Your favourite pet theories of your own

[The Borgified Corpse]

On the flip side of that, I was recently wondering: What if Susan was the one that the Time Lords were really after? The Doctor was still a fugitive because he stole a TARDIS and facilitated her escape, but what if the Time Lords were actually after Susan for some reason? The Doctor was just trying to protect her.

The reason it's going be sometime in 2017 before we get a new season of Doctor Who is to give Peter Capaldi a chance to catch his second wind and to consider staying on past season 10, which he's hinted might be his last season as the Doctor. I wish someone would come along and at least tie with Tom Baker as far as how many seasons they play the Doctor. Since Matt Smith-my favorite-is no longing playing the Doctor, I'll settle for Capaldi being the one to tie with Tom Baker on number of seasons as the Doctor.

I don't know about tying Tom Baker's record. (After Colin Baker, I think it's probably a jinx to even say that.) But I'd be tempted to nudge Capaldi and mention that, just by staying for a 4th season, he would not only be the #1 longest running of the new series Doctors but he would also rank #3 on the list of all TV Doctors, behind only Tom Baker & Jon Pertwee.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I think a big reason a lot of the actors don't stick around is that of being typecast, and it limits bigger opportunities with the tight schedules the BBC runs .

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I don't think that the type-casting argument holds as much water now as it used to. These days, it seems like all the big names are getting involved in big genre properties because that's where a lot of the big exposure is.

I can certainly understand the scheduling argument, though.

 

[Volpone]

OOH! I just had a doozy:
1) The TARDIS doors open in.
2) Real police box doors open out.
3) Real police boxes are larger than any TARDIS prior to 2005/the 9th Doctor. (Since 2005 they're about the same size, more or less.)
4) In "Logopolis" the Doctor tries to materialize the TARDIS around the last extant police box.

Why not just travel to a time like 1966 when there were police boxes galore is another topic, but...

i) When the TARDIS first materializes next to the police box, this could be a failsafe because it would be impossible for the smaller TARDIS to materialize around a real police box.
ii) When they try the second time, they'd have materialized *inside* the police box, not the other way around.
iii) If you are materialized inside a police box, if your doors open out you're effectively trapped. But if your doors open in, you can open the doors and then open the outward opening door of the police box to trot out your ladder and tape to take your measurements, albeit with slightly harder problems to explain to the bobbies.

 

[CmndrSela318]

I'm back!!! Here's my latest theory. It involves Clara and The Doctor. Asylum Of The Daleks was actually the Doctor's 3rd encounter with Clara or one of her echoes created in Name Of The Doctor. The first 2 encounters actually happened in Day Of The Doctor to the forgotten/ignored/real #9 Doctor played by John Hurt and the David Tennant Doctor, who turned out to be the real #11 because Moffat retroactively inserted Hurt's Doctor into the line up between McGann and Eccleston and the wasted regeneration in Journey's End became #12. The reason the Hurt, Eccleston and Tennant Doctors didn't remember it is probably explained with this Matt Smith Doctor quote from Day Of The Doctor:

The timestreams are out of sync. You can't retain it, no.

It also probably explains why Matt Smith's Doctor didn't remember it in Asylum Of The Daleks.
How's that for a theory?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I have an even crazier, crazier theory that I wish they had done. Clara was still a Dalek.

When 11 meets her she's inside a Dalek, she never left.

Of course what we see in the show totally contradicts this all but hell I wish they had done that.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Not my theory but I saw a bit recently in Doctor Who Magazine where Clare Higgins speculates that Ohila (leader of the Sisterhood of Karn from "Night of the Doctor," "The Magician's Apprentice," & "Hell Bent") is really the Doctor's mother.

 

[The Wormhole]

^^I really don't see it myself either.

 

[kirk55555]

Yeah, I really can't see her being The Doctor's mother. I've thought that the one woman from The End of Time, the timelord who contacted Mott, might be The Doctor's mother, or at least related to him. She probably wasn't, especially since we haven't gotten even a hint of follow up or even a cameo by her or someone who looks like her, but that was the theory that seemed possible to me. But, based on the interactions between The Doctor and the leader of the Sisterhood, I can't see them being related.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

What about that woman at the Barn when the Doctor leaves the confession dial?

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I got the impression that she was more like the Doctor's nanny. Or the den mother for the shitty boarding school that the Doctor was sent to as a child. Either way, probably a woman that he's actually closer to than his biological mother.

IIRC, RTD said in The Writer's Tale that the woman that contacted Wilf in "The End of Time" was supposed to be the Doctor's mother. Makes sense I guess but I don't understand why he never revealed within the episode itself who she was supposed to be. It seemed like she didn't really factor into the story anyway. Personally, I prefer to think that she's the Doctor's daughter, Susan's mother.

 

[The Wormhole]

What about that woman at the Barn when the Doctor leaves the confession dial?

I concur with the idea she was someone with the boarding school, and perhaps even the same woman who talks to the crying child Doctor in Listen.

IIRC, RTD said in The Writer's Tale that the woman that contacted Wilf in "The End of Time" was supposed to be the Doctor's mother. Makes sense I guess but I don't understand why he never revealed within the episode itself who she was supposed to be.

RTD does indeed say in The Writer's Tale that the Woman in TEOT is indeed the Doctor's mother. He explains the reason he didn't state it in the episode itself is a combination of feeling it would be tacky to say it and wanting her identity to be open to whatever fans wanted her to be.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I still like my crazy idea of Clara being a Dalek except where episodes contradict it

 

[Mr Soak]

I still like my crazy idea of Clara being a Dalek except where episodes contradict it

So that's basically everything from The Snowmen on, then, yeah?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

So that's basically everything from The Snowmen on, then, yeah?

No from Asylum Of The Daleks onwards......... I had this crazy idea in my head that Clara was still a Dalek despite what we saw.

 

[Mr Soak]

I was jokingly referring to "except where episodes contradict it" from your post.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I was jokingly referring to "except where episodes contradict it" from your post.

Oh that's cool I am not good when it comes to written humour.

I just loved the idea of Clara as a Dalek and everyone around her is treating her normal because she is projecting an image of Clara..

 

[The Four Doctor]

The way I see it, Fixed Points are only relatively fixed. They're a lot harder to change than most of history, and changing them can have dire consequences, but they can be changed if someone sufficiently powerful intervenes in history.

Sutekh qualifies, as would the Rani's giant Time Brain, if she'd be able to get it working, but very little else.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I wish we could have The Rani in a new episode of Who, maybe with a new actress or something.

 

[the vet]

I wish we could have The Rani in a new episode of Who, maybe with a new actress or something.

Missy should have been The Rani