Re: I can't stop thinking there's still more to Amy. (Crazy speculation within.)
Liam Send a noteboard - 20/06/2010 11:28:39 PM
I can't shake the feeling that grown-up Amy and child Amelia are not the same person. That something is going on.
A friend pointed out to me that the front of her house has a blue door, just like something else we know.
The Doctor comments that her house was "too big, too many empty rooms. Does it ever bother you, Amy, that your life doesn't make any sense?"
Amy's house has two stories, you can see this clearly from the outside. On the second floor is a flight of stairs leading upward to a door in the ceiling. Just to a crawlspace, or to ... something else?
Throughout the season, the Doctor has been slightly put off by the fact that no one has said the traditional entering-the-TARDIS words: "But, but, but it's bigger on the inside!" When Amy first entered, the Doctor remarked, "Well? Anything you want to say, any ... passing remarks? I've heard them all." Amy doesn't say it. When Rory first enters, it goes like this:
Doctor: It's a lot to take in, isn't it? Tiny box, huge room inside, what's that about, let me explain.
Rory: It's another dimension?
Doctor: It's basically another dimension ... what?
Rory: After Prisoner Zero I've been reading up on all the latest scientific theories.
Doctor (put off): I like the bit where everyone says it's bigger on the inside. I always look forward to that.
But nobody will say it. Not even the lady who gets in it with him in Hungry Earth. And here we have a house that may be bigger on the inside, with a blue door ...
Is Amy's house a TARDIS? A TARDIS under construction? Is it hiding a time machine on the third floor a la The Lodger? Is Amy's house going to be the perception filter reveal? Could Amy's house be what explodes and causes the cracks, not the TARDIS? Or at least, not the Doctor's TARDIS?
Amy's aunt is never around. If she exists, why is she never around? Could Amy's aunt be a time traveler, who leaves and reappears at any time? If there is no aunt, could little Amelia Pond have been a time traveler?
Now here's the part that really proves I'm a nutter. Could Amy's aunt be ... River Song? Could Amy's aunt be ... grown up Amy? Could Amy's aunt be ... the Doctor using a perception filter? Okay, that last one is weird.
This is all just wild speculation. But dammit, I can't stop thinking there is more to be revealed about Amelia Pond.
Plus. Plus. This is not the first time the TARDIS has been hijacked. It happened in The Hungry Earth. The Doctor assumed it was the Silurians pulling it into the earth, but there were no guards or anything waiting when they got there, and they had to walk quite a ways to find any (and were only found after a scanner detected them). What if the same force that took control of the TARDIS in this episode caused it to go down and land beside the exact spot where a crack would soon appear?
There was a TARDIS sound that made little Amelia look up near the end of The Eleventh Hour. Was that our Doctor come back from the future? Was that the Jacket Doctor? Did he hop through the crack in the Silurian place, borrow the TARDIS, and do a little running around before bringing it back and dodging off through his crack again? Was that Amy's aunt returning in something that makes a TARDIS noise?
The problem with a lot of these speculations, of course, is that Amy would recall some of this weird stuff, unless Amy isn't the same person as Amelia somehow, or unless something was affecting her perception and/or memory.
"Does it ever bother you, Amy, that your life doesn't make any sense?"
A friend pointed out to me that the front of her house has a blue door, just like something else we know.
The Doctor comments that her house was "too big, too many empty rooms. Does it ever bother you, Amy, that your life doesn't make any sense?"
Amy's house has two stories, you can see this clearly from the outside. On the second floor is a flight of stairs leading upward to a door in the ceiling. Just to a crawlspace, or to ... something else?
Throughout the season, the Doctor has been slightly put off by the fact that no one has said the traditional entering-the-TARDIS words: "But, but, but it's bigger on the inside!" When Amy first entered, the Doctor remarked, "Well? Anything you want to say, any ... passing remarks? I've heard them all." Amy doesn't say it. When Rory first enters, it goes like this:
Doctor: It's a lot to take in, isn't it? Tiny box, huge room inside, what's that about, let me explain.
Rory: It's another dimension?
Doctor: It's basically another dimension ... what?
Rory: After Prisoner Zero I've been reading up on all the latest scientific theories.
Doctor (put off): I like the bit where everyone says it's bigger on the inside. I always look forward to that.
But nobody will say it. Not even the lady who gets in it with him in Hungry Earth. And here we have a house that may be bigger on the inside, with a blue door ...
Is Amy's house a TARDIS? A TARDIS under construction? Is it hiding a time machine on the third floor a la The Lodger? Is Amy's house going to be the perception filter reveal? Could Amy's house be what explodes and causes the cracks, not the TARDIS? Or at least, not the Doctor's TARDIS?
Amy's aunt is never around. If she exists, why is she never around? Could Amy's aunt be a time traveler, who leaves and reappears at any time? If there is no aunt, could little Amelia Pond have been a time traveler?
Now here's the part that really proves I'm a nutter. Could Amy's aunt be ... River Song? Could Amy's aunt be ... grown up Amy? Could Amy's aunt be ... the Doctor using a perception filter? Okay, that last one is weird.
This is all just wild speculation. But dammit, I can't stop thinking there is more to be revealed about Amelia Pond.
Plus. Plus. This is not the first time the TARDIS has been hijacked. It happened in The Hungry Earth. The Doctor assumed it was the Silurians pulling it into the earth, but there were no guards or anything waiting when they got there, and they had to walk quite a ways to find any (and were only found after a scanner detected them). What if the same force that took control of the TARDIS in this episode caused it to go down and land beside the exact spot where a crack would soon appear?
There was a TARDIS sound that made little Amelia look up near the end of The Eleventh Hour. Was that our Doctor come back from the future? Was that the Jacket Doctor? Did he hop through the crack in the Silurian place, borrow the TARDIS, and do a little running around before bringing it back and dodging off through his crack again? Was that Amy's aunt returning in something that makes a TARDIS noise?
The problem with a lot of these speculations, of course, is that Amy would recall some of this weird stuff, unless Amy isn't the same person as Amelia somehow, or unless something was affecting her perception and/or memory.
"Does it ever bother you, Amy, that your life doesn't make any sense?"
I knew something bothered me about that house. And it annoys me I didn't catch it before. My only excuse is that I've only seen the first episode once (starting it for the second time now).
I don't know much about TARDISes though, do they always have blue doors?
Fairytale Amelia Pond all alone, always alone, in a too-big house with a conspicuously-forgotten-about aunt and a distinctly consistently non-local accent just screams that something's not quite right. It screams it so loudly that I don't know what to make of it.
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Oh, how simply grand it is to be travelling by dirigible again. Direct us to the west good sir, tonight we will remember what it is to live.
Oh, how simply grand it is to be travelling by dirigible again. Direct us to the west good sir, tonight we will remember what it is to live.
/Doctor Who: "The Pandorica Opens" *spoilers*
19/06/2010 09:24:45 PM
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The only thing jumping to mind at the moment...
19/06/2010 09:38:44 PM
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Oh and...
19/06/2010 11:41:17 PM
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Nice!
20/06/2010 07:57:03 AM
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True...
20/06/2010 09:57:08 AM
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Re: True...
20/06/2010 09:59:09 AM
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I can't believe we have to wait an entire week to find out what happens!
20/06/2010 01:03:40 AM
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Re: I can't believe we have to wait an entire week to find out what happens!
20/06/2010 09:15:05 AM
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Quite a crowded episode.
20/06/2010 01:14:52 AM
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Re: Quite a crowded episode.
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Re: Quite a crowded episode.
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Re: Quite a crowded episode.
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Re: Rose
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Re: Rose
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Re: Quite a crowded episode.
20/06/2010 04:03:43 PM
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Re: Quite a crowded episode.
20/06/2010 04:09:44 PM
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Re: Quite a crowded episode.
20/06/2010 05:52:31 PM
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Re: Quite a crowded episode.
20/06/2010 06:12:46 PM
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Re: Quite a crowded episode.
20/06/2010 10:50:47 PM
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Re: Quite a crowded episode.
20/06/2010 10:52:44 PM
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The Silence
20/06/2010 01:26:02 AM
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Yeah, but what's the significance of that?
20/06/2010 01:40:55 AM
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Plus of course the whole "Silence will fall" shebang from Prisoner Zero. *NM*
21/06/2010 10:00:10 PM
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Also.
20/06/2010 07:46:05 AM
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Re: Also.
20/06/2010 09:33:34 AM
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Re: Also.
20/06/2010 02:46:15 PM
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Re: Also.
20/06/2010 02:49:34 PM
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I did at the time
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Re: I did at the time
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Re: I did at the time
20/06/2010 04:04:37 PM
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Re: I did at the time
20/06/2010 04:10:35 PM
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Oooh. Potentially interesting thing from Confidential
20/06/2010 10:02:27 AM
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Re: Oooh. Potentially interesting thing from Confidential
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Re: Oooh. Potentially interesting thing from Confidential
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Re: Oooh. Potentially interesting thing from Confidential
20/06/2010 01:16:44 PM
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*minor spoiler for next season*
20/06/2010 08:05:23 PM
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Re: *minor spoiler for next season*
20/06/2010 08:08:05 PM
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I feel that there is another party to all this
20/06/2010 08:10:15 PM
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Re: I feel that there is another party to all this
20/06/2010 08:14:18 PM
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I've just discovered that iPlayer has the whole of this series available.
20/06/2010 10:05:55 PM
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Yes, they are devious
20/06/2010 10:07:35 PM
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I can still see them both.
20/06/2010 10:24:08 PM
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Re: I can still see them both.
20/06/2010 10:29:05 PM
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I can't stop thinking there's still more to Amy. (Crazy speculation within.)
20/06/2010 11:08:13 PM
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Nutter
20/06/2010 11:20:44 PM
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You think Shada, I think...
20/06/2010 11:31:13 PM
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What book?
20/06/2010 11:34:23 PM
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It's kind of a big spoiler.
20/06/2010 11:37:42 PM
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Hmm
20/06/2010 11:39:02 PM
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Yes. *NM*
20/06/2010 11:40:15 PM
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Re: I can't stop thinking there's still more to Amy. (Crazy speculation within.)
20/06/2010 11:28:39 PM
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Re: I can't stop thinking there's still more to Amy. (Crazy speculation within.)
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Re: the accent.
22/06/2010 10:05:35 AM
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Oh, I know. I have Scottish neighbours. The kids have never even live in Scotland but have accents. *NM*
22/06/2010 12:48:47 PM
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Elaborating on your crazy speculation...
22/06/2010 10:14:14 PM
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Re: Elaborating on your crazy speculation...
22/06/2010 11:48:00 PM
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If Amy Pond is a trap.
22/06/2010 11:43:34 PM
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Re: If Amy Pond is a trap.
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Re: If Amy Pond is a trap.
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Re: If Amy Pond is a trap.
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Epiphany
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I was bothered by the Cyberman
24/06/2010 09:00:37 AM
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Apparently "someone very important is coming back".
25/06/2010 11:58:26 AM
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Another point I only just thought of.
26/06/2010 01:21:49 PM
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In fact, that makes a horrible sort of sense.
26/06/2010 02:12:38 PM
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Didn't the new Daleks travel back to "their own time", which implies time travel.
26/06/2010 03:00:10 PM
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I think I read somewhere that the Dream Lord won't be coming back.
26/06/2010 03:45:01 PM
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