I'll admit I flinch instinctually anymore at any fantheory involving a fobwatch. I think perhaps because they're a necessary component of so many Character X is really Character Y theories, and we know what an infestation those are.
But this at least would be really narratively compelling and something I would like to see:
the Doctor ends up in a nasty reversal of his John Smith situation with deciding whether to let her know, or letting her know and letting her make the decision, of whether she stays as the human who loves him and he loves or becomes the Only Other Member Of His Species And A Girl And Everything but someone else
That could be great. Otherwise, yeah, doesn't answer for much.
For all the Moffly logic you point out, but I think most compellingly number 6, although maybe I just have a narrative irony kink. Oh god, I'm not the only one who thinks #6 might be the most solid reason on there? *phew* If you have a narrative irony kink, I do too and, frankly, I suspect Moff trumps both of us. Which is one of many reasons his writing is like candy, mmmmm . . .
Punting something up in the air, here, actually, could this potentially resolve the my-first-is-your-last angst business too? That's been her experience up til then but something drastic is about to change to break that pattern in such a serious way that she ends up pregnant, for enhanced Surprise-You're-A-Parent value? I'd love if that were the case, or at least if the two conditions were somehow linked, which would totally be a Moff-y thing to do. I'm personally wondering if we do have two timelines going on here: the "supposed to be" timeline where the Doctor lives on to see many more regenerations, the Doctor and River's timeline is all properly jumble-y, and they have a kid, and then the screwed-up timeline where the Doctor ends at Eleven, River's timeline is short and back-to-front and there's no kid. Ohhh, ohh, ohh! Remember how in The Big Bang the universe had been rewritten but Team TARDIS had been left behind from the old universe as an anomaly? (Amy in The Big Bang is not actually the same person as little Amelia who grew up in a universe without stars.) What if Time Girl is such an anomaly who comes from the personal futures of both the Doctor and River as we saw them in the season opener, but then when Eleven died and botched both their personal futures she was left "stranded" without her real parents because they no longer exist?
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Date: 26 May 2011 06:23 pm (UTC)But this at least would be really narratively compelling and something I would like to see:
the Doctor ends up in a nasty reversal of his John Smith situation with deciding whether to let her know, or letting her know and letting her make the decision, of whether she stays as the human who loves him and he loves or becomes the Only Other Member Of His Species And A Girl And Everything but someone else
That could be great. Otherwise, yeah, doesn't answer for much.
For all the Moffly logic you point out, but I think most compellingly number 6, although maybe I just have a narrative irony kink.
Oh god, I'm not the only one who thinks #6 might be the most solid reason on there? *phew* If you have a narrative irony kink, I do too and, frankly, I suspect Moff trumps both of us. Which is one of many reasons his writing is like candy, mmmmm . . .
Punting something up in the air, here, actually, could this potentially resolve the my-first-is-your-last angst business too? That's been her experience up til then but something drastic is about to change to break that pattern in such a serious way that she ends up pregnant, for enhanced Surprise-You're-A-Parent value?
I'd love if that were the case, or at least if the two conditions were somehow linked, which would totally be a Moff-y thing to do. I'm personally wondering if we do have two timelines going on here: the "supposed to be" timeline where the Doctor lives on to see many more regenerations, the Doctor and River's timeline is all properly jumble-y, and they have a kid, and then the screwed-up timeline where the Doctor ends at Eleven, River's timeline is short and back-to-front and there's no kid. Ohhh, ohh, ohh! Remember how in The Big Bang the universe had been rewritten but Team TARDIS had been left behind from the old universe as an anomaly? (Amy in The Big Bang is not actually the same person as little Amelia who grew up in a universe without stars.) What if Time Girl is such an anomaly who comes from the personal futures of both the Doctor and River as we saw them in the season opener, but then when Eleven died and botched both their personal futures she was left "stranded" without her real parents because they no longer exist?