Also, in "Amy's Choice", the Doctor's subconscious referred to it as "The Village that Time Forgot". Which sounded like snark, but it could have a deeper meaning.
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon
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Tom Scola - Jun 21, 2010 8:42:04 am PDT #13426 of 30001
hwæt
Nora Deirdre - Jun 21, 2010 8:44:07 am PDT #13427 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
TomW's theory is that it's all about the DUCK POND WITHOUT DUCKS that hearkens back to the first ep of the series.
Shir - Jun 21, 2010 8:46:37 am PDT #13428 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Hold on, about River: we know she did something wrong. We know the Evil-League-of-Evil-Alliance stopped the Doctor from destroying the universe, and that it had to do with the presumption that he and he alone can pilot the TARDIS (speaking of which: pilot as a verb is new to me). Maybe the thing she's paying on and the thing the Doctor can't know about because he'll never trust her again (or something like it) is her destroying (somehow) the universe/TARDIS/killing Amy/whatever.
And I never did understand how her timeline works, anyhow. She knows some things before she's supposed to know them - mostly in this ep.
Dana - Jun 21, 2010 8:47:50 am PDT #13429 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
DW UK:
Oh, the duck pond without any ducks is totally significant. As is the fact that we've never seen Amy's aunt.
Polter-Cow - Jun 21, 2010 8:48:50 am PDT #13430 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Nora, the Doctor specifically made reference to that in the Angels episode, so I'd agree that it's important. And Tom, that's very cool about the cars!! If, in fact, Leadworth is actually in the nineties, that would explain why Amy doesn't "remember" the Daleks. Because it hadn't happened yet.
Jars - Jun 21, 2010 8:49:08 am PDT #13431 of 30001
In the vein of odd timey wimey stuff - Rory's desire for a mullet would be explained by him being from the 90's. That doesn't explain how there's 2010 technology in the same timeline though.
Shir - Jun 21, 2010 8:51:14 am PDT #13432 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I heart the duck pond without any ducks theory.
And yes, now I totally believe that Amy is living out of her time.
If so: Moffat - good job, man.
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2010 9:11:10 am PDT #13433 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
All this whitefont is killing me! How far behind the UK is the US?
Jars - Jun 21, 2010 9:19:38 am PDT #13434 of 30001
Shir, is it that she's living out of her time I wonder? If we take as read that the first episode/Rory is the 90's, why do they look the same 'two years' later when it's her wedding day in 2010? Is her whole village then 'out of time' as the doctor said in the dream world?
Hmmmm interesting.
Shir - Jun 21, 2010 9:23:22 am PDT #13435 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Jars - maybe. Could be. Can't wait to find out!
I wonder if Tennant/Rusty commented about series 5 yet.