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Doctor Who Geeks , new thread!

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TheAngelshavetheOod · 30/09/2012 13:13

Hope no one else hasn't started one

cakebot River got to 1938 but the TARDIS couldn't. She said that it was because the vortex manipulator could sneak through

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LittleAbruzzenBear · 03/04/2013 08:27

I love hearing all your theories!

KnockMeDown · 03/04/2013 12:30

Hi - apologies if I am not keeping up, but please could someone clarify which park it is you are talking about?

Thank-you Grin

EllenJanesthickerknickers · 03/04/2013 12:42

I think the one in which she met the Doctor in the trailer.

RustyBear · 03/04/2013 14:34

Yes, I meant the one EllenJane linked to, though I think others might have meant the park that had the tree where the Tardis was parked on the last Christmas special. Though that was in winter, not autumn. I can't remember what the tree looked like and our bloody sky box lost everything we'd recorded a few weeks ago.

I wouldn't worry about keeping up, though - none of us are keeping up. We're just speculating wildly in the hope that we'll hit on something....

marjproops · 03/04/2013 18:31

keep thinking Claras full name is an anagram of something.

anyone good at anagrams?

like Torchwood is an anagram of doctorwho.

maybe something there?

and if steven moffats wife is a mnetter, please give us some spoilers!!Grin

GlaikitHasHerFizzBack · 03/04/2013 18:44

Marj up thread someone pointed out it was COO as in chief operating officer, someone's number 2. But who's number two is she?

Also I have read her headstone gave her date of birth as 23rd November! Ring any bells?

Ooh does anyone know when the 50th anniversary is?

marjproops · 03/04/2013 19:28

i know someone said COO but were all having conspiracy theories in here, just thought id throw another one in Grin

teejwood · 03/04/2013 20:15

"We're just speculating wildly in the hope that we'll hit on something...."

quoted for truth, Rusty!!

teejwood · 03/04/2013 20:35

'Twas me with COO

Just to chuck something else into the mix - Clara is an anagram of ARCAL, which stands for "aircraft radio control of aerodrome lighting" - the system which allows aircraft pilots to control the lighting of an airport or airfield's approach lights, edge lights, and taxiways via radio.
So Clara is guiding the Doctor - but to what fate?

Alternatively, Google indicates that LARCA is an international research group working on data mining, machine learning, data analysis, and mathematical linguistics - so she's gathering information on the Doctor to serve some evil enemy!

Or alternatively, she's just called Clara Shock

GlaikitHasHerFizzBack · 03/04/2013 20:38

Just been speculating about Clara with dh. He asked why she changed her name from Oswald to Oswin Confused was it to do with lee Harvey Oswald? So I googled and and and JFK was shot on 22nd November 1963. He was shot by lee Harvey Oswald, who himself was shot and killed on 23rd November 1963.

The first ever episode of dr who was broadcast 23rd November 1963.

There has to be a connection, but I can't work it out. Has someone already thought abut this??

teejwood · 03/04/2013 20:48

louisiana thanks for the tip off about the Clara theory. I quite like the idea she's representative of the entire series, but worry that for all but a hardcore of fans it's a bit "Doctor Who will eat itself". There will need to be an explanation of the missing years - 16 and 23 - within the storyline, or else for most casual viewers (who make up the majority of the audience both in the UK and in overseas markets) it will just be yet another hanging thread with no resolution, as they simply won't make the effort to go onto one of the fansites. I'd like to think that Moffat is playing it as a dual thread - a geeky in-joke for the ultra fanboys/girls, but also part of the actual plot.

Also - Moffat said he made up River's character for the Library episodes but then knew that he wanted to play out her storyline in a certain way. Alex Kingston has said that he took her aside to fill her in on River's story fairly early on, long before Karen Gillen etc became aware of what was going on. So it was planned out even if it hasn't come across that way....

marjproops · 03/04/2013 20:51

Glaik thats a good one!

GlaikitHasHerFizzBack · 03/04/2013 20:52

Isn't there a big thing about the missing dr who episodes that were wiped instead of archived? Tenuous link??

teejwood · 03/04/2013 20:57

Glaikit it sort of ties in with the theory about Clara being about the series as a whole, doesn't it, that 23 Nov is important as her date of birth because it was the first transmission date of Doctor Who. The BBC's new series was overshadowed by the JFK shooting the previous day, by Lee Harvey Oswald.

Is it telling us that Clara Oswald an assassin in disguise?
She didn't change her name, though:

  • Victorian Clara was Clara Oswin Oswald
  • modern day Clara is Clara Oswald, who takes Oswin as a screen name to stand for "Oswald for the win" and
  • Dalek Clara was actually Oswin Oswald, so she had dropped the Clara not the Oswald.
marjproops · 03/04/2013 21:00

tee you're a bit TOO good!Grin chillout now! too much thinking!

at the end of the day all our wonderment and itll prob be something so bloody obvious and simples!

GlaikitHasHerFizzBack · 03/04/2013 21:01

Yeah I told dh that she didn't change her name. He pays far less attention to it than I do Hmm but he seems to pick up subtleties that I miss!

teejwood · 03/04/2013 21:06

rofl at too good, marj - am stuck at home with the kids as we all have come down with a lurgie, am bored and need to divert the old grey matter away from puke and snot!

Glaikit the theory I just read on one of the boards is that the missing 16 and 23 in Clara's book are tied in with gaps in the transmission of Doctor Who. Really clever in-joke and hats off to whoever it was who figured that one out, but 99.9999999% of the audience would never have got that in a million years!!

GlaikitHasHerFizzBack · 03/04/2013 21:15

Ah ha! Well I have to say I only got into Dr who around the Donna time. So a lot of references got right over my head. But I think I'll go back and watch them online!

teejwood · 03/04/2013 22:10

anyone else been sad enough to pre-order Summer Falls on kindle?

Oodsigma · 03/04/2013 22:12

Ordered for dd1 ...

YoullNeedATray · 03/04/2013 23:00

Ooh - thank you! Have just ordered it for DD's Kindle :-)

teejwood · 03/04/2013 23:13

yeah, that was my excuse too, ood Grin
no problem, Tray!

RustyBear · 03/04/2013 23:21

Well, I could say I've ordered it for DD, but it's not much of an excuse, as she's 23...

Mind you, she's as big a DW fan as I am, so she will undoubtedly read it sometime!

Oodsigma · 04/04/2013 07:50

I don't do kindle so its a real excuse! Will have to force myself to read it on there!

RustyBear · 04/04/2013 13:38

OK, I didn't actually cry, but Chapter 11 is quite sad....