Analyzing the cool factor, Doctor

If you can’t beat them, join them!

The swash-buckling pirates of Doctor Who episode “The Curse of the Black Spot” certainly sail to that mantra. While a delicious romp, the episode yielded no obvious new information on the overall story arc. It did, however, show us some more of what we already knew. The woman with the eye patch in the disappearing window made another appearance with some cryptic words for Amy.

“It’s time. You’re doing fine. Just stay calm.” Time for what? I’m more convinced now than last time that the woman is not referring to the events that Amy experiences while seeing her. Sure, there was plenty for the average person to panic about on that pirate ship, but not nearly enough for Amy Pond to get worked up about. She’s certainly made up of stronger stuff.

On a non-major-story-arc note, did anyone else notice that the actress who played Siren was channeling some serious Drusilla moments? Drusilla being the crazy, prophetic vampire from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The resemblances were uncanny.

There should be an episode of Doctor Who wherein the good Doctor destroys all tumbeasts. Tumblr went down just as I tried to post about the most recent episode of Doctor Who, which took me several hours to draft up to my satisfaction, and thus all my hard work has vanished into the dark pits of tumbeasts stomachs.

I’ll rewrite it, but it’s gonna be another day as I’m heading off to work. Just wanted to express my frustrations. Damn you, tumbeasts.

“You must tell the Doctor. What he does not know, what he cannot know.”

“How do you know about that?”

Theories abound with the two-part season premier of Doctor Who. After wondering what the Silence is throughout all of season five, fans everywhere finally got a glimps of the Silence, and it just may go down as Steven Moffat’s most genius turn of events in the Doctor Who series. After reading several blogs theorizing about the premier, I had to put my own voice out there.

Something it seems many people are overlooking is the crucial, yet underplayed, moment when Amelia Pond uses the bathroom in the White House and encounters that creature (which, in my humble opinion, seems like a cross between SlenderMan and Dementors.) In this scene, the creature tells her, “You must tell the Doctor. What he does not know, what he cannot know.” and she replies, “How do you know about that?”

This scene is nearly forgotten as things get hectic for the Doctor and his crew, but Amy continues to say that she must tell the Doctor something. That it is very, very important. Then it happens, she tells the Doctor that she is pregnant, and the astronaut appears.

Which brings me to my theory.

Take a moment to look back at season 5, episode “The Lodger” in which the Doctor encounters the fake-TARDIS which needs an unlimited power supply. Fast forward to season 6, episode 1 & 2. Look familiar? Yes, it is indeed the very same fake-TARDIS. How did it end up in the quaint rural town, abandoned, seeking a new pilot? The Doctor wonders the same thing, and says, “Oh well, I guess I’m about to find out.”

However, did we find out? No, the fake-TARDIS still remains seemingly intact after River kills all the creatures and the gang escapes into the TARDIS. It can’t have moved itself without a pilot, and thus presumably still remains in the underground of America, until someone or something returns to pilot it long enough to abandon it in the future.

It may have been noticeable that I’ve been calling the big bad guys in the premier “creatures” instead of “The Silence.” This is deliberate, because I do not believe they are indeed “The Silence.” Instead, I think they are Silents. Sounds the same, spelled differently, and creates a huge hole in the most common theory that these creatures were what was referred to throughout all of season 5. Why would the entire universe be running from creatures that could be killed with simple hand guns? Sure, you forget they exist when you look away, and they can implant commands into your mind that you act on without thought, but surely beasts from around the many universes would have shot one of them eventually, right? Too easy.

Instead, let’s look at the little girl. The one in the astronaut suit, the one in the pictures that Amy finds, the one that the Silents command an old man to take care of, because she is very, very important. She is, after all, a Time Lord, or so one must assume from the end of episode 2. The lost little girl who is dying, who does not yet have a name…The Silence.

Each Time Lord has a title they go by: The Doctor, The Master, and dare I say, The Silence. The entire universe was laughing at the Doctor last season, because he still did not know. He did not know that there was another Time Lord out there.

When Canton shoots one of the Silents, and then it’s name is demanded, it is assumed that the Silent says, “We are the Silence. Silence will fall.” However, this makes little sense. Why would the creature imply its own doom? That all the Silence will fall? Or perhaps it said, “We are the Silents. Silence will fall.” Implying, instead, an entirely new realm of possibility. They are creatures either created by, or given their name by, the Silence. The little girl.

The little girl was dying. She was in an astronaut suit with enough alien tech to keep her alive. When she disappeared, leaving the astronaut suit behind, Amy was kidnapped by the Silents and strapped to the fake-TARDIS. They needed an unlimited energy source much like the little girl, much like a Time Lord, and they take Amy. Pregnant Amy, who should by all accounts be at least 3 months pregnant (since episode 2 of the premier begins three months after episode 1) but isn’t showing at all. The Silents know she’s pregnant, either by some special psychic power they wield or because they found out from the Silence, the little girl. Or some other reason that we cannot yet fathom.

Now the tricky part, if Amy is pregnant with a Time Lord’s baby, is it the Doctor’s? It must be, right? More than likely, if she is pregnant with a Time Lord’s child, it is the Doctor’s. However, first I want to look at a wildly unusual theory that I myself am not really convinced of but it has enough merit to be mentioned. Rory is a Time Lord. Yep, that’s the theory I’ve seen on many a blog. It’s plausible, and here’s why.

Everything makes very little sense in Doctor Who until an arc is finished and then you look back at all the little things and go, “OHHH! That makes perfect sense! They’re brilliant, I never even realized the clues were there!” So look at the tiny little hints that could suggest Rory is a Time Lord. He spent 2,000 years in solitude, guarding Amy, and did not go insane. That’s a long time to be alone, never aging, never dying, and not going insane. Sure, he was technically supposed to be a cyberman, hence the non-aging thing. But as a human again, he still remembers the 2,000 years, and the Doctor makes a point of asking him about it. Perhaps because he suspects something is odd about Rory?

Stepping away from that odd theory, let’s look at why Amy would be carrying the Doctor’s baby. We’ve never (in the new series, at least, I haven’t watched the old series) heard about how Time Lords are born/created. Do they have parents? Can they mate? We can only guess. The biggest question though is why Amy wouldn’t know that it’s the Doctor’s baby. A few ideas immediately pop into my head. The first, Time Lord’s impregnate in a totally different way than, you know, human sex. The second, Amy does know, but also realizes that the Doctor she’s with at the moment is a younger version of the Doctor and she therefore must keep it a secret. The older Doctor, presumably killed during the first scenes of episode 1, did know. Like River and the Doctor, Amy realized she met the Doctor out of order. This leaves a lot of holes in the plot, but there are always holes in theories when speaking of Doctor Who plots.

“You will bring the Silence.” Say the Silents to Amy. How could Amy bring the Silence? Giving birth to it, her, the little girl.

Finally, the Doctor tries to discover if Amy is actually still pregnant, as she says she is not. The scan fluctuates between positive and negative, constantly changing. Is it just a cliffhanger for us? Or was it actually confused, confused because her pregnancy was really fluctuating, really in constant motion. Our first glimpse at a Time Lord pregnancy?

We’ll find out, but for now, these are just theories.