Tidings of Comfort and...What the??

So, another Children in Need telethon has come and we got our yearly Doctory goodness. I hope you folks in the UK donated lots of money. It really does look like a very, very good cause.

Anyway, this year we were graced with the first two minutes of this year's Christmas Special, The Next Doctor. It was good to see our poor old Ten looking chipper. He does really love Christmas, doesn't he, despite all the crap that happens? Though, of course, things have to go tits up, don't they? This year we get Cybermen terrorizing Victorian England. If that wasn't going to be complicated enough, the Doctor also has to deal with a cocky guy who claims to be him.



Now that you've watched it, mull over these questions with me. RTD does so love to confuse the hell out of me, that's for sure.

1. If he's just an impostor, like many are saying, how the heck did he get a TARDIS? I can deal with him having a sonic screwdriver. Sonic technology isn't the sole perview of Time Lords after all. Miss Foster had a sonic pen, if you remember. TARDISes, however, have always been the sole creation of the Time Lords, and as far as I knew, no non-Time Lord could fly one without the Time Lord owner's permission. The only way Rose managed to get the TARDIS to fly back to the Doctor when he told the TARDIS not to was by pulling open the console and soaking in the Time Vortex. Considering this guy isn't dying, how the heck is he flying a TARDIS if he's not a Time Lord? If they were so easy to steal, Daleks or some other race would have stolen one long ago, wouldn't they?
2. This other Doctor's behavior seems a bit suspect. Would the Doctor really be parading around acting like that? Well...I suppose so. His sixth incarnation was rather arrogant, at least. Sort of an ass, actually. If David Morrissey really is going to be Eleven (which nobody knows if he is or not, I'm just speculating), I certainly hope that he tones that down a bit. I was not very fond of Six, and after David Tennant, I'd really rather have a Doctor I can like, thanks.
3. What's with the other Doctor's companion's name. Rosita? Interesting...considering Rosita is a Spanish version of Rose. Is RTD running out of names, or is that symbolic of something? Either way, I rather like her. She's got spunk. I wouldn't mind if she stayed on.
4. Did you notice his sonic screwdriver? It didn't really look like a sonic scredriver, and it didn't have a glowing blue bit at the end. It looked like just a stick, really. However, since they end the clip before either Doctor can use their sonics, we have no idea if it works. Then again, wouldn't Rosita have noticed this a while back? She seems to have been around long enough to know what he was asking for when he asked for the sonic screwdriver, and didn't pipe up with, "Why? It doesn't do anything. It's just a stick!" Then again, maybe she's in on the trick. Who knows?

So, we have a few possibilities here. He could be a fake, but then I point to question 1. Maybe he's a Time Lord who hid away in a chameleon arch and thinks he's a human pretending to be the Doctor. Or, maybe he's a parallel version of the Doctor (from a parallel universe other than Pete's World) who slipped into this universe during the time that the walls were breaking down thanks to Davros. Or maybe he's some guy from this time period who's been brainwashed by that Miss Hartigan woman, which would then beg the question, "How does she know enough about the Doctor to make this guy convincing enough for her plot to work?"

So, to sum up, it seems this preview has left me more confused than I already was. Then again, it's also made me more curious than I already was, which was probably what they were going for, right?