Your Thoughts: Just who IS the Eyepatch Lady!?

May 8th, 2011
Warning! This article and its comments may contain spoilers...
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Last night’s episode, The Curse of the Black Spot, saw the return of the mysterious Eyepatch Lady, as played by Frances Barber, who was first seen in Day of the Moon.

Although she has to date only appeared on our screens for a matter of seconds, she’s already created quite a stir, so we thought we’d open up a discussion for you to share your own theories about who she might be. Her appearances so far have been centered around Amy, but is she a friend or a foe? Got any ideas? Share ‘em in the comments!

What we DO know is that she’ll be back in Episode 7 (Frances Barber’s CV lists her character as ‘Kovarian’), but will she be pop up again before then? Only time will tell…

75 comments on this article
  1. ema
    May 28th, 2011 at 8.50pm | #1

    I think that Amy’s baby is gonna be the Doctor’s and so that means the little girl is Amy-Doctor’s baby which makes sense as she can regenerate… And I agree with Ifrah I think she might be evil..

  2. Stephen
    May 29th, 2011 at 9.38am | #2

    I think it is somone who is a nerse because she has being saying things like calm down and she was in last night episode in the alien hospital or a place like that.

  3. Jaaaaaaay
    May 29th, 2011 at 3.12pm | #3

    Just saw The Almost People and she’s the midwife who uses amys child as a weapon and her real name is Madame Kazuiran.

  4. Jaaaaaaay
    May 29th, 2011 at 3.20pm | #4

    She is definatly a midwife, the cliffhanger says it all, she says ‘little ones on it’s way, PUSH’

  5. ellie-rose
    May 29th, 2011 at 4.44pm | #5

    i think that amy is kidknapped by an unknown source because of the baby she is carrying. in series 6 ep 1, river song says that whole empires would kill the whole planet for just one cell of the dead future doctor. if that is so, if the baby is amy’s and rory’s, then “messed up” by the space-time radiation, then wouldnt empires kidknap amy at the chance of getting said baby. this baby could have anything kind of mumtations, including an immune sysyem as seen in martha jones in a torchwood episode. a himan child with added extras could further any civilisation, but the doctor and rory would notice a missing amy, so the abductors copy her with Flesh and replace her. but when woud this have happened???? i think that it would have been in the 3months that she has been on the run from canton/the silence in series 6 ep 2, as she is seperate from rory, and she would have gained weight in the 3months as in series 6 ep 1 the future doctor said that she had gained a few pounds; as well as this the first time we see the eyepatch lady, it is after the 3 month period where amy has been on the run.

  6. matthew hall
    May 29th, 2011 at 5.16pm | #6

    she’s obviously some sort of midwife from hell who has been appearing all over time and space checking if amy is ready to give birth. and does her baby have anything to do with that little girl who can regenerate as seen in episodes 1 and 2?

  7. leah
    May 31st, 2011 at 10.59am | #7

    She is the midwife, she s going to use Amy’s baby Melody as a weapon, Many say Rver song is her child …

  8. mish
    May 31st, 2011 at 10.28pm | #8

    okay here is my theory
    A – the dr killed is infact fleash. (remember dr said it could retain its consousnes

    B – the baby is amys and rorys – but some how possibly due to being on tardis while inutro has some of the dr’s regenative powers

    C – the astranought is in fact the dr – i know it was the girl but last seen she was in the street regenerating

    D – eyepatch lady is in league with the silence

    E – the silence kidnapped amy and she never escaped that was when she was replaced with fleash.

    Just my thoughts i can not wait to see what the truth behind it all is, should be a ride.

  9. Bryony
    June 1st, 2011 at 2.51pm | #9

    I think that the lady is evil but she is trying to act as Amy’s midwife. But that evil lady is river song cos I think it kinda looks like her.

  10. Bryony
    June 1st, 2011 at 2.55pm | #10

    @mish
    I agree

  11. ichimata
    June 5th, 2011 at 1.01am | #11

    I think Matt Smith is rubbish and since taking over the show is pants. Too much running around, too many guns and shooting, everyone in the universe seems to know the doctor, Rory is a third wheel, Amy is too prominent and the Doctor has no gravitas and is simply like a child running around in a play pen. I remain to watch it in hope that it will get better but expect to be disappointed. It used to be clever, the previous doctor could make us laugh and cry at the same time. Matt smith just makes me wanna slap him and cut his floppy, drippy hair. Maybe just a timey wimmey thing and I need to move on.

  12. ichimata
    June 5th, 2011 at 1.12am | #12

    Sorry folks I know this is about the eyepatch lady, but I’ve just seen it and this episode demonstrates everything I feel about it. River Song being Amy and Rorys child, please. River Song has been through so much with the doctor, she could have been anyone, personally I would have had her as another Doctor (possibly the Doctors child – Remember David Tenant had a child in a previous episode), she could have been the twelve doctor, coming back causing the death of the eleventh (a paradox, again a Timey Wimmey Thing) but no, Amy and Rory child – once again Steven Moffet takes the easy way out. I am so annoyed – I want to compensation.

  13. JoneseyKempo
    June 5th, 2011 at 3.37pm | #13

    yeah i was right about River being Amy and Rorys child

  14. shaan
    July 29th, 2011 at 10.15am | #14

    ———————SPOILERS—————————-

    WOW I THINK I FOUND OUT BASICLY EVERYTHING BOUT SERIES 6
    after seeing a good man goes to war.

    HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND :)

    RIVERS TIME LINE:

    1.Melody is born and taken away in Demons run. The future River is there telling the doctor that she knows that he will find her
    2. The doctor does not find Melody so by the time she was a child she was sent to that house that amy saw the photos in and she was being looked by the silence who the eye patch lady was working for.
    3. When melody is still a young girl she was forced by the silence to shoot the doctor- twice. She killed THE good man.
    4. When she was a adult (alex kingston can now act as her) she was given a eye patch (explains the part 2 trailer) so she could see the silence, record the silence and remember.
    5. When she was a little older the doctor finds her. Her wait is over.
    6. Random adventures with the doctor
    7. Utah dessert- her young self kills the doctor
    8. Other adventures
    9. The Libary

    BUT, the doctor doesnt die. He is flesh. But where? Thats what I do not know

  15. shaan
    July 29th, 2011 at 10.23am | #15

    @Nathan
    She is kindof the mid wife… execpect for the fact that after the baby is born she will take the baby away

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