Questions Brought up by "Power of Three": Is He Doctor Love? Doctor Pond?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
September 22, 2012 10:33pm CST
The episode where The Doctor helped avert another mass-extinction of humanity--this one brought on by a breed-of-Gallifreyan-myth who invaded the Earth by littering the Earth with black cubes that people soon took as house-decorations etc., cubes which then 'took in all of Earth's information' (presumably to 'reckon Earth's humanity worthy of extinction,' but the DOCTOR WHO-writers'll probably remind us of that 'information-collection' in The Doctor's future interactions with that mythical race) after a year-or-so and then proceeded to electrically stop people's hearts--
also revealed a lot about The Doctor ... mostly his connection with Amy Pond. When they were having the conversation which led The Doctor to an ingenious solution to 'the invasion of the cubes,' The Doctor & Amy were talking about how she & Rory were thinking about (and had pretty much decided-on)-giving up on The Doctor and -living the rest of their lives normal.
Amy told The Doctor how it always seemed he was running from something (especially because one of The Doctor's most-given 'prescriptions' is "Run!" ... going back to The 'Christopher Eccleston' Doctor, if not before), but The Doctor explained that he was in-fact always running to Amy, the first person The 'Matt Smith' Doctor's eyes had ever seen ... and to Rory, by-extension (?)
So is that what The Doctor is---kind of a reverse-generation mama's boy (tho she is his mother-in-law).
And why does he call Amy & Rory 'the Ponds.' Did they really take her name?
And (in the previews for next week---the fall finale) will next week really be the last time The Doctor sees Amy & Rory?
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@leeloo (1492)
• Portugal
26 Sep 12
This is the same problem that all the companions have. Why he leaves them, they can't have normal lives they grow older loose that sense of adventure. The big difference between Amy and by extension and Rory, was that Rose loved the Doctor, Rose's human Doctor was the shows way of giving closure, Martha left when she felt she had met someone to share her life with whereas Amy and Rory are each others halves, and his parents-in-law, so there is never that fear of them leaving him. The Doctor needs companions because what is the scariest thing is his being alone, he is surrounded by people but is still alone, that is why Jack in a way is the perfect companion - he would never leave, never die or get tired because like the Doctor Jack has lived too many lives and gone through too much to stay still - but that is unlikely as The 11th Doctor has not yet met Jack. There has been mention of a new companion, and the that means giving Amy and Rory a reason not to travel with the Doctor, they gave Rose a new world, Martha a new life and Donna a reason for it to be impossible for them ever meet again so that means that unless they bring back Mickey, all the previous companions are accounted for. The excitement for the Doctor is showing someone new the sites. I just hope the Ponds do get a happy ending, they deserve it after everything they went through.
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
26 Sep 12
I don't know; Rory has lived a few lifetimes too (or---wait, did he have all the experience of Rory the Plastic Centurion when Amy re-created the Universe?)
And whatever happened to Mickey?
@leeloo (1492)
• Portugal
27 Sep 12
The 10th Doctor's swan song showed that Martha and Mickey were married and fighting a assassin and the Doctor saved them and said goodbye, he gave Donna's mother a lottery ticket, said goodbye to Jack and gave Rose a human Doctor. I think Rory remembers some of the last Centurion, and Rory does play with it, in some of the episodes, when things get bad on more then one occasion he will say something like - ... and to die again.
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
18 Oct 12
I wonder if maybe 'I feel so depressed when I see former schoolmates of mine get married' because I was destined to be with that girl in a universe I once had a chance to be in.
Maybe that's what Heaven is: getting to skip around all the alternate universes you want throughout all your lives!
