Doctor Who Season Four Episode Six

[exhilaration]

"The Doctor's Daughter," eh?

So I saw a picture of the nice young lady (who is actually the actor who plays Five's daughter in real life) and woudln't you know, she is blonde and vaguely resembling Rose?

Outside of the fanfiction realm, I really don't believe that Rose and the Doctor had any kind of romantic or sexual relationship. I just assumed that even off-screen, it was canonically platonic. And I liked that.

But recent thought has caused me to interpret the "Doomsday" conversation a bit differently - Rose mentions the baby, the Doctor says "you're not...?" I always assumed he meant "OMG Ricky the Idiot did not impregnate you already did he?" but... is it actually possible that he thought she could have been pregnant with his child? Cause you could see the scene that way, maybe, I suppose...

Is it actually possible that Rose and the Doctor did have a sexual relationship? Or maybe just one encounter? I guess it hasn't been proved that they definitely didn't, but I always just assumed that that stuff belonged in fanfiction and not in the actual series itself.

But. Assuming that that was what happened... an alien can impregnate a human? Really? Even in science fiction, really? I guess Gallifreyans must have very similar DNA to humans, I mean, outwardly we look the same, right? But how likely even is that, that there are aliens out there that look human? (I think this was addressed once in Star Trek TNG if I'm not mistaken... whatever, I don't buy that explanation, if there are aliens out there in real life I don't believe for a second that they're humanoid, but in the Doctor Who universe, some aliens are and some are not, so, moving on...) And even if their DNA is similar, I mean, how similar can it actually be? Isn't human DNA 99.997% the same as ape DNA, or something like that? And humans can't reproduce with any other species here on our own planet, even the ones with which we share the most DNA. So there's an alien out there that's genetically compatible with us, eh?

But I figure TIme Lords are special - they regenerate, so maybe they can manipulate their DNA. Yeah, they probably can do that. And that would be a way to get a human pregnant - deliberately. SO THE DOCTOR DELIBERATELY GOT ROSE PREGNANT? I don't buy that either. That's just too far out there. That can't be what's going on.

So maybe the daughter is from a future union with Rose (she looks like Rose a little, and there is all this focus on her coming back this season, that's why I'm assuming Rose is the mother. But I guess anything is possible. I mean, maybe Joan Redfern is her Mama and she's been time traveling all the while looking for her alien father... or maybe not.) as in, the Doctor reunites with Rose and they settle down and have a kid and Rose gets old and dies and the Doctor returns to adventuring as if he never left it, and this is just something that we know happens but we don't get to see happen, except that we see the Doctor's daughter... from the future... or the past, or our future but his past, or...

But. You see, I was thinking about it some more, and I came up with something even worse and more twisted. The Doctor does not actually have a daughter. Or, the "Doctor's Daughter" is not the Doctor's daughter, she's just the daughter of some other alien doctor. How dirty would that be of the PTB?

And by the way. They turned the dude into an Ood? Wtf was up with that? Who does that?

Comments

[tenfeethigh.livejournal.com]

That would be the coolest thing ever. Her being Rose's daugter, that is. But it's not something I'm expecting to see onscreen. That's why I'm addicted to fanfiction.

[lara-everlong.livejournal.com]

I totally never expect to see it on screen either. that's why the title shocked me so much, because I could think of nothing but that!