(Or Can Matt Smith Make It as the Eleventh Doctor)

by @dracona1031

Last season, many fans of the Tenth Doctor, David Tennant, were saddened to learn he would be leaving his post on the hit BBC show Doctor Who. In his place, relative unknown Matt Smith would be joining the franchise as the Eleventh Doctor. Some long-time fans of the series were concerned with the change, as in 1976 it was revealed in “The Deadly Assassin” that the Doctor would only regenerate 12 times, for a total of 13 different forms before his final death. So this season, we wondered if the youngest Doctor Who since the series’ inception in 1963 could give the series enough staying power to avoid bringing in yet another Doctor in so short a time frame.

<<spoilers ahead>>

The season began with a new companion, Amy Pond, née Amelia. Amy brings a new adversary with her, in the form of a mysterious crack in the wall. The crack followed Amy and the Doctor throughout the season, sometimes overtly, and sometimes without notice. In a particularly heart-breaking episode, the Doctor, Amy, and her fiancee Rory experience first-hand the ability of the crack to remove a being completely from existence and memory. In the two-part finale, “The Pandorica Opens” and “The Big Bang”, viewers finally learned the reason behind the crack. (more…)