In The Curse of Fenric it is also revealed that the thing in which The Doctor puts his faith are his companions. He recites a list of their names for protection against the vampires.
I also thought it was pretty clear that young Amy was in actual Amy’s room. The angels were there for the cowardly alien and we latter see both Amy and Doctor take a peek at their rooms, with only the contents of Amy’s room being revealed latter.
It’s a different house or at least a different door.
You got the over-arching themes of prejudice, discrimination, questioning social stereotypes, the basis of proper relationships, etc, though? You at least got that far, right?
Ftr, this was a properly smart piece of work.
His race set themselves up to be worshipped as gods on planets, which works well enough until the people get all secular on them and then put them in prisons … prisons in space that do not need wardens, but not being cruel they want to let him eat, so the prison was set up to bring him meals, people with belief systems.
Why it looks like a hotel from 80’s earth? Never explained.
not being cruel they harvest other sentient life forms to feed him. Yh not cruel at all!
As addressed above, “saving the baby” became moot once they realized that the baby grows up to become River Song, who they’d all previously met and had numerous interactions with. Those are fixed points in time now - a time-traveller can’t take an action that changes their own past, or else screaming flying space monkeys show up to eat the universe (as per “Father’s Day”). Therefore “saving baby Melody” would be impossible because it would cause River to have never existed and therefore severely alter Amy’s and Rory’s entire lives (since it was their daughter, in the form of Mels, who was their best friend in school and convinced them to become a couple) and a good chunk of the Doctor’s recent experiences as well.
I think so - I will need to check
About the only thing that you can tell for sure (I tried to see a couple times) is that Young Amelia’s room doesn’t have a “Do Not Disturb” sign on it. Can’t even make out the room number. Can’t even tell that there are numbers - looks like a blank gold plate to me.
-Joe
Maybe their definition of “sentient” specifically excluded “people with belief systems”.
I know I feel like that sometimes.
Boom! Pot shot at religion in a thread that has nothing to do with it. Take that all you religious people!
It was first introduced in Baker’s last ever story, so not quite all the time. 
:rolleyes:
Can ya keep this crap out of the thread?
I had frame by framed it. I think it was very intentionally made so it was unclear. Quick cut to the door being thrown open and number not able to be seen.
If anything I thought this episode showed some respect for religious faith in their treatment of Rita.
Yes, the arranging for the feeding of their former god by capturing wandering sentients with strong belief systems, as being “not cruel” was with irony noted. It may be that the writers were indeed meaning to take a pot shot at the smugness of some militant atheists … I dunno. But that was the explanation as given. Once they threw off belief in their (false) god they imprisoned him, but would not kill him … instead they set it up for others, others who have belief, to be sacrificed to the false god they discarded. Go figure.
The Doctor explains that the prison is beginning to fail, and so it’s stuck in a setting (80’s Hotel) appropriate for some other sentient being’s (probably human’s) fear (hah - like the Tardis stuck as a police box!). I guess when it was working, the prison would completely reconfigure for each ‘guest’ - now it manages to create rooms that terrorize, but old rooms (like the evil gym teacher room) stick around, as does the hotel setting, instead of being purged.
Not appropriate in this forum. Don’t to it again.
No warning issued.
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Maybe it’s as simple as the people who built the prison said "It will feed him - but not with us."
Slight hijack, but lately on BBC America I’ve been seeing advertisements for Doctor Who toys, Dalek robots, and so on from Underground Toys.
In the UK did they make toys, action figures, and what-have-you, during the first run of the series (1963 - 1989)?
Big list here.
Holy crap. I don’t know how much of that was available here in America, but back in the day I would have owned so much of that stuff. I was really hooked. I mean, I still am now, but dang!
Anyway, we now return you to your regularly scheduled thread. 
Was it a prison? Or was it something their species built to let them go out and feed among the stars when belief on their own worlds ran out, but eventually what was a feeding ship became a prison in time becaue he no longer wanted to be there?
-Joe