I’m sorry I took so ridiculously long to get back to you. I’ve had that kind of week (er, let’s call it a week) when leaving any comment besides ‘Hee!’ has just not been happening. Do not even worry about it. And I have been horribly behind in getting back to responding to comments in this post myself. Such is fandom : ) Hope things are a bit less crazy for you here!
It’s not that much of a stretch… Thanks for the confirmation. And at the very least, I've yet to hear a better theory, so until someone gives me one, I'm holding on to it.
That and that it might be the same baby moving between uteruses. I'd forgotten that one! I'll admit that appeals to me on the basis of pure sci-fi weirdness, lol.
The wank would be truly epic. And slightly frightening. I almost want it to be true, just so I could watch this. From a fortified bunker. It also occurred to me that this could be the beginning of a vast sea of really bad babyfic, which scares me even more than the threat of wank.
Okay, it’s a bit odd that the only adult (or was it the only adult? I can’t remember the rest of the photos) the child had a photo of was Amy, but it can be explained, easily. Ok, I came up with this somewhat convoluted idea I tried to explain to stick_poker below, and as I've been thinking about it more since, I'm gonna take another stab at it. We have some indication from the show that we're dealing in alternate timelines/universes. Say that in the timeline that's "supposed" to happen the Doctor lives to see many more regenerations, the Doctor and River's timeline is long and properly timey-wimey as suggested in previous seasons, and they have a child together sometime in both their personal futures relative to TIA/DotM. But then at the beginning of this season . . . we see Eleven die! What effects does this have? Well, it royally screws up River's timeline for one thing, since now she only has Ten and Eleven to know, leaving her whole story short and tragic and much more linear than we previously thought. And if 1103-year-old Eleven died before they had that kid, then the future!Doctor and future!River who are Time Girl's parents effectively cease to exist. So what happens to Time Girl? Maybe she ceases to exist too, but it's also possible that she could be left behind in this altered timeline as an anomaly (this happened to Team TARDIS in The Big Bang--they were all products of the universe with stars, left behind in the universe without stars, even though the events that formed their history had no longer happened). This would mean that Time Girl wasn't stolen from her parents--which, elisi rightly points out, is hard to believe they would allow to happen--but got unknowingly orphaned, much as Amy was when her parents were eaten by the crack. And, just as with Amy perhaps, fixing the universe means giving a little girl her parents back.
The rules for what disappears when a person disappears from time seem a bit vague, but it seems like most evidence of them vanishes with the possible exception of little traces the universe forgot about. So if you had some cache of family photos, it seems quite likely to me that all the ones with mom and dad in them might disappear, leaving just the ones with Time Girl alone, plus a stray picture of an old family friend with her own baby . . . all ready for a bunch of opportunistic aliens to pick through when they find this miracle child and take her away for whatever it is they're trying to do with her. And then what if, looking at the available evidence, they get entirely the wrong idea about who mom is and decide to track her down and kidnap her in the hopes of getting more of the same from her? (The question of "why are they so interested in Amy?" has been bugging be something fierce lately.) At any rate, I feel like I'm way out on a limb by now, but so far I've hardly seen any theories that try to tie together more than a few different plot threads, so I figured I might as well put that out there.
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Do not even worry about it. And I have been horribly behind in getting back to responding to comments in this post myself. Such is fandom : ) Hope things are a bit less crazy for you here!
It’s not that much of a stretch…
Thanks for the confirmation. And at the very least, I've yet to hear a better theory, so until someone gives me one, I'm holding on to it.
That and that it might be the same baby moving between uteruses.
I'd forgotten that one! I'll admit that appeals to me on the basis of pure sci-fi weirdness, lol.
The wank would be truly epic. And slightly frightening.
I almost want it to be true, just so I could watch this. From a fortified bunker. It also occurred to me that this could be the beginning of a vast sea of really bad babyfic, which scares me even more than the threat of wank.
Okay, it’s a bit odd that the only adult (or was it the only adult? I can’t remember the rest of the photos) the child had a photo of was Amy, but it can be explained, easily.
Ok, I came up with this somewhat convoluted idea I tried to explain to stick_poker below, and as I've been thinking about it more since, I'm gonna take another stab at it. We have some indication from the show that we're dealing in alternate timelines/universes. Say that in the timeline that's "supposed" to happen the Doctor lives to see many more regenerations, the Doctor and River's timeline is long and properly timey-wimey as suggested in previous seasons, and they have a child together sometime in both their personal futures relative to TIA/DotM. But then at the beginning of this season . . . we see Eleven die! What effects does this have? Well, it royally screws up River's timeline for one thing, since now she only has Ten and Eleven to know, leaving her whole story short and tragic and much more linear than we previously thought. And if 1103-year-old Eleven died before they had that kid, then the future!Doctor and future!River who are Time Girl's parents effectively cease to exist. So what happens to Time Girl? Maybe she ceases to exist too, but it's also possible that she could be left behind in this altered timeline as an anomaly (this happened to Team TARDIS in The Big Bang--they were all products of the universe with stars, left behind in the universe without stars, even though the events that formed their history had no longer happened). This would mean that Time Girl wasn't stolen from her parents--which, elisi rightly points out, is hard to believe they would allow to happen--but got unknowingly orphaned, much as Amy was when her parents were eaten by the crack. And, just as with Amy perhaps, fixing the universe means giving a little girl her parents back.
The rules for what disappears when a person disappears from time seem a bit vague, but it seems like most evidence of them vanishes with the possible exception of little traces the universe forgot about. So if you had some cache of family photos, it seems quite likely to me that all the ones with mom and dad in them might disappear, leaving just the ones with Time Girl alone, plus a stray picture of an old family friend with her own baby . . . all ready for a bunch of opportunistic aliens to pick through when they find this miracle child and take her away for whatever it is they're trying to do with her. And then what if, looking at the available evidence, they get entirely the wrong idea about who mom is and decide to track her down and kidnap her in the hopes of getting more of the same from her? (The question of "why are they so interested in Amy?" has been bugging be something fierce lately.) At any rate, I feel like I'm way out on a limb by now, but so far I've hardly seen any theories that try to tie together more than a few different plot threads, so I figured I might as well put that out there.