Thursday, September 12, 2013

The Doctor and Derpy, IDW comic analysis (spoilers)

The Doctor and Derpy IDW comic analysis (spoilers)

            The My Little Pony IDW comics include a lot of great background events and background ponies such as Vinyl Scratch and Octavia. The latest non-micro comic issues #9 and #10 featured Big Mac and showed more background events and ponies than usual like when Doctor Whooves and Derpy are talking to each other in the background, but the talk is a bit weird. The picture below from issue #9 has Derpy asking Doctor Whooves “Do I know you?” after the Doctor showed her a fob watch and saying “This watch is me”. Does this mean that Derpy never met the Doctor despite the fact they were seen together in the episode titled “Hearts and Hooves day” and in an issue #10 alternate cover? I don’t think that writers would want to tell people that the Doctor and Derpy never met before so I have a few theories about this panel.



1. Backwards Doctor Who reference
This mostly likely a reference to a Doctor Who Series 3 episode titled “Human Nature” where the Tenth Doctor hides from aliens by putting his essence of a time lord into a fob watch by using a piece of technology called a Chameleon Arch. This turned the Tenth Doctor into a human and he mostly forgot his time as the Doctor, but his companion at the time Martha Jones remembered who the Doctor was. If we assume that Derpy is supposed to be the Doctor’s companion here she should remember who Doctor Whooves is and Doctor Whooves should not remember who he is. The writers probably got who remembered who backwards, but they got the quote “This watch is me” right.

2. Doctor Whooves met Derpy in the future
In Doctor Who people sometimes met a person before their first meeting because one of them or both of them are time travelers. For example, if the Doctor met person X in 2009, time traveled to 2007, and met person X in 2007, person X wouldn’t recognize the Doctor. This could have happened in the comic even though the comic takes place after season 2 and Doctor Whooves and Derpy were seen together before the end of season 2, but time travel can be confusing and complex.

3. Big Mac or Doctor Whooves created a time paradox
A lot of weird things could have happened when Doctor Whooves was time traveling such as time breaking down or aliens messed with time and they created a time paradox, but Big Mac is also a time traveler. Two pages after the Doctor and Derpy scene a full page scene shows Big McIntosh traveling and doing stuff around the fair like eating a ton of food and jumping on a trampoline. In one part of this scene Big Mac goes into a science fair, accidentally enters a time warp, saves ponyville from mutant apes and comes back 5 minutes later. Who knows what happened when Big Mac time traveled he could have changed the future, created a time paradox, and stopped Derpy from meeting Doctor Whooves the first time. Doctor Whooves probably remembers because he is a time traveler or he was in the Tardis while time was changed.


            Thank you for reading this article and please tell me what you think about the Derpy and Doctor meeting, I think it’s a backwards Doctor Who reference. I know that my theories may fall into head canon territory, but I feel that they are interesting theories.    

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