I have a Doctor Who THEORY

[annathepiper]

And I blame this on sleep deprivation after being up until 2:30am with last night’s release for work, but nonetheless, here you go, peeps!

Massive, MASSIVE spoilers for seasons 5 and 6 lie beyond the fold. Do not clickie if you are not caught up on Matt Smith’s Doctor episodes!

My theory is this:

River Song is Amy and Rory’s Schroedinger’s baby.

AND she’s the one who shoots the Doctor in this season’s opener.

Which is why she is in PRISON!

I had been suspecting she’s in fact fated to shoot the Doctor ever since she was reluctant to answer his question about who she killed. And the Schroedinger’s baby thing, if she were in fact conceived in the TARDIS, might tie in to River’s obvious comfort with time travel, not to mention seeming to know the TARDIS controls in some ways better than the Doctor does!

I will now accept arguments for and against. As well as more tea. Because zzzzzzz.

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.

Comments

[zeborah]

I would like to argue against this because I'd like a human to be awesome without it having been caused by something non-human. Rose turned into... I always think of her as the Goddess of Mercy; Donna was the Doctor-Donna; even Amy was altered by growing up next to the crack. I want River to be awesome because sometimes humans are awesome, not because she's a Schroedinger's time-travel baby.

However, this is more of an argument that I'd have with Moffat if I ever came face to face with him, rather than an argument about the facts. Fact-wise it certainly wouldn't contradict what we know; it just leaves the questions "Why is she Schroedingering?" and "What's with the regeneration?" both of which are questions we're left with anyway.

[skogkatt]

This is a perfectly cromulent theory. I shall be interested to see how it plays out.

[annathepiper]

Thanks! I don't know if we have any new data yet as of last night's episode, but I'll be watching that ASAP. :)