Season Four Arc

[HoopyFrood]

The companion's family does show how the effect of the Doctor goes beyond the companion themselves (and you can't really have a companion up and leave and not have anyone miss them -- although with time travel, you could feasibly take them back to the moment after they left and no one would even know they'd gone...but I digress...) but the fact is I agree -- family is annoying, we want to see time travelling adventures. I disliked Rose's family because Jackie was just plain annoying; Martha's was a little better because her mum's initial dislike of The Doctor was different but still got in the way.

I also like Ice's ideas about Martha -- now that I think about it, it did seem that she had her eyes more on The Doctor than on the things around her.

As to the forthcoming stuff -- I'd really like to see Davros again. I only have vague memories of seeing him on tv when Doctor Who used to be on, but he was scary; and I love anything to do with the Daleks. I'm impressed by the ideas from other members about this Medusa thingy ad how planets keep disappearing...interesting.

[byrney123]

That thing with the disappearing bees keeps popping up, surely it has to just be an in joke and not something more serious.

Disappointed this weeks episode didnt mention either the Shadow Proclamation or the Medusa Cascade, bang goes my theory that they would be in every episode.

[byrney123]

Yay I'm back on track the Doctor wants to take Donna to the Medusa Cascade, jackpot on that theory then

But another week with no mention of the Shadow Proclamation.

And when did UNIT become the Unified Intelligence Taskforce

[Vladd67]

Some people have no sense of history when it comes to UNIT however real life politics can intrude with UNIT

[pyan]

Cut...Decided to put it in its own thread...

[Raalix]

I have a new interesting theory on the arc for season four. I mentioned in my original post that I thought it had something to do with the Medusa Cascade wiping planets from existence. However, based on the recent two-parted, I think this theory needs amended.

True - planet have gone missing. But more importantly, breeding planets are being created. The alien Supernanny was using Earth as a breeding planet for the Adipose, the Pyroviles were breeding in the volcanoes of Pompeii, the Ood were being bred for use as slavery across three star systems and the Sontarans were trying to turn the Earth into a Clone World.

If this theory holds, the return of Davros could mean that he has been using the Parallel Earth (where Rose was left behind) and turned it into a breeding ground for a new Dalek Empire. Rose has been desperately trying to communicate with the Doctor through the void.

[chopper]

i could just be very gullible, but that does make sense chap!

[PTeppic]

Originally Posted by chopper

i could just be very gullible, but that does make sense chap!

That makes two of us... though it might be coincidence! Wait to see if the giant wasps we've seen in the season-trailer are trying to breed.

[Raalix]

I wonder if the Doctor is breeding to continue the theme in next week's "Doctor's Daughter" episode!

[Marauder77]

Hmm yeah, that "breeding" is part of the story arc seems likely now that all episodes have had elements of it.

But as the Doctors Daughter is fully grown I'd say he's all ready bred..

[PTeppic]

Maybe that's the link to breeding in the episode...

[Raalix]

Originally Posted by Marauder77

Hmm yeah, that "breeding" is part of the story arc seems likely now that all episodes have had elements of it.

But as the Doctors Daughter is fully grown I'd say he's all ready bred..

Given the Doctor's surprise at her existence, I would suggest that he has been breeding without consent! Who's been taking advantage of the Doctor?

[Marauder77]

Originally Posted by Raalix

Given the Doctor's surprise at her existence, I would suggest that he has been breeding without consent! Who's been taking advantage of the Doctor?

Oh he wouldn't be the first traveler to discover he has a kid he didn't know about... and for all we know it might have been the result of a future reincarnations indiscretion. Or maybe the 10th doctor impregnates someone in his own future? On the other hand, he did comment that he had been a father once as well...

As for Time Lords being sterile and reproduced using artificial means... Isn't the information from the 8th doctors movie that he is half human considered canon, so maybe he wasn't as sterile as suspected due to his mixed heritage. (And thus, he forgot to use a rubber! :-P )

But seriously, my first thought was that this might have been the result of a period of the doctor using the "become human" trick... maybe he did "go human" for a while, started a family, and the opened the clock. That would explain the "having been a father" comment as well, as he as the Doctor never was a father, but his human alter ego was... ? Just speculating here, looking forward to the episode!

[Adasunshine]

OK, I've got a sort of theory going on although it's very flawed as it hasn't appeared in every episode... mine's along the lines of the Doctor (and maybe Donna) being revered as a God...

Obviously we sweep aside the Adipose episode...

Pompeii... they became House Gods

The Ood... the song of the Doctor will be passed on down the generations and every Ood will know of him and what he did

The Sontaran eps... I'm not too sure about, there was something in there but I can't bring it to mind right now

Then the Doctor's Daughter ep... again something there with him cracking open the Terraforma (sp?) effectively ending the otherwise seemingly neverending war and creating a whole new alliance and lovely looking planet therefore - theoretically - making him the creator...

Like I said, crackpot but thought I'd put it out there...

xx

[PTeppic]

I'm putting my twopence in by assuming that Jenny will somehow be involved in the kick-off of the bad guys in the season finale. She apparently has Time Lord-esque DNA, and we've already seen ("Dalek") what happens if a nominally dormant Dalek is touched by time traveller....