Bigeneration? Sure, why not?

One of the most disappointing things about my circle of friends (okay, to be honest, my coworkers, because I don't actually have friends) is that there's only one person who has enough interest in Doctor Who to actually want to talk meta things. It's doubly disappointing that this person, despite being a brilliant programmer and analyst, can't for the life of him express his thoughts in a coherent and logical fashion and, when asked to repeat himself so that we can try to understand what he means, gets angry and thus even less rational. Sigh.

So, my husband and this person, whom I'll call Dylan, were discussing "The Giggle", and Dylan expressed the belief that the bigeneration wasn't really a bigeneration, but it was Fifteen from sometime in the future coming back to this point in time to battle the Toymaker. He wasn't really clear on his reasoning and the discussion devolved as my husband tried to get more details, and so he never really figured it out. He had, however, noted that he'd gotten the theory from the Internet, so at least we had some inkling of a source. We discussed it a little bit and didn't see any real reason to not take the bigeneration to be just that, and that was it.

Then elisi put up a post this week with a link to the Tumblr post that originated this idea, and so here it is: Post about Fourteen-Fifteen transition

I've been digesting this post, and we've been discussing this - sans Dylan; that's not likely to be fruitful at all - and well, we really don't buy into this theory. Cue long post about this.

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