No information in this post is based on anything you could not have seen or found out yourself, so I refuse to shut the fuck up about it. (There are no tapes for Parting of the Ways).
OK, here's my theory.
It's Mickey.
i) The Bad Wolf site is supposed to be fairly contemporary. The only person from the show that could have written it (bearing in mind they know Rose, thanks to the little blanked text for that clue) is Mickey. Remember that Dalek takes place in the future, so Adam would only be a nipper right now.
ii) "From Disney to destiny"? Wierd choice of phrase until you realise Who the most famous Disney character is.
iii) The Doctor is right that this whole show is for his benefit when the Daleks (and their controller) decide not to kill/transmat him.
iv) What was the main story in Boom Town? What was it for? The main plot was interesting, but what we really get to see is Mickey's final betrayal. It's also Mickey's first introduction to the phrase Bad Wolf (not that the meta content on the site is "Bad Wolf and Blaidd Drwg...").
v) In Unquiet Dead, Rose has seen the Bad Wolf. There are very few characters that this could be at that point. People have put forward the Doctor, the TARDIS and Jack (OK, that was mainly me), but she has had a lot more contact with Mickey.
vi) The only occurences of Bad Wolf references that predate the Doctor's revelation in Cardiff (in front of Mickey, note) that Bad Wolf seems to follow them around are the graffiti on the TARDIS in Third World War and on a poster in Father's Day. Mickey is just about tall enough to have written the latter of these and he lived in the area at the time, so perhaps that can be retconned. The Dalek grafitti is harder to fit into all this, I admit.
v) The Bad Wolf site links to the GeoComtex site, which appears to be recruiting. Mickey will presumably have heard about the Dalek from Rose, and the technology from Satellite 5. My theory is that Mickey, pissed off with everything, hating the Doctor and wanting to impress Rose decides to start playing a VERY long game by ensuring that he gets hired by GeoComtex and promoted to a position where he can ensure Adam is hired to play his part, and end up bringing future tech back to the near future. In the ten or so years between now and then, he can wait, knowing that the Doctor and Rose beat the Dalek, and that after this he will have a shedload of documentation on what the Dalek is and how it's built from the Van Staten bunker (Van Staten is not the head of the corporation, and is replaceable, remember?). When Adam gets back, Mickey knows he can hire him again and use all his future tech to build a Dalek unit. Mickey eventually becomes a Davros-like inhabitant of the first of a new line of human-based Daleks, but he's pretty powerless and there's no clear way to get back at the Doctor, so he waits. And Waits. He installs the Jagrafex and uses Adam's technology to construct Satellite 5 (bit of a time loop, there, but not without precedent) upon which the Earth becomes so reliant that when the Doctor does his heroics he precipitates a disaster so that it becomes reliant upon his Bad Wolf corporation.
vi) Why does he need Bad Wolf and satellite 5 and all the cloaking? Surely, as a Dalek, he could drop down and kick ass whenever he wants. That's not the point, though. He needs a big Dalek army, but the Daleks are dead. It's all about the Doctor and Rose. The people who get transmatted out of satellite 5 are sent to Dalek ships. Look carefully at the area Rose wakes up in and you can see people-sized pods. The new Dalek race is made of re-engineered humans. Why don't the Daleks kill Rose and get on with it? Because this is all about Mickey and his jealousy. That's why the Doctor is so confident he'll win. He knows real Daleks would kill Rose in seconds, and he knows they fear him for some reason. Real Daleks don't know fear. RTD has demonstrated with Second Coming that he really likes the Judas character, and I'll bet he wants to do it again.
vii) Listen to the preview. Sound more like Mickey right at the end than any of the other candidates, to me.
viii) Noel Clarke (Mickey) is in the next episode according to the Radio Times, neither Adam nor any of the other Earth regulars are.
Unfortunately, the other theories (Master, Jack, Adam, TARDIS, and any more) are not disproved by this episode, but I have more confidence in this one than any of the others. There are a couple of small holes but it holds a lot of water, and does away with a lot of deus ex machina hand-waving.
That whole blanking thing is very ugly, isn't it?
----Edited to remove blanking because it was so so very ugly and it is no longer really a spoiler. |
