Who Speculation

[ffutures]

Had a weird idea for the Dr. Who finale - doubt it's right, but I might as well get my speculation in early. LOTS of spoilers, especially if I'm right.



Rose says that there's something a bit off about Donna - she's got a weird time signature. The Doctor says something similar, that she's prone to create new timelines. Her life is also surrounded by weird coincidences that tended to keep her out of danger; on holiday during various alien invasions etc.. There were scenes in Saturday's episode where people kept looking at Donna and half-seeing something about her - it was the time parasite, but maybe that gave them a glimpse of something else.

I can think of one other character in another show whose oddity is signalled this way - Dawn Summers in the Buffyverse. I think that like Dawn she has been inserted into the timeline with memories etc. retconned to give her a back story.

What if her name is a clue - Donna Noble = Donna Lord = Lady Lord? What if she's a Time Lord?

She's a Time Lord, hidden by the same sort of trick used by the Doctor and the Master. She was exiled to Earth to wait out the Time War, then she's going to be used to create a new timeline in which the Time Lords can exist again. Maybe there's another clue in her name - Donna = Madonna - and she is to be the mother of the new reality. Everything in seasons 1-4 has been building up to the final consolidation of apparently random factors that will allow it to happen.

I have no idea how they will resolve it, but I think the clues may be pointing this way. Could she be Romana? The Rani? Some other Time Lord we haven't previously met?

As I said, I doubt that this is right, but it's sure as hell going to be interesting finding out.

Comments

[booster17.livejournal.com]

The Donna = Romana theory's been around for a while certainly. She's definitely one of the very few companions that the Doctor's let fly the TARDIS.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of that too, but I'm not sure it's indicative enough to be a real clue. He has let others fly it, after all.

Where does the kitten pic come from - Gridlock?

[booster17.livejournal.com]

Close - the Confidential for Gridlock actually.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Of course. Cute kitty.

[soren-nyrond.livejournal.com]

That said, one thing that the "new management" have been pointedly unkeen on (Sarah Jane/K9 apart) is roping in "old-Who" references and making them of singular importance in "nu-Who".

In one of the trailers (on You-Tube) what presume to be Davros talks about the "Children of Time" and my own wild guess would be that there's a critical mass point when the Doctor and a number of his companions come together, which triggers whatever McGuffin situation the BBC-PTB have decided they want to cliff-hang us with for the 2010 season.

That (so far as we know) TW and SJA are still scheduled would imply that their cast-members are pretty safe from disintegration.


If I was going to "vote" for an old thread coming back, it would be the temporal technology from Dalek Master Plan being used (in reverse) to resurrect Davros.

N] A starscape with asteroid field; FX small swirling effect which grows to fill centre screen and then resolves into a dead, scorched planet

N+1] Surface of scorched planet. FX similar swirling effect -- enter Dalek Caan & Technological Dalek (sucker arm replaced with Time Inducer)

CAAN: Activate

N+2] Close up of pile of dust. FX swirling effect (again) -- dust reconstitutes to show lowe rpart of Dalek casing. Pan back to show Davros.

DAVROS: I am restored. The Daleks survive. The Daleks prevail. The Daleks will be avenged. [PAUSE (for him to catch his breath)] Locate the Doctor.

CAAN: I obey

DAVROS: Capture the Doctor.

CANN: I obey.

DAVROS: Exterminate the Doctor

CAAN + Tech Dalek: Exterminate

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, except would modern Daleks still revere Davros, or would they regard him as something horrible to be EXTERMINATED with extreme prejudice.