#dw theory

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Just saw a post about “What if The Doctor doesn’t actually speak English and the Tardis just translates”

And while I know he does speak English that doesn’t mean he IS speaking English all the time. It would be so funny to have a bit in the show where he’s like arguing with The Rani or The Master and the Tardis glitches or something and suddenly they’re just yelling in Gallifreyan and all the companions are just like????

[vantherelentless]

Melody Pond

River Song

Carol Flood.

[genderqueerpond]

there is a perception filter on the old woman. people see her, but they don't really notice her. they don't see what's wrong about her.

until ruby points her out. ruby says "look at her. do you see that woman?" and they do. the perception filter falls away.

and the woman says "look at her. do you see that woman?" and they look at ruby, and the perception filter is gone. and they see her for what she truly is.

and it's beyond their brain's ability to comprehend.

[sphxxshthealien]

why is everyone assuming that Mrs Flood is just as evil as Sutekh? We know nothing about her.

Sutekh is the one who waits, the god of gods, he is actual Satan, the most powerful being in the universe, extinguisher of all life, the god of death, father of the toymaker, leader of the pantheon of discord.

And Mrs Flood refused to give Cherry a cup of tea.

Obviously Mrs Flood is much more evil.

[cameron-possibly]

His name has been Set. And Seth. And Sithifer. And his one true name forevermore is...

SUTEKH

[puddingbrainscientist]

the “show within a show” theory continues!

y’all remember how in space babies, the ship created the bogeyman because there’s supposed to be a monster?

rogue fits an archetype just a little too well. he’s smart and witty and full of bravado and clicks with the doctor instantly.

a lot of us had the theory that rogue was secretly jack harkness. and the thing is, he still basically is. he’s the archetype laid out by jack. doing some sketchy work, flirty and angsty, changes his heart and sacrifices himself at the end. and how many american accents do we hear on doctor who anyway?

so maybe space babies was designed mimic to the end of the world. and rogue was designed to mimic the empty child/the doctor dances (also! the doctor danced!)

maybe ruby is supposed to be the prototypical companion, be quite a bit like rose and clara. maybe rogue is supposed to be like jack.

maybe this new “season one” is supposed to be like 2005 season one.

it’s not little references meant to make you think of the past, this is an act. this is cosplay.

[intuitive-revelations]

While the difference in scale isn't really big enough to fully explain it, part of me is so desperate to somehow connect Sutekh's "evolution into a Titan" with the TARDIS police box's gradual increase in size over the years, if he really has been attached to it for so long, in the same way people have joked about him shrinking with it in Flatline.

If Sutekh did change size with the TARDIS it also has potentially quite horrifying implications for the size-leaked TARDIS in The Name of the Doctor.

If he was indeed there, then I wonder what became of Sutekh in this time track...?

[tenderlywicked]

Belinda changing from being excited to be a platonic co-parent together with the Doctor and having all kinds of adventures with him and Poppy to being a single mother who’s reluctant to have any more adventures because of Poppy’s safety feels like rewriting her whole personality, which would simply be very cringe because both her timeline and her life choices were altered without her consent…

UNLESS maybe there’s something sinister going on to explain this? The father of Anita’s child is called Ricardo, the father’s of Belinda’s child is called Ritchie… Why mention their names at all if it’s not somehow important? And why stress it that Conrad didn’t know his dad? Is it relevant too? Also, we don't get to see Belinda's father, only her mother, although she's been talking about both of her parents all the time. Why's that? And we haven't seen Ruby's father either, although he was mentioned. To many missing/hidden fathers for it to be a coincidence.

[mwagneto]

questions we haven't answered yet that make me super hyped for the next season:

what did the toymaker mean when he said he made a jigsaw out of the doctor's history?

↑ is that related to the strange way the doctor's memories keep changing and the random weird stuff that keeps coming up? or is that something else

was sutekh "the one who waits"? he was never actually referred to as that

multiple characters have referenced "the boss" and that cannot be sutekh, so who on earth is the boss?

this one's kinda meta but ruby left but we know she filmed stuff for s15, is that just a single episode? and is the new companion mundy or just a classic case of repeating actors?

what's rogue's whole deal? do we think his story is done? coz imo him being tied to the above mentioned boss + "find me" + the ring (that 15 is still wearing in eps 7 and 8 btw) definitely seems to imply there's something more there

frankly insane amount of Susan mentions this season - is she actually coming back?

and of course. who the hell is mrs flood!!!!

[causalityparadoxes]

For some reason this stood out to me on my Rogue rewatch. In all likelihood its meaningless. A funny bit of throwaway character building for Rogue...

BUT... what if its not? The Rogue has to be coming back. He just has to. So what if its all tying into a future series arc? Ncuti says he's sticking around for a good while after all ;)

[jazzy-flowerr]

Ok - and I think I've heard people theorize this before - but what if the reason Dandy wants tapes so bad is because watching his cartoon is the only thing keeping him from turning lethal?

He's heavily implied to be obsessed with the past, such as when Connie says that all Dandy talks about with Astro is just old episodes;

So what if it's the reminiscing about old times that keeps him a toon?

And when he doesn't get any tapes the first couple of times, he starts to show visible distress/impatience as well as showing signs of turning lethal [i.e; the red dots in his eyes]

Which, yes, could mean that he's becoming lethal because he's getting desperate, but there's a chance that it could mean he's getting desperate because he's becoming lethal. If that makes any sense.

[tinkerbitch69]

In reference to the theory I’ve seen going around that Ruby is secretly part of The Pantheon

The Toymaker= the living personification of games

The Maestro= the living personification of music

Both of them have the ability to warp reality specifically they often warp it to fit the rules of their respective concepts. The Toymaker makes the world run on the rules of a game, The Maestro makes the world run like a musical. And reality continues to warp around Ruby BUT it does so in very specific ways…

The space station adheres to the rules of a children’s story, the rules of time travel change to incorporate the butterfly effect based on stories she knows and coincidences or connections continue to pop up around her and the plot of a story is often built on connections, often coincidences that turn out to be anything but. So…

Ruby Sunday= the living personification of stories

What do we think, tumblr?

[heyguysijusthereforawesome]

always wondered how toons came to be so i have 2 theories:

1. they age up really .. REALLY quick to their cartoon’s age blah blah blah (i kinda flip flopped between whether they’d be incubated until maturity or if they just grow up really really fast)

and until they’re completely grown they’ll be hidden from the public while they’re learning and developing ?? And then they kinda cap at a certain age (so they’ll stop aging when they reach whatever age they were in the cartoon)

they get health complications too

exceptions would be eggson and toodles, who probably would age faster/slower to reach their age cap (??)

i like to think they feel they got their childhood robbed from them and feel resentment that they don’t get to live a “normal human life”

nd then the second and more likely (SMALL GORE WARNING):

they’re brought to life kinda like Frankenstein

though because they’re toons their organs function completely different to humans + made of ichor — which has caused some of them their fair share of internal or external deformities, which leads into their twisteds too

long story short: delilah likes to play god with her creations

btw i dont like the dialogue i just wanted her to say something to arthur

let me know what yall think or if yal have different ideas

[genderqueerpond]

We don't talk enough about the fact that Amelia Pond, s5 Amelia Pond, before the timeline is reset, isn't just a normal orphan. Her parents didn't die, didn't abandon her, and didn't send her away. They never existed in the first place.

And if her parents never existed, then Amelia cannot exist. She is a causal impossibility.

"People fall out of the world sometimes, but they always leave traces." A photograph. A face carved into an apple. Yes. Sure.

A child.

Now that's too big, surely.

But that's what she is. She is exactly the same as these things. A trace. An echo of something that could never be, never was, never could have been.

And the universe should never allow it. A whole person, that's just too much. She could not have continued to exist indefinitely, in normal circumstances, after her parents never existed.

In normal circumstances.

Because the Doctor didn't just save her from things coming out of the crack in her wall. He saved her from going into it. And he didn't just save her from the threat of going into it simply because of its vicinity.

No, by arriving when he did, he interrupted a process that was probably already in motion. And then by arriving again only moments later on a cosmic relative timestream (too quickly for the process to complete) and yet in the local relative timestream, years later --- years of a potential future caught midway through the process of rewriting -- he solidified that existence. Amy is a creature from another timeline, caught in amber. The Doctor prevented her from never existing, but only after she could already never exist.

And so, no one around Amelia thinks about it. Neither does she. There's some kind of consciousness block, because if you thought about it, really thought about it, for two seconds you'd realize she cannot exist. And the human mind can't deal with that. So, to protect itself, everyone's brain simply slides off it before ever noticing. They just assume that her existence makes sense, and don't question it, and don't notice what they don't question, that is staring them in the face.

But of course, to some extent they do notice. They can't think it, but they notice subconsciously that there's something they can't think. They notice there's something wrong with her, something uncanny. And they don't like it, and they alienate her even more because of it.

"Does it ever bother you Pond that your life existence doesn't make any sense?"

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Processing the promo pics for Wish World..

[ordemparcial]

i think conrad will be the villain in the season finale and they should've let kate kill the bastard