I did think this theory up before we found out about the whole ganger!Amy pregnancy situation, so also conceivably the baddies might have taken a Doctor/River baby in a similar manner and they never even knew (all the more possible since the way their timeline works means that River could be away from the Doctor for a long stretch of time and he'd have no real way to know about it or indication that something might be wrong, as he did with Amy, meaning River could have to work out what was happening all on her own). That said, I think I still like the screwed up timeline theory a bit better.
(I also like that your theory deals a fatal blow to this whole "back to front" relationship thing, which is clearly nonsense - or at least, was certainly nonsense right up to the moment the Doctor got killed.) Whatever happens on the whole baby front, this clearly needs to be fixed. Amy even said "they never meet in the right order" right at the beginning of TIA. Moff's not being sloppy or retconning himself--he's up to something.
Btw, when I linked to this from my journal, someone pointed out to me in a comment that this puts a whole new spin on who killed the Doctor. If it was his daughter and old!Eleven knew it, then his comforting her makes a lot more sense. And wow, is that really tragic and dark. I'm on the fence about whether DW would really go there. Oooo, that is dark. Not impossible, but dark. Personally I suspect it's either another Doctor or River in that suit there, but I guess it's all wait and see. Symbolically I think the death is going to have to be tied in with the child somehow and with the idea of the Doctor "growing up" and moving on to a new phase in his life--leaving who he was behind, moving on from Ten--so I feel like having the shooter be any of the three of them could be equally appropriate, depending on how it's played.
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I did think this theory up before we found out about the whole ganger!Amy pregnancy situation, so also conceivably the baddies might have taken a Doctor/River baby in a similar manner and they never even knew (all the more possible since the way their timeline works means that River could be away from the Doctor for a long stretch of time and he'd have no real way to know about it or indication that something might be wrong, as he did with Amy, meaning River could have to work out what was happening all on her own). That said, I think I still like the screwed up timeline theory a bit better.
(I also like that your theory deals a fatal blow to this whole "back to front" relationship thing, which is clearly nonsense - or at least, was certainly nonsense right up to the moment the Doctor got killed.)
Whatever happens on the whole baby front, this clearly needs to be fixed. Amy even said "they never meet in the right order" right at the beginning of TIA. Moff's not being sloppy or retconning himself--he's up to something.
Btw, when I linked to this from my journal, someone pointed out to me in a comment that this puts a whole new spin on who killed the Doctor. If it was his daughter and old!Eleven knew it, then his comforting her makes a lot more sense. And wow, is that really tragic and dark. I'm on the fence about whether DW would really go there.
Oooo, that is dark. Not impossible, but dark. Personally I suspect it's either another Doctor or River in that suit there, but I guess it's all wait and see. Symbolically I think the death is going to have to be tied in with the child somehow and with the idea of the Doctor "growing up" and moving on to a new phase in his life--leaving who he was behind, moving on from Ten--so I feel like having the shooter be any of the three of them could be equally appropriate, depending on how it's played.