I recently finished the book Summer Falls, by "Amelia Williams." Summer Falls is a book released by BBC programming. Amelia Williams is a character on the BBC show Doctor Who, who in the earlier series, was transported into the past, to 1954, after traveling with the protagonist, the Doctor, for most of her life. The book is marketed as released in 1954 (even though it was released in 2013.) In the first episode of season 7, a boy is shown carrying this book. One of the main characters, Clara, comments on it, saying "the eleventh [chapter] will make you cry." Right now, the Doctor is on his eleventh regeneration, or form. I believe this is a clue on how the departure of the current Doctor will be a tragic one. Leading off of this, I have drawn many conclusions on how the book references the show in many forms.
In the book, there is a character, the Curator, who I believe is based off of/is the Doctor. When asked what his name is, he says to the main character, Kate, "I'm in between names at the moment. I am having a holiday from them." The Doctor, in the show, keeps his name a secret, and this is why he asks people to call him "the Doctor." He also has other names, and tells people he is never set on one. He also keeps his "shed" under a tarp, because it is undergoing repairs. For a lot of reasons, I think the "shed" is the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. The TARDIS is a time-traveling 1963 London police box which in my opinion looks a lot like a shed.). The Curator says to Kate "The 1950's aren't that bad. I do love the fifties." To me, this seems like a strange thing for someone living in that time would say. It sounds more like something a time traveler, or more likely the Doctor would say. When Kate's whole town is frozen over and nobody can leave or get in, the Curator is able to. Kate notices that the Curator seems to be calling her on the telephone from his car, as she can hear engine noises as he talks and he says to her that he is "traveling to her right now," yet Kate realizes that phones have not yet been invented for cars, so what mode of transportation could he have been using? In my opinion, BBC used the Curator as a name for the Doctor.
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