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To think Dr Who writers are losing it.

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peasontoast · 01/05/2010 20:40

Just because they had some fantasy about DW and his assistant doesn't mean they should force it on everyone else. I watched tonight with my 10 year old and the final scenes made me really cringe.

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Miggsie · 03/05/2010 16:44

Oh and the "assistant who is the centre of a universe shaking event" thing...er, that was done last series!!!!!

Not very inventive.

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2rebecca · 03/05/2010 17:05

I agree Miggsie, but alot of scifi blokes go for artificial vampy women. My son got into Magic the Gathering and related stuff and I got depressed at the "fantasy" women all having long hair, enormous breasts and scanty clothing. They look more like drag artists than real women.
I'd like a doctor's assistant who is intelligent and doesn't fancy the doctor, just enjoys all the scifi stuff.

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peasontoast · 03/05/2010 17:17

A lot of sci-fi 'blokes' exactly 2rebecca - blokes not kids. I think they are dangerously close to crossing the line with this stuff.

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2rebecca · 03/05/2010 17:20

It started out as an adults programme though, and there's still something of the "aimed at sci fi geeks but kids can watch too if they want" about Dr Who.

RustyBear · 03/05/2010 17:21

I've been thinking there's some kind of time-shift/missing bit since the end episode 1, where we see Amy aged 7 sitting in the garden & she hears the Tardis, but we don't see him arrive - he turns up 14 years later. I think the thing he told her when she was 7 was told to her then, but she's forgotten that meeting.

WhereYouLeftIt · 03/05/2010 17:29

"It also pissed me off that they turned River Song into some sort of man hunting Vamp with those ludicrous shoes at the beginning of the last episode"

Hadn't she just left a party (host was in DJ - was he being turned into James Bond?) - even I wear high heels at a party!

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NorkilyChallenged · 03/05/2010 17:36

Oooh I'm liking this theory.

I think that's right, there is a future Dr going back to events of the current series (asking the question about when she was 7 or going back like RustyBear says) and I think it's linked to the Dr repeatedly saying "time can be rewritten"

Ho ho, I love this stuff.

Have just tried to explain it to dp who claims that the timey wimey stuff makes his head ache

KayHarker · 03/05/2010 17:58

YABU. I'm enjoying it for the most part so far

FabIsGoingToGetFit · 03/05/2010 18:00

I hate all the reports that she is sexy - she isn't imo and she pushed for a mini skirt as she said it suited the character. The producers wanted her in trousers.

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taffetacat · 04/05/2010 10:12

Yes, true, but surely women have moved on a bit since then.....?

Maybe the twelfth Doctor will be a woman.

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taffetacat · 04/05/2010 10:55

Yes, some do. I guess the thing is, its one of very few things on TV my DC watch so I suppose how the female character in it is portrayed is so important to lots of mothers out there.

It is great that Amy seems to have a lot of input in saving the world from doom ( Smilers and Dalek episodes ).

The other thing I really appreciate as a mother about DW is the non violent stance he takes. So rare in telly these days.

Aitch · 04/05/2010 11:04

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh is that right about the jacket? it was a bit of a spooky, film slowed down scene... if not it is, as someone else said, a sackable continuity error...

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Mrsdoasyouwouldbedoneby · 04/05/2010 12:36

It was DH who noticed it tho, not me.. he s the uber geek.

I NOW think.. and this is me nt him, that the crack has CAUSED Amy (and the villiage), and due to her existence when she should not exist, she is cracking time and the dr is trying to sort it all out. He probably said something when she was 7 to help her stay real.

People are able to see the funny side of Amy's crack tho... which tbh is a very crude thing and was SO going to happen. Given all the shrt things she wears.

Mrsdoasyouwouldbedoneby · 04/05/2010 12:37

argh can't edit... Someone on a another forum commented about Amy's Crack

LutyensWantsAFryUp · 04/05/2010 12:41

lol at Amy's Crack.

I watched the episode again last night and was so excited about the jacket thing. I completely failed to notice it first time round! I do hope it's not a continuity error and is a wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey thing

taffetacat · 04/05/2010 14:38

MrsDo - I am liking your crack caused Amy theory. Do you think its worth watching episode 1 again to see if we can pick up what is was he said? Or do you think it hasn't been shown?

< thoughts move furtively to iPlayer >

RustyBear · 04/05/2010 14:59

You don't have to go to iPlayer - someone on digital spy has transcribed everything the doctor said to 7 year old Amelia on-screen....

WingedVictory · 04/05/2010 15:07

Hi, all, I haven't seen this yet (have downloaded it to watch, though), but just wanted to pick up on the comments about something missing.

Could that be the flying Daleks/Battle o' Canary Wharf that Amy didn't remember?

Apologies if this has been done on the other thread (the one I am too afraid to take on because I'm so behind....)

taffetacat · 04/05/2010 16:03

Oh my goodness have just read your link RustyBear, thanks. I still may have to rewatch it though...