I’ve been reading too many parenting books. That should’ve been Mr. Spock. Not Dr. Spock. :smack:
Glad others found this episode creepy. We watched it again this morning, and I still found it incredibly creepy.
Response to Wolfman’s spoiler/speculation:
If Nancy is really Jamie’s mother, then at the end when Jamie was approaching her, why would she refer to herself as his sister? Especially since she was alone in the room with him - no one else there. Wouldn’t she just refer to herself as his mother instead of his sister?
I was pegging the actress for being fifteen or sixteen - turns out she’s really 22, according to the IMDB.
response to [bold]Eliza B’s [/bold]response about my speculation.
[spoiler] That was one of the things to make me think it was foreshadowed. The kid is looking for his mommy. And we’re dealing with 1940’s culture and everythings in flux. Suppose Nancy gets pregnant unmarried. She has the kid and panics, and with all the turmoil she just says they are bother and sister and never even tells him or anyone else she is the mom. So the poor kid never even knew his mom, and it mixed with the sci/fi alien voodoo so he turns into a mom-searching zombie centered on her.
Plus the (other) Doctor told the Doctor(Who) that Nancy knew more than she said and had the answer to the problem. Add in that she was so motherly to all the other urchins, while directly running away from the zombie kid, it just seems to me that it’s a pretty clasic abandonment/denial to acceptance/redemption storyline. [/spoiler]
I would just like to say that I had the exact same thought as Wolfman, which is why I mentally bounced around so much about Nancy’s age.
I’ll be awfully disappointed if I’m right, though… it’s just more fodder for my damn overactive brain (I figure out just about every supposed twist, and it’s annoying).
Considering how some threads have gone in times past, I’m just glad you took it as the light hearted teasing that it was.
UK Dopers, are we USAers missing anything (that you can tell) in the transition from BBC to Sci-Fi Channel? We get an hour of the show at a time, mixed in with commercials of course, so not a whole hour of show. What do you guys get? (I know you’re a year ahead of us.)
Wolfman - the other doctor’s name is Dr Constantine. (It stuck in my head as I’m a fan of Hellblazer and Sandman, AND I roleplay a character named Professor Constantine, so…)
We get 45mins (without adverts), which seems to be what an hour long american show would be without advert breaks. I do remember 24, broadcast on the BBC was about that length.
Oh, come on, you were just hoping I’d fly off the handle and go start a Pit thread.
As far as the length of the show, does it seem like we in the US get an overabundance of commercials? I could barely get up for a bathroom break before the commercial was over and the show was started, but then it seemed like we got less than 5-7 minutes of show before another commercial started.
Ah, the joys of nationally-syndicated television channels. Plus, of course, getting Doctor Who about six months earlier than you fellows (I just finished watching the whole series through on DVD- again).
Oh well, at least we are getting them.
Is it at all weird that Trek was referenced as much as it was for this episode. I don’t remember the Tom Baker Doctor making topical TV connections.
Lack of a cite isn’t proof of a negative, tho. So if you can find one, I would be most intrigued.
I’m so glad Rose is a major babe. I had missed Peri and her amazing technicolour bikini.
That was due to the influence of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, who first appeared in the 2nd Doctor’s reign. The stories featuring him and UNIT were nominally set in the “near future” (i.e. present plus 10-20 years) in order to reference events that would have to be public knowledge but obviously hadn’t happened in real life (manned expedition to Mars, etc.) So by extension Sarah Jane was part of this parallel history. IIRC, Sarah Jane was in fact the last companion from the UNIT near-future timeline: his companions from Earth since have all been from “today”.
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