Some thoughts on Dr Who
I just rewatched the first half of the current series of Dr Who, and I have a list of questions I want answers to. I think these are all, in the immortal words of Donald Rumsfeld, known unknowns:
1) Why does the Doctor keeping popping up in unrealistic historical scenarios and even the film that Amy and Rory have on TV at the beginning of the series? If he is trying to get their attention, which version of the Doctor is he[1] and why is he doing it? Did he succeed or not?
2) And why were Amy and Rory hanging out at home in the first place? What happens between their kinky policewoman/Roman honeymoon and the beginning of this series? (And come to think of it, why did they think it was plausible in Amy's Choice from the last series that they suddenly found themselves Doctorless in Leadworth?)
3) When did the 'real' Amy get taken and replaced with Flesh!Amy? Why does the Doctor assume this happened 'before America' (quote from A Good Man Goes to War)?
4) Why doesn't the TARDIS put different translation options in your head? Even Google Translate can do that! :)
5) If River is the Impossible Astronaut - which is strongly suggested in the flashback in the middle of the River revelation scene - then does the River analysing the spacesuit just pretend she doesn't know who or what was in it? Or has she forgotten? Or wasn't it her?
6) Is the 'good man' that River killed (/kills/will kill) the Doctor? Is he the 'good man' of the Demons Run proverb and episode title? Or is it Rory? Or someone else I haven't thought of? Maybe it's Amy and there's interference from a language with no gender distinctions...
[1] I have three options for this - current Doctor, current Doctor but 200 years or whatever older, or Flesh!Doctor.
Please don't include any spoilers beyond what we know up to and including A Good Man Goes to War - nothing from current internet rumours, failming spoilers, etc - if you comment. Thank you!
1) Why does the Doctor keeping popping up in unrealistic historical scenarios and even the film that Amy and Rory have on TV at the beginning of the series? If he is trying to get their attention, which version of the Doctor is he[1] and why is he doing it? Did he succeed or not?
2) And why were Amy and Rory hanging out at home in the first place? What happens between their kinky policewoman/Roman honeymoon and the beginning of this series? (And come to think of it, why did they think it was plausible in Amy's Choice from the last series that they suddenly found themselves Doctorless in Leadworth?)
3) When did the 'real' Amy get taken and replaced with Flesh!Amy? Why does the Doctor assume this happened 'before America' (quote from A Good Man Goes to War)?
4) Why doesn't the TARDIS put different translation options in your head? Even Google Translate can do that! :)
5) If River is the Impossible Astronaut - which is strongly suggested in the flashback in the middle of the River revelation scene - then does the River analysing the spacesuit just pretend she doesn't know who or what was in it? Or has she forgotten? Or wasn't it her?
6) Is the 'good man' that River killed (/kills/will kill) the Doctor? Is he the 'good man' of the Demons Run proverb and episode title? Or is it Rory? Or someone else I haven't thought of? Maybe it's Amy and there's interference from a language with no gender distinctions...
[1] I have three options for this - current Doctor, current Doctor but 200 years or whatever older, or Flesh!Doctor.
Please don't include any spoilers beyond what we know up to and including A Good Man Goes to War - nothing from current internet rumours, failming spoilers, etc - if you comment. Thank you!