The Crack (SPOILERS)
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They were closed, but the scar tissue in the fabric of the universe is still there and the Time Lords have been poking at them from the other side.
The Doctor said as much.
Oh, and in a blink and you miss it scene, they showed that the crack was in "his room" back in the hotel of the minotaur.
The Doctor said as much.
Oh, and in a blink and you miss it scene, they showed that the crack was in "his room" back in the hotel of the minotaur.
^ It seems a little anti-climactic being the "thing" he saw in his room. There were lots of other cracks before and after that episode.
But that episode was after Big Bang. At that point he only suspected more cracks and feared their return.
Perhaps the Doctor was afraid of the crack for the same reason he worried about Pete's world breaching ours in Doomsday.
Back in "Rise of the Cybermen," the Doctor had this to say about parallel worlds:
In "Doomsday", when Rose wonders why he can't just come over in person, he has this to say:
In "The Stolen Earth," he explains to Donna what her seeing Rose means:
I think his fear is that the cracks did not go away and he won't be able to stop them from breaking down the walls between universes.
Not sure if it will happen, but this does leave the door open for Rose to come back, once the Time Lords are restored.
I saw earlier today that I'm not the only one who thought of this:
Back in "Rise of the Cybermen," the Doctor had this to say about parallel worlds:
In "Doomsday", when Rose wonders why he can't just come over in person, he has this to say:
In "The Stolen Earth," he explains to Donna what her seeing Rose means:
I think his fear is that the cracks did not go away and he won't be able to stop them from breaking down the walls between universes.
Not sure if it will happen, but this does leave the door open for Rose to come back, once the Time Lords are restored.
I saw earlier today that I'm not the only one who thought of this:
Ah OK, that makes a little more sense.
I think I got my episodes out of order.
But would the crack be the Doctor's greatest fear?
So the time lords can create and close cracks but not ones big enough to pass through?
Either it's a energy demand thing (Cut off from the eye when they were hidden?)
Or it's "is it safe to come home?" mentality.
I took it that it's easier to create a crack near an already existing crack than somewhere else.
Yeah, they have been poking at existing scars in the fabric of spacetime. But they can't come through blind. They need sort of landing lights similar to the Master's drums or River's Yowzah signal to avoid a catastrophy.
I think the fear surrounding the cracks is he didn't know exactly what caused them, other than his TARDIS somehow being involved. Even after "fixing" the problem the reason why was still a mystery; and a mystery that can end a universe isn't something the Doctor is likely to be cavalier about. In essence not knowing is his biggest fear, and the crack is the most recent symbol of that fear.
I don't like the revelation that the Crack was his greatest fear. I much preferred leaving the whole thing ambiguous and letting the viewers decide what his greatest fear was. My personal theory was the mortality of his companions and I think that's a much more interesting idea than the Crack.
I wouldn't say that it's more interesting. It would have had more emotional weight than what we got, I agree, but it would have been an anticlimactic revelation since it would not actually add anything to the story or the character that we didn't know before.
I'd always assumed he saw himself. His Doctor, in particular, seemed aghast at himself most of the time.
I have a feeling that was the original intention.
Yeah, I thought it was himself, or the War Doctor, or at the very least his Timelord Victorious moment. His worst fear was him out of control.
I don't get why the Crack was his worst fear. He never mentioned it after Big Bang, never went looking for anything about them, etc.
In other words, we are told that it's his greatest fear, rather than show. Weak story telling sauce.
Actually it does make sense... A LOT!
Think about it.
The purpose of the rooms was not to scare the bejeezes out of everyone for the sake of it.
It was to turn the people toward their faith to feed the monster.
Having the crack in there creates a certain poetic symmetry.
The Doctor's faith was in Amy... In her bringing him back from oblivion after being swallowed up by the crack.
So them having faith in each other fits perfectly.
What faith would himself being in there bring out that would be greater than his faith in Amy?
I wouldn't put my money on it, the Tenth Doctor is long gone. If the Timelords are restored back to our universe, the prevention of the recommencement of the Time War should be the first item on the agenda.
If you ignore an important part of the episode...
That's true. it was to scare the bejeezes out of everyone to scare them into the Faith. I believe it was explicitly stated that your worst fear was in your room... and your fear, once you saw it, would scare you to the Faith.
It's not about faith in oneself. Again, in the episode they SAY the thing in the room is your worst fear and will scare you into FAITH of the creature... to scare you into the Faith, capital F.
So again, the crack in the universe is his "worst fear"? More so than a part of him that he wants to keep secret? More so than the Valyard? The Master? The Daleks? The crack... that thing that he took care of?
Sorry, the more I think about it, the less and less I'm convinced this wasn't just Moffat changing his mind or not having time or something, or just in a corner and needed to wrap up everything at once. But, I don't think this was the planned reveal. Not by a long shot.
Think about it: why was the Cloister Bell ringing? That bell is ON the Tardis... the crack is on Trenzelore. Who might be on the Tardis? Himself.
