Who Speculation - big spoilers

[ffutures]

Might as well give my guess as to how the Dr. Who cliffhanger will be resolved:



Everything "Saxon" has done has obviously created an enormous time paradox which is what the revamped Tardis has been holding back; when Martha somehow gets to the Tardis and switches the thing off before the moment the globes appeared the time paradox dragons from Father's Day will arrive to erase everything. Starting with the UNIT helicarrier, no doubt...

I think that the Time Lords created this mess, using The Master to re-create their world on Earth. Why Earth? Because it is obviously the galactic equivalent of a Hellmouth, somewhere where the laws of space and time have got a bit flimsy, largely thanks to the Doctor.

I think that Saxon's wife is the real power behind the throne, something old and evil which has programmed The Master and inserted itself into the timeline in the 1950s to create her. Wild guess - what was around in the 1950s? The Test Card / TV thingy that ate people's faces!

OK, probably not that, but I think she's possibly another Time Lord, The Doctor never encountered her alone so it's possible that his senses didn't detect her. If the Time Lords were using brainwashed people to save their past I think she might be The Ranee. Or Romana, as someone else has already suggested. Or a half-human hybrid programmed to reproduce the Time Lord race.

Or maybe not...

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Well, the wife turning out to be the villain would be in line with RTD's stance on women, though she is, perhaps, a little young to be one of the standard middle-aged-to-old female villains of this entire season.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

She has a Mary Archer look about her, that's evil enough for me.

Interesting

[keith5by5.livejournal.com]

I, like you, think there's more to the wife than has been seen. But the Time Lords using The Master to recreate their homeworld? Scary.

Re: Interesting

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Can't see how else it makes sense.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

My thought was that the globes are Timelord essence too. It's a nice twist from 'You are not alone' - The Master, to the actual reveal that it isn't just the Master it's also Romana/The Ranee, or indeed, the entire Time Lord race.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

You mean they're not the Daleks?

However will we survive this crushing blow?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Too many to be timelords, I think - weren't there only a couple of cities full. And I think that for once they aren't playing the Dalek card, they have other fish to fry.

[pete-darby.livejournal.com]

Toclaphane numbers, 6 billion. Which is, I believe, approximately the population of Earth at the mo.

Could they be the population of Cyber-Earth? Are the four toc that the amster chats to the Tylers?

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Well, way to cram in as much of the mythology as possible. :)

My own thinking is somewhat more mundane. Martha will save the day as the companion always does (it doesn't really matter how--magic, perhaps), the Doctor, on the verge of dying of old age at 130 (do not make me laugh) will reclaim the regeneration the Master pinched from him, Tennant will leave, Simm will become the Doctor, and Saxon's wife will prove to be simply a human woman who's fascinated by charismatic powerful men. (Or she might be the queen of the Racnoss, but I doubt it.)

I know we have been assured time and again that Tennant loves the role, that he isn't leaving yet, and so on. We were also led to believe Eccleston was going to be there more than a year, and downright told Piper was "in for the long haul." I now assume the opposite of anything I am told about NuWho casting. Also, a little more tenuously, someone wrote in LJ (I don't know how true it is) that Simm had been tipped as the Next Doctor, which is certainly in line with RTD's policy of casting high-profile big-star actors who'll do a season or two and then bog off, and this is the ideal opportunity to make the switch, before everyone forgets who he was.

It may seem a bit soon to be doing this, but I really think RTD wants to use up all the Doctor's regenerations during his time on the show and make sure no-one else can ever bring it back without violating the "rules."

Anyway, that's what I think.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

There's also the fact that Simm is playing the Master *exactly* the way Tennant is playing the Doctor. Absent the megalomania, they'd be identical. Whether this is poverty of imagination on the writers' part or another tip-off, I don't as yet know. Time will tell.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think that this is more someone's idea of contrasting the characters. I really doubt Simm will become the Doctor, way too scary. And wouldn't he keep running into people who said "Didn't you used to be Prime Minister?"

[pete-darby.livejournal.com]

IN DWC, RTD said this was a very deliberate way to undermine the Tennant Doctor: instead of being up against pompous authority, which he can do his trickstery stuff against, he's up against, well, himself.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

Any other unaccounted for Time Lords? How about Susan, his granddaughter, that he left in the 22nd century.

Romana was left in E-Space, so she might have survived the time war that way.


On another note: How many other people thought "Captain Scarlet!" when the flying aircraft carrier showed up?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Scarlet and/or Shield. Susan and Romana are both possibilities.

[doctor-toc.livejournal.com]

So you don't think the Toclafane are the Gelth? I thought they sounded exactly the same.

And yes, when we saw the Valient both my wife and I said "Cloudbase!"

[adrian-middle.livejournal.com]

They sounded about... oh, eight years old (hint, hint)

[doctor-toc.livejournal.com]

Oh. Crap.

[adrian-middle.livejournal.com]

Never mind Lazarus technology, I think the Doctor is going to regenerate into his younger self (or, more properly, rejuvenate) in order to turn the tables on the Master.