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Note that since I came up with most of these I've seen other people put forward the same theories, but I arrived at them more or less on my own, so. Yeah. For what that's worth.

1. Doctor Who:

I have actually not seen any of the Season 6 of New Who; I've got them cued up on DVR, but every time I try to watch them someone wants the TV or I've got to go somewhere or Mom comes in and she doesn't like the show, so...yeah. I have sated my appetite by reading spoilers, which is probably ill-advised, but there you are.

Anyway, in light of what said spoilers have told me, plus some semi-joking comments from The Moff, have led to Theory #1:

Rory keeps dying in Series 6 because he got Et By Crack in Series 5 after he had already died.

After all, by getting rid of the crack at the end of Season 5, the Doctor was restoring things that had disappeared into the void in the meanwhile - Amy's parents et al - but Rory would still have been dead in that case. Plus, by pulling the Doctor back into the restored universe by remembering him, Amy was also calling back the previous, cracked universe in which Rory had died.

This leads to a Final Destination-type situation wherein death keeps trying to catch up to Rory, leading to him getting killed or almost-killed over and over again until it sticks or the whole process finally does some damage to the poor guy.

Alternately, the series ends with Amy beating up Death to save her husband. Well, I'd watch it.

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2. Transformers Prime

I will honestly be surprised if people on the larger boards haven't suggested at least the first part of this, but I'm putting it out there anyway:

Rafael is a robot.

Well, he does state that he "doesn't know why" he understands Bumblebee's blips and whirrs, is inexplicably the only human who can, understood computer code at the age of three, and his family doesn't talk to him or interact with him much - which could be discomfort with the fact that, you know, he isn't human and it's kind of an open secret. Not to mention he doesn't die when he gets smacked against a solid steel wall by a struggling, Megatron-possessed Bumblebee; even in Cartoon Physics that would give you a broken bone or at least keep you off your feet for a while.

But then I started wondering as to how they could pull the same plot device in two series in a row, i.e. human kid is really a robot. Perhaps there's a meta plot to be made of this, like if Sari's protoform and Raf's protoform originated from the same source and were deliberately seeded across the multiverse as some sort of larger plot. But I couldn't figure out what that larger plot would be.

And then "Iron Man" came on my iPod shuffle, and I always associate that song with the Cybermen in their Classic Who appearances, and, well, that'd be one way to eliminate organic weakness and mortality in humans, to seed humanity with robotic duplicates until the machine takes over, wouldn't it? Massive meta-crossover GO.

Of course, if there is a metaplot going, it means that I've got to finish that Big Huge Crazy Postwar TFA AU/Fanwankery On The Part of Sari's Origins right quick before it gets Jossed in a whole different direction than it's already going to with Exile. Woe is me.

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3. Generator Rex

Doctor Holiday is Rex's mother.

Why yes, this theory is entirely based on the fact that Holiday and ZAG-RS (who has the voice of Rex's mother) have the same voice actor, and it requires a whole lot of subplots and justification to make it work but I like it anyway.

After all, Doc Holiday? Pretty obviously a pseudonym if we're to accept that the GR universe is meant to parallel our own. And Six only meets her in Providence after Rex appears. And she's one of the only people in "Promises, Promises" that thinks to look for a cure for EVOs instead of killing them all - she'd know if there was a possibility, wouldn't she, given that she worked on the nanites for so long and was perhaps working on a way of shutting them off; perhaps she subconsciously knew about it.

As to why she doesn't recognize Rex? Simple; instead of being connected to the nanites, Rex's memory loss is genetic. His mother had it too. It had been a long time since the last loss when the nanite event happened, long enough for her to have had a long time with her sons. Or, perhaps, because she knew she had this condition, she was able to put failsafes in place, a database that she enters everything she knows into, for example - or, at least, let her family know about the condition so they could help her get back on track after a memory loss.

And why Cesar hasn't said anything about it? Well, "Written in Sand" did seem to imply that Cesar isn't what he seems, or has some sort of agenda; perhaps he has ulterior motives for not revealing to Rex the person that's right in front of him.

No explanation for why she's not Argentinian, though. (Or was it his mom that was from Mexico? I don't remember at the moment.) But, hey, it's never stated that she isn't, I guess.

See, this one I could actually make into a fic if I fanwanked it hard enough. Maybe. If it hasn't been done.




Oh, and one other thing: there's a reviewer on TGWTG now called Oancitizen who reviews oddball arthouse cinema like Antichrist, Nine Songs, and Jan Svankmajer's Alice (with the gruesomest, most inappropriate bits censored, so no fear). I don't know if any of you out there have the same disproportionate love for Euroschlocky weirdness, but if you are, well, take a looksee. 

And now it's 2 a.m. again so I should go to bed. Curse my late-night habits.