DOCTOR MOM

Claire Bloom showed up in "The End Of Time", the 'Doctor Who' finale for David Tennant's tenure as the Tenth Doctor, as a mysterious Gallifreyan. She was never identified within the the two-part episode, but in published reports RTD has stated that she was the Doctor's mother.

However, another theory has it that she was the regeneration of Susan, the Doctor's grand-daughter. The thinking goes like this: when Wilf Mott asked the Doctor who that woman was, all Ten did was to nod in the direction of Donna Noble, Wilf's grand-daughter and a former Companion to the Doctor. It's almost as if he was trying to give a clue that as Donna was Wilf's grand-daughter, so that woman was his own grand-daughter.

I like both theories and I just wish RTD had clarified it for the episode. Why bother brining in such a talented actress for a role when we never know who she really was or her motivation in trying to help the Doctor. (For that matter, why didn't they ever identify the other Time Lady being punished by Rassilon? If theory was correct and she was the mother of the Master, then why didn't she look up to see her son?)

I've come up with a new splainin for an old problem about the Eighth Doctor which makes me lean toward the identity of Claire Bloom's Time Lady being the Doctor's Mom.......

The Eighth incarnation of the Doctor claimed near the end of that 1996 TV movie that his mother was half-human. I used to contend that it was further proof that the Doctor is a liar (as he is about his age and the fact that humans can no longer cross between dimensions). But now I have a new suggestion.....

What if the Doctor's Mom had undergone a transformation via the Chameleon Arch so that her body had become, right down to the cellular level, human rather than Gallifreyan? And during that time (without knowing anything about her past life since the Arch also gave new memories) she became pregnant by the Time Lord who was the Doctor's father.

Maybe it was because she transformed that she was finally able to conceive - I would think that Nature would impose restrictions in biology on any society in which the populace would basically be immortal. Eventually she would revert back to her Gallifreyan physiology - perhaps even before she was able to give birth to the Doctor. (It would certainly be the more dramatic option for television!)

Whether it had any effect on the Doctor's own DNA, who knows? We could also combine both of my theories about why the Doctor said that for a new option: The Eighth Doctor was only telling a half-truth. Yes, his mother was a human, but only during the time she was under the transformation by the Chameleon Arch. And so he was still basically lying to Dr. Grace Holloway, just so that he could get into her scrubs.....

Just sayin', is all....

BCnU!