Exactly so. Plus I can’t write dialogue very well.
it depends on 1) how old Rory is and 2) what sort of documentation they manage to scrounge up back in the past. Plus, if anyone is battle-ready, it’s him.
And how is Brian going to react, having told them to go?
"I have to fight Hitler? No problem. Just punch him in the nose once and he’s hiding in a closet, trust me. "
But it’s not like he’s going to get drafted, having no documentation except a birth certificate thirty years in the future. I don’t know what being an undocumented Englishman in NYC during WWII will be (uh, would have to-be-been) like (darn time travel tenses!).
Though, you know, banal evil is still evil. In fact, I have this vague memory that someone remarked on the which side of the banal/non-banal divide most evil falls in our real world.
So the Doctor screams Amy’s name three times as she plunges off the skyscraper, and doesn’t yell for Rory once? (Yes, I know, but still.)
Also, in my opinion the most hide-behind-the-sofa ever moment is now the cherub blowing out the match.
Heh, yes.
Perhaps Rory turned up at British recruiting office, dressed as a centurion.
Actually, if Gyrate wrotes a prose narrative piece of the idea, it’s fanfic. If, however, he writes it as a teleplay, it’s a “spec script,” and can be a legitimate way to break into TV writing. The spec script itself won’t be produced, but it’s a way to develop a portfolio for a hopeful writer.
What’s interesting is that the tombstone with Rory’s name existed from the beginning. Before he supposedly got transported back in time at the Hotel Quay and stayed there the rest of his life, it existed. Which means there were two (or three) simultaneous timelines occurring.
We can timey-wimey this away, I guess, but it’s unsatisfying. There has to be a reason for them both to be simultaneously possible or else we, the viewers, wouldn’t have been allowed to see the gravestone at the beginning.
The show’s tenth anniversary was celebrated with The Three Doctors.
The show’s twentieth anniversary was celebrated with The Five Doctors.
It wasn’t on the air for the thirtieth or fortieth.
However, if the 50th anniversary next year isn’t celebrated with an episode called The Eleven Doctors with all eleven of his incarnations appearing in some way, shape or form I will be mightily disappointed.
All but the first three are still alive and able to do vocal performances. Tom Baker is still recording audio dramas. With a combination of CG, lookalike casting, and careful use of looping there’s no reason that you couldn’t have an anniversary episode that brings all of them together for one giant adventure.
My theory is they might do a series-arc with every episode encountering a single, different Doctor.
It would be simple to operate, and would resolve the issue of having so many big names on screen simultaneously and finding something for them all to do.
I wonder if Brian is still alive - it’s not quite clear how much time has gone between “Power of Three” and “Angels Take Manhattan” - but yeah, telling Brian would be rough…
I have to laugh at the notion of it being “impossible” for the Doctor to ever see them again.
Come on, you’re the Doctor, man. You do more impossible things before breakfast than most people do all day.
Can’t go back to 1938 NYC? Go back to 1939 or later. Hell, wait until they’ve lived in the past a few years and pick them up in the mid 40’s. Or go back to the 20’s and just wait around until they show up. This should be mandatory Timelord Training 101 type stuff to figure out.
Oh, there’s a tombstone? Yeah, well, Doc Brown had a tombstone too. Marty used that as motivation, not resignation. Hell, after you pick them up put a fake tombstone in the cemetery. Not like you actually dug up the grave and saw bodies there.
Frankly, even though it was a pretty good episode, it was a really sloppy way to write them out, makes the Doctor look downright stupid that he can’t figure anything out to work around the whole “can’t go back there again, ever” garbage. Frankly, it would’ve been more satisfying as an ending if Rory and Amy had remained dead after making the paradox by jumping off the roof.
Meh. It was impossible (arguably way, waaaaaaay more impossible) ever to see Rose again, too. Whatever.
I just assumed that when they decided to write a letter to the Doctor in the afterward to the novel they probably thought to write a letter to Brian as well. I’m sure there are a few ways they could use to arrange for the letter to get to him shortly after they left, like Doc Brown’s telegram to Marty in Back to the Future Part 2. Or maybe Brian was so willing to see them off with the Doctor because he had already opened the letter marked “DO NOT OPEN UNTIL . . .” and he knows that they end up having a good, happy and long life together.
Yeah, “Red Dwarf” had an episode that was all about evading what was apparently the inevitable future, by faking out the predictions (Cassandra (Red Dwarf) - Wikipedia)
It seemed to me that only 1938 NY was nearly impossible to TARDIS into–after all, they seem to have gotten into modern-day NY without noticing any particular problems.
I’m a bit curious about that Rolls Royce data plate as well. There was a deliberate choice to show it, so I expect it will turn up again somehow.
Nice ep, even with the weaknesses everyone has been pointing out. Terribly irritating to have only had five episodes and to now have to wait for Christmas.
Well, Karen Gillan is noticeably taller than most women here in 2012. She’s what, 5’10, 5’11? I had noticed that she was the same height as Arthur Darvill and Matt Smith, and I assumed that Matt and Arthur were short, as so many actors are. Then I learned that they’re all close to six feet. Whoa!
Karen is nearly 6 feet tall, without heels. Yeah, I know :eek: Matt is a few inches taller than that though
The terrible, multi-color “hunchback” design of the new Daleks was partly done to raise the hight of the Daleks so that their eyestalks would be at eye-level with Karen, just as the previous bronze design had placed the eyestalk at Billie Piper’s eye-level. I suspect the unfortunate hunchback hump was intended to balance the greater hight with increased girth, while maintaining the same size and shape for the dome.
The ending was clever. The Doctor had won again thanks to Rory’s plan. They are at the Tardis ready to fly off on the next adventure. Just like they’ve done hundreds of times.
Then Blam!!! Rory is gone.
Talk about a kick in the stomach. Took my breath away for a second.
Then we lose Amy.
I can’t be the only person whose thought upon seeing that was “I am a leaf on the wind… watch how I soar.”
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