The Doctor's Secret Will Make Our jaws drop?

[Escher]

Marcus Wilson has recently teased the secret as being pretty mindblowing. "It will make viewers’ jaws drop," he told TV & Satellite Week. "You thought you knew everything about the Doctor? Well, you never saw this coming."

www.tvrage.com/news/5712/doctor-who-the-doctor-s-greatest-secret-will-make-viewers-jaws-drop-says-producer


So, what do you think the secret will be? Why will it make our jaws drop?

If it is the Doctor's name, then why would it provoke such a reaction?

The Doctor's Name is...

[Rassilon]

Post removed. No religious humour please.

[Rel Fexive]

I assume the name by itself is not the whole story. "Doctor who?" is about more than just his name, I think. Which means who he is - or was - must be significant.

I don't think he can be Rassilon or Omega, as we've seen them and they died. I didn't see the original post above, but he will never turn out to be a massively major figure from Earth's past, especially a religious one. So he has to be - or have been - someone significant enough to the universe as a whole for it to be really that jaw-dropping. Or that's my thinking anyway.

Maybe he really will turn out to be The Other?

Or the Rani

[Escher]

Apr 3, 2013 21:14:08 GMT Rel Fexive said:

I assume the name by itself is not the whole story. "Doctor who?" is about more than just his name, I think. Which means who he is - or was - must be significant.

I don't think he can be Rassilon or Omega, as we've seen them and they died. I didn't see the original post above, but he will never turn out to be a massively major figure from Earth's past, especially a religious one. So he has to be - or have been - someone significant enough to the universe as a whole for it to be really that jaw-dropping. Or that's my thinking anyway.

Exactly. So, the 'jaw-dropping' surprise must be wider in scope than just hardcore fans to appreciate.

In theory, someone like Davros would drop jaws although that would be impossible. It's in the category of jaw-droppiness though.

My own guess would be a Mythological character from Earth's past. Possibly a Greek god or somesuch.
Or maybe Donna Noble. Nah.

Who knows.

[Escher]

Or how about...Doctor Faustus:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust

From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Faustus_%28play%29


Using Mephistophilis as a messenger, Faustus strikes a deal with Lucifer: he is to be allotted twenty-four years of life on Earth, during which time he will have Mephistophilis as his personal servant.
At the end he will give his soul over to Lucifer as payment and spend the rest of time as one damned to Hell. This deal is to be sealed in Faustus's own blood. After cutting his arm, the wound is divinely healed and the Latin words "Homo, fuge!" (Flee, man!) then appear upon it.
Despite the dramatic nature of this divine intervention, Faustus disregards the inscription with the assertion that he is already damned by his actions thus far and therefore left with no place to which he could flee.

"Homo, fuge!" (Flee, man!)

Run you clever boy...

Also:

"In Goethe's rendition, Faust is saved by God's grace via his constant striving—in combination with Gretchen's pleadings with God in the form of the Eternal Feminine."

Eternal Feminine.

Could that refer to Clara?

Could it be that Moffat is making his own interpretation of the Faust legend and The Doctor is in fact Doctor Faustus fleeing an age-old debt to some infernal entity?

[korith]

I'm going out on a limb and predicting....Dennis.

[zebaroth]

it would be silly if his name is John Smith that is what my dad says

[chickenpaddy]

Alright, I have no idea what his name could be. And, to be honest, I doubt they're actually going to reveal in in its entirety to the audience (the series is called "Doctor Who" after all).

If they do reveal it, it's most likely going to be something shocking, surprising, and changes the series dramatically. That being said, I very much doubt it's going to be "Faustus", as that's way too obscure of a reference for a majority of the viewing public (sorry Escher).

What I think will happen is it'll be a fake-out, with the Doctor giving his name to River somehow, but not the audience. But, we'll see. I'm content to wait and see what happens. No doubt Clara is deeply involved.

[ninjaconor]

I'm pretty sure the shock isn't going to be in what his name is but rather what it can do. Maybe speaking it out loud somehow unlocks the Time War or blows up the TARDIS or causes everyone in the universe to simultaneously poo their pants or some other terrible thing.

I don't think they'll actually tell us the name. I think he'll be put in some situation where he has to tell it to somebody and he chooses River because he trusts her more than anyone else not to abuse its power.

[Eryx]

I don't think his name will be so important, more who exactly he is.

[evildrpuma]

I wonder whether Moffat has recalled all of those unresolved sneaky references to the Doctor being something more than just a Time Lord back in the McCoy era.

[Rel Fexive]

To judge by the latest episode:

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Maybe.

[Rassilon]

Apr 28, 2013 21:29:02 GMT Rel Fexive said:

To judge by the latest episode:

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Maybe.

try this:

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and add a [ and a ] at the start and end of the above.

[Rel Fexive]

Okay.... from the most recent ep...

...whatever his name is, it's not of sufficient significance to an average human that one would recognise it in and of itself, as far as we can tell anyway...

Ah, better!

[da professor]

Whatever it is, it's likely to mean more to a Whovian than a non-Whovian.

[Rel Fexive]

But it can't be too specific or it will confuse/annoy/bore/alienate too many people.

[korith]

There is the common theory that he's "The Other", from Rassilon, Omega, and The Other.

[Rel Fexive]

Trouble is the explanation for that is very complicated - and I don't think he can be anyone from Gallifrey's past like that because he's been young, and known when he was young by other people who knew him at the Academy. The Cartmel Masterplan explanation involves aspects which are no longer valid (looms and so on).

But I suppose he could've gone back early on instead, after graduating, and participated in establishing Gallifrey's initial time travel experiments...

It's hard to work it out - either it's something we've just not thought of, or we still don't have enough information to guess. Or most likely both.

[Escher]

Apparently it's possibly not his name after all:

doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctors-name-not-revealed-in-series-7-finale-48784.htm

On second thoughts...what if it's to do with Clara?

If Clara is reborn throughout time and space and eventually dies each time what if one of her other selves was born on Gallifrey? and she never died because she regenerated and the TARDIS doesn't like her because shes not meant to be there because...shes..the...


I'm throwing this one into the mix just in case.