*ponders* It's a possibility, the question is why. It would certainly make her a possible weapon (what with the ability to blow up the universe if necessary), but what could be gained from having another TARDIS around? We know that the Silence (or the Silents, or both) were trying to build a TARDIS... So could they have succeeded and turned it into a girl? I rather like this (the continuity is lovely), but why?
Well, the time machine in "The Lodger" was an idiot; I think the Doctor even said as much. What's more, it was an idiot that kept luring people in to use their brains, and spitting the husks back out when it didn't work. You could say it was actively looking for intelligence, but failing because it couldn't do anything besides steal. I had been assuming that it did that because it got broken in "Day of the Moon," but maybe it never was perfected. Maybe a TARDIS requires consciousness or creativity or some form of being alive; maybe without that, it's just a dangerously out-of-control box. And maybe the Silence decided that the best way to grow consciousness and creativity and life was to start with a being that already has those things—or at least, a near-perfect facsimile—and grow it from there.
(Of course, that calls into question some of classic Who canon, most noticeably "Edge of Destruction," where the Doctor didn't seem to realize the TARDIS had a mind until his companions worked it out . . . although I've thought for a while that the Time Lords never knew quite what they had created with TARDISes in general and the TARDIS in particular.)
As for why they might want a TARDIS, I can think of several reasons. The one that's most on my brain right now: TARDISes are some of the few things that can go outside the universe, even with great difficulty. Maybe the Silence works for some extradimensional evil (Omega) and they need a TARDIS to bring the entity (Omega) into this universe (seriously, if it's this, it's gotta be Omega).
(Of course, part of the reason I'm currently thinking Omega is that in my sleep-deprived state, my brain is insisting on parsing that wifi password—rycbar123—as, "Run, you clever boy, and remember One, Two, Three." And the enemy in "The Three Doctors" . . . was their respective fashion senses, but I'm pretty sure Omega was in there somehow or other. :) )
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Well, the time machine in "The Lodger" was an idiot; I think the Doctor even said as much. What's more, it was an idiot that kept luring people in to use their brains, and spitting the husks back out when it didn't work. You could say it was actively looking for intelligence, but failing because it couldn't do anything besides steal. I had been assuming that it did that because it got broken in "Day of the Moon," but maybe it never was perfected. Maybe a TARDIS requires consciousness or creativity or some form of being alive; maybe without that, it's just a dangerously out-of-control box. And maybe the Silence decided that the best way to grow consciousness and creativity and life was to start with a being that already has those things—or at least, a near-perfect facsimile—and grow it from there.
(Of course, that calls into question some of classic Who canon, most noticeably "Edge of Destruction," where the Doctor didn't seem to realize the TARDIS had a mind until his companions worked it out . . . although I've thought for a while that the Time Lords never knew quite what they had created with TARDISes in general and the TARDIS in particular.)
As for why they might want a TARDIS, I can think of several reasons. The one that's most on my brain right now: TARDISes are some of the few things that can go outside the universe, even with great difficulty. Maybe the Silence works for some extradimensional evil (Omega) and they need a TARDIS to bring the entity (Omega) into this universe (seriously, if it's this, it's gotta be Omega).
(Of course, part of the reason I'm currently thinking Omega is that in my sleep-deprived state, my brain is insisting on parsing that wifi password—rycbar123—as, "Run, you clever boy, and remember One, Two, Three." And the enemy in "The Three Doctors" . . . was their respective fashion senses, but I'm pretty sure Omega was in there somehow or other. :) )