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The First Doctor's most iconic villains were the Daleks. The Second Doctor had the Cybermen, the Third Doctor had the Master, the fourth had Davros, the fifth had the Black Guardian, the sixth had The Rani, and the seventh had Fenric. The New Series finales featured The Daleks, the second finale featured the Cybermen, the third finale featured The Master, the fourth featured Davros. The Black Guardian vowed to return angrier than ever, and it's high time he returned to menace the Doctor.

* There's no freak natural phenomena going on here.'''Someone''', some sentient being, is trying to destroy the Universe. How do we know this? Well, '''someone''' keeps talking. We keep hearing this little nugget in the TARDIS during [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 /E12 The Pandorica Opens|"The Pandorica Opens"]]:

{{quote| '''Mysterious Voice''': ''Silence will fall...''}}

* The destruction will be caused by the TARDIS exploding. We saw the fragment in [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 /E09 Cold Blood|"Cold Blood"]], we saw the painting at the beginning of the episode.

* Someone has taken control of the TARDIS and is making it explode--andexplode—and when I say "someone", I mean "'''Someone'''". When the TARDIS starts going apeshit and exploding (thereby causing the destruction/erasure of the entire universe), the Doctor tells River that it must be some kind of fault. River disagrees:

{{quote| '''River''': Someone else is flying it. An external force.}}

{{quote| '''Dalek Supreme''': {{smallcaps|Only the Doctor can fly the TARDIS.}}}}

** How is he able to do all this when he's only a manifestation of the Doctor's dark impulses? [[Fridge Logic|...yeah, okay, good point]] [[TalkingInner to ThemselfDialogue|self]]. Maybe he was able to manifest his own form at some point in the Doctor's relative future. Or perhaps he's inhabiting the TARDIS--telepathicTARDIS—telepathic circuits, remember? This would also fit with the fact that the voice declaring that "silence will fall." is heard ''inside the TARDIS'' (which is supposed to be shielded from most assaults) right before the screen cracks, and at the end of "Amy's Choice" The Doctor saw the Dream Lord's face in the TARDIS console.

**** She says in [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 /E12 The Pandorica Opens|"The Pandorica Opens"]] that the Doctor taught her to fly the TARDIS. Later in her personal timeline (i.e. [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 /E04 The Time of Angels|"The Time of Angels"]]), she says that someone else taught her to fly even better than the Doctor does. She almost certainly met this other TARDIS driver in the intervening time period.

*** In addition, consider the following: Every enemy leading up to this point has been accounted for, except the Dream Lord. The Atraxi, Daleks, and Homo Reptillia are part of the Alliance, and we know they aren't the real [[Big Bad]]. The fish-vampires are still presumably in Venice and their matriarch has been killed. The invisible monster Vincent Van Gogh faced wasn't malevolent, just injured. The TARDIS-like spaceship basically imploded at the end of The Lodger. This means that the real villianvillain behind the destruction of the TARDIS must either be the Dream Lord or someone entirely new to Series 5, which seems unlikely. Barring the return of an old villianvillain like Rassilon or the Master, it seems to follow that it's probably the Dream Lord who is behind this

* Let us take a step back and look at the Season 4 episodes ''Silence (!) in the Library'' and ''Forest of the Dead''. River mentions the crash of the Byzantium so there is a connection to Series 5, and possibly beyond.

{{quote| '''River''': Everybody knows that everybody dies, and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that '''all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark''', if he ever, for one moment, accepted that.}}

** If we assume that the Dream Lord is an earlier form of the Valeyard, we could take this theory: the Dream Lord wasn't trying to [[Ret -Gone]] existence. Rather, the cracks were a [[Xanatos Gambit]]. In truth, he made sure he could reboot reality. This would be for the sole purpose of finding a way to reaching into his own past, and averting the Time War. [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|No matter what]] [[Utopia Justifies the Means|the consequences are.]]

It's already been confirmed that the Cybus Cybermen will be back for the season finale, and the situation with the Cracks will likely to be adressedaddressed in that story as well. These 2 things obviously will obviously be related.

Time travel is messed up due to the timestream being drawn into them and the TARDIS not being able to detect this.

* In the second and third episodes, after the TARDIS has dematerialiseddematerialized, we see the cracks. It is TARDIS's departures into the Time Vortex that are causing the cracks.

** '''Confirmed.''' The entire universe, apart from the Earth and Moon, essentially suffers a [[Ret -Gone]]. The multiverse too, if the Cyberleader is to be believed. It's better, now.

* Because what could be more universe-shattering than that? This would also explain why the Daleks are apparently back in the finale.

== The cracks in time are caused by [[Super Smash Bros.|Tabuu]] or a relative ==

== The cracks in time and space are being caused by [[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|the Snarl]] escaping its prison. ==

One part [[Continuity Snarl]] ,<ref>''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' has been going for almost 50 years: if there was ''ever'' a series in which a [[Continuity Snarl]] would bite the characters in the arse, it's this one.</ref>, one part [[Eldritch Abomination]]. It's been bound in this "Pandorica" place, and it's so massive and powerful that [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0275.html when it starts to escape, cracks appear all across space and time.] The Gate <ref>(Wait, what Gate?)</ref> is Amy, and somehow, her getting married will break open the Pandorica, unleash the Snarl and literally unmake creation.

From what we've seen, the cracks apparently affect all universes,hence the Cyberman's statement of "all universes will be deleted." We also know that, even when they were removed, some alterations remain-if that weren't the case,all crack-related episodes would have never been [[Fridge Horror|and there would be an Angel in Amy's brain.]]

* Jossed-the Doctor explicitly mentions that, if a crack takes you, you never existed. Not to mention, if the universe wasn't erased from time during [[Ret -Gone|Total]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|Event]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Collapse]], things wouldn't get as screwed up as they were.

That is the "Big Bang" in the finale.

The TARDIS is shown to be malfunctioning again and again - the Doctor misses Amy by 12 years when he tries to fix it, which is understandable, but then misses her again by 2 years when he just goes to the moon for a spin. A couple of episodes later, Churchill tells the doctor he's late by 3 months. There may be other examples. The Doctor is confused every time he hears about this, because he knows he's doing his usual thing. It's not the Doctor who is messing up, it's the TARDIS, which is very old and is finally running down.

Just erasing them from people's memories. What they're really doing is DISPLACING them. I got this idea from this very wiki, which mentions a rumor that Rory will reappear as a Roman Centurion, but what really got me thinking about it was the Weeping Angels in Blink. What brought them to Earth? Why were they so weak? It's simple, the cracks displaced them throughout time, with that one group ending up on Earth, severely weakened (hence the lack of neck breaking, and no picture jumping). This means that those who are taken by the cracks, anyone who knew them forgets them, and that person is placed in a new place, with no memories of who they were, and possible new memories to slot them into their new place in time. Of course it's all just conjecture, but it's interesting no?

* So that would make the little joke about this in [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 /E04 The Time of Angels|The Time of Angels]] [[Chekhov's Gun|important]]...

== Davros blew up the TARDIS. ==

As of the end of Season 6, we now know that the Silence are not [[Omnicidal Maniac|Omnicidal Maniacs]]s, but [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]] who believe that the Doctor will destroy the universe by asking/answering the First Question ([[Title Drop|Doctor Who?]]), and that killing him will prevent that. ''And'', we know they can send signals into the TARDIS, since they were able to keep Amy's Ganger stable the entire time it was onboard, no matter where in time and space it was. So, perhaps in their attempts to kill the Doctor, they hijack control of the TARDIS and trigger a [[Phelbotinum Meltdown]] to kill the Doctor, or possibly strand him away from the planet where the Question is meant to be asked (though from what we've seen of the Silence, the former seems like the more likely). They just misjudge how strong the explosion is, not realizing it'll result in the very end of the universe they're trying to prevent. And after the universe is rebooted, they learn from their mistake and decide to try a smaller scale assassination, which is what leads to the whole plot with River/Melody.

Instead, Matt Smith's Doctor was created when, during the Tenth Doctor's regeneration, the Tardis exploded. The Eleventh exists in an alternate universe while the Tenth is now stranded in 21st century London. This explains why no one seems to remember anything about the Doctor's previous adventures. Furthermore, the cracks in the universe are the universe's way of saying "I will om nom nom you, weird fake Doctor," and its way of fixing a grievous error.

== The [[Arc Words]] of Series 5 will be "MΨTH" ==

** There were ducks in it before they were sucked up by the cracks. Because there were ducks in it, it was a duck pond. The cracks erased the ducks, but not the fact that it was a duck pond. The cracks [[Ret -Gone]] people, but you can realize that they existed if you figure out the plot holes it leaves in your life.

* It all adds up to Leadworth being held unnaturally in stasis--outstasis—out of Time, if you will.

* Or even more depressing, Jack due to his actions in the sixties led to multiple deaths latter on including his own grandson. Will be driven to protect the Children of Britain. He knows already what is going to happen to him but takes it as a form of penance, hundreds of years of agony for the deaths of Ianto and his grandson. And for how many other people killed by his actions or inaction no matter how necessary .

{{quote| Scientist: DALEK ETERNAL, TRUTH OR DARE?<br />

Eternal: ...TRUTH.<br />

Drone: WHO IS YOUR CRUSH?<br />

* Well, since the Cracks erased the Dalek Invasion, as well as the [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E14 The Next Doctor|Cyberking incident]], I would consider it '''''confirmed'''''.

* However, since he ''was'' in his first twenty-four-hours of regeneration, [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/2005 CS the Christmas Invasion/Recap|any damage done to him would have healed]].

== The Clerics are a future version of The Church of the Assembly of Man from [[The Return (Fanficfanfic)|The Return]]. ==

* So the reason the Aunt Amy says takes care of her isn't there is because her family all just fell in the crack a very short time ago and all Amy now knows is that there's something wrong with that crack in her wall. Sweet dreams.

to fix something.Thier response was to

* 1.Execute a renegade Time Lord

== Since the events of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E12 The Stolen Earth|The Stolen Earth]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E13 Journeys End|Journey's End]]'' have been seemingly erased, some of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E17 E18 The End of Time|The End Of Time]]'' must have been as well. ==

** See the [[Viewers Are Geniuses]] entry on the [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 /E05 Flesh and Stone|Flesh and Stone page]]. The [[It Makes Sense in Context|coat thing]] pretty much confirms this.

''(from [http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/9552494.html?thread=299601774#t299601774 a comment on FFR])''

* One can only wonder then what was going through her mind then to create the events of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/1985 JFIGSA Fix With Sontarans/Recap|A Fix With Sontarans]]''...

== The future Amy and Rory Team TARDIS saw will play an important role in [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 /E09 Cold Blood|Cold Blood]] ==

Why point them out? Why show Amy and Rory (and subsequently us) them if they aren't important. And yeah, the Doctor may say [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]] but surely he remembers that that actually ''saves the day'' in [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S20 E3/E03 Mawdryn Undead|Mawdryn Undead]]. I think that whole scene was to set up a [[Chekhov's Gun]].

The Doctor like Merlin seems to age backwards, successive regenerations tend to make him younger, he's pretty much magic, and he often disappears for considerable periods of time.

The Lady of the Lake, learned magic from Merlin, who then lusted after her, and eventually she used her magic to entomb Merlin in a tree or under a Stone. Merlin did not try to counter this. River, has a water themed name, likely learned about sonic screwdrivers and TARDIS piloting from the Doctor, and killed a very good man who was hero to many. As for lusted after, they do seem to have some sort of romantic relationship, what with they're very romantic dates to singing towers and picnics at Asgard.

* King Arthur, if he ever existed, came after the Roman occupation had ended, and fought against the Saxon invaders; that's as old as the story can possibly be stretched, certainly not to the Roman times.

* Depending on how much we can take from the original run, it was already established that the Doctor was Merlin -- orMerlin—or an alternate-dimension version of the Doctor was. That storyline was a bit confusing.

** You are correct about Eleven's character development, but you have made the typical mistake of getting the numbers wrong. The Eleventh Doctor signed a five-year contract with the BBC. Although Eleven's next regeneration will bring the Whoniverse into balance, it will not make Eleven happy. Instead, it will give him a more ambiguous personality (as is seen in Jack Harkness and Rory Pond). He will feel incredibly confused. This is when the Master comes into the picture. The Master is an [[Author Avatar]] of Steven Moffat. The Master deliberately created the Eleventh Doctor as a way of de-sterilizing the Whoniverse, and undoing the damage of the Rassilon Era. Rassilon sterilized the Time Lords and prevented Time Lords from reaching their full potential by instilling the Time Lord race with the following genetic programming: Regenerate only twelve times, and do not regenerate unless the need is dire. Do not interfere with the Whoniverse. Merely watch it helplessly while it destroys itself. Rassilon created the first Whoniverse with a SQUICK WARNING: nocturnal emission. He has regretted the creation of the Whoniverse ever since. That's right. Steven Moffat's Whoniverse is the same as Douglas Adams' Universe. The Fourty-second Doctor shall be Arthur Dent. When that happens, the meaning of life shall be 42, because an orgy of 42 people will be required to reboot the universe. In the mean time, the meaning of life is Eleven. The Master intended Eleven to clean up the Whoniverse by dumping all of its Yang force into Pete's World, and then experiencing the pain of both Leadworth, and the London of Pete's World (I suspect these towns are the exact same place). In the Series Seven Climax, Eleven shall re-integrate the Series 5 Whoniverse with Pete's World by screwing the Kings Arms Football Team. (Seven of these people are also Clerics--ElevenClerics—Eleven's companions are stalking him). This is Eleven's biggest crack. When he opens it fully, the orgy will get Amy pregnant with a Time Lord. The Eleven parents of this child are all of the incarnations of the Doctor. When the Master regenerated the Tenth Doctor, all of his incarnations obtained their own bodies, and regenerated into fertile bodies. During the Eleventh Hour of June 26th26, 2010, all of the Doctor's incarnations will merge, and become the Eleven Aspects of Fate. Eleven will be restored to his natural state of incredibly confused. That is when the Master will try to seduce him. He created Eleven because he wanted to repopulate the Time Lord race, and recreate the Doctor according to his own fantasy. (The Master's love for Ten was unrequited). This is a rather sick form of affirmative therapy, but thus far, it as ''somehow worked''. Series Eight will be devoted to the Master's plotline, and Series Nine will be dedicated to Amy's Choice, in which Amy finally gives birth to a Time Lord baby that has been gestating in her womb for five tears. Steven Moffat will then consider Eleven fixed, and offer him a contract renewal, which Eleven shall be free to decline. If Eleven renews the contract, the next season will be a honey-moon for Amy's Choice. She shall marry all of her boyfriends, as well as Sophie and River, but Amy is still heterosexual, so she will be a sister-wife of Sophie and River.

Back in [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 /E05 Flesh and Stone|Flesh and Stone]] the Doctor (metaphorically) threw three-year worth of continuity into the Crack when he said that the Angels can choose not to move when they think they're observed. [[Magic A Is Magic A|Which goes against everything we know about them.]]

[[Foreshadowing|Just wait for the next time the stakes rest on his educated guess.]]<ref> and given the way he laments at how others always know much more about [[Arc Words|the Cracks]] than him in [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 /E09 Cold Blood|Cold Blood]]...</ref>

* Who says that Ten was right? As far as we can tell, everything he knows about the Angels in Blink he learned from a [[Stable Time Loop]]. There's no good reason that any non-essential knowledge [[Ontological Paradox|Ontological Paradoxed]]ed into existence need be correct.

{{quote| ''There was a goblin. Or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos.''}}

** Every ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' villain in the known universe would '''absolutely''' show up if they know that someone already had the Doctor locked up in a cage.

** It explains how River could kill the greatest man she'd ever known -- aknown—a hero to millions -- andmillions—and still be ''relatively'' flippant about it: she killed "the Doctor", but not THE Doctor, and got locked up by people who didn't realise the difference.

== The Dreamlord is driving the Tardis ==

** The rumors that there is a second Doctor are true. He will let himself out.

The idea that it's during Roman times is just part of the [[Kansas City Shuffle]]. That's why Stonehenge looks old, when it didn't get that way until later. What evidence do we have that it's the past?

** The Stonehenge was old even in the Roman times; it's the oldest known structure in the area, as old as the pyramids of Egypt (which too are a millennia older than the Roman Empire).

** The two Doctors, two Amys ending is foreshadowed by Amy having a different name when the Doctor sees her again. There is an Amelia Pond, traveling with the other!Eleven and an Amy Pond, who we have been following.

* The Doctor speculates in the Dream Lord episode about there being only one person who hates him so much, and is implied that that's the Doctor himself. Now, Human!Ten * is* the Doctor, (has his memories) additionally he was screwed over by the the Doctor. (stranded in a human body, with no TARDIS) Add Ten's emotional instability in late gap year to the mix, and you have the ultimate [[Omnicidal Maniac]].

* He sends his greatest enemies on a wild goose chase after the real Doctor while he enacts the last phase of his plan.

* ''Confirmed'', but the truth is more mundane. It's a set of [[Stable Time Loop|Stable Time Loops]]s in which the Doctor uses the Vortex Manipulator to go back in time, give Rory his screwdriver, and let him out. (Among other things.)

Remember the psychic pollen? The stuff that draws out your darkest side, created the Dream Lord, all that? Got into the TARDIS's rotors? Oh, yeah, and remember that the TARDIS is ''sentient''? The TARDIS is currently under the influence of its evil side, its equivalent of the Dream Lord. When it started behaving weirdly, taking River Song to the wrong time, locking her in, and then exploding in a cataclysmic universe-destroying explosion--nobodyexplosion—nobody was messing with it. ''It did all that itself.'' [[For the Evulz|For The Evulz.]]

** Yes. The new Whoniverse is a Mirror Universe. In the Series 5 Whoniverse, Eleven was biologically programmed to seduce people like Rory Pond or Jack Harkness. In the Series Shag Whoniverse, Jack Harkness is the only person who can refuse to have sex with Eleven, and Eleven is the only person who can refuse to have sex with Rory.

* CHEST JOHN LO NO -- CaptainNO—Captain Jack will appear and have a shirtless scene, but not a pantless scene?

** '''Jossed''', and Amy's dad is played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1546076/ ''Halcro'' Johnston], and he has been in some minor parts.

*** You were almost correct actually! You just got the wrong Mr. Pond! The mid-series cliffhanger involves Rory Pond snogging Eleven against the wall of the TARDIS. His reason? He thinks that he and Eleven need to move past their internalized homophobia. Technically, Eleven has already moved past this mentally, but he has not accepted Rory's existence emotionally. The Whoniverse is not fixed. It is a Pete's World with all the sadness dumped into the Series 5 Whoniverse. Even after the "Flesh and Stone" kiss, the Eleventh Doctor felt comfortable in his role. For Eleven, the "Flesh and Stone" snog was a localized Time Loop and out-of-body experience, so Eleven had as much time as he wanted to examine the situation. He determined that there was a 50% chance of Amy's plotline having a happy ending, and decided that 50% was acceptable odds. Eleven may have been a lot more scared of the snog with Rory (which I like to call the "Stone and Flesh" cliffhanger). This would explain why it was uncertain for a few weeks in October of 2010 whether or not the Eleventh Doctor would reprise his role in Series Seven. Note that Eleven was a lot more committed to portraying the second half of Series 5. Luckily he's decided to portray Series Seven despite the fact that it climaxes with his worst nightmare.

* Wouldn't that make the Doctor Amy's father? If so, perhaps Amy will have a child named Susan later?

* This actually seems pretty possible, considering Amelia appears to be in a museum of some sorts with the Pandorica. Although we don't know where or when this museum is. What came to mind was

{{quote| '''River''': Two things always garunteed to show up in a museum, the homebox of a category 4 starliner, and sooner or later, [the Doctor].}}

* and

{{quote| '''Rosanna''': You should be in a museum!.}}

* '''Semi-Confirmed''' with extra mind-screwy goodness. He does use the Manipulator, but the Shadowy figure and Jacket!Doctor was his timeline being rewound due to his [[Heroic Sacrifice]].

Not necisarrily the [[Big Bad]] as in the theory above, but related. The key detail being something that I only realized in a [[Late to Thethe Punchline]]. The line that it said early on "The Pandorica will open, and Silence will fall." The key word being AND. The Pandorica was designed by the Alliance to prevent the Silence from falling. That line would imply that Zero knows more about what's going on then they do.

* Either it was a side effect of Amy's connection to the Time Cracks, or because she was so close to him. She knows a lot about her childhood friend and fiance, enough data that when the Nestene made an Auton based upon him, it was so close as to basically be him; close enough for Time Wimey at least.

We know that the TARDIS is sentient. We know that it sealed the console room and stuck River in a Time loop to save her. Though it could be just protocol, it is more likely that without the Doctor there, the Tardis' priorities as its last acts were to protect the Doctor's companion and protect the Earth, becoming a substitute sun and providing radiation and gravity to allow humanity to keep living as long as it could.

* What kind of trauma makes a little girl create [[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]?

* Wait, so Amy Pond is [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]?

== The chickeny monster thing from "Vincent and the Doctor" is a [[Shout -Out]] ==

Specifically, to [[Discworld]]. I mean seriously, a brilliant [[Mad Artist]] is the only one who can see an invisible chicken monster that's slow driving him mad(der)? That's straight out of ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Thud|Thud!]]!''

* ...damn, that actually makes sense!

== Three of the Five Arc Phrases from Series Five are: ==

Rewatching the dreamlord episode, knowing that he and the dreamlord are essentially the same person, it really seemed like the dreamlord was rubbing in his face how much better he is than Rory, but that's still the man Amy chooses. Also, the dreamlord telling Amy not to trust him? Could be because he's not being honest with her about his feelings.

Now stick with me: In The Eleventh Hour, the TARDIS crash landed in Amelia Pond's backyard. The Doctor and Amelia talk, open the crack, close it, and the Cloister bell rings. Now, when the cloister bell rings, it is not because its about to fly away, but because it was being attacked. By what, you ask? By the faux-TARDIS from the Lodger, which took its place. To recap The Lodger; Someone was trying to build a TARDIS, but there were two things wrong with it; 1: The TARDIS needed a pilot, and B: ... No, 2: TARDI are GROWN, not built.

Once the TARDIS in The Lodger got a taste of the power it could have working with/for The Doctor, it needed more, and rather than give up The Doctor because of ''[[The Power of Love]]'', it actually went back in time, and replaced the real TARDIS while The Doctor was talking to Amelia.

{{quote| "Why do you have a leg in a jar?"}}

* The Doctor's known Amy since she was little, which actually gives her an understandable reason to feel a connection to the Doctor beyond "Hot Guy With The Ultimate Sports Car." Additionally, ''everyone'' who doesn't realize the Doctor actually exists treats this attitude as an obsession bordering on genuine insanity, a reaction strikingly absent from Rose's unsettlingly arrogant clinginess.

* Not only are the old-style Daleks killed off -- violently -- theoff—violently—the new ones promptly ''run away'' and are only seen sparingly afterward, in contrast to Davies' overuse of them.

* Shipping is punted out the window and then shot at, with lasers. The Doctor reacts with abject horror to Amy's come-ons (which, on her part, are pretty poorly thought out), doesn't appreciate Amy's fangirlish insistence that he and River will eventually get married, and generally takes any chance he can get to tactfully imply that this incarnation doesn't find [[Interspecies Romance]] appealing in the slightest. [[Married to Thethe Job|He does enjoy flirting with]] [[Cargo Ship|The TARDIS]], though.

** Then there's ''A Christmas Carol'', in which, as though waking up in the middle of a terrible fanfiction, the Doctor finds himself suddenly and inexplicably paired up with [[Marilyn Monroe]]. He does his best to escape the situation as quickly as possible.

* The finale, which first parodies Davies' writing style by having the Doctor [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|fight everyone, ever]], then deconstructs it by summarily forgetting about them and centering the actual antagonistic tension around exactly one Dalek and confining everything to a couple rooms in one building, while a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] makes even the setting increasingly minimalist. The lesson being, "Epic" doesn't have to mean "Big".