Theories about the Crack - *SPOILERS* up to 5x03

[Allyn Gibson]

Didn't the timelords have a plan in "the End of time" that was some kind of final solution that would split open Time itself?

Yes, but I doubt that would actually play into the fifth season arc, as RTD wrote the finale after Moffat had planned out (and written some of) the fifth season.

 

[Awesome Possum]

But, why doesn't she remember it? Same reason she doesn't remember the Daleks?

Maybe Amy and Amelia are two different people.

No, they're the same person.

I'm beginning to think, however, that Amy isn't entirely real. I think she's actually 8 year-old Amelia's dream of herself. That could be why Prisoner Zero recreated Amelia and not Amy, because the twelve years later part of "The Eleventh Hour" isn't, actually, twelve years later and Amelia is still eight.

That may not be be what is going on, but I do like it. Plus it would tie into the poem at the end of The Beast Below.

In bed above we're deep asleep
While greater love lies further deep
This dream must end, this world must know
We all depend on the beast below...

 

[Captain Pike]

I think it's more likely a play on 'Pandora's Box' (ancient Greeks again), which according to legend was a container full of all the evils of the world.. and hope.

Well, probably, but I just like theorising.

So do I, and although it's a stretch, it's probably worth mentioning that Pandora was the name of a quasi-mythical Timelady in the Big Finish audio series Gallifrey

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

...there must be something wrong with Amy! (I suspect the fact neither her parents nor her aunt have been seen or named has something to do with this as well.)

I think your on the right track here, it is weird that Amy has been come up with solutions in the past 2 episodes.

"Why aren't there any ducks? Then how do you know it's a duck pond?"

Amy Pond.

The duck pond is the appearance of the Big Bad "seen in the very first episode. 'Albeit, not in the most conventional form. You’re going to have to think about it and find out what it is, but it’s in there.'"

Amy is Dawn Summers. She's a function of whatever the Big Bad is, she didn't exist before there was the crack in the wall of that otherwise abandoned house. She isn't real.

Or not. Who the hell knows?

 

[BenRoethig]

Didn't the timelords have a plan in "the End of time" that was some kind of final solution that would split open Time itself?

Yes, but I doubt that would actually play into the fifth season arc, as RTD wrote the finale after Moffat had planned out (and written some of) the fifth season.

That assumes they weren't communicating.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Didn't the timelords have a plan in "the End of time" that was some kind of final solution that would split open Time itself?

Yes, but I doubt that would actually play into the fifth season arc, as RTD wrote the finale after Moffat had planned out (and written some of) the fifth season.

That assumes they weren't communicating.

They did, to some extent, but they were also trying to stay out of each other's hair. For instance, RTD had an idle thought of doing another Dalek spectacular, until he learned that Moffat was using the Daleks early in the fifth season. In general, the communication between them was about where Moffat wanted to start with the Doctor so that the finale could end there. RTD has made it very clear, such as in the pages of Doctor Who Magazine, that he was looking forward to being able to watch this season of Doctor Who fresh and completely unspoiled, which makes it unlikely, I think, that RTD did any setting up of the fifth season story arc in Tennant's finale -- blow up the TARDIS, yes; plant seeds for cracks in time and space, no.

 

[Saul]

Still, some things in "The End of time" are left opened. Who was the lady and the other person who covered their face. I think there's something, even if ever so small being carried over to the next series.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

So, something I've noticed is that they are making it very obvious that we see each crack in each episode so far. A lot of people are saying it is too obvious, but I think this is intentional.

We have only ever seen the crack where the Doctor has been. My theory is that the cracks ONLY appear where the Doctor has been in his travels, either in his past, or now as the 11th Doctor, not sure which, only that the cracks only appear where the Doctor has been.

I think the Doctor has become an intergalactic drug dealer. That's the only logical explanation for why there seems to be crack everywhere he goes.

 

[GabeHimself]

I think the Doctor created the crack when he opened the crack in Amelia's wall wider. And it's destroying time and the TARDIS is dragging it back and forth across all of time and space.

I believe that was . . . All Good Things -- but Moffat's been ripping off the Time Traveller's Wife since Girl in the Fireplace . . .