"The Doctor: This is how it all ends. Pond flirting with herself. True love at last. Oh, sorry Rory.
Rory: Absolutely no problem at all…"
Greatest moment in the history of moments.
I actually may want to take my last post back. I actually stopped to think about it randomly one day, and I realized there is a way for it to work without destroying cause and effect.
You see, Amy goes back the “first” time without a clue what happened, but they discuss it and figure it out. She had plenty of time to figure it out (as she wouldn’t have flirted with herself). Her wording keeps changing until they settle into a pattern that would be the same both times. So there is a cause, it just happens in a timeline that no longer exists.
The same thing works with the Rory and Amy group. But the Doctor is problematic, as he didn’t wait long enough to know if he chose the right lever. But perhaps he could have the “first” time, going back again after the lever failed but before they died.
It was basically the Reduced Shakespeare Company version of “By His Bootstraps”.
…gearing up for the new season, Doctor Who have released a “prequel” to the first episode…
Is that supposed to be Nixon?
looking forward to the new season.
Hrmm. Creepy. I have to admit, I’m a little concerned about the fact that they’re trying to gear this next series to a more American audience. Hopefully they don’t mess with a proven winner too much.
Well, the first two episodes (a two-parter) is set in the US, but I don’t think that means anything. They’ve set episodes in plenty of times and locations; I don’t think America cropping up in a couple of episodes is a change to the formula.
Frankly, they needed to branch out. Every story featuring our time was in either London or Cardiff.
So long as they hire actors who can pull of an American accent. I still have nightmares about “Daleks in Manhattan.”
Hey, we have abandoned mines in America too!
You guys haven’t paid off your accent debt from Costner’s Robin Hood yet. We still owe you years of bad American accents to make up for that one.
True, just in sheer numbers of botched accents, Hollywood should be brought in front of a world court for crimes against humanity.
I wonder if the mini episodes were before Amy/Rory married?
The joke about the glass floor and the skirt doesn’t work if they are married.
Once you plow a field a few times it’s not quite as distracting. 
Another odd thing. It seemed like the doctor was equally distracted by Amy. Almost nervous around her. That’s unusual. The Doctor seems immune to female beauty. At least earth females. There’s no telling what alien species lights his fire.
I imagine even a 700-year-old Timelord finds it distracting trying to work when a skirt-wearing human is standing over them, nattering away.
…,and you should see some of our gravel quarries!
It’s not just because they’ve got a US president involved - I’ve read that they’ve made a deliberate effort with this series to appeal more to American sensibilities, which scares me a little. This includes things like having a president as a character and filming in the US, but I think scripts were also written with that in mind.
The thing about Costner is that he didn’t even *try *an English accent - and that somehow makes it better. Speaking with the wrong accent is still better than speaking with an accent abhorent in the eyes of God and man.
…the question you have to ask yourself after a few years of Moffat stories and one year as show runner: do you really think he’s going to compromise the show he’s been entrusted with? Moffat LOVES Doctor Who. He tells the stories he wants to tell. The last season of Doctor Who was my favourite of all time. Neil Gaiman is writing a story this year for goodness sakes.
If you don’t trust Moffat, then your fears might have some standing, but I really really wouldn’t worry about it. And I love the big push into the US: the more people that see the Doctor the better.
Since the punchline is ‘my skirt, my husband, your glass floor’, it doesn’t work if they’re NOT.
(And a) I can’t imagine getting to the point in a relationship that getting a surprise look at my partner’s undercarriage wouldn’t distract me, and b) I find the idea that Rory and Amy haven’t been going at it like bunnies for a long time kind of amusing, given how forward she was with the Doctor.)
…ohh, and because this thread seems to be turning into a “catch all” Doctor Who thread, I just finished watching these two really cool Doctor Who fan made opening credits, done “buffy” style.