Doctor Who: Surely it can't be true...

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raissad sent me this link to a Doctor Who season 4 spoiler that knocked my socks off and stunned me. I don't know whether to chortle at their chutzpah, groan at the absurdity, grin in anticipation, or hide behind the sofa.

Rose is coming back.

Yup, there it is, in black and white and whatever colour my monitor comes up with. (BBC red.)

They wrote her out with total definitiveness and the Doctor spent a season mourning her and tormenting Martha because of her, and she's coming back.

They said they'd never do it. Just like they said they'd never bring back the Master, or the Daleks, or cross Martha over into Torchwood, or any number of things they said they wouldn't, ever, do till they changed their mind.

I can't even imagine the complications this brings to continuity. Yup, dimensions are colliding. (Will the Fifth Doctor turn up, too?)

Of course, it might be a flashback situation. Or Ten might meet Rose before Nine met her. Rose had a hitherto-unrevealed identical twin, or a clone, or a dream, or a hoax, or an imaginary story. (Heh. Wrong universe for a minute there.)¹ Or... any number of explanations that leave Rose's future after "Doomsday" untouched.

Worst case scenario: Rose saves the day, decides that she doesn't particularly want to hang out with the Doctor forever any more, thanks all the same, and goes back to live happily ever after with Mickey.

Best case:

...?

I don't know. I just don't know. This news has me so astounded that I can't even imagine scenarios.

No, wait, I know the best case scenario. The best case scenario is that Steven Moffat will write the story.

Yeah. I like that.

If fate is kind....


Now I'll wander away and ponder the implications.

¹ For readers who are not, or never were, DC comics fans, let me explain. Back in the wild and wonderful days of early 1960s DC comics, when my formative comic-reading years occurred, there was a tradition of putting something utterly outrageous and improbable on the cover of a comic, and there or on the splash page they would say, "Not a dream, not a hoax, not an imaginary story!" And believe me, those guys in the Mort Weisinger era knew all about improbability and outrageousness.

The phrase fills fans like me with nostalgic delight.