So, what’s in the Pandorica, then?

• 14th June 2010 • Blog Post by Seb Patrick •

Blimey, it’s crept up on us a bit (thanks to two low-key preceding episodes), but this Saturday, a MOFFAT SERIES FINALE begins. Exciting, isn’t it?

So naturally, it’s time to start speculating about the nature of the threat the Doctor and Amy will face, particularly given the tease of the “next time” trailer. I’ve got my theory – in fact, I’ve had it for a few weeks, now, and I also think I’m clearly not the only person to have it – which I’ll share after the jump. But what do you think? What’s causing the cracks? Who or what is in the Pandorica?

“There was a goblin. Or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. Nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it – one day it would just drop out of the sky, and tear down your world.”

“Daleks.. Cyber-ships, Sontaran, Slitheen, Chelonian, Nesteen Drahvin…” “What’s in there? What could justify all this?”

And it’s been said multiple times that whatever the “big bad” for this year is, it’s appeared in every episode of the series.

So… it’s the Doctor, isn’t it?

Seb Patrick once met Paul McGann, who immediately pretended to be Mark McGann. He writes for Den of Geek, BBC America, Film4 and the official Red Dwarf website, among others. He owns over thirty toy Daleks and wishes the Dapol factory tour was still open.

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12 Responses

  1. God, I hope this is Moffat at the top of his game. The 11th Hour was good, but his other episodes this season haven’t come to close to matching TGITF, Blink and Silence in the Library.

  4. I fully expect the cliffhanger to involve them opening it to find there’s nothing in it, followed by the Doctor being dragged into it as seen in that picture that got out a couple of weeks ago.

  5. OKAY PEOPLE, DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK IF YOU DON’T WANT IT RUINING

    (I mean, thanks for posting it, Ben, it’s interesting – but there will be people who won’t want that spoiling, and it’s pretty massive)

  8. As good as he undoubtedly is, Peter McKinstry is a fucking idiot for publishing that art this week.

  9. Eh. Keep in mind there could be a reason for that image that we haven’t even considered yet. (Says the woman who hasn’t even seen “Cold Blood” yet, rakkin’ frakkin’ U.S. schedule … )

  11. Ah, just been told that Doctor Who Adventures confirmed that it’s from a cut scene from Vincent and the Doctor. Speculation over.