posting to establish precedence

[scarfman]

The Doctor's new traveling companion, Clara Oswin, will debut in the Christmas special. The actress who plays her, Jenna-Louise Coleman, has already appeared this season as a character named Oswin Oswald who (to all appearances) didn't survive the story she appeared in. Head writer Steven Moffat has said of the new companion that she is, I don't recall it verbatim, someone very important in the Doctor's life. I have two very different, but not necessarily mutually exclusive, ideas about who she is.

1. She's someone who gets incarnated throughout space and time so that the Doctor is continuously meeting new people with the same face and manner, and a similar name, everywhere he goes. daibhid_c just voiced this theory on Twitter; so, when I'm posting now in order to establish bragging rights should I turn out to be right, I have to admit he beat me to the internet with this one. But, in doing so, he reminded me that I want to put my other idea out before anyone beats me to it:

2. The theme of Moffat's Doctor Who is, or has turned out to be, how the Doctor finds family now that the Time Lords are gone. River is his wife, as previewed in Moffat's last Davies-era story; in 2011 it developed that Amy and Rory are River's parents. I think Clara/Oswin/Oswald/* is going to turn out to be - in some timey-wimey non-biological way - the Doctor and River's offspring.

Comments

[alienfish.livejournal.com]

I want to find out what happened to the Doctor's Daughter, darnit.

[scarfman]

Somehow I don't expect Moffat to do that. And they would have to regenerate her if Moffet didn't want to come back.

[alienfish.livejournal.com]

She is the Doctor's female clone, we've seen her regenerate once, so it's not like they can't do it that way.

[whl.livejournal.com]

It does remind me somehow of Gwen Cooper, and her ancestor on the Rift in Wales. Reuse of a performer in somewhat rapid sequence with original appearance.

[scarfman]

There is a definite echo there. I always thought that Eve Myles got the regular Torchwood part, and that the regular part was named after Eva's Doctor Who guest part, on the strength of Myles's performance in the guest part; rather than, as is the case this year with Coleman, the earlier, guest part being derived from the imminent regular part. But I don't know it for a fact and it could easily be wrong.

[chocolatescifi.livejournal.com]

So will she be Susan's mother, or her aunt?

[scarfman]

Aunt, I imagine, since Susan's mother most likely died in the Time War, if she didn't die in whatever event prompted the Doctor and Susan to run off in the first place.

On the other hand, when Moffat takes it into his head to get all timey-wimey all bets are off.

[antiwesley.livejournal.com]

That's if you subscribe to the theory that Susan was the last of the pre-loom births as I've seen mentioned. There was never any canon evidence that she either was or wasn't actually related to the Doctor.

[scarfman]

I don't belive in Looms. At least twice in the Davies years the Doctor stated he's been a father and, one of those, grandfather too.