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Doctor Who Series 7: There Will Be Daleks

The episode took place over a year (as apparently it took the cubes that long to figure out they could kill humans by stopping their hearts.) Last week's episode actually took place during this week's, as last week Rory mentioned leaving his phone charger under Henry the 8th's bed. But yes it must have took place after the dinosaur episode since Brian already knew about the Doctor.

PEOPLE think this episode took place ten years in the future since Amy and Rory mentioned they've been travelling with the Doctor for ten years now, but it's only ten years from THEIR point of view. They went away for seven weeks at one point but came back on the same day as their party, for example. And Amy mentioned before that their friends were noticing they were again faster. So it wasn't necessarily ten years in the future (and Alan Sugar, Nick and Karren all looked the same age they are now!)
 
I didn't like that ten year reference. It's like finding out one day that your friends have all been hanging out without inviting you. I expect the companions to have a few unseen adventures (so the Doctor can reminisce about the time he had to rescue Rory after he ate the leader of a planet inhabited by sentient grapes), but I'm not so keen on them having maybe 9 years worth of adventures we haven't seen!

Yes, I'm jealous of fictional characters hanging out behind my back. Don't judge me ok!!
 
See, I feel the opposite. Saying "10 years worth of adventures" is good because it means that those gaps can be filled by spin-off media like books and comics and audio adventures.

It's better than having situations like with a couple of the old companions where there isn't a good gap to fit those adventures, so you have to do a really awkward thing of "oh yeah even though those two stories looked like they run into each other there's actually about 5 books worth of adventures in between".
 
See, I feel the opposite. Saying "10 years worth of adventures" is good because it means that those gaps can be filled by spin-off media like books and comics and audio adventures.

It's better than having situations like with a couple of the old companions where there isn't a good gap to fit those adventures, so you have to do a really awkward thing of "oh yeah even though those two stories looked like they run into each other there's actually about 5 books worth of adventures in between".
 
Good end for the Ponds, although stupidly written.

So the Tardis cant land in new york, and this stops the Doctor from landing anywhere else in america and just taking a train there?
 
They were written out pretty much the way I expected for an angel episode, but it was very well done and emotional and well acted and everything. I'm happy it didn't end with them both disappearing after the suicide and us not knowing what happens. And that part from 11th Hour where Amelia hears the TARDIS and looks up DID really happen and wasn't just her imagining like we thought after it didn't happen in series 5 (I hope you followed that sentence!)

IF I wanted to nitpick I'd point out that surely there's always going to be SOMEONE looking at the Statue Of Liberty at all times (with it being "the city that never sleeps" and all) and it would be impossible for it to be an angel...and I guess the angel at the graveyard at the end was taken care of off screen? But it was such a good episode that I won't!
 
They really seemed to be bending be rules in this episode to fit the story they wanted to tell. I thought the same about the Statue of Liberty and the same should have applied to the one at the end as well. Amy said "all have to do is blink right", but that's not how it's worked in previous episodes. Surely everyone has to stop looking at an angel before it can move and kill somebody? Maybe it was able to kill because nobody could see its arm, but that seems like a cop out.

Anyway overall it was a good episode... maybe it was a bit too complicated a story but it was a good send off the Ponds and I'm sure they'd have no trouble backtracking if they chose to bring Amy and Rory back at some point.
 
I believe Steven Moffat weight "Having the Statue of Liberty be an Angel" and "having it all make total sense for the wikipedia entry" and decided on the former because it was more awesome.
 
It pretty much goes into the category of that giant cyberman robot RTD had trampling over London, which we all agreed was stupid.
 
Is there any reason why the Doctor can't meet Amy and Rory in the past and have an adventure with them as long as they get back home to New York in the end and still end up buried in that grave?
 
Seems to me as long as that headstone is there with those words on it, they don't really need to be in it.

Besides, anyone really think either of them wont be back for the 50th anniversary special?
 
I caught up with a lot of the episodes yesterday, but I missed the one where the Doctor finds out who River is when she's kidnapped as a baby, because the next episode is the one where Amy is trapped and aging on a planet that kills you with kindness.

It was an emotional episode, and yes, a bit confusing in some parts but I'm just happy that she and Rory got to be together forever. A nice happy ending.

I still don't care too much for River Song, but I think that's because of how Alex Kingston plays her, and I adore Alex Kingston.
 
HELLO SWEETIE!

I liked it very much and loved the way they showed how much Amy and Rory love each other.

The angels are very creepy, ALWAYS.
 
River's like Jack Harkness on steroids. Which is to say, she's like John Barrowman on a Saturday night. She can definitely be a bit much sometimes. And she seemed really callous about Rory being dumped in the basement, whether she knew there were baby angels in there or not.

I seem to always point out stuff I dislike, but I do enjoy it really! The Ponds' fall from the roof was really well done and I actually would've been satisfied if that'd been their exit.
 
Someone else on SFX pointed out, how can the Doctor travel back to young Amelia sitting outside the house she lives in alone, when that timeline was erased by avoiding the Tardis explosion, and she now always had her parents?
 
whisky said:
Someone else on SFX pointed out, how can the Doctor travel back to young Amelia sitting outside the house she lives in alone, when that timeline was erased by avoiding the Tardis explosion, and she now always had her parents?
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Because of timey-wimey stuff?
 
I do find it a bit weird how they went to so much effort to bring Amy's parents back to life then never mentioned them or showed them again...and how they had Rory's dad in two of the five episodes this series but didn't have a scene with the Doctor telling him about Rory this week (not that I really wanted one) or any mention of him.
 
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