Martha's bong

Appears in TV:The Pounding of Cooms. Is located on Martha's chest... hnghh - is located on Martha's chest of drawers. Led /who/ to a meltdown (despite only appearing briefly) shortly before Asher and company first reared his ugly head - OneThinks.jpg.

Contents
The bong contains a sort of orange liquid, consistent with the generally orange-toned colour palette of Season 3, particularly the Finale. It contains three pickled onions stacked upon a golf ball, perhaps foreshadowing Zacko's imminent arrival, or even perhaps planted by him as a smug little joke to ease his usurpation of /who/.

/who/ discovers the bong
[please can someone make a picture with the initial osts and threads, I can't be bothered]

Near the end of March 2020, some /who/ anons questioned the presence of a bizarre prop in The Sound of Drums. At first, the relevant posts were ignored, but after much forcing, the latent autism caused /who/ to go into overdrive.

Totally Doctor Who steps in
[link video and channel]

/who/ was thinking and thinking with their collective IQ of 90, but no answers came.

Then an anon miraculously came across a Totally Doctor Who Channel, and in that channel, he found the Sound of Drums episode. Hurrah! It was a tour of Martha's flat! However, the mysterious prop was hardly shed any light upon.

And then suddenly...

-scheduled video

-such wow

The Lazarus (rebirth) theory
In a long series of rambling posts Karenfag theorised that the white balls within the vase are moonstones, and that there was a sun and moon-based connection going on throughout the entire series, and more specifically the sun and moon symbols are used to represent rebirth via the cycles of night and day (with the moonstones representing the moon, and the orange vase representing the sun). Below is all the evidence gathered to support that theory so far.



1. Smith and Jones
The episode takes place on the moon and the episode starts with Martha talking to her sister, who has an identical moonstone on display as the one in the Marthavase. She says "God" when the moonstone appears, which may be intentional reference to rebirth as God (in the form of the son, Jesus) resurrects Lazarus (sister of Martha) from the dead in The Bible.



2. The Shakespeare Code
The leader of the witches is named Lilith in reference to the black moon Lilith, the name in astrology for the mathematical point exactly in between the earth and the moon, which is asociated with sexuality. Lilith the character embodies sexuality as she had the ability to assume the form of a beautiful young woman, a trick she used to ensnare male victims (which she tries on the Doctor too, but fails).



3. Gridlock
There are green Moon symbols all over the under-city Martha and the Doctor arrive at. In S02E01 "New Earth", the Doctor explains to Rose that the moon is the universal symbol for hospitals. The Lazarus rebirth is again a theme as "New Earth" ends with the infected humans granted lives to live in freedom.



4 and 5. Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks
The episode is about rebirth (specifically rebirth of the daleks into a human-dalek hybrid). The sun and moon references connections come from the fact that it's set in "the city that never sleeps" and solar flares were the planned power source for the hybridisation.



6. The Lazarus Experiment
The name Lazarus is reference to the rebirth theme of the episode, as the plot is about a man who effectively gets "reborn" from a machine at Lazarus Laboratories that undoes his ageing. In The Bible, Lazarus was the brother of Mary and Martha and Jesus raised him from the dead. This is also the first episode we see the Marthavase in and Lazarus Laboratories has a lunar cycle banner behind orange light, looking similar to a Marthavase.



7. 42
The episode all takes place by the sun, and he stares into the sun in astonishment saying "It's alive!". Also matching the sun/moon connection is that the Doctor wears the same spacesuit twice more in later incarnations, with 11 being in that spacesuit whilst taking a photo of the sun, and 12 being in that spacesuit in "Kill the Moon".



8 and 9. Human Nature/The Family of Blood
The cycle starts again in the solar phase, represented by the fact that the Doctor is in bed as "John Smith" and meeting Martha with fresh eyes again just like he did in the first episode of the series. The Doctor gives the antagonists eternal life in the form of eternal torture for their sins.



10. Blink
The entire episode is all about easter eggs in reference to this large series-long easter egg. Larry Nightingale represents obsessive easter egg hunters like us. His surname refers to the moon again whilst the name Larry's etymology is "man from Laurentum" and Laurentum gets its name from Laurus nobilis, a sacred tree probably in reference to 'Forest of the dead' and Doctor Moon. It might seem a stretch as that episode occurred a series later, but Moffat actually intended for the weeping angels to play a part in silence in the library at the point of making Blink. Also the noblis being inspiration for Donna Noble who played a big part in Forest of the dead.

Again the theme is about rebirth with Billy Shipton and other weeping angel victims being given a new life in a different time. When he first arrives in his new life the Doctor tells him he found him with a "timey wimey detector" that can "boil an egg in thirty paces whether you want it to or not", another meta reference to easter eggs.



11. Utopia
The episode is again about rebirth, with "The Master, reborn" (as Derek Jacobi's last words state). On a larger scale, it's also about the rebirth of the universe as it takes place at the end of the universe with the residents seeking to start over again in 'Utopia'.

12 and 13. The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords
We see the Marthavase appear once again in this episode along with a container of more moonstones, before being blown up, representing the end of the story arc. The Master represents the battery in the Marthavase as he has the power (he's the leader of the world), on top of which is the golfball which represents the monsters CGI prop used in Lazarus, in this case the monsters actually being ball-shaped (Coincidence? I think not) Toclafane. The three moonstones represent Martha Jack and the Doctor who stand in the way.

Near the end of the episode we see a ring with the Lazarus arrangement on it whilst hearing the dead Master laugh, implying that like Lazarus he will come back from the dead (which turned out to be true when the same ring is used to resurrect him in The End of Time).