So, my latest theory on who Clara Oswin Oswald is (Doctor Who, Season 7)...is River Song.
This is not necessarily a new theory, or even an original theory...many Whovians have already proposed this...however, I think I supply an angle on "why" that no one else has proposed...
River Song, the child of Rory and Amy (Melody Pond...which by the way I guessed before they told in the episode A Good Man Goes to War), does have Tardis Dust in her, and can regenerate like the Doctor. The are the same, yet slightly different, so the laws of physics may not apply exactly the same to both.
So here is my theory...
The Doctor has used it before, The Master also used it when the Doctor first met him? What is it?
The Chameleon Arch...aka...the Pocket Watch...follow me on this...
The Doctor can't figure out who Clara is...everything seems normal. That is exactly how the Master was when they first met...to the Doctor he seemed like a normal human being. If Clara is River Song acting under a Chameleon Arch...the Doctor would not notice unless the Pocket Watch turns up. Supposedly there were only two Chameleon Arches left...the Master had one, which went back with him into the Time War when the Doctor destroyed the White Point Star, and the other one possessed by the Doctor himself, whom he gave to Timothy Latimer.
Living under the Chameleon Arch, some powers of the Doctor remain, even though appearing in human form (i.e., maybe that is why Clara continues to die, but the Doctor finds her alive in another time period).and also keeps the memories of the individual it is hiding (what does Clara continue to say..."..and remember...")
So let's say River Song (who can travel through time with a Vortex Manipulator) somehow got the last Chameleon Arch from Timothy Latimer because she needed to hide?
Yes, I know there are still a lot of unknowns and things aren't quite fully explained...but this is my latest theory...and I am sticking to this one...
...until the next theory comes along : ) (Which I am already working on...)
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Monday, April 8, 2013
The Girl in the Fireplace
So first, the Girl in the Fireplace is probably my second favorite Doctor Who episode...not far behind Vincent and the Doctor.
Such a touching episode...
The Doctor first meets Reinette as a young girl in her bedroom, while he is on a spaceship in the 51st Century looking through her fireplace. It's seems that the crew of the spaceship needs Reinette, but we don't know why, other than they say "she is not ready", leading you to believe it is about her age.
As it turns out, Reinette is actually Madame de Pompadour, the Chief Mistress to Louis XV...
The Doctor is able to visit her world with the turn of the fireplace, a window between the 18th Century and the 51st Century. However, what is only minutes in the world of the Doctor is actually years in the life of Reinette. So the next time the Doctor sees her, she is now 23.
Unable to find out why the Clockwork Droids are waiting to take Reinette, The Doctor looks into her mind, searching the past for clues...while doing so, Reinette also walks among the mind of the Doctor, discerning his loneliness...and asks the Doctor to dance with her (you see, the Doctor does not dance)...
It is again The Doctor visits Reinette in her 37th year, as the Clockwork Druids are coming for her...the age of 37 being what they needed. The fireplace is now gone, and although the Doctor can see the Droids coming for Reinette, he no longer has a door into her world...but only one...a mirror...for which if he goes through, will break the window to his world, forever leaving him stuck in the 18th Century. And so he does...
Saving Reinette and the day...but being stuck forever in another time...except...Reinette remembered the fireplace, and had it moved from her childhood room, to her new room. The Doctor, can in fact, return...and so he does...but not before telling Reinette to go to the window, pick out a star, and he would be back to take her there...
Only, when the Doctor returns, Reinette is dead...having died not long before his arrival...she was 43. Her coffin is taken out on the carriage through the courts of Versailles as the rain falls and King Louis XV looks on (which is actually how it historically occurred)...
So why am I writing this, when we are trying to figure out who Clara Oswin Oswald is?
I'll let you figure it out...but here are the clues...something Reinette said to the Doctor, and the message from her last note...
"A door once opened, may be stepped through in either direction..."
and
"My dear Doctor: the path has never seemed more slow, and yet I fear I am nearing its end. Reason tells me that you and I are unlikely to meet again, but I think I shall not listen to reason. I have seen the world inside your head and know that all things are possible. Hurry though, my love: my days grow shorter now, and I am so very weak. Godspeed, my lonely angel." - Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson
Such a touching episode...
The Doctor first meets Reinette as a young girl in her bedroom, while he is on a spaceship in the 51st Century looking through her fireplace. It's seems that the crew of the spaceship needs Reinette, but we don't know why, other than they say "she is not ready", leading you to believe it is about her age.
As it turns out, Reinette is actually Madame de Pompadour, the Chief Mistress to Louis XV...
The Doctor is able to visit her world with the turn of the fireplace, a window between the 18th Century and the 51st Century. However, what is only minutes in the world of the Doctor is actually years in the life of Reinette. So the next time the Doctor sees her, she is now 23.
Unable to find out why the Clockwork Droids are waiting to take Reinette, The Doctor looks into her mind, searching the past for clues...while doing so, Reinette also walks among the mind of the Doctor, discerning his loneliness...and asks the Doctor to dance with her (you see, the Doctor does not dance)...
It is again The Doctor visits Reinette in her 37th year, as the Clockwork Druids are coming for her...the age of 37 being what they needed. The fireplace is now gone, and although the Doctor can see the Droids coming for Reinette, he no longer has a door into her world...but only one...a mirror...for which if he goes through, will break the window to his world, forever leaving him stuck in the 18th Century. And so he does...
Saving Reinette and the day...but being stuck forever in another time...except...Reinette remembered the fireplace, and had it moved from her childhood room, to her new room. The Doctor, can in fact, return...and so he does...but not before telling Reinette to go to the window, pick out a star, and he would be back to take her there...
Only, when the Doctor returns, Reinette is dead...having died not long before his arrival...she was 43. Her coffin is taken out on the carriage through the courts of Versailles as the rain falls and King Louis XV looks on (which is actually how it historically occurred)...
So why am I writing this, when we are trying to figure out who Clara Oswin Oswald is?
I'll let you figure it out...but here are the clues...something Reinette said to the Doctor, and the message from her last note...
"A door once opened, may be stepped through in either direction..."
and
"My dear Doctor: the path has never seemed more slow, and yet I fear I am nearing its end. Reason tells me that you and I are unlikely to meet again, but I think I shall not listen to reason. I have seen the world inside your head and know that all things are possible. Hurry though, my love: my days grow shorter now, and I am so very weak. Godspeed, my lonely angel." - Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Clara...
..or shall we say, who is "Clara Oswin Oswald"?
Moffat actually gives us more clues than we think, you just have to find them. But the clues really don't help...that is the problem. The more clues, the more the puzzle deepens. (Just watch "The Pandorica Opens" and try to wrap your head around that one!)
Clara was born November 23, 1866 and died December 24, 1892. The year may be insignificant (or not), but the date "November 23" is quite significant.
There can be a loose theory that this somehow ties in with the first episode of Doctor Who airing November 23, 1963, but I'd rather believe...
...that the Silver Nemesis is returning. It last appeared in 1988 and returns every 25 years...which means it comes back in 2013. The Silver Nemesis is made of Validium, so it cannot be destroyed. When it dies, it just comes back as another form. The Doctor has been battling it every 25 years (as I understand) since like 1638. So....is the Silver Nemesis actually Clara Oswald? ...is that why she says "run you clever boy, and remember me"?
Hmmm?
Moffat actually gives us more clues than we think, you just have to find them. But the clues really don't help...that is the problem. The more clues, the more the puzzle deepens. (Just watch "The Pandorica Opens" and try to wrap your head around that one!)
Clara was born November 23, 1866 and died December 24, 1892. The year may be insignificant (or not), but the date "November 23" is quite significant.
There can be a loose theory that this somehow ties in with the first episode of Doctor Who airing November 23, 1963, but I'd rather believe...
...that the Silver Nemesis is returning. It last appeared in 1988 and returns every 25 years...which means it comes back in 2013. The Silver Nemesis is made of Validium, so it cannot be destroyed. When it dies, it just comes back as another form. The Doctor has been battling it every 25 years (as I understand) since like 1638. So....is the Silver Nemesis actually Clara Oswald? ...is that why she says "run you clever boy, and remember me"?
Hmmm?
Oswin Oswald...
OK...so who is Oswin Oswald?
Quite a mystery is the new companion of the Doctor. To use a phrase the Doctor said himself "...she shouldn't be." How is the "girl twice dead" still alive in another time. Yet another great paradox of the Doctor who series.
Or...is the show really going backwards in time?
The first time the Doctor meets Ms. Oswald, he says he is 1200 years old...but the next time he meets Clara he states that he is only 1000 years old. And in Aslyum of the Daleks, she was a genius, but in The Bells of St. John, she knew nothing about computers...
One could really be pulling at strings here...or has Steven Moffat hidden clues along the way for the past few seasons...much like the "Saxon" references and "Bad Wolf", which spanned more than 3 seasons in some instances if I am correct (all depending on how you look at time travel of course).
So, what is the reference to "The Rose and the Crown"? It must surely be in reference to Rose Tyler. And the "pond" where the Governess fell in and drowned...was frozen until the pond thawed - surely a reference to "Amy Pond". So, I can be quoted here...I don't believe we have seen the last of Amy and Rory.
But yet who is Oswin?
Quite a mystery is the new companion of the Doctor. To use a phrase the Doctor said himself "...she shouldn't be." How is the "girl twice dead" still alive in another time. Yet another great paradox of the Doctor who series.
Or...is the show really going backwards in time?
The first time the Doctor meets Ms. Oswald, he says he is 1200 years old...but the next time he meets Clara he states that he is only 1000 years old. And in Aslyum of the Daleks, she was a genius, but in The Bells of St. John, she knew nothing about computers...
One could really be pulling at strings here...or has Steven Moffat hidden clues along the way for the past few seasons...much like the "Saxon" references and "Bad Wolf", which spanned more than 3 seasons in some instances if I am correct (all depending on how you look at time travel of course).
So, what is the reference to "The Rose and the Crown"? It must surely be in reference to Rose Tyler. And the "pond" where the Governess fell in and drowned...was frozen until the pond thawed - surely a reference to "Amy Pond". So, I can be quoted here...I don't believe we have seen the last of Amy and Rory.
But yet who is Oswin?
Doctor Who...
So with word that this will be Matt Smith's last season, that Rose (Billie Piper) and David Tennant are coming back for the 50th season (not a spoiler, that is old news), what is up with the story line for this season's Doctor Who...
One may consider Russell T. Davies the best writer of all times (and he is), but let's give credit to Steven Moffat...a few years after Davies departure and his storylines are just as complex and compelling.
So, that begs the question to be ask...what's up with this season?
Or, before we go that far (since this is a show about time travel), were Amy and Rory actually sent back in the same time and place as Manhattan in the 1930s? Yes? Are you SURE? Think about it. Amy and Rory jumped off the roof of Winter's Quay to save themselves - and what did River Song say? That would create a paradox, and it would be as if the place never existed. So, how could the angel have sent Rory and Amy back to the same time and place - it was disappearing from history prior to the Doctor and River Song being (teleported?)
Listen to what Amy wrote the Doctor in her Afterword (link below) - there is not a reference made to confirm they went back to the same time and place. And what does she mean..."...you won't be coming back here for a while..."?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dajGPLWj_tw
Still think I am wrong...then why were there no years placed on their gravestone?? Eh, got you on that one.
One may consider Russell T. Davies the best writer of all times (and he is), but let's give credit to Steven Moffat...a few years after Davies departure and his storylines are just as complex and compelling.
So, that begs the question to be ask...what's up with this season?
Or, before we go that far (since this is a show about time travel), were Amy and Rory actually sent back in the same time and place as Manhattan in the 1930s? Yes? Are you SURE? Think about it. Amy and Rory jumped off the roof of Winter's Quay to save themselves - and what did River Song say? That would create a paradox, and it would be as if the place never existed. So, how could the angel have sent Rory and Amy back to the same time and place - it was disappearing from history prior to the Doctor and River Song being (teleported?)
Listen to what Amy wrote the Doctor in her Afterword (link below) - there is not a reference made to confirm they went back to the same time and place. And what does she mean..."...you won't be coming back here for a while..."?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dajGPLWj_tw
Still think I am wrong...then why were there no years placed on their gravestone?? Eh, got you on that one.
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