If any of you know me well enough then you will already know that I am a massive Doctor Who fan, so much so that I would consider myself a 'Whovian'. I will sit there some evenings reading through the Facebook comments getting angry at how some of the people who comment, as "fans", clearly have no clue what they are talking about. This angers me and just shows to those of you do not know me the level of love I have for The Doctor and his adventures. Anyway on with the blog.
Series 7 has been split into two parts; the first half saying goodbye to Rory and Amy and the second half being the introduction of Clara and the mystery surrounding this 'impossible girl'. On a personal note I believe that Jenna-Louise Coleman has been a brilliant companion to the Doctor. She is smart, funny, feisty and more than a match for The Doctor which is what he needs in one of his companions. She has died twice in two different periods of history and is back again for a third run at it and this being the mystery of how a seemingly normal human girl can be around in different periods of time and space. For a while now I've had the thought train that she was a ploy set up by the Great Intelligence to lure the Doctor to Trenzalore and his foretold death. This however has been thrown out of the window by the trailer for the finale where Clara says:
"I'm Clara Oswald and I was born to save the Doctor."
Now I don't believe that she is a Timelord because in both previous incarnations she has not regenerated when dying, nor do I believe she is any relation to Captain Jack Harkness because if you've watched Torchwood you'll know that he has a daughter who does not have his regeneration from death ability. If Clara was indeed born to save the Doctor then I now no longer believe that she is the doing of the Great Intelligence, but instead the creation of someone/something that we do not yet know. Obviously this whole story has been created by the disturb, mental and downright brilliant mind of Steven Moffat so the likelihood of anyone guessing correctly is next to none. I will say that this story-line and the enigma behind it has captured me so much more than any of the past curiosity filled story-lines.
Now we come to The Doctor, his name and his downfall at Trenzalore. There is a wildfire of debate raging around the internet regarding the revealing of his name and that it would ruin everything that Doctor Who is. I feel that revealing his name would make the title of the show obsolete, and that the name will never live up to the expectations of the fans. It will certainly turn away some fans with some maybe even going so far as to boycotting the show as long as Moffat is in charge. On the other hand is probably the longest running mystery in Television and fills me with a level of curiosity that make a considerable part of me want to know the answer. I hope that if Moffat is definitely going to reveal the name that it won't be something completely boring and that maybe it is something that will shock beyond a level we have yet to feel.
Obviously all the theories, thoughts and discussions will be redundant in two weeks time when the 2nd part of the finale has aired and we then know the answers to all the things we have been thinking about and debating for the past few months. But remember this is Steven Moffat and I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't answer one important piece of the puzzle and teased us with more questions.
And on a final note when are Strax, Vastra and Jenny going to get their own show?
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