Pondering the Crack

[clocketpatch]

Argh. I wish it wasn't called the crack. I wish it was the anomaly, or something, The Crack is just too easy to make bad puns about, but anyway...

I realized something when I was watching the last episode. It made me sad. But then I realized something else at work today and I think I've got a new theory on the finale...

*spoilers for everything*


Rory was consumed by the crack at the end of Cold Blood, wiped from existence. Yet, rumour is that he comes back in the finale, but that he doesn't remember who he is either. The idea being that the crack doesn't kill you; it just steals your identity. A death of a sort. Like what happened to Donna. *sobs*

River killed the best man she's ever known. It's been widely speculated that this is the Doctor. Except, it can't be the Doctor because Matty boy has signed on for two more seasons. Unless she's talking about another death of a sort.

She told him that she learned to pilot the TARDIS from the best and it was a shame he wasn't there.

I think it was Merry who first brought up the idea that the Moff might try to blank slate the Whoniverse by retconning everything pre-2010. I was sceptical at first, but then, in the last episode, we got to see two more pictures of the Doctors previous incarnations.

Why do they keep showing us these pictures? At first I thought it was pure flailing fanwankery (and, make no mistake, I will not stop my flailing if it happens again) but now I wonder if the Moff isn't intentionally reminding us of the history of the show and the main character, so that we will really feel and understand the blow when time rips all of that away.

Not to worry though, because, after mulling this over at work today, I don't think it will be permanent. Time can be rewritten, but what was it River said before she offed herself in the library? She said that it wouldn't be rewritten. Not that time. I don't know if the Moff knew he'd be getting the captain's seat for the series when he wrote the library episodes (but I figure he must've had a pretty good inkling.) I don't know how much he planned out. What I do know is that at some point the Doctor will remember what happened in the Library and give her his old sonic screwdriver.

I think that he will regain his memories and his past. Probably Rory will too. Though, it would be nice, for a change, to have a season or two where the Doctor isn't an old man weighed down by guilt and self-loathing. Give him a chance to duke it out with his subconscious and win (and why do I get the impression the Dream Lord is probably going to turn up at some point as well?!?)

Anyway, I'm just thinking, the Moff could be taking a page from the EDAs and having an amnesia season. The other thing that makes me wonder about this is the bit where River knows his name and Ten says that's impossible...

because the other thing I thought of today at work is this: The Doctor doesn't reveal his name... unless he's forgotten that he's not supposed to reveal it.



Um, yeah, my crack theories are cracky. Get it? CRACKY?

Like I said. Awful. LOL

Other random bits that aren't connected to this but I just feel like mussing over (and have been mentioned by me and other people before, but why not gather them all together for the heck of it):

* the reoccurring theme of vision/blindness
* the countdowns and deadlines that keep happening. I know there are always countdowns in Who, but it seems like Eleven is constantly saying "Just X more minutes until..." and then Amy WAS flat-out counting down in Flesh and Stone. what happens when the time runs out?
* What is the silence?
* I think Amy is going to have to make a choice between Rory and the Doctor again.
* I think that Rory and his issued in 1990 security badge is more than what he appears to be.
* I think that the Village that Time Forgot is more than it appears to be.
* I want to know what the fairytale is.
* I want to know how the Other!Doctor ties in with any/all of this.
* I think that this finale is probably going to have nothing to do with anything I'm talking about, will come completely out of left field, and will still blow my socks off.

[Stripes]

Wait what?

***Are you saying that Moff is trying re write RTD era, making it the way he wants it to be? If so I am going to be pissed.

Look, I understand if you don't like an era, but to just take over and re write it, well that is a cocky /nasty move. That's someone saying that their vision of WHO is better and everyone should follow it. That is WHO DICTATORSHIP!

Past writers have had past eras they did not like, but they accepted it, moved on and did what they liked with WHO, they did not change the past.

I hope this isn't what you mean, if so, I am going to have to say I am getting furious with moffat.

[clocketpatch]

Nonononnonono you misunderstood (well, ish)

I think that the Doctor is going to forget who he is and the universe is going to forget the Doctor, but Amy will remember what he told her when she was seven (or something) and he'll remember himself back into existence, Rusty warts and all.

However, if I am at all right about this, I really REALLY hope the Moff doesn't alienate himself from basically all of fandom in the process, because that would suck. **

[Stripes]

Oh! Ok. I see. I am not sure what to think of this.

*** I mean, i kind of like the idea that he forgets who he is. That could be fun and interesting and possibly silly.

I don't like how Moff can easily use this to change the past. (i never liked him.. really... I don't see the love for him. He's a jerk and he shows it in his interviews. .... anyway ....)

I also don't like how Amy has to remember and everything is ok. Sounds like a cop out and laziness to come up with something far more interesting.

[clocketpatch]

I don't think things will be immediately okay. In fact, I wouldn't put it past the Moff to end the season on a cliff-hanger to boost his incoming ratings for next year.

As for liking him. I don't know him. What I've seen of him makes me think he's a bit of an insensitive sexist jerk, but I may have been influenced by the Internet. I like his work. There's a big difference between a person's work and the person themselves. **

[Stripes]

There is a difference in a persons work and personalty, but I am starting to see his views in his work. You're right about women are the villains.

Also, it is annoying when you buy a DW magazine or see him in an interview and he adds his personal views and make him look like he is some flawless writer ( ok Rusty made himself look like wonderful writer and he did add some of his personal views, however i didn't find it as in your face as Moffat does).

Oh, I think the internet has influenced me, but now i see it in his work and interviews. I like that i see this, i like that people point this out.

[jjpor]

Yeah, Moffat has made some pretty jerkish remarks in past interviews etc, but I don't allow it to colour my opinion of his work. I don't think RTD-era Who exactly treated its female characters very well either, but I guess that is another debate for another thread. Regarding Clocket's theory:

*I see what you're getting at there, and it is something that's been hinted at more than once in S5...and Moffat's on record as saying people shouldn't get too uptight about canon and continuity because some of the best writers Who has ever had, Bob Holmes included, used to just make it up as they went along. And I don't think anyone can argue that the obsession with fanw*nk under JNT was one of the things that helped kill Who in the 1980s...

Having said that...

I really hope that doesn't happen. I mean, if it did it wouldn't make me break with NuWho or Moffat or whatever, because I'm a believer in rolling with those sort of blows and seeing what happens next, and I think it could make for a very interesting story. Nevertheless, I've got to agree with Newton really - deliberately rewriting or explicitly rendering obsolete great chunks of the show's history...that strikes me as a cheap shot and a discourteous one. I mean, it's okay not to like one or other of the show's past eras, and it's okay to totally ignore that era going forward, but to explicitly state, in-story, that it never happened just seems wrong to me, and it would be denying whoever came after Moffat as showrunner options that they might want to pursue.

So no, I hope they don't do that...even though it would probably be done in a very clever, entertaining way.*

[merrythemad]

grrrrrr this should go in the angels n atraxi thread you meaney-heads! Anyway, whitedness follows

**I wonder if it matters at all that his ship started crashing in 2005 but he landed not in 2005 at all, I mean they made such a big deal of it being 2005 at the end of EoT2 that it seems to me like it's really the first clue.**

ALSO, CLOCKET NO!!!!!!!!!!! Do NOT ponder crack, crack kills