The Official MZ Doctor Who Thread!

[Enshohma]

The following was written for non-Doctor Who fans in mind, so please don't point out the obvious in saying that you already seen the very episodes I'm refereeing too.

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Okay, based on all the tidbits thus far, I have good suspicions that the big bad of this current season of Doctor Who is non-other than Omega, the Time Lord who gave his race their namesake, but in doing so was lost to an anti-matter universe and has become a mad mental-thought-based ghost seeking either revenge or rebirth.

Omage first popped up in the serial The Three Doctors and later in Arc of Infinity, and had always been one of my all time favorite Doctor Who characters because of him being tragic yet otherworldly dangerous with his vast knowledge as a stellar engineer, not to mention creating monsters and henchmen from his mind alone.

Of course I never suspected to be Omega until very recently, with the Black Guardian or a completely new villain being the one behind this season's recurring mystery; grin-shaped, light spewing cracks in reality that have been appearing / following wherever the Doctor and his human companion Amy Pond travel throughout time and space. In the two-part adventure Time of the Angels / Flesh and Stone, we inadvertently discover that anyone consumed by the cracks are erased from existence, as if they were never born to begin with.

A fate so worst than death, that even the impressive monsters known as the Weeping Angels regretted trying to use it for their own devious purposes. And like hypocrites, the Angels got all scared-like by the cracks, and begged the Doctor to sacrifice himself to save their sorry statuary behinds. The Doctor however tricked the malicious statue beings, and closed that particular crack by using them instead.

SPOILERS AHEAD:

In the episode Cold Blood which reintroduces the prehistoric reptilians called the Silurians (and quite well to my own surprised I might add), Rory, Amy's likeable but somewhat daft / timid finance, became a victim to one of the cracks, seemingly pulled into one of them after being shot by a Silurian soldier. The Doctor, being the alien Time Lord that he is, still remembers Rory and even still holds onto the engagement ring (somehow surviving Rory's fate within the time-machine Tardis), Amy however, has forgotten all signs of him.

But Rory's temporal disappearance aside, lets get back to why I think its Omega behind the fearsome cracks.

*The cracks are appearing all over existence, but seem to be following the Doctor and more so Amy in particular. Even as a child, where she first met the heroic Time Lord, a crack formed in her bed room, allowing the shape-shifting criminal Prisoner Zero to escape from his cell a galaxy away. As the Doctor noted, the cracks, in addition to consuming, can briefly connect two points of space and time that should have never touched to begin with, like subtle wormholes.

Hmmm...reminds me a bit of the Doctor's Tardis, the machine that he travels time and space with, which is no bigger than a phone booth outside, but within is as roomy as a national library. As Rory so perfectly stated, an artificial alternate universe / dimension within the small ship...and only Time Lords, even fallen ones, can bend space in such a manner.

And Amy may be the bait / trap Omega is using against the Doctor? The cracks may be popping up everywhere, but too strategically for our heroes comfort.

*The cracks where created by a massive interstellar explosion so great, that it splintered into the rest of history, past, present and future. Omega was a genius interstellar engineer before his tragic entrapment into a black hole, and maybe he's the only one with the skill to accomplish such a strikingly huge bang.

*The Doctor, just prior to Rory's supposed death and erase, managed to stick an arm into the same crack in order to see if their was any debris that might give him a clue to the explosion's origin...only to pull out a burnt piece of the Tardis itself! And in the most recent episode, The Lodger, a mysterious and unseen foe had succeeded in making his own makeshift Tardis, before disappearing by story's end...either an alien re-discovering the secrets of Tardis construction, with soon-to-come dire consequences...or more meddling from the man who practically created them to begin with?

*The upcoming final episodes of this season, The Pandoric Opens and The Big Bang, deals with a mythical prison of the former title, housing the most dangerous being / threat in the universe. Its unearthed by Roman Soldiers in the heyday of the Roman Empire, and summons forth not only the Doctor, but many of his foes, including the Daleks, Cybermen, Judoon, and what not, perhaps in an attempt to use the Pandoric and its contents to their advantage.

They're are many incredible lone villains in Doctor Who that fit the criteria, but the Black Guardian is a cosmic agent for evil who in his God-like way could never be trapped within such a prison, and everyone else, including the pure evil Sutek from Pyramids of Mars, practically died in all their lone appearances, so Omega the unfriendly ghost is a perfect candidate.

But most of all, Omega might have the perfect motive for un-witting reality, and that's perhaps to re-write his own history, either to be freed from his purgatorial 'non-existence' or to somehow regain a physical, mortal form once more; something he briefly archived but than lost in Arc of Infinity.

Of course this is all just fan speculation on my behalf, which thankfully was less inspired by my love for Omega, than the clues sprinkled through this season, and how they perfectly eco the character. However, its also likely the Pandoric will open and out pops childhood Amy Pond as the big reveal, with her not the main villain per say, but as the unlikely catalyst for everything that ahs and is about to happen.

That would be a huge surprise, but Omega would be a great climactic villain, and rather tragic, if not fittingly so, to end this season's dark and poignant fairy tale feel.

[dramaranger]

[Enshohma]

[Shonokin]

Watched Vincent and the Doctor yesterday. Wow that was good. Beautiful sets, great acting, excellent choice in guest stars (Bill Nighy, Tony Curran). The alien of the week is pretty much a secondary subplot to Vincent Vah Gogh as the main subject. It's not a perfect episode but it is super touching.

[lhb412]

[TheMaster]

[Enshohma]

While in the subject of The Pandorica Opens, my Omega theory isn't holding up too well, especially after watching The Lodger myself, and finding out that the unseen alien threat was pretty much explained as artificial mechanical intelligence doing horrible things for simple program reasons (ala the Clockwork Droids). But on the bright side the number of returning monsters and aliens are not just plain ridiculous, complete with several races that at the very least will be mentioned but unseen.

Here's a list of whose concerned:

Daleks (new model / pure bloods)

Cybermen (Cybus version, though rumors mention original versions as well)

Judoon (one at least)

Sontarans (Christopher Ryan returns, but playing a different character from General Staal)

Sycorax (trio of which)

The Slitheen (at least mentioned by River Song)

The Terileptils (originally from The Visitation, at least mentioned by River Song)

The Nestene Consciousness (at least mentioned by River Song, though newspapers say the Auton costumes are present)

The Drahvins (the all-female fascist from Galaxy 4, at least mentioned by River Song)

The Chelonians (cybernetic killer tortoises from various spin-off novels, at least mentioned by River Song)

The Atraxi (giant flying eyeballs from The Eleventh Hour, though among the few here that are unconfirmed)

The Zygons (from Terror of the Zygons, and are too unconfirmed)

The Draconians (from Frontier In Space, at least mentioned by River Song)

Silurians (the female warriors introduced in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood)

The Pilot Fish (better known as the Robot Santa Mercenaries from The Christmas Invasion and The Runaway Bride)

Weevils (from Torchwood, and there are at least two standing alongside the Silurians in photos)

Blowfish (recurring fish-headed alien criminals from Torchwood)

Hoix (brutal monster / alien from Love and Monsters as well as the Torchwood episode Exit Wounds)

Uvodni (bug like aliens of whom the anti-hero General Kudlak is a member of, from The Sarah Jane Adventures)

Bracewell (not a villain by any means, but the lovable android with human emotions from Victory of the Daleks, and is one of many good guy characters to at least make a cameo in the final two episodes of the season, along with Winston Churchill, Liz 10, Vincent van Gogh, Amy Pond as a child, and what appears to be a Roman soldier who looks a lot like Rory )

Plus it seems that the Yeti will be making a comeback in the 2010 Christmas special, according to some new concepts art that has popped online:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/17513/ ... doctor-who

[Dr Kain]

[lhb412]

[TheMaster]

INCREDIBLE series. One of the best. Just saw Pandorica and all of RTDs crap has gone bye bye. Again cant believe smith is in his 20s. The only thing that could ruin it is a RTD style "people muttering doctor" kind of resolution.

[Shonokin]

[The Shadow]

[Enshohma]

SPOILER WARNING TO THE SPOILERS

io9 has posted some significant spoilers to The Big Bang, including some strong evidences that Omega is indeed coming back, but not as the true identity of the sinister voice behind the cracks through time...wow, if Omega isn't THIS seasons main villain, just who the heck is?!?

http://io9.com/5570394/bluehinters-doctor-who-spoilers

[TheMaster]

[Dr Kain]

[lhb412]

[TheMaster]

[TheMaster]

Incidentally I always thought these guys should be the theme

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/293952

[The Shadow]

Interesting re-mix -- sounds like they pulled from all 3 iterations of the theme in the classic series (perhaps largely from Davison/Baker and McCoy eras).

I still think the original theme is the best (Hartnell -- Baker); it's memorable and has a great uneartly quality to it. While the new series' theme does use some bits & pieces of the original Ron Grainer theme, it is very "busy" and kind of gets lost on a sea of sameness amidst other present day T.V. show themes.

[TheMaster]

[The Shadow]

Oh definitely, Orbital's performance rendition sounds a lot better than what's getting used on the new series. It'd be interesting to see what they'd come up with for a version that would be used on the show.

[lhb412]

[The Shadow]

I think the Time Meddler is great, I'd place it among my favorite Doctor Who serials.

[TheMaster]

[lhb412]