eventual death, she regenerated and became a complete Human / Time Lord hybrid (still with only one heart though), but at the permanent cost of all of her memories. The Doctor finds her and looks after her for a while, this being the first time from River's point of view that they meet (and the Doctor likely giving her the name of River Song in an example of a [[Stable Time Loop]]). Donna Temple-Noble is still, for all intents and purposes, dead, and the Doctor never tells River about who she used to be. River, meanwhile, has a mind well above and beyond any human and quickly adapts to a new life. Regardless if she has anymore regenerations or not, she eventually dies for good at the Library, and regeneration might not be a great choice in any circumstance since she's not a full Time Lord, and could a) still die or b) lose all of her memories again.
** [[Jossed]]. She was born to Amy Pond on Demons Run.
* ...'''is an Old Gallifreyan.'''
** River Song knew how to pilot the Tardis better than every Time Lord we've seen, and appears to have a longstanding knowledge of the Doctor. We all assume that it's future Doctors (11-13+ ) but it could very well be past Doctors as well. The Doctor seems to be able to recognize regenerations as the same person, however, Old Gallifreyan regeneration was different. The best evidence for this is that River could write in the Old High Gallifreyan language, which the Doctor is implied to be barely able to read. There are two known Old Gallifreyans, both of which good possibilities, which would be Susan Foreman and Patience, the Doctor's wife.
** [[Jossed]]. She was conceived after the Time Lock was closed, and she's mostly human.
* ...'''is a con artist who only pretends to be close to the future Doctor.'''
** She has assembled extensive knowledge of the Doctor, perhaps from publicly available sources like ''A Journal of Impossible Things'' and the Library, and now uses it to manipulate the Doctor to her advantage, pretending to be someone she knows in his future incarnations.
*** This leaves the opportunity open for a Stable Time loop in which River Song discovers a diary chronicling a human's adventures with The Doctor, uses it to manipulate him into (possibly among other things) taking her on marvelous adventures and teaching her about the Time Lords, over time Becoming the Mask and truly caring for The Doctor. After her Death in Silence in the Library, her diary is recovered, and finds its way into the hands of a young River Song, a researcher fascinated with time travel and the legends of the long dead Time Lords and that species' sole survivor.
** Jossed. Her affections are legit.
* ...'''is the TARDIS.'''
** There's precedent in the expanded universe for people becoming TARDISes. How about the other way around? What if River is a fragment of the TARDIS, in human form?
*** She knows the Doctor extremely well
*** She can pilot the TARDIS way better than the Doctor
*** She knows Old High Gallifreyan
*** The TARDIS can home in on her with pinpoint accuracy from 12,000 years away—the Doctor landed two years off his destination after a simple jaunt to the moon.
*** She carries a TARDIS-shaped diary
*** The TARDIS is always referred to as "she".
*** There exists an Alex Kingston quote re: River Song's ridiculously awesome heels - "Matt [Smith]’s got them. He kept them, not for himself personally but they’re around because he wanted them to be on the set of the TARDIS for evermore." Matt KNOWS and kept the shoes there not only because they're faboosh, but so she can acquire them there once she gains human form.
** It all fits, I tell you!
** Sorry, But As In [[Doctor Who/Recap/S18/E07 Logopolis|Logopolis]], A TARDIS inside a TARDIS Causes a Regression and Gravity Bubble, so, The theory Doesn't work.
*** And the TARDIS putting itself inside itself as per ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/2007 Ci NS Time Crash|Time Crash]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/2011 Red Nose Day Special Space and Time|Space and Time]]'' also seriously messes things up.
** Actually, since River is in a different form, it could, much like how different regenerations can meet and have no problem, whereas if humans cross their timeline Bad Things Happen.
*** Sorry, no. The Fifth Doctor's TARDIS collided with the Tenth's and that still caused Bad Things to Happen.
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E04 The Doctor's Wife|"The Doctor's Wife"]] sets a precedence for the TARDIS inhabiting a human body. What's more, the TARDIS (which had already been established as knowing things that are going to happen) drops hints about a river.
*** Proves nothing. She was in earshot of River when she revealed herself.
*** River could also somehow be a Ganger of the TARDIS itself... River's form being what the TARDIS thinks she would look like as a human, albeit as a child who later grows up into the River we know and love.
*** [[Jossed]]. She's not a TARDIS ganger, she's the human (with a hint of the Temporal Schism) daughter of Amy and Rory.
* ... '''Is Prisoner Zero'''
** They are both prisoners, and prisoner zero was never killed by the giant eye thing. They both have the same delight in knowing things the doctor doesn't, and I think that they both mentioned the "pandorica". It's possible!
* ...'''is the Doctor's next regeneration.'''
** I'm honestly surprised no one else has said this.
** Just pointing this tidbit out:
{{quote|'''Dalek Supreme''': {{smallcaps|Only the Doctor can pilot the TARDIS.}}}}
*** But as we've seen every companion pilot the TARDIS at some point during the revived series, this is definitely unlikely. It's most likely that The Alliance was manipulated to believe only The Doctor could pilot the TARDIS, so they would get him away from the TARDIS for whomever it was manipulating them to blow it up.
**** Or maybe all the companions had been erased from history.
** Jossed. Jack is still in Torchwood, Sarah Jane appeared in a fourth series of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' (with Jo Grant as a guest) and Tegan, Ben, Polly, Ian, Barbara, Harry, the Brigadier, Liz and (implicitly) Ace are namechecked in the SJA episode ''Death of the Doctor'', which is set after the universe reboot and Amy and Rory's wedding. We also witness River's birth in "A Good Man Goes to War". Also, all of River's regenerations are accounted for.
* ...'''is her own person ''and'' the Doctor's next regeneration.'''
** A precedent is established in ''Destiny of the Daleks'' and more subtly in ''The Caves of Androzani'' for Time Lords regenerating into a form that resembles somebody else.
*** You mean she's two different people, like Astra and Romana, and Maxil and the Doctor?
* ... '''Is The Master'''
** He found a way back from death, but it required becoming a human woman.
** Jossed. She was born on Demon's Run.
* ... '''Is still alive.'''
** She regenerated when the Doctor had left-she was faking a death.
** Unlikely. Otherwise how did her data ghost store her consciousness? And why was she so eager to take the Doctor's place if HE could regenerate?
* ...'''a rejennyrated Jenny''' (see what I did there?).
** It'd be weird and slightly Squicky but sure, why not?
** She calls the Doctor "my love" in TBB. Squick to the power of squick.
*** I always thought [[Cargo Ship|she was saying that to the TARDIS.]]
**** Wouldn't that also be [[Les Yay]]?
** Jossed. We witness both Jenny and River's births.
* ... '''is Lucy Saxon.'''
** Lucy traveled with the Master to the end of the universe. Given that the Doctor isn't too keen on crossing his own timeline (or probably running across the Master), River going to the end of the universe is probably not a future event. This theory has problems (Lucy being dead, for one) but may still somehow be possible.
*** Another problem is that the journalist Vivien Rook pointed out that Lucy has a solid background check, while Saxon's photoshopped history paper-thin was obvious to the people resistant to the Archangel network of satellites.
* ... '''will come back from the dead in Series 6 / Season 32.'''
** It seems like a perfect twist. The furthest point in her timeline we have seen so far was in 'The Forest Of The Dead' when she had sacrificed herself before the Doctor worked out a way to preserve her consciousness in soul although her body had died. Season 5 showed that people can be 'revived' even if they were written out of history, provided they are, in some sense, 'not quite dead' i.e. their soul still exists, in this case in the void, and they are actively 'remembered' by a time-sensitive mind like Amy's. It seems not so great a leap for someone to 'rewrite' reality sufficiently to put River back in a physical body. Amy is obviously a contender for the one who brings her back, whether or not intentionally; she being the one who brought back Rory, the Doctor, and her parents. Also Amy and River seem to have developed a close relationship and trust in the course of their few encounters together. Another option is that River is resurrected in a similar way by an enemy of the Doctor's. Or she may never come back in the physical world, but manage to cross over into dreams or other simulated realities. The least likely option to me is that she return as an android or cyborg containing her consciousness, although this would be useful if they needed to recast her for some reason.
** Jossed.
* ....'''Is Captain Jack Harkness.'''
** Why? In the Big Bang she says "....that's when everything changes." Sounds familiar to anyone who's ever watched an episode of Torchwood. And doesn't halluciogenic lipstick sound like just the type of thing Jack would love?
** Not to mention, if we go with the whole 'Jack is the Face of Boe' theory, in one of the first season episodes it's mentioned in passing that the Face of Boe has revealed he's prgenant. Either this was a lie, or Jack's biology has overgone a major re-write (besides the giant head thing, obviously).
** Also, River's last words of "The Forest of the Dead" are:
{{quote|''Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call...'' '''''everybody lives.'''''}}
** When's the last time we heard those words? At the end of Captain Jack's first adventure with the Doctor, [[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E09 The Empty Child|The Empty Child]]/[[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E10 The Doctor Dances|The Doctor Dances]]. How better to commemorate your last adventure with the Doctor than the words that marked the end of your first?
** Jossed. We see both River as a baby ("A Good Man Goes to War") and Jack as a little boy on the Boeshane Peninsula (''[[Torchwood]]'': "Adam").
* ...'''will not appear in Series 6 / Season 32.'''
** Simple deduction. She told The Doctor he would find out who she was soon, indicating that she will meet him for the first time while he is still in this body. However, she did not recognise Rory in ''The Pandorica Opens'', so we can conclude that she had never met him before then. Since Amy and Rory are still with The Doctor, and companions don't tend to leave mid-series (and no, I'm not accepting Rory leaving and Amy staying as a possibility). Although of course, they could meet an older version of her...
*** [[Jossed]]. She appeared prominently in six episodes. She doesn't remember Rory for the same reasons Amy doesn't, and she isn't erased from history likewise. "The Wedding of River Song" implies that she lies about not knowing them in earlier appearances too.
* ... '''Is a [[Gender Flip]] version of the Doctor.'''
** Come on. She's just like him. Sure, you're thinking, "But she acts like she's his wife in his future!" Of course she does. Can't you see the Doctor taunting himself like this? It makes even more sense if she's doing it to try and keep him from finding out who she is.
** While "The Almost People" clearly proves that the Doctor is in love with himself, Amy later gives birth to her later in the same episode.
* ... '''Is [[Doctor Who/Recap/S1/E06 The Aztecs|Cameca.]]'''
** The first woman we see the Doctor romantically involved with, despite the grumpiness of his first incarnation. To drive the point home, he actually got engaged to her. Clearly, she found some way to travel through time, eventually collected on his promise, and is now screwing with his later incarnations.
* ... '''Is Marilyn Monroe.'''
** River Song is always treating the Doctor as if he is her husband, and technically the Doctor is Marilyn Monroe's husband. They also both have curly hair. Marilyn Monroe went off with the Doctor and then later decided to stay in the future and build a career there, still having an occasional adventure with the Doctor.
* ... '''actually Amy's biological mother'''
** Amy's parents aren't her real parents; River traveled back in time and gave baby Amy up for adoption. It could explain how Amy's and River's personalities are so similar and the fact that the two deal with the Doctor and time travel.
** Barring [[My Own Grampa|implications]], [[Jossed]]. She's Amy's daughter.
* ... '''Is from the parallel earth'''
** The Doctor she first met was the one on Earth-2. It happened years later, after Rose had died and the Doctor there had aged into an old man. Note that when she first sees Ten she comments that he is "younger than I've ever seen you". She clearly isn't referring to physical age (Eleven looks younger, and she had met him by that point in her life). Well, maybe she isn't referring to "younger" in the absolute sense either; she met Ten before, but that was his half-human self who had aged. There was also a scripted scene (don't know if it was filmed or not) in Journey's End where the Doctor gives his clone a piece of the TARDIS so that he can grow his own. Maybe he did so, and had lots of adventures with Rose, who eventually died. The Doctor's next companion was River, but he was getting on in years, and knew that he would soon die (and not regenerate). So he trained River as his replacement; told her his real name, taught her to fly the TARDIS (he was better at it at that point), and eventually passed away. River found a way to break into our universe and hooked up with our Doctor.
** [[Jossed]]. It's up in the air whether meeting River as a baby counts as "the first time", but that doesn't change the fact that she was born in N-Space on an asteroid called Demon's Run.
* ... '''is a direct descendant of the royal family of Britain'''
** mainly because Liz10 in "The Beast Below" acts in a similar manner. Awesome gunslinger, quite hot, knows a lot about the Doctor - because stories are passed down through the family...also, Liz10 probably gave the longest continuous confusion to the Doctor on the subject of her identity, second only to River. Admittedly, that's three minutes compared to years or possibly eons, but it's still a record.
* ... '''is Queen Elizabeth I of England'''
** Combing the previous WMG with the ever-present theory that River is the Doctors (future) wife. She killed him because she's still pissed about the whole "Virginia" thing.
* ... '''is Idris'''
** The fourth episode of Series 6 is named 'The Doctor's Wife', and has the character of Idris who is said to be 'an old acquaintance with a new face'. That comment is actually from our point of view, since canonically we've seen River before Idris. She will die and regenerate into River, which will be the beginning of their long journey from her perspective.
*** The same Idris who was the last King Of Libya?
*** [[Jossed]], The Doctor's Wife is the TARDIS in a human body named Idris. Idris' body dies at the end of the episode.
* ... '''is Madam de Pompadour'''
** When Madam de Pompadour kissed the Doctor and/or when he read her mind/she read his mind, something happened to her. This might also explain why she knows his real name - she saw it when she was inside his mind. All of the mindreading the clockwork guys did might also have done something to her brain, making it more susceptible to the Doctor messing with it or something. Moffat wrote The Girl in the Fireplace, so maybe he planted that seed way back when?
** [[Jossed]]. Madame de Pompadour and River Song have mutually exclusive points of death.
* ...'''is Amy's Daughter'''.
** In "The Impossible Astronaut" Amy says she's pregnant. Why River? Why not?
** Seemingly implied is that she's the girl from Day Of The Moon, and has got a 'time head'.
*** A Good Man Goes To War confirms River is Amy's Daughter, Melody Pond. That's what her name translates to in the language of those living in the Gamma Forest.
* ...'''is pregnant'''.
** In "The Impossible Astronaut" both Amy and River are nauseous. We learn the cause of Amy's sickness, but River's isn't explained. Any theories on the identity of the theoretical father, besides the obvious?
*** No, it's noted in Day of the Moon that The Silence can cause this effect.
*** Random alternate theory: Little girl is River, and being in such close contact with herself from the past causes feelings of sickness.
*** Plausible. Let's Kill Hitler confirms she's the Little Girl.
* ...'''is the Doctor's Gallifreyan wife from before the Time War'''.
** She somehow survived the Time War, but her mind was broken after witnessing the destruction of her homeworld and the death of her entire species at the hands of her husband. To help her, the Doctor lets her use the chameleon arch to become a human with no memories of the Time War. What River perceives as her first meeting with the Doctor (when she was young and impressionable) and the moment when she first became so attached to him is actually moments after she was transformed from a Gallifreyan into River Song; the reason that the Doctor knew everything about her is because ''he helped to design her new memories and personality''. But just like the Doctor began to emerge from John Smith in fits and starts, part of the Doctor's wife starts emerging from River, and she essentially falls in love with the Doctor as a result of already being in love with the Doctor. In turn, the Doctor recognises so much of his wife in River that he falls in love with her all over again. They fall into the dynamic of a married couple so easily because they're already married.
** [[Jossed]]. She was born to human parents after the Doctor instigated the Time Lock, and has Time Lord DNA due to being conceived inside the Temporal Schism.
* '''is Omega.'''
** Think about it- we know Omega is in the new season. It's entirely possible that the end of the Time War screwed him and his timeline over so that he got born as a woman-or managed to squeeze his way out of that antimatter universe of his.
*** No we don't? When was Omega confirmed to be in series 6?
** This might also be a good way to refer to the Cartmel Masterplan. Not only does s/he ''now'' have a crush on the doctor, he'll claim that he ''always'' had a crush on the doctor, even Back Then, when The Doctor was The Other.
* ... '''is [[The Magic School Bus|Ms. Frizzle]]'''
** And she killed the doctor to steal his TARDIS so she could take her class on adventures. Sadly, shortly after this, she was caught and put in Stormcage.
*** Nope.
* ... '''is the Silence'''.
** She was first introduced by ''Silence in the Library''. She was in the Tardis when it exploded in ''The Pandorica Opens''. During ''Day of the Moon'', Amy was told she would "bring the Silence". As of ''A Good Man Goes to War'', we know River Song is Amy's daughter.
** No, just a pawn of them.
* ...'''is The Silence'''
** "The Silence" being her ''Time Lord Title.''
* ...'''Is a Lying Liar Who Lies'''
** She somehow has the ability to know exactly what needs to be said to get people to trust her - probably because she's so out of sync with everyone else, she can get the spoilers ahead of time and use them to give her the advantage.
** She knew about Melody Pond's disappearance, and planned for it. She took the name River Song specifically because she could use it to later claim she was Melody. Everyone believed her, even the Silents, hence their insistence that Amy would "bring The Silence".
*** Pretty much confirmed.
 
=== The Doctor never told River his name ===
* She just read it off his cot at the end of ''A Good Man Goes To War''
 
=== The man River killed--the "best man [she] ever knew"--was or is... ===
* ...'''...the Doctor.'''
** But don't worry - Time can be over-written.
*** Then why was Father Octavian so mistrustful of the Doctor, if he knows him as a hero?
**** Being a good man, and a hero, doesn't mean you aren't a complete madman either.
*** The question is, what reason did she kill him for? If there was a good reason why doesn't he forgive her and bust her out of stormhold prison? And if it was a bad reason why are the two on such good terms in the future?
**** She killed him because she didn't know him yet. She seems to have a bit of a shady past anyways, so it's not too far of a stretch to think that he was trying to stop her from doing something and she acted in what she thought was self-defense. If she flees the scene (or is arrested) before he regenerates, that would explain why she kept trying to play catch up with Ten when he first met her, even though (at least as far as we know) she never saw that incarnation of him again. She really only ever knew Eleven, and assumed that Ten was a later regeneration as opposed to a previous one...
*** it also ties in, very neatly, with her death. A [[Stable Time Loop]] where her ''last'' meeting with the Doctor (her death) is his ''first'' meeting with her. We then follow the Doctor's timeline of adventures with her, [[Timey-Wimey Ball|where each is one step backwards in her timeline]] until we reach her ''first'' meeting with the Doctor, where she kills him (so becoming his ''last'' meeting). [[Steven Moffat|The Grand Moff]] could not possibly pass up such an elegant time loop, with each end anchored by a characters death.
** Not sure if this counts as wild but this seems the most obvious choice. It also syncs well with the above River is a companion of the Master theory. This is how Eleven will regenerate into Twelve.
** Except she didn't kill this incarnation or a future one; she caused Eight to regenerate into Nine.
*** Why doesn't he remember?
**** The more think about it, the more I'm convinced that it's NOT the Doctor whom she kills. I mean, she was locked up for it, right? Well the Doctor is virtually a myth, a story to the people on earth and not even that (maybe even moreso now since the universe rewrote itself). He barely exists and he's certainly not considered as a human citizen (or an ''anything'' citizen for that matter.) How can you be locked up for killing a ''story''?
** I don't think so. In the Series 6 premiere, The Doctor dies. River then says to Amy and Rory that she is not afraid of the Doctor's death, as well as her own. There will be a worse day coming.
*** I assumed the "worse day" was the day she "looks into the Doctor's eyes, and he doesn't have a clue who she is."
** In the Series 6 premiere River is the one in the spacesuit who kills the Doctor and an earlier version of herself gets sent to jail for the crime. The yonger River is shown the evidence of the crime so even though she has not killed the Doctor yet in her personal time line she still tells people that she killed the best man she's ever known because she knows she will kill the Doctor one day.
*** The River in the spacesuit is the younger version after she's done some research not long after the end of LKH. The one with Rory and Amy is a much later version (they sync'd diaries and was implied that to both of them, they've then done plenty of adventures together). When he tells Spacesuit!River to look over she asks how can she be there and the Doctor says "that's your future self" saying how she's serving prison time for the murder she's about to commit but won't personally remember doing.
* Alternatively The Doctor that River kills is the Ganger! Version. While we do see that Ganger!Doctor melts into a puddle in the end of The Almost People, it doesn't mean that he didn't regenerate. It's quite possible that he survived the attack and also goes to the Battle of Demon's Run, albeit on [[The Slow Path]] and gets killed by River.
* After the events of "A Good Man Goes to War", I think that that could've easily been the real Doctor, and that River Song is the one in the spacesuit.
** 1) She was conditioned from birth to kill the Doctor.
** 2) We have it on somewhat good word that that was "certainly" the Doctor, and he was "most certainly" dead. I don't think the Moff would cheat his way out of that one too simply.
** 3) River is in Stormcage for killing "The best man she ever knew". Could be either the Doctor or Rory honestly but for the sake of the theory let's say it's definitely the Doctor.
** 4) The Arc words "Time can be rewritten" are closely tied to River.
** I'm thinking that Steven Moffat wouldn't stoop so low as to undo River's death (or sorta-death) from Silence in the Library, and the [[Arc Words]] seem more important than they did at first. I believe that younger!River killed the Doctor, but by the end of this series that event will somehow be worked out; the Doctor lives, and River doesn't have to go to prison for homicide (although she still might, in case it's needed to prevent a time paradox).
** If she did kill the Doctor, it would have likely been before she truly knew him. Leading up to her becoming [[The Atoner]], helped possibly by a regeneration.
* '''CONFIRMED'''... kinda. It wasn't ''really'' the Doctor: he faked his own death in order to disappear from the public eye, and River knew this, but she took the rap anyway because the Doctor's "death" is a fixed point in time.
 
* ...''' Captain Jack Harkness.'''
** The Face of Boe, they called him.
** Evidence:
*** It's implied the man River killed was well known in her own time. The only existing character who fits that bill, other than the Doctor, is Jack.
*** Two things almost always show up in the series finales: the [[Arc Words]], and Captain Jack. We know we'll see River again "when the Pandorica opens," so it's quite likely River and Jack will be in the same episode.
*** What would happen if you fed a "fixed point" into a temporal eraser, anyway? If the Doctor could close the crack temporarily, maybe Jack could close it permanently.
*** The Rift was closed in ''[[Torchwood the Lost Files]]''. Jack did not turn up in "The Pandorica Opens".
** And Jossed.
 
* ...'''a brand new character who will be introduced in the beginning of "The Pandorica Opens" and killed off in the end of the two-parter—presumably in self-defense or desperation or after being possessed, because we can't have River Song actually being nasty or morally ambiguous.'''
** (I'm sorry, but it irks me to see how many fans shout loudly that it's ''obviously'' the Doctor. They obviously haven't been baited by the writers long enough.)
** Also, she'll turn herself in, just to make sure the audience will still like her...I mean, [[Stable Time Loop|coincide with the timeline]].
*** Jossed, at the start of Pandorica Opens, River Song's already in prison for the presumed murder.
* ... '''Rory Williams.'''
** Someone want to make an argument for me? I can't seem to put a coherent thought line together for this one.
*** River is Amy Pond, and Rory is certainly the "best man" she refers to and a hero to many.
*** With the reveal, the best man many girls know is their father - voila
** Jossed.
 
* ...'''her husband.'''
** In order to save the Universe. Or something. River said The Doctor's "too complicated" to be married to her, although she didn't specifically deny it. Also, that comment about weddings, the "honey I'm home" could all be a very ironic game they're playing. The "everything changes" line could imply that the Doctor will never see himself in the same light again when he sees what people will do for him.
** Confirmed, in a manner of speaking.
* ...'''a "best man", as in a best man at a wedding.'''
** All the "best man she ever knew" stuff was just her idea of humour.
** Jossed.
* ... '''herself, in a former regeneration, which also happens to be a future regeneration of the Doctor.'''
** The Doctor - probably twelfth or later, as River considers both Ten and Eleven to be very young - goes into a situation in the full knowledge that he will not come out of it without having to regenerate. His companion, who has met River and knows about the "killed the greatest man she ever knew" thing but who does not know about regeneration, does not see the actual regeneration event. The companion jumps to conclusions when it's not the Doctor he or she knows who emerges from the wreckage but River. River!Doctor sticks with the story that she "killed" her former self to maintain the timeline (she knows that River Song spends quite some time imprisoned for murder) and because she feels some regret at having to end that particular incarnation when she did.
** Implausible, all of River's regenerations are accounted for.
* ''' is [[Ensemble Darkhorse|THE]] [[Cool Hat|FEZ]] '''
** She later realized that [[Bow Ties Are Cool|Fezzez are cool]] and deeply regretted her mistake. She turned herself in to the authorities for murdering the greatest hat of all time.
*** The authorities of a [[Planet of Hats]]? I'm fairly certain you cannot legally murder a hat even in Whoniverse!Britain.
*** Incredibly unlikely. The Fez is from a universe where Stormcage doesn't exist. Plus, the museum probably doesn't exist in the rebooted universe in the state it was in.
** Jossed.
* '''is Jeff'''
** Probable 'Best Man' at Amy and Rory's wedding, referred to as the Doctor's 'Best Man' at the conference, and hero to many for spreading the 000 virus. Of course, it's ironic because- (see [[Big Bad]] entry below)
** Jossed.
* Vincent van Gogh
** She made it look like a suicide.
** Jossed.
* '''is [[The Order of the Stick|Elan]]'''
** He ''is'' [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0772.html the best man Haley ever met], maybe also the best man River ever meets, too?
** Jossed.
 
* ...JFK.
** Jossed.
 
=== River learned to fly the TARDIS... ===
...from the TARDIS itself. Remember how she said she "learned from the best" and said how it wasn't the Doctor since he was busy doing other stuff?
May have been achieved with some kind of telepathic connection, similar to the one Sexy had with Rory.
* Confirmed in '''Let's Kill Hilter'''. The Doctor was indeed very busy.
 
=== River Song is the TARDIS ===
So, despite the heavy Doctor/River shipping that's been happening, Moffat randomly decides to throw in an episode where we see a much longer-lived relationship cast into the limelight? In an episode called ''The Doctor's Wife''? When River has been heavily implied to be just that? It all makes sense now! At some point, the TARDIS comes to life again, as River! Perhaps it was even the Doctor meeting River in the first place that put the idea in her mind.
* [[Jossed]]. She's not the TARDIS. Also, Gaiman had apparently been planning this episode since the time the Ninth/Tenth Doctor TARDIS room was still in use.
 
=== River Song gets a happy ending ===
* River does get her consciousness saved into a computer by the end of ''Forest of the Dead,'' but at the end of the whole [[Matt Smith]] series, we'll cut back to River but now it'll show that the Doctor would have managed to save a copy of himself in that Sonic Screwdriver.
 
=== River Song's diary was or will be stolen from the Library. ===
The Doctor really shouldn't have just left it behind. All it would take for someone malicious is to sneak in there while the day of amnesty is still in effect (to not get eaten by the Vashta Nerada), and use the knowledge within to wreak havoc on the universe, especially against the Doctor. Time really will be rewritten, and not in a good way.
 
=== River Song is the first Time Lord. ===
Or at the very least the root of their society. Either by being the first ancestor of the people that would evolve into them, or by giving them the knowledge of the Time Vortex in the first place.
* Jossed, though she did come into existence in a similar way the early Time Lords did.
** Not necessarily. She's a time traveller. It's entirely possible that she could go back in time and become the first of the Time Lords.
** Through the Time Lock? No...
 
=== There is an incarnation of River between Mels and the Astronaut. ===
At the end of Day of the Moon, we see the girl in the Astronaut suit start regenerating in 1969/1970 New York City. In Let's Kill Hilter, River says last time she regenerated, she ended up a toddler in the middle of New York. However, she is roughly the same age as Amy throughout their childhood, and Amy is ''not'' 40 years old. Certain sources say Amy was born in 1984, which means there is a gap of 14 years between known regenerations. The events of this gap will presumably explain who took care of River as a toddler and who brought her to England to grow up with her parents.
* Jossed. River ''is'' the Astronaut, and we know there's no one between Mels and River. Therefore, any in-between incarnations would have to be between New York Suit Girl and Mels.
 
=== From now on, we'll see Nina Toussaint-White as Melody Pond / River Song. ===
We know that River/Melody's and the Doctor's timelines run in opposite directions. So, either one of these timelines (or maybe both) is already seriously screwed up somehow, or we'll see Nina Toussaint-White as Melody Pond from now on.
* Their timelines don't actually run backwards; if they did, the diaries would be pretty useless.
** Also, keep in mind that River expected the Tenth Doctor to know her and have a diary. The "present day" Eleventh Doctor hasn't been shown to be keeping a diary yet (although probably is as of "Let's Kill Hitler"). This can only mean River initially thought the Tenth Doctor was a later incarnation, so even she didn't take the "living backwards" thing entirely literally.
 
=== The "X is a Time Lord" meme on TV Tropes is soon to be replaced by "X is River Song". ===
The little Time Lady, Melody Pond and Mels have all been revealed to be past selves of River Song. If this happens to one more character, people will start seeing her everywhere.
 
=== An episode soon will involve the River of the Library. ===
Did anyone else catch the line in the episode with House? "The only water in the forest is the River" (Or something extremely close). Now, what have we seen about forests? A certain episode called Forest of the Dead, perhaps? Which just happened to have River Song's final resting place (If one can call it that) inside? Food for thought, at the very least...
** probably Jossed given the meaning of that phrase.
 
 
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=== The theme tune is currently missing the bass/beat because the master is gone ===
It's obvious that part of the theme tune and the drumming in the Master's head is intentionally the same, so what if they actually ARE the same thing? during the intro (since the very beginning of the original show) we'd always see the time vortex. So it could of been the drumming was background noise in the Time Vortex simply being played along side the theme tune. It was stronger in the intro for the 9th and 10th Doctor as it was getting closer to that point in his timeline (after the time war had ended and the timelords gone).
 
=== Eleven WILL wear a Fez in season 6! ===
C'mon, Matt Smith will bug Moffat so much that he will go [[Sure Why Not]].
** Alternatively, The Doctor will get a new [[Nice Hat]] every episode, ranging from bowlers to sombreros to [[Firefly|pretty floral bonnets]] but by the end of the episode he'll lose it or it will be destroyed. Then in the season finale, the Master lures him into a trap with a Fez.
** He wore another fez in A Christmas Carol and he's got a Stetson on in the Season Six preview. Semi-confirmed?
 
=== Amy Pond is... ===
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* Also, his number. He has a low number like he was the first to be imprisoned where he was. And as i recall, that was on the other side of the time cracks. Someone so powerful that a race capable of [[Ret-Gone]] considered him enough of a threat to imprison him outside the universe? Sounds like prime [[Big Bad]] material to me.
** He may be a key player in an alliance of Beasts Below. (see WMG: The War is not over.)
 
=== In Series 6... ===
Another of the Virgin New Adventures will be adapted. Specifically ''All-Consuming Fire''. However, it will be an updated adaptation with the 11th Doctor and set in the present day with [[Sherlock|the Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman version]] of [[Sherlock Holmes (novel)|Holmes and Watson]]. With Moffat working on both, he really should do it...
* Jossed.
 
=== River Song's relationship with the Doctor is related to another Chameleon Arch incident. ===
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We never saw exactly what happened to the Master, and considering how many times villains can be gone for good in Doctor Who, it's quite probable he'll return at some point. I propose that, somehow, some part of his consciousness ended up in the Doctor's mind. The Doctor didn't notice because he was highly stressed, and then he regenerated. When something happens to weaken the Doctor's will, these remnants of the Master's personality will be able to manifest themselves, in the form of the Dreamlord. They were also responsible for the Tardis blowing up; even if just once, they managed to gain control long enough to sabotage things.//
Just don't ask me how this happened. I'm sure less plausible things have happened.
 
=== Series 6 will feature Nine/Ten's TARDIS ===
If you pause at exactly the right moment at 0:37 in one of the trailers, you'll see this: http://img855.imageshack.us/i/tenstardis.jpg/
Yeah. Eleven's TARDIS doesn't have those curvy support beam-thingies. Nine/Ten's does. (Also a lot of people were saying that the people looked like Ten and Rose, but it's pretty obviously Rory and Amy.) My guesses are that the Silence somehow puts them into the actual old TARDIS or whoever was making the TARDIS from "The Lodger" made it in the same design as Ten's. Either way sounds suspicious, but there is no way that's Eleven's TARDIS.
* Partially confirmed in "The Doctor's Wife". It's still Eleven's TARDIS, but there's an archived control room which is Nine and Ten's.
 
=== The Black TARDIS seen in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E11 The Lodger|"The Lodger"]] is... ===
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Why else would they wear fancy suits if they didn't want people to remember them? The memory erasure is out of their control, but they are desperate to have people both remember them and compliment their appearances. The reason why that one Silent (proper term?) killed that women is that she was constantly forgetting about him, and whenever she looked back, she only commented on his face and never his suit. Eventually he got so frustrated that he killed her, but he regretted it afterward. This is also why he let Amy take a picture of him. The reason why they acted so fearsome in the sewer is because River caught them without any make-up, and a few of them were nude, as I recall. They don't want to be remembered like that. Also note that, as of yet, there is no obvious connection between the killer space suit and the Silence. Besides the woman who was killed out of frustration, there is no evidence that they are being malicious at all.
 
=== The Doctor in Series 6 isn't the real Doctor ===
The Real Doctor is trapped behind the cracks after driving the Pandorica into the TARDIS explosion. The Doctor in Series 6 is the Doctor, but a version "remembered" into existance by Amy. ''This'' Doctor is the one who gets killed in "The Impossible Astronaut", and the Astronaut is actually the Real Doctor having got back through the cracks in time. However, since there can't be more than one Doctor in existence at the same time, the Real Doctor has to kill the "remembered" Doctor to stop reality breaking. Again. Elaborating on this theory, all the stuff that happened during the 200 years that the Doctor supposedly spent running was actually him working to free the Real Doctor from the cracks.
* Alternatively, the real Doctor is still trapped in the Pandorica after the universe was re-created, and Amy 'remembering' him was unable to release him and instead created a new one. He will not be discovered or released until after the Doctor we know dies.
 
=== Future!Doctor actually wants to deliberately initiate a paradox ===
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=== Idris is... ===
* ...A projection of the TARDIS
** There's some [http://doctorwhospoilers.com/2011/2011/05/the-deconstruction-of-redacting-stars/ support]{{Dead link}} for this one.
*** Semi-Confirmed. Not a projections, but literally the TARDIS trapped in a human body.
* ...A living vortex. Inter-Dimensional Rift In Space
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=== Flesh (from The Rebel Flesh) is based upon Vespene tech. ===
Because I recall that The Doctor mentioned there being alien technology involved in the process, and the process seems to be akin to that of the Vespene duplicates. It also would explain Rory's empathy, as he remembers being a Vespene duplicate.
* Don't you mean Nestene? As in Auton-Nestenes? [[StarcraftStarCraft|Vespene]] is sort of a gas....
* I think Rory would probably be sympathetic anyway; the only real difference between the situation he was in and that of the Gangers is that the original Rory wasn't around when he was an Auton.
 
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=== The Eleventh Doctor will snog Rory before he leaves as a companion ===
* Ten made out with most if not all his companions, to the point of Tennant jokingly regretting that "I didn't get to snog Bernard Cribbins…I- I got to snog all the other ones." Meanwhile, Eleven's gotten a kiss out of both Amy and River, but has only given Rory a loving kiss on the forehead that's easy to miss. The Doctor also seems to have a thing for girls who's names start with R as mentioned in the non-spoilers WMG page, Romana, Rose, River... and then there's Rory. Companion of the most confused for gay/bi Doctor yet... while it might sound like just slash humor and wishful thinking, given Eleven's lack of personal space and such combined with Rule of Funny I still could see a quick kiss on the lips after an important event happening just to complete the trio.
** Confirmed in the comic, scan here [https://web.archive.org/web/20180412045627/http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvpyolOmWj1qhecou.jpg\]
 
 
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=== Madame Kovarian is a previous regeneration of River Song. ===
In [https://web.archive.org/web/20111017225647/http://doctorwhospoilers.com/2011/4529 this] trailer, you can see River dressed up as her very briefly, including the eye patch. Given that River and Kovarian look nothing alike, this obviously isn't a disguise.
 
Madame Kovarian hates the Doctor with a passion, and for what better reason: She was told that her parents had either abandoned her or were killed because of the Doctor, and wants to destroy him because of it. This also creates a massive [[Stable Time Loop]] in which she only knows this by her own future self indoctrinating her, and that in effect River is the [[Big Bad]] this season. It's especially painful for the present River because all of it has already happened to her and she can't change a single thing or do much to help.
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=== Madame Kovarian is a female regeneration of the Master. ===
It would explain her obsession with him; maybe the Master went crazy/crazier after John Simm's version regenerated into Frances Barber's version and decided on killing the Doctor instead of flirting with him. She certainly does act a little like the Master's [[Large Ham]] self in ''Closing Time'', and the Master's being "a bit hypnotic" could explain how she got the clerics and the Silence on her side. Finally, all that ''Tick-tock'' stuff has got to be related to the drumming somehow.
 
=== Series 6 will have another [[Heel Face Turn|Redeemable Dalek]] ===
There was the lone Dalek During the 9th's tenure, and 10 had Dalek Sec and Dalek Caan. It takes extreme circumstances, but the Daleks have shown that they can change, that they can break out of their usual thought processes. I think one of the [[Fan Nickname|Dalek Rangers]] will turn on his brothers. [[Redemption Equals Death|He will probably then immediately get killed.]]
* Or not. Two words for you: Dalek companion. IMO, the best bet would be Dalek Strategist, as a strategist would probably be more capable of abstract thought, and could figure out the best bet for Dalek survival would be stop making the Doctor mad. Also, IIRC, Strategists are blue, and would go wonderfully with the TARDIS. It could even show it's allegiance with a bow tie!
** That idea is has more madness in it than all of [[300|Sparta.]] But, it may actually be the most logical conclusion if said [[Heel Face Turn|Heel Face Turned Dalek]] dodge the [[Redemption Equals Death]] Bullet.
** Maybe the Doctor picks up this redeemable Dalek and as they travel together they bond a little, and it becomes much better/nicer because of his influence. Then, the day comes when they split up, the Dalek ends up alone on some random planet, and it manages to create a race of nice Daleks, or at least Daleks who don't try to screw with everything they see.
*** The preview for The Wedding of River Song includes a very quick shot of what looks like the Doctor standing by a damaged Dalek at an odd angle that could be a non-hostile moment, maybe these two most ancient of enemies having to team up against the falling of the Silence, an alliance so unpredictable that it's the one thing that even the Silence and its carefully-laid plans can't account for? (Of course, it's far more likely that this is just the Doctor dealing with one more Dalek trying to exterminate him. But you never know...)
 
=== The Doctor was doing an alien tribal dance at Amy and Rory's wedding. ===
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* ...'''every enemy of the Doctor who ''didn't'' show up in "The Pandorica Opens".'''
** This includes Omega, The Meddling Monk, The Rani, and because it just wouldn't be a party without him......
[[Back Fromfrom the Dead|THE]] [[Arch Enemy|MASTER!]] Why are they doing it? Because last I checked, [[A God Am I|Time lords can a ascend to a higher level of existence after nuking the Universe.]] They conviently left this part out when then manipulated the [[Legion of Doom|Enemy Alliance]] into eliminating the Doctor.
** This may also include Prisoner Zero. His voice resembles the voice in the TARDIS saying "Silence will Fall". Also, he is the first monster to introduce the prophecy of the Pandorica opening. Furthermore, Prisoner Zero may be one of three "Beasts Below". The other "Beasts" are a Starwhale and a rather bothersome central recurring character that can be noticed in "Flesh and Stone" and "The Lodger" (if you look hard enough). All three Beasts Below may have the power to encourage the TARDIS to explode.
* ..'''has a base on Mercury.'''
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* ...'''The Doctor himself'''
** He's practically a borderline [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]. At some point,part of the Doctor snapped and engineered the whole thing to get rid of the pain he's suffered. The Doctor doesn't know this because its a sub-conscious desire; this has manifested into the Dream Lord, making the above WMG also true. Think about it-who knows more on how the TARDIS works than the Doctor? Series 6 will involve the Doctor trying to fight his inner demons, and the climax will be him regenerating into the 12th Doctor. For good measure,the dark side of the Doctor will split into a physical body-aka the Valeyard. Of course, there's the possibility it's all just a [[Xanatos Gambit]] to alter reality enough, so that he can alter history without consequence/go back and stop the Time War/both. Time Lord Victorius and all that...
** Here's an alternate take on that. Throughout New Who, the Doctor's companions seem to be getting ''horribly'' screwed over. This will culminate in Amy and Rory suffering a [[Fate Worse Than Death]], either because the Doctor wasn't clever/quick enough to stop it, or even indirectly ''because'' of his actions. This leads to the Doctor undergoing a [[Freak-Out]] of ''massive'' proportions, going from [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] into a [[Knight Templar]] [[Chaotic Evil]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] for his 12th Regeneration, and then tries to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]... EVERY wrong that ever happened or ever will, making the entire universe fit his definition of "right" - sort of becoming a combination of [[Shaman King|Hao Asakura]], [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|Big Brother]], [[Bleach|Sosuke Aizen]], [[Darkseid]], and [[The Lord of the Rings|Sauron]]. The conflict will revolve around Series/{{Torchwood}}, UNIT, Sarah Jane Smith, and all the other Companions from Classic Who trying to stop/redeem [[A God Am I|the Time Lord Victorious]], until he finally gets a [[Heel Realization]] and dies, but shunts his evil into a new being (the Valeyard), before finally becoming the Thirteenth Doctor, and the next season after that will feature The Valeyard as the Big Bad, and the Doctor's attempts to put his darkness down for good.
* ...'''The TARDIS from The Lodger'''
** See the last WMG on this page.
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Why else would people be wearing them? They all can't be losing their right eyes. Remembering the Silence's presence would help things tremendously. This would mean the Eyepatch Lady is willingly following their orders, however.
* I'll repeat a WMG from higher on the page: The eyepatches have an image of the Silence on the inside. If you're always looking at a picture of the Silence, you won't forget.
** But [[TheresThere Is No Kill Like Overkill]].
* Bizarrely, confirmed. Although it seems to be a bit more high-tech than "picture of the Silence on the inside".
 
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** Mechanoids from... Okay, I got nothing. ''Vengeance on Varos'' would be nice as an inspiration, as would ''Timelash'' and ''The Children of January''. Considering these guys haven't been seen since ''The Chase'' and some spinoffs, most notably a [[Tom Baker]] era annual, we really need more Mechanoids. (two parter)
*** ''Four'' companions, and a new (male) Doctor inspired by [[Colin Baker]] in costume and personality. I wouldn't really care if it was like Amy, Rory and River with someone like Canton or The Brig in the last spot. Okay, I know people moaned about Adric, Nyssa and Tegan, but they seem to like the new companions.
 
=== Season 6's big bad is anti-Silence ===
The doctor said the silence are an empire, so "the Silence will fall" means their empire will fall maybe unleashing a [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] in the form of season 5& 6's [[Big Bad]]
* Or the big bad is the Silence. When you say that Silence ''falls'', it doesn't mean Silence is gone, but the opposite.
* Eh? Empire? He said no such thing. The Silence is both a religious order (and series 6's [[Big Bad]]) as well as an abstract term implied to mean their downfall, the Doctor's death, or a bit of both.
 
=== The Empire of Silence probably covers planets other than Earth ===
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