This morning as I was driving to work, I had a revelation. Like all revelations, it’s probably just complete bunk, but it is mine nonetheless.
It ties up a couple of loose strands running through this season’s episodes of Doctor Who.
The first is Rose. Throughout this entire season she has presented with one inescapable fact: She and the Doctor live on vastly different timescales and that, sooner or later, if nothing else, time itself will ultimately separate them.
Time is Rose’s enemy, but Rose, by association with a Time Lord, has also seen that time isn’t necessarily the inexorable, unbendable force that she learned about in school. There’s one other thing about Rose – she’s feisty and determined.
But first, let’s look at the other loose end: The Face of Boe.
The Face popped up last year twice, once at the end of the Earth and once, at a much earlier time on Satellite 5. (The Face was mentioned as having given birth on one of the news feeds.)
This year the Face turned up on New Earth (still far, far in the future), and called to the Doctor, the other timeless, lonely wanderer. The Face was dying, but decided to hold on a little longer based on what it saw the Doctor do.
But the Face knew that it would meet the Doctor one more time and would pass along its message for him. The assumption has been that the Face would show up to die before the season was over to give the Doctor its message, but that doesn’t look likely given the story is set some 5 million years prior to the Face’s impending death.
In that episode, the Sister mentioned rumors that the Face could be an unimaginable age, and when confronted with the idea, the Face didn’t deny it, just agreed with the notion that it would be absurd.
I think in Doomsday we’re not going to see the death of the Face of Boe, but instead, we’re going to see its “birth.” That’s how it knew it would see the Doctor one more time. The future Doctor was present at its past birth.
Rose is the face of Boe.
Rose would do anything to be “immortal” so she could stay with the Doctor. Somehow, through some means (and, of course, not realizing what’s really going to happen to her) Rose does something that ultimately transforms her into the Face of Boe.
Pure speculation, of course.
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