Tuesday, January 1, 2019

THEORY OF RELATEEVEETY - HYNES' VARIETIES



Here's a 'Doctor Who' theory of relateeveety.....

From the TARDIS Data Core wiki:

Matron Joan Redfern, widow of Oliver Redfern, was a nurse at Farringham School for Boys, where John Smith worked from September to November 1913.

While at Farringham, John Smith fell in love with her. He showed her a journal in which he had written down his dreams, which were his adventures with Rose and Martha before he was human. After John Smith became the Tenth Doctor again, she asked him if he could change back into John. He said yes, but when she asked if he would he said no. When he asked her to join him as a companion, she dismissed the idea immediately, saying that John Smith was dead and the Doctor just looked like him. She then asked the Doctor, "If you hadn't decided to come here on a whim, would any of these people have died?" He looked at her without answering. She dismissed him and, after he left, broke down, clutching John's journal.
 (TV: Human Nature / The Family of Blood)

Joan's great-granddaughter Verity Newman published the Journal of Impossible Things as a true story told from Joan's perspective and told Joan's story to people wanting to purchase the book, so Joan would be remembered. She was visited by the Doctor before he regenerated into his eleventh incarnation. She said that, in the end, Joan was happy and asked if he was. The Doctor left without answering.
(TV: The End of Time)




The connection between those two women was officially established within the series, so it really doesn't count as a theory.  It's from this point on, where it's all conjecture.

"Okay, kid. This is where it gets complicated."
Amy Pond


In the mini-series 'Hooten And The Lady', we met Ella Bond who is a curator at the British Museum.  She once found herself kidnapped by Ethiopian bandits who would trade her for a spoon allegedly owned by the Queen of Sheba.  (Luckily for her, rogue adventurer Ulysses Hooten and Ella's fellow curator, Lady Alexandra Lindo-Parker, were able to rescue her.)  

And this is where the complication sets in.

Ella is also the twin sister of Verity Newman.  Their surnames are different because at one time Ella was (and perhaps still is) married to a man named Bond.  I'm not going to float any further afield in this conjecture to claim that her husband had been related to the televersion of James Bond, nor even suggest that her husband had been Jimmy Bond, an associate of 'The Lone Gunmen'.  Claiming that she and Verity Newman were twin sisters is good enough.

O'BSERVATION:
All three characters - Joan Redfern, Verity Newman, and Ella Bond - were portrayed by the same actress, Jessica Hynes.

BCnU!


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