Doctor Who Finally Resolves A 14-Year-Old Amy Pond Mystery Everyone Had Totally Forgotten About

Doctor Who has finally answered a 14-year-old question that left fans scratching their heads. Doctor Who season 14, which premiered in May 2024, brought in the brilliant Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor. Gatwa has been received with praise for bringing a vibrant new Doctor to the table. Since Disney bought Doctor Who and relaunched it in 2023 with Gatwa fronting proceedings, it has introduced new mysteries without answering all too many. However, Doctor Who made sure that one old franchise mystery was resolved.

As a franchise, Doctor Who is reasonably active on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Occasionally, the series continues on X as a multi-format phenomenon. @bccdoctorwho posts behind-the-scenes snippets of information and in-universe teases that continue the myths of the characters of Doctor Who season 14 and beyond, with any season fair game. Recently, Doctor Who used X to post a sneaky and surprising insight into a long-gone season. This post helped to resolve Amy Pond’s confusing and long-standing pond mystery from Doctor Who season 5.

Doctor Who Explains Amy Pond’s Pond Mystery From Season 5

Doctor Who Finally Answered An Old Question

Amy Pond and the Doctor wondered why there were no ducks in the Leadworth duck pond in Doctor Who season 5, episode 1, “The Eleventh Hour.” Doctor Who posted a tease of Ncuti Gatwa’s Christmas Special for 2024 in the form of a picture of The Timey Wimey newspaper, an invention of the show’s. The Timey Wimey front page article discussed how a scientist infected the Leadworth duck pond with a chemical that turned it into a portal to Carnaby Street in 1973, explaining why there were no ducks on it in season 5’s first episode.

Shouldn’t The Cracks In Time Be Closed In Doctor Who Now?

The Doctor, Theoretically, Closed The Cracks In Time

The Timey Wimey newspaper confirmed that the Leadworth duck pond was a portal to another time, but Doctor Who was meant to have closed the cracks in time already. This creates a confusing scenario which could be resolved in a number of ways. Doctor Who season 5 explored the cracks of time in one of the series’ most confusing but rewarding storylines, showing off new Doctor Matt Smith in all his heroic glory. The Doctor could have left some cracks still open, allowing for a lead-in to a Christmas Special or season 15 plot.

However, the duck pond doesn’t necessarily constitute a crack in time, although the Doctor implied this in “Flesh & Stone.” Although the cracks manifested in various ways in different places, time travel is also possible through other routes, such as the TARDIS. The portal to Carnaby Street via the Leadworth duck pond could easily be considered a road to another time that has nothing to do with the cracks created by the Silence in Doctor Who season 5. This would explain why it would still exist after the Doctor closed the cracks.