Was Up Late But I'm Here Now

Went to visit my sister yesterday. Ate at that lovely Chinese restaurant again. Got to see a nice concert and it's going to be a whole half-hour before Spritey gets her food.

PS: It is SNOWING. UCK. And not just a couple little drifty floaty flakes. No. This is full-on coming down couldn't miss it SNOW. My sister's got rain, my other sister has nothing at all. But I get snow.

PPS: Okay, funny little thing that happened. Spritey was walking around under the table again. She happened to get the little metal ring on her collar looped on a loose rung of one of the chairs. She got herself stuck well and good, but before I went over there to figure out what she'd done the chair was shifting around like there was a ghost in the house. I went over and I did get her off the rung of the chair so that she wasn't stuck anymore, but before I did I rolled over on the kitchen floor and laughed till my ribs hurt. She gets in the oddest predicaments (foot stuck through a link of a chain, twisted up in her leash until we have to unhook it just to get her off...)

Meanwhile, I am having a debate about Episode 7 (this would be NEXT week's) because someone assumed something that just raised my fur big-time...


SPOILER LINE. If you don't want to hear anything about next week's episode, then don't look!

















FIVE YEARS GONE

Five years later, Amy is pregnant and about to give birth. Apparently the kid's origin is in question because it isn't Rory's.


http://www.tvovermind.com/doctor-who-tv-news/doctor-who-spoilers-five-years-gone-and-pregnant/23236


This article supposes it's the Doctor's.

WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!


Here's why (deep breath in:)

1. TIME LORDS ARE STERILE. No Time Lord is capable of having a child and the race actually had to find new ways to reproduce once they lost the ability.

From Wikipedia
However, (before the Pythia) died she cursed Rassilon and all future Time Lords to sterility. Rassilon's unborn daughter was one of the deaths. In later New Adventures we are introduced to the concept of the genetic Looms, from which new Time Lords were created.

2. NO ROMANCE HERE-just buddies traveling the stars together. The way it should be.

Matt and Karen interview where they talk about their characters relationship:

But if you ask them, it's all about the adventures their characters have together, not the way they feel about each other.

"I don't think that's what it's about," said Smith. "It's about adventure together."

"It's about mates — best friends," said Gillan.

"...Traveling the universe!" added Smith.

3. IT IS COMPLETELY AGAINST CANON.

For years on years, the Doctor was seen as asexual-or at least above those sorts of impulses. We have no idea if he's even CAPABLE of mating with a human (mostly because this is a children's show and it's never been necessary to have that discussed on screen.)

The Doctor is supposed to be above animal impulses. He didn't even kiss anyone until his 8th life-33 years after he debuted-and it caused a ruckus because he just didn't DO that sort of stuff.

To write an episode where he is the father of a human's child is crassly against canon and would tick off a LOT of Who fans. Since he knows the Whoniverse pretty well, Steven Moffat would never do it.

Even if it were possible, the Doctor has had children and grandchildren (thanks to the Loom) and wouldn't want a child of his own now (recall Jenny, who was made from a sample of the Doctor's DNA? He rejected her at the beginning because he'd had kids before and no longer wanted to suffer with the pain when they were ripped away from him.) He is a very dangerous and lethal being to be around-any child would be at risk around him and he knows it. He also is the only member of his people left alive-what kind of culture and identity can any kid have when their whole race has been obliterated from time and space before they were even born?

4. Even if the sterility was gone, even if the Doctor did have a child with Amy, the baby probably wouldn't be viable. Some assume that his DNA has three strands instead of two (probably slightly different from ours on two and then the third strand controlling distinctive aspects of the Time Lord race like regeneration, a binary vascular system, and (from Wikipedia) The Rassilon Imprimatur is the name given to the symbiotic nucleus of a Time Lord's cell structure which allows them to withstand the molecular stresses of time travel and grant them a link to their TARDIS time machines.

Either the child would be completely Time Lord (mother's DNA overwhelmed by the superior DNA) or it would be a confused mix of the two, unable to regulate body temperature and probably unable to regenerate even if it did survive.

So there you are. Feel free to debate. I certainly gave you enough to work with...


Ta,
Bec