Left Hand On Fire

Won't type much today. Wasn't hurting so much today so I didn't take my ibuprofen-less I take it the better.

But in the last couple of hours, my left hand has started really getting warm and painful. So I can't talk long without the warmth getting worse.

Not much going on. Got a lot to finish so gotta go do it.

Ta,
Bec

PS: This thing comes and goes, and while my hand still bothers me I won't let it stop me from typing up my predictions for the end of season 4 for Doctor Who.

Now this is mostly speculation on my part; some of it is confirmed knowledge but most of this has been built up on what I know and what I assume. If you don't want to know anything, don't read this, because I have accidentally seen some information and I do know some things, despite my fervent attempts to avoid spoilers (and yes, I really, really tried to avoid them)

Feel free to post your ideas on my comments-I welcome all opinions except rude ones. And if you know something big and hairy, don't tell me because I love theorizing and I really don't want these episodes spoiled for me ahead of time.

In other words, I welcome lively, interesting, mostly spoiler-free debate.

Now, to the predictions, speculation, and utterly wrong guesses...

LAST WARNING ON SPOILERS.

The Doctor and Donna are at some sort of carnival to start with, but within the first ten minutes they will apparently leave the carnival for reasons unknown (most likely Rose or he figures out something’s not right, since they talk about it in the TARDIS). He knows something’s going wrong and tells Donna so, because she said something about it (something along the lines of “even with everything going wrong, Rose is coming back...”)

He probably sees Rose on a monitor or something, puts two and two together and gets 85 out of it like he always does. We’ll get a frantic high-speed explanation to Donna, he lands back on Earth in the middle of Donna’s street, he walks out of the ship onto the pavement, and blam.

The Doctor dies in the first ten minutes, and unfortunately it’s going to be a sudden sort of death (can’t give him time to regenerate so it’ll be instantaneous and shocking and I’ll probably cry buckets.)

Donna’s standing there upset and crying about it when who should appear but Rose, wondering what’s going on. She’s come over from the parallel universe to try and fix the problem, only to find that the problem has increased.

UNIT are the ones that pick the Doctor off the ground after he dies, but I don’t think they’re the ones that knock him down. They’re just there to pick him up, so how he dies is anyone’s guess. I heard he gets shot in the back, so I guess UNIT could be responsible (they are oftentimes leaning far into the idiot range). It could be an accident-someone fires before they realize what they've been shooting at was their one chance at salvation.

Rose will get to see him lying there before UNIT loads him onto the stretcher (pictures of David Tennant lying on the ground with Billie Piper right next to him. Proof in the photos...)

I would be willing to believe Donna, having spoken to Rose, goes back in time to save the Doctor’s life (I think he’s really, really dead this time) and makes certain events happen or not happen in order to save him from said terrible fate. She makes the sacrifice but she’s probably going to lose something in the process (memory, mind, whatever)

Donna has to sacrifice herself, la la la, and does something tricky with lights. UNIT helps with this.

Without the Doctor, all of his companions of the last four years are coming back to fix the problem.

Davros won’t show up for a bit. They never show the real bad guy right away, so we’ll probably see Dalek, Dalek, Red Dalek, THEN Davros. End of episode 2?

The Doctor will be passed out or dead through most of episode 2 (this is the Doctor-light episode this year, so one can only assume that he’s busy being dead through most of it.)

Wilf will state that the stars are going out. This would be a result of some sort of massive parallel universe collapse that Rose has come across to try and fix.

I have a feeling Rose won’t survive these episodes, and Donna will have to watch her sacrifice herself.

Pete has died, but Jackie and Mickey have survived to this point. What about the baby?

Donna gets arrested by UNIT (or at least searched) probably because she’s around the area where the Doctor’s fallen and they want to talk to her.

The Red Dalek is something important but I have no idea what it is. Supposedly this one’s Davros’ 2IC and worse than the others, but when you’re dealing with a genocidal crazy killing machine on wheels how much worse can they get?

I think they make it too bloody obvious that Donna’s going to die, and the last four seasons have progressively shown THE companion having to step up and make their big sacrifice at this point. The sacrifices are getting bigger, too. Rose absorbed all of time and space for Nine. Season 2 she got sucked into a parallel universe after refusing to leave his side. Season 3 Martha walked the Earth for a year and her family took serious psychological damage in order to defeat the Master.

Nobody’s died yet, though they’ve come excessively close. Davies is going to want to go out with a bang, so someone is getting the ax.

The Doctor always gets helpless at this very point in the season and the companion always winds up fishing him out of it in some way. Apparently things have gotten SO bad that they have to haul in all four-first and second season it was one, third season it was two. Things are getting a little out of hand when you have to get FOUR companions...)

But this year the blatantly obvious quote that Rose makes to Donna says to ME that Donna won’t die. If the trailer tells you she’ll die she won’t. Somebody else will. And that somebody is probably going to be Rose.

Well, let’s face it. Jack can’t (immortality saves John Barrowman from certain cancellation)

Sarah Jane can’t because she’s got her own series (do you really want to know what would happen if they killed her off? Me, neither.)

Martha can’t because she’s going to be on Jack’s series, even if there are rabid Ten/Rose shippers out there that would like to see her blown up (not me. I accept cast changes as a part of life.) That leaves us with two.

Donna won’t travel with the Doctor anymore after this because of “a tragedy” (quote from Catherine Tate herself.) We obviously weren’t told what tragedy and the look on River’s face in Silence said something pretty nasty is going to happen. But I think this time, the story is mirroring 5’s on purpose.

Tegan left the 5th Doctor because she watched Adric be killed in an explosion. Could a similar thing be happening here? Ten’s personality is built on Five’s, meaning some of his storylines might as well. The hypothesis (probably dead wrong but hell, who cares?) Donna walks away because Rose is killed in front of her; a tragedy so terrible that she can’t get past it (and Donna seen some nasty from him, right from the start. Ten has pulled no punches around her and she’s seen the worst parts of his personality repeatedly, more than either Rose or Martha did.)

Donna’s a tough gal, but this one is going to put her out of the TARDIS forever. At this moment she still figures she’s going to be with him a long time, even told Martha so. Whatever’s coming, it’s going to be pretty damn drastic.

But Rose is either going to have to go back to her parallel life or die. With River coming in as the Doctor’s future relationship (and relatively soon, before Ten becomes Eleven) there will be no room for Rose on the TARDIS, not unless their relationship has altered drastically in their years apart. Time will tell.

What is the something on Donna’s back?

Does Rose have powers left over from the Time Vortex?

Do the bees and planets vanishing have anything to do with this?

Did the Ood prediction of the song ending for the Doctor come true two episodes ago with River’s death, will it come true here, or is that prediction coming true later?

Is Pete Tyler dead?

What about Rose’s sibling?

What’s up with the constant Medusa Cascade references? The Master referred to it last year. Evelina brought it up when she said the Doctor's name was hidden in the Pompeii episode. The Doctor himself mentioned taking Donna to a moon in it somewhere in one of the Sontaran episodes. And then he threw it out there again last week when talking to Skye.

Davies has said this is a big part of what's happening, and since the Medusa Cascade is a time rift that the Doctor closed up some time ago, this may very well be where Donna has to go to fix what's going wrong. She has to transport herself back in time and fix something to do with the Medusa Cascade in order to save the Doctor and ultimately save all those parallel universes from Davros' evil.