due to the armored monster playing chess having one too ...
We never saw the completion to the little girls regen at the end of IA/DotM ... we know she had not necessarily done anything other than shoot the light from her face and hands as per usual, but the height didn't seem to adjust while still on her in the shot. So there is a million miles of room for Moffat to work his magic here - he's got a whole new breed of time-lord-esque weird crazy scenarios he can take to bring her plot to conclusion. I still believe it more likely that River is not the Eye-patch lady in any incarnation, merely that they all wear the pieces for some more practical/sinister reason as a group.
If there's another person in that trailer (can't watch it again right now) with the same eyepatch, then it seems quite likely that it has some ulterior purpose. The clue, then, would be that there could be a connection between younger River and the eyepatch lady, which may serve to illuminate the motive behind her war against the Doctor and her kidnapping of Amy and baby River.
I really can't wait to see where he takes the direction for the show, because for writing purposes ... a round/circular writing style for your plot requires soooooo much work ...and yet he still leaves so much room for himself ... I gotta applaud their efforts to date.
I agree. So far I can be counted as an admirer of Moffat's writing and plotting. Complicated, circular plots that make clever use of time travel, which make sense when resolved and yet are difficult to piece together beforehand. All while being great fun to watch. I love trying to unravel it beforehand, and was proud at getting somewhat close last season.
We've seen before that the Doctor will interfere with his own timeline -- he just won't do it directly. At the end of the last season he was saved by a future incarnation of himself returning to offer Rory the screwdriver. Tennant's Doctor did something like that as well. This makes me believe that the Doctor at the start of this series, the one who was killed, specifically brought Amy, Rory, and River together to witness it so that they could in turn help his younger self avoid the fate that his older self for some reason could not. The only part that really baffles me is the statement that the Doctor who was killed was 200 years older than our current Doctor. In 200 years he would have gone on to meet many, many more companions and friends, begging the question of why he would choose these three to help him. Also begging the question of what good it does to tell our current Doctor he's going to die when it won't happen for 200 years. It's possible that our Doctor will at some point age 200 years off-screen, but that strikes me as unlikely. So I am still confused on that point, and it may mess up my Doctor-sets-up-events-so-that-his-friends-will-help-save-him-in-his-own-past idea.
I am not certain when this reply became so clotted with theorymongering, but my only regret is that I have not yet theoried enough.
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New Doctor Who trailer
- 24/07/2011 11:16:41 PM
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The big reveal:
- 24/07/2011 11:27:14 PM
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I agree on the red herring ...
- 29/07/2011 07:53:07 PM
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You're likely correct.
- 29/07/2011 08:25:10 PM
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