Originally Posted by amerwho:
“New to posting here, but I had to join the spec and insanity.
I had a thought, which is likely derived from my uneasiness with the 11th Doctor. I like him, but... I have reservations. Amy seems so much smarter than the Doctor. He sort of comes off a bit thick next to her.
I have a feeling that there is more to Amy than we know, and if my hope for this season turns out to be truth (though I am sure it will not) I would be wholeheartedly impressed.
Imagine if you will that we, the fans, have been misled. What if Matt Smith is NOT the 11th Doctor, but that it is Karen Gillan? Bear with me a moment here...
We know that there is a crack in the skin of the universe and there is the possibility that this is a parallel world into which we have fallen. Let's say that is the case and let's say that Amy is the Doctor. In this parallel world things are truly upside down, because the Doctor is now the companion and the companion is the Doctor.
When is a POND not a POND?
Take POND itself, as an anagram... NO DR.
Okay, I am 90% facetious in making this argument... well, more than 90%... but I really want to be surprised by something this season. So far, its felt like a bit of rehash, same techniques, same tactics... I feel like I have learned nothing new about the Doctor since his regeneration. And I find Amy infinitely more interesting.
Also, I think it would be a stroke of genius to have a female Doctor and to have kept it from the public.
Such a shame it won't come to pass.”
I bet you wish you'd kept your speculation to yourself now, huh ?
Occupational hazard of posting wild theories on here.... only the long established posters get to say wild stuff without being ridiculed... Funny thing is, the true scripted story will probably turn out to be just as wild and tenuous as most of the speculation on here but just because it has been penned by SM will be universally accepted as the best thing to happen since someone suggested pre-cutting the bread before they sold it....
FWIW, one of the hopes I hold out for Doctor Who is that one day, just one day, they will manage to keep a regeneration out of the papers and totally secret until it is screened.
...until that day....
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