THAT works. Thanks.
Next big question…who leaves those particular footprints?
-Joe
Ok. Watched it again. The Doctor mentions “psychic residue” in the house. So the Romans and all are created out of whatever information they were able to gather from this psychic residue. I like that better than someone was directly reading Amy’s mind.
Also, River tells the Doctor she learned how to pilot the Tardis from him.
Well, Rory remembered dying with Amy and the Doctor, plus he recognized the ring he hadn’t yet shown to Amy. He can’t be Amy’s physic residue, or even his own from having spent time in Amy’s room. Whatever is in the crack had to be able to scan Rory’s memories and put them in plastic Rory.
As far as pulling the Roman story out of Amy’s psychic poo, that makes sense because they had to create a setting the Doctor would fall for, and a normal setting with normal nurse Rory wouldn’t have fooled the Doctor.
The tracks seem vaguely reminiscent of a Dalek shuttle’s footprint.
Although there seemed to be more detail to the markings in the episode, but that could be due to higher special effects quality.
The spacing seems to be about right anyway.
Nah, I don’t see why they would bother. Really, what’s the point of having a fake Rory as part of the whole thing? From the perspective of a trap, having Rory there doesn’t add anything.
Physical Rory is there because of the picture in Amy’s room. Rory being something other than a Rory-shaped Auton is something special. Obviously some kind of unintended consequence of all of this.
-Joe
Oddly enough, this is rumored to be the title of the 2010 Christmas special. Coincidence?
Does anyone else think there’s a possibility that the real “Prisoner Zero” is actually the Doctor, having escaped from the Pandorica? The Atraxi would also not be able to recognize him by his appearance because he can regenerate.
Which would show that basically everything was planned out, as they weren’t able to identify that episode’s villain because he could change his appearance.
The Doctor scared them off from Earth - it’s possible they DID know who he was (Prisoner Zero), but they STILL ran off.
I can’t remember, how did that episode end? What happened to Prisoner Zero?
-Joe
Oh - when I say it no-one notices.
But when Electric Warrior says it… 
The episode ended with prisoner zero being kind of “beamed” up by the Atraxi and sort of fading into nothing. Its real form of a flying fish thing was revealed.
I don’t know what to think on that actually. The idea of the crack and prisoner zero being linked makes a lot more sense if that person is the Doctor, but then the storyline of Eleventh Hour makes far less sense if it’s the Doctor. If the thing they try and track down and eventually turn over to the Atraxi isn’t prisoner zero, then why do they leave when they catch it? They didn’t show the least bit of interest in the Doctor until he called them and told them to come back.
Aah, sorry! I just skimmed quickly over the thread to see if anyone’d mentioned it and somehow I totally missed that. Fail on my part.
Yeah that is a good point. I guess I wonder how much the Atraxi really know exactly what they’re looking for.
Well, I’m thinking that’s going to be the big reveal…but if that’s the case, what was the ‘fake’ Prisoner Zero? Bad guy in the wrong place at the wrong time?
-Joe
I just went back over an episode summary of “The Eleventh Hour” and was reminded that the shapeshifter was the one that originally said “the Pandorica will open, silence will fall”. Which is the voice in the TARDIS. I think, significant. Definitely not just wrong place/wrong time.
…on the eve of the finale, I’ll quote my theory that I cross-posted over here:
Well, my expectations aren’t quite as high as some. I don’t expect every paradox to be resolved and I don’t need every question answered. I do want the resolution to be more satisfying then “Mmmm, that button there,” and I’m confident it will be.
So essentially, they’re inverting the theme behind Ecclestone’s year?
So essentially, they’re inverting the theme behind Ecclestone’s year?
Completely off the subject of tomorrow evening’s episode. Has anybody seen the hitchhikers guide to the daleks?
Steven Moffat reveals content of final episode![spoiler]“Well, there’s going to be some light music and a short note of apology saying, ‘The universe ended last week, we’re really sorry, we don’t know what you’re doing here, didn’t you get the message?’”
Ahaha, I debated whether to open that spoiler box and when I did I smiled. Ooh that interview is very good to hear though. Some of my favorite speculation I’ve been hearing lately involves clues that are strung through at least a few other episodes, which I think would be awesome. I’d hate to have a cop-out “It’s all a dream” type ending…
I’ve no knowledge of the last episode, apart from some leaked images which have no function other than to make the anticipation worse, but I think the resolution of the plot has been played out in front of our eyes already.
Just as an aside really, but I can hardly wait until checks watch later today. This combo of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan (and Arthur Darvill and Caitlin Blackwood!) is really pretty fucking great.
Smith especially - my OP in this thread loved him as the Doctor from the start - the best revival Doctor, the most convincingly alien one of them. As it turns out, Matt Smith is just playing himself. I recognise that I’m not able to objectively judge Karen Gillan, but the scene where she is sitting in Vincent’s garden, surrounded by sunflowers is such a vision of loveliness that I can barely speak. Heart-stopping.
So I think the best post-revival Who stories have been Father’s Day, The Empty Child, The Girl in the Fireplace, Human Nature, Blink, Midnight, Turn Left, The Eleventh Hour, Amy’s Choice and Vincent and the Doctor. With an honourable runner up medal to School Reunion and Love and Monsters.