OMG RIVER IS A DALEK
Hey, those spoilers? Those ones? Yeah, I was pondering them and came up with this.
Doctor Who Series Six (Six-Seven?): A Detailed Analysis
Death!
First of all…I don’t think either Amy or Rory will die, because of Moffat mentioning, in one of the other DWMs, that they’re in all thirteen episodes. Besides, I’m pretty sure there’s a no-killing-companions rule in place now. Both of them have come back from the dead, anyway!
Shagging!
And as for the Amy/Rory relationship, I am positive that there won’t be a divorce storyline, partly because it would be pointless (why spend all that time getting them together) and partly because I can’t see it happening on a show so many children watch, because divorce is a pretty major thing when you’re young.
Admittedly-
“you will gasp in astonishment at the true nature of his relationship with Amy Pond…”
sounds a bit like someone’s going to have an affair, but…there’s a lot of other things it could be. Perhaps Amy’s remembering the Doctor back
did something to her or him or the universe. Maybe whatever the latest Big Bad is is Amy’s fault?
“you will cry out in horror as Rory Williams stumbles to the brink of a tragic mistake…”
Stumbles to the brink! So he might not actually do it, whatever it is? Noooo, Rory!
All this stuff put together sounds like Rory finds Amy and the Doctor in a compromising position, and in his anger nearly does (or does) something to put the Doctor in danger, but…
I think it’s more likely he does something unwittingly. He’s tricked by someone he thinks he can trust, or something, or thinks he’s doing something good. Because, well, we know Rory- he forgave Amy for her pre-wedding snog, he guarded her for nearly two thousand years, I can’t buy him ever intentionally hurting her. Seriously, it’s a bit of a betrayal of the character if he does.
“The frankly appalling revelation concerning the one person in the universe the Doctor trusts the most?”
Okay, this one’s got me. Is it River? Because he doesn’t really know her yet. Amy? Might be. Might possibly be Rory? That might be another hint that he steps towards the Dark Side, oh noes.
My money’s on Amy, because the “revelation” and the “true nature of his relationship with Amy” might be the same thing.
River Song!
“Have you already guessed that River Song is…”
The Doctor’s wife? Seriously, she’s already a time-travelling gun-toting archology professor who even Daleks are scared of, what more can they do with her? Well, actually…
My Theory at the moment is that Amy and Rory are the ancestors of River…she isn’t their daughter, but their great-great-great-something granddaughter,
and that’s the Big Revelation. I have no evidence whatsoever for this, except that Amy and River have similar shoes:
DO YOU SEE IT NOW, TELL ME YOU SEE IT!
Also both have water-related names (Pond and River). Which I’m sure means nothing (we’ve also had a Lake), but anyway.
And it sort of covers everything…the revelation about River and about Doctor/Amy. Because he’d have snogged his great-great-great grandmother-in-law, which would weird him (and her!) out. Anyway…I’m not even sure I’d like this to take place, and I’m sure it won’t, but I thought I’d share it with the world anyway.
Lastly! I’m sure things will turn out ok no matter what we speculate. Who would have thought that Amy would decide to marry Rory and he would die and be eaten by a crack in time and she’d forget him and he’d become a plastic Roman and guard her almost-dead body for centuries and the Doctor would ride this Pandorica thingy into the exploded TARDIS saving the world and making everyone forget him and then Amy would bring him back? No-one, that’s who!
September 26, 2010 @ 2:43 am
Lastly! I’m sure things will turn out ok no matter what we speculate. Who would have thought that Amy would decide to marry Rory and he would die and be eaten by a crack in time and she’d forget him and he’d become a plastic Roman and guard her almost-dead body for centuries and the Doctor would ride this Pandorica thingy into the exploded TARDIS saving the world and making everyone forget him and then Amy would bring him back? No-one, that’s who! I wish, wish, wish, wish this could be made into an icon.
September 26, 2010 @ 11:47 pm
It can, in your choice of colors.
September 26, 2010 @ 11:55 pm
My god. I just fangasmed.
September 26, 2010 @ 3:01 am
I have no evidence whatsoever for this, except that Amy and River have similar shoes I don’t know why, but this honestly made me laugh for a good ten seconds.
September 26, 2010 @ 4:00 am
Interesting analysis. I can’t wait for S6!
September 26, 2010 @ 4:33 am
I’m still not buying the whole River is the Doctor’s wife thing. It has been implied entirely way too heavily through-out the fifth season. And as Moffat said: If you don’t deliver on most people’s expectations, and you just say, ‘Ooh, she’s a specially programmed android who believes she’s the Doctor’s wife,’ people will go, ‘That‘s a cheat.’ You can’t do that… I agree 100% about your feelings with Rory, about how he would never do anything intentional to harm Amy as it would be against his character. And I LOVE that you say Amy and River are related because they both have red pumps. hahahahah Some of your theories are interesting, but definitely enjoyed reading this post. :)
September 26, 2010 @ 9:43 am
Doesn’t that quote more support the theory that she IS his wife, since that’s what 90% of the fans seem to have concluded? I’d personally rather she not be because it smacks to me of favoritism and I hate that in Doctor/companion relationships, but I’ve pretty much accepted that I’m going to be disappointed. :-
September 26, 2010 @ 4:54 am
My Theory at the moment is that Amy and Rory are the ancestors of River…she isn’t their daughter, but their great-great-great-something granddaughter, You know, I actually wrote up a theory of that pre-Pandorica Opens. ; ) Who knows! I do think River is the Doctor wife, but. . . in a different and more complex definition of “marriage”.
September 26, 2010 @ 7:22 am
That’s very interesting – yes,possible
September 30, 2010 @ 8:40 pm
So she’s Susan?
September 30, 2010 @ 9:18 pm
The Doctor’s granddaughter. What provoked this question? *is confused*
October 1, 2010 @ 7:46 pm
My Theory at the moment is that Amy and Rory are the ancestors of River…she isn’t their daughter, but their great-great-great-something granddaughter… So Amy might be Susan by that thought!!
September 26, 2010 @ 5:31 am
I’ve been assuming the River-Amy connection ever since I noticed a) they both have handcuffed the Doctor to stuff b) as you’ve mentioned they both have water names and c) they both have red shoes….. though I noticed the red shoes when Rory was holding them when they slow danced instead of on the table XD However, part of me has been really afraid of the River-Amy connection because some people have been wondering if River is some weird distorted alternate universe version of Amy, and though now that I think about it that sounds totally bizarre and makes no sense, when I heard the theory for the first time my immediate reaction was DO NOT WANT and I’ve been fearing it ever since. I’m interested in the theory about her being their descendant, definitely, though. I’m really worried about Rory. The usage of the word “brink” gives me some peace of mind but at the same time neither confirms nor rejects anything so really, anything could happen. Moffat’s given Rory some awesome moments, but has put Rory through an agonizing amount to get there, I’d hate to see that yet again. I *know* he won’t ever hurt Amy, but I dearly hope it has nothing to do with harming or nearly harming the Doctor, I mean, that’s a step back from risking his life (and losing it) FOR the Doctor dontcha think?
September 26, 2010 @ 7:21 am
River – didn’t the Doctor say “Yes” when Amy asked it they were married? That, of course, could have beeen sardonic – “might as well be, the way she’s behaving” I very much like the idea of her as a descendant I still think that Amy might be Jenny’s daughter: “Watch and learn”, parenting mystery, general attitude to the unknown, “Grumpyface”
September 26, 2010 @ 8:28 am
He said “Yes…I’m definitely Mr Grumpy Face today”. He didn’t answer to the “Is she your wife ?”
September 26, 2010 @ 9:20 am
Sigh! That’s not the first time that subtitles have let me down – thank you. Other people, watching programmes with me, have sometimes pointed out that one-word rejoinders sometimes appear when nothing was actually said.
September 26, 2010 @ 9:44 am
Honestly? I think it could still go either way. Because you could also read that pause as: “Yes.” *changes the subject* “I am definitely Mr. Grumpy Face today.”
September 26, 2010 @ 8:28 am
I like the theory of Amy & Rory being River’s ancestors. :D
September 30, 2010 @ 8:41 pm
If that’s true, wouldn’t they be related!!??
September 26, 2010 @ 2:24 pm
I’m not too worried by these spoilers, it’s fun to think about them but they don’t seem like real spoilers to me, Moff just wants to build interest and of course drive us crazy. I don’t think there will be any moment where we go “oh that’s what that was about” I don’t really buy River as the Doctor’s wife, unless they make it some kind of running joke like he had to pretend to be married to her but I can’t see them really telling us without cheapening it. And they can’t be married, married because it’s against one of the few rules Doctor Who has to keep. Even RTD when he was leaving wasn’t allowed to fully confirm the “love interest” because it would have totally screwed future writers over.
September 26, 2010 @ 2:37 pm
I still think that Amy’s house plays into this somehow. The Doctor said it was too big with too many rooms, and if you look closely in several shots, there is a staircase that goes…where, exactly? That house only has two main floors, or at least that is how it appears on the outside. Bigger on the inside, huh? That house could very well be a TARDIS with the chameleon circuit working. BUT! Why would Amy have a TARDIS? We know thanks to that nifty computer in The Beast Below that she is human (remember that protest/forget video that wouldn’t work for The Doctor since he’s not human? Worked for Amy!), so I don’t think she’s a Time Lord. Plus, as touchy-feely as he is with her, he would have noticed two heartbeats by now, so I think that rules her out as a blood relative. I suspected last season that Amy, bitter over The Doctor leaving her as a child an dthen again as an adult, had been visited and recruited as a double agent by one of The Doctor’s enemies. That would be a HUGE gasp-inducing game-changer, if the entirety of their friendship was a ruse. Also, the person The Doctor trusts the most in the universe…here’s a hint: she’s big and small and blue all over. He sure talks to her like she’s a person (“Thanks DEAR” when he gets the new sonic), and he hasn’t known Amy or Rory long enough to trust them THAT much. The TARDIS has been with him forever, and if he can’t trust the old gal, wo can he trust?
September 27, 2010 @ 6:54 pm
Ooh, I never thought of the TARDIS! That’s a really good point…
September 27, 2010 @ 2:32 am
Lastly! I’m sure things will turn out ok no matter what we speculate. Who would have thought that Amy would decide to marry Rory and he would die and be eaten by a crack in time and she’d forget him and he’d become a plastic Roman and guard her almost-dead body for centuries and the Doctor would ride this Pandorica thingy into the exploded TARDIS saving the world and making everyone forget him and then Amy would bring him back? No-one, that’s who! When you put it like that, the show makes total sense!