Notes!

Some notes on what I think will happen in the next Who episode. I will put a little spoiler line down first and then go completely and utterly mad.





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Ahem!

First off, we know that the Doctor, River, and Amy make it. Rory is probably, most likely dead. Here's the problem with him-he ceased to exist when the light took him. The only reason he's around now is because of the Nestene Consciousness using Amy's memory of him and creating him. When the Consciousness departs, what will be left of Rory?

River was already in jail for killing the very good man (still don't know who but still suspect the Doctor is it). The Stormcage was a jail cell block in the year 5145. I have the feeling we are NOT going to find out who she really is this year-I don't honestly think there's enough time to deal with it in between the Doctor saving the entire universe and all that bit. Also recall that River's going to have to go BACK to prison if and when the Universe gets fixed.

What's kind of a little confusing here is River knows his name from college-Theta Sigma. The name isn't something that he throws around and it's odd that she knows it. Did she go to the Prydonian Academy with him? Is she Romana or the Rani? Or did she learn this because she seems to have borrowed some of his deepest, darkest secrets (like his real name) to bother him with in future?

She's no ordinary lady, but Time Lord is still looking too far to step. Could anyone handle all those memories of his being transferred to their minds without dying or going insane?

And then there's this: Recall, if you can, back in episode 1. It was a long time ago, I know, but try. There was a moment where little Amy was sitting on her suitcase, staring at the ground in despair because the Doctor overshot and didn't come back in 5 minutes like he said he would. And then she hears those brakes squealing and looks up, her face glowing with happiness...

And then we cut away to something else. Nothing ever comes of the scene. We never see him land.

AH-HA!

I think, though I don't know, that we may see him land in Episode 13. Though I'll grant, how the heck he gets his TARDIS back is beyond me. I think the little girl is the key to the problem and he's going back to change things around.

The voice that we heard is probably whoever built the Pandorica prison in the first place, and who may have caused the cracks. Clearly it's a man, clearly an older man. Since Davros usually liked to show up and be in the middle of the riot he was causing and since we saw him at the end of Donna's time in the TARDIS I don't believe it's him. I would be willing to bet it's not Rassilon, because why on Earth wouldn't Moffat use Tim Dalton again (and so we would immediately recognize the voice.) Besides the fact that Rassilon just showed up at the end of Ten's life. So not him.

So if it's not Davros, and it's not Rassilon, who is it? I wouldn't put it past Moffat to pull up a character from ages ago (and when I say ages I mean decades and Doctors ago) so Omega and the War Chief are currently sitting at the top of my short list of whose voice that was.

It's got to be someone who knows the Doctor inside and out, who can trick him into a spot where he would be cornered, where his enemies would be fooled into thinking it was a good idea to lock him up in a box. It has to be someone in control of time, who knows everything about it, who could manipulate it and bend it and have it at his will. And so it has to be a Time Lord, someone who slipped through the timelock and is causing problems for the Doctor.

These are important male villain Time Lords from the past who could have built the Pandorica:

* The Meddling Monk (supposedly helped build Stonehenge but totally stupid Time Lord as well...)
* The Master (unlikely because we just saw him last series as villain)
* Omega (most likely Time Lord on this list)
* Rassilon (unlikely as we saw him last series as villain)
* Morbius (suffered severe brain damage last time he was around and had no real body to speak of)
* The War Chief (hasn't shown up since Two was around and may have turned into the Master)
* The Valeyard (Future incarnation of the Doctor himself causing problems?)

Annnnnnd: The Doctor himself in a different incarnation, not the Valeyard but knowing that at this point he needs to lock himself in a box and cause changes in the Universe. Unlikely, but hey-this is the Happy Theory Land, where all theories are allowed to frolic.

Theories abound. Anyone got a few to add?

Ta,
Bec

PS: I'm just going to toss my crazed mad freaky opinions up here instead of making a new post. Tomorrow is IT!

1. River will be holding a gun. She will not shoot the Doctor (because she should have already done it. Unless the timeline changes. In which case she will shoot the Doctor.) Here's the deal-if River winds up earlier in her timeline than she's supposed to come round, that means she shoots him. If the River we saw get blown up in the TARDIS reappears, then she doesn't because she was supposedly already in prison for the crime. But I feel the shooting is not happening now, because if she KILLED him, then the lawpeople would have a reason to arrest her. It'd be pretty damned easy to determine if she KILLED him, right? Unless they fake out the lawmen and he pretends to be dead like he did with the Carrionites.

Or maybe she's getting re-arrested because she escaped prison and the law is coming to take her away, ha ha.

2. Rory will die. I can't seem to find a way to rescue the poor bloke so I'm 85% sure he's a dead man. Unless the timeline changes. In which case he won't die at all.

Wait, did I just use the word "bloke" again?

Never mind. Back to the thinking stuff.

3. Amy will live. (Um, yeah. This is right up there with the Doctor will live, River will live, and the stars will turn back on in this episode.)

4. Amelia will release the Doctor from his prison (the Earth hasn't ceased to exist-I believe it's just been cast into darkness. Whether this means that Amelia will still exist in her own timeline or whether she has to step across the cracks in the Universe to save him, I have no bloody idea.

5. At least ONE Time Lord besides the Doctor will show up because there was a woman cast as one on the list of people in the episode. Probably an extra since she doesn't have a name (unless they're being sneaky again. Maybe it's that one from last year that we thought was the Doctor's mum and we're going to find out who she is, finally.) I predict there will be TWO and Moffat's tried very hard to keep whoever it is off the list so it wouldn't be given away. Because if there was someone cast as Omega or something it'd give away the whole damn thing and we'd all be terribly disappointed.

6. "Big Bang" doesn't refer to the beginning of the Universe-too darn easy. Moffat likes his puzzles and confusing the truth. It clearly refers to River holding that blasted gun on whoever she's holding it on, therefore creating a bang in the whole of time and space.

Maybe.

7. The Doctor's going to need more centuries worth of therapy (he needs at least a couple hundred already) to get past being stuck in the Super Timelord Containment Pandorica box for 1900 years. Maybe he and Jack should start a support group (Buried Alive for 2 Millenia Anonymous?) Let's hope that it slowed his sense of time and space so it only feels like a few minutes until he gets out-I don't think I can deal with him being any crazier in this incarnation...

8. The voice is either Omega (maybe), the War Chief (kinda unlikely) or Davros (probably not, but I had to put what a lot of people are thinking.) I don't think Davros is that smart, honestly, and I don't think he knows THAT much about time and space (he's a geneticist, remember) to be able to set up a scenario/trap/prison for his greatest enemy and all that. Even with the Daleks' (no idea how to punctuate that at ALL) help (and since they hated him last time around they're not on his side or willing to work with him) he probably wouldn't be able to set up the intricate series of events that have led us to this point.

I still say we're dealing with someone majorly in control of Time and Space and who knows the Doctor inside out and backwards. Someone who can make a box completely inescapable for the universe's brainiest and sneakiest and slipperiest being. He's the Doctor, for heaven's sake. He's escaped every single situation they've ever stuck him in-locks usually can't stop him or slow him down for more than a couple of minutes (and they DID lock him in with his sonic screwdriver, so he might be able to bust through a couple of those things if he's not knocked to Peru/totally senseless by A) the loss of the TARDIS or B) the loss of his connection with Time and Space.)

When River examined the Pandorica, she saw a whole HEAP of locks and blocks and timeholds...everything whoever made it could throw at him to stop him getting out anytime soon. He can't get out on his own on this one-who do you think could make a box like this?

A theory is like a good salad. There are a lot of bits and I like them tossed with a nice tasty dressing. Have fun until all is revealed tomorrow!

Ta,
Bec