What if the Doctor's Wife refers to...

yoshiary · 1 year

In the episode he's accompanied by a woman named Idris. You can see her in the trailers for the season overlooking the scrapyard planet. No one knows who she is, but the assumption is that the title somehow relates to her.

EDIT: Or you know, the whole ep could just be Ms. Monroe wishing the Doctor a happy birthday.

Numlocks · 1 year

I think River Song is really the 12th Doctor regeneration coming back in time to have sex with himself.

savageboredom · 1 year

I don't know if you have it exactly right or not, but I'm pretty certain that "The Doctor's Wife" doesn't refer to River. That would just be too obvious.

Your suggestion does sound pretty viable though. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

kpberry · 1 year

I think its going to be the Tardis. I read an interview where Gaiman got a buddy to make a list of all the parts of the Tardis ever shown in the episodes. I bet we are going to learn a lot about the Doctor's one constant love. The Tardis is alive too remember.

froggamad · 1 year

The Doctor's Wife is episode 4, written by Neil Gaiman, probably not referring to River Song.

Episode 7 is in fact called "A Good Man Goes to War".

http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-6-2011

EatBooks · 1 year

Gaiman's stories are wonderful things. They have reoccurring motifs, too, and one of these motifs is personification. Most famously, he's written about two different versions of Death, one a preppy Goth girl (The Sandman), the other a white-haired maiden on a white horse (The Graveyard Book), but he has a number of others.

In one comic, "The Heart of a Star" from his collection Endless Nights galaxies and stars meet as people near the beginning of creation to discuss the rules of the universe. It feels, oddly, like a Doctor Who episode. If they had an infinite amount of money for special effects.

Then there are short stories like "Looking for the Girl" and "How to Talk to Girls at Parties", both about women who embody something more than they look like.

I think that the Doctor's wife, Idris, is the TARDIS. She's been there for him for hundreds of years, has always been a part of the show, and wouldn't be jealous of his female companions as she isn't human (or a woman, really, though that certainly wouldn't stop her from being a lady).

That's what I think, anyway. It seems to make the most sense and would certainly fit in with the feel of both Gaiman's writing and Moffat's story direction for the show. Also, I can't find compelling evidence it WOULDN'T be her, unless anyone has any!

BarelyReal · 1 year

I recall Gaiman talking about how he had to add Rory to the episode because it was originally planned for Series 5 and would have taken place around the time of The Lodger.

day-ah · 1 year

Thank you. THANK YOU. I feel less weird seeing someone else post this idea.

I haven't been reading a lot of theories and such around here just because I get bored, but I've seen a bit about the episode called "The Doctor's Wife." and that's what I thought.

If you recall in "Amy's Choice" I think, not positive since I have watched it over and over, that Rory was a doctor. Yeah. I like your idea, not specifically to the T same as my thoughts, but damn close enough.

akathatguy2 · 1 year

It's Marilyn Monroe.

mordecaidrake · 1 year

She definitely isn't the Doctor's wife. If she was a Time Lord he'd know, as said by the 10th Doctor where he said they can tell when another Time Lord is around. I think you're correct in your assumption that The Doctor's Wife is a play on words to refer to Amy as Roy will be/is a doctor. The Face of Bo said to the 10th, that 'You Are Not Alone', which was a play on words for Yana, who turned out to the be Master, which was pointed out. He is the the last one, there aren't any others except the Master.

yethegodless · 1 year

Totally unrelated, but Jesus I just noticed the background image, and really freaked me out for a second.

usylo · 1 year

Doubt it.

"The Doctor's Wife" was written by Neil Gaiman, and in a recent interview he mentioned that it was supposed to be episode 11 of the first series, but that it was pushed due to budget reasons (hence The Lodger, much cheaper to produce than a typical Who script, and adapted from an earlier comic starring the Tenth Doctor).

Anyways, Neil Gaiman specifically mentions that Rory wasn't in his original script (consider the timeframe of S1/E11; makes sense), and was only added when the episode was pushed back. BUT he does mention that he was very happy to write Rory into the script.

It would seem like an awful lot of rewriting to make those two the focus. Besides, Neil Gaiman's got bigger ideas in his head than those two.

Interview here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MESGZoFcKWk

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