Some thinks on Doctor Who

[kaliha]

Things I hope get answered in the finale of Doctor Who on Saturday. (Spoilers for up to 5x12)


[x] what is the significance of the duckpond without any ducks. (Other than it being a pond?)
[x] At the end of the first episode Amelia was sat on her suitcase in the garden and there was the sound of the TARDIS. This seems to indicate that he came back although in the episode Amy didn't see him again until she was 19.
[x] Also what did the Doctor tell her when she was seven?
[x] When Rory was sucked into the crack (sob) how come the engagement ring didn't disappear? Was this due to the fact the TARDIS interior is outside normal space-time and therefore not affected by the crack. (Which leads me to thinking, could Rory have been saved had they pulled him into the TARDIS? (He'd have still have been dead, but not forgotten))
[x] The Moff has gone on a lot in the Confidentials about how Doctor Who is a fairytale. Is this season quite literally a fairtale and Amy is our Little Red Riding Hood?
[x] And if it is, does this mean that it will end happily ever after?
[x] When River went nicking Liz Ten's property, where was this royal gallery and why was it so trashed?
[x] I only noticed today that the football shirt the Doctor wore in The Lodger was the number 11. I am so ridiculously unobservant this year.
[x] Although I did notice some very Silurian-looking aliens at the welcoming party for the Doctor at Stonehenge. Shouldn't they be dozing many miles under the earth? I did not seen the weevils. This makes me sad. (See previous point about unobservantness.)
[x] Why does Amy's house have a third floor? It's a very nice set of stairs just to lead up to a loft. (Or attic if you prefer.)
[x] Why does the TARDIS console have what looks just like a radiator bottle from a Ford on it. (And why does it have 100% less IKEA ornaments on it this year?)
[x] Is this whole series caused by the Dream Lord/the Doctor's subconscious. Have they still not actually woken up from the spell the spores put them under?
[x] Why turn Rory into an Auton? (He did look very cute as a Roman though.)
[x] The Doctor has always said that he can't go meddling in the timeline once he is part of it. (When I say always said, both the Ninth and Tenth Doctor's have said it recently and I'm positive it's been brought up in the classic series too.) So why is he happily flitting through his past adventures? (If the whole Coat thing in the forest really is part of the plot and not just a continuity error).
[x] Who is controlling the TARDIS? And why does it not have emergancy escape pods? That seems a real oversight.
[x] OH OH! At the end of the first episode all the little peg Doctors were raggedy in the Tenth Doctor's favourite tie and the brown suit. At the end of this episode those Doctors were mixed in with Doctors in a different outfit.


And I'm done. Please no spoilers for Saturday's episodes in the comments. I'd like not to inadvertantly spoil someone.

Comments

[sal101010.livejournal.com]

Well you have more comments than I do. My only thought was "Eeek, they've gone and locked him up in Amy's brain!!" Unless that counts as speculation....

(In which case I'll remove it post haste - when I wake up in the morning.)

[alawston.livejournal.com]

[x] The Doctor has always said that he can't go meddling in the timeline once he is part of it. (When I say always said, both the Ninth and Tenth Doctor's have said it recently and I'm positive it's been brought up in the classic series too.) So why is he happily flitting through his past adventures? (If the whole Coat thing in the forest really is part of the plot and not just a continuity error).

If the plot demands it, the Doctor can do whatever he damn well likes. But I'm thinking the presence of the crack in the forest might explain why he was able to get there.

The thing about being fixed in the timeline after the TARDIS lands is a fudge from Virgin New Adventures, in their writer's guidelines. They put forward the theory that the TARDIS can only travel forward in time, relative to Gallifrey, which they put at a much earlier point in the universe's history (presumably 'when the Universe was less than half its present size'). The idea being that the TARDIS crystallises space-time around a potential future timeline when it lands. The guidelines were around for most of the New Adventures, and RTD would certainly have had to read them when pitching Damaged Goods.

To my knowledge, the only explicit statement about the idea is in Ben Aaronovitch's The Also People, when the Doctor finds Kadiatu on board a massacred slave ship and laments that it's too late to go back and save the people now that he's landed the TARDIS and seen them dead.

I've been assuming that the engagement ring survived because it was put on an important part of the console, like the recorder in the forcefield generator in The Three Doctors.

[chicklet73.livejournal.com]

I, too, want to know the significance of the no-duck duck pond! And what it was that Eleven wants Amy to remember so much (I'm still going on the theory that the coat in the forest was not a continuity error *crosses fingers*)

And I didn't notice the Doctor's football shirt had an 11 on it until the second time I watched the episode either! OOPS. Think it's pretty awesome though.

I'm a bit nervous about the whole fairytales = happy ending thing. At the Q&A after the ep, Moffat told us how fairytales were written specifically to explain to children that the world is a terrifying place, and that there really ARE monsters under the bed and in the cupboards. I wonder if he ever offers to tell his sons bedtime stories and they're like, "No thanks, Dad!"

POOR RORY. What will happen to him? I also wonder if Amy is really dead and this is some sort of weird offshoot timeline that will disappear after the finale's conclusion. You know, time can be rewritten and all. Similar to your theory about everything since "Amy's Choice" being inside the Doctor's brain or something...

I'm also wondering what River Song was apologizing for at the end of the episode. For not saving the TARDIS? Or could she be apologizing for something else? Like the man she supposedly killed, who was the best man she ever knew, and so I wildly speculate it is the Doctor?

And zOMG! I didn't notice the different peg Doctors at the end of the episode! I have to go watch again ASAP. Too bad it won't be broadcast here for another couple weeks, and then it's still ANOTHER week before the conclusion! I CANNOT WAIT THAT LONG.

[taperoo2k.livejournal.com]

I know a few sort of answers. But i must keep my gob
shut least i suffer the wrath of Kali.....

[steviesun.livejournal.com]

I can't shake from my head that someone pointed out the odd date on Rory's badge in the first episode. Which I must rewatch.

I personally think that Amy Pond was never actually real in the first place. Or that she's a disguise for someone or something else. No idea what.

Was I the only one who all through last week's episode was shouting at the TV "it's the Valyard, the Valyard's in there!" I was kind of right.

[i-like-doctors.livejournal.com]

I'm not reading the above 'cause I don't want to be spoiled, but I will read your comments tomorrow. :)

Btw I was wondering whether you are on facebook?
xxx