And yes it’s quite entertaining to see the Doctor has to change the light on top of the T.A.R.D.I.S., but what does that mean for the Chameleon Circuit? Say if it was working (fully), and you landed in ancient Greece where and when it would disguise itself as statue. What becomes of the light then?
Presumably then the light stops existing and wouldn't need changing. I guess this means that the only reason the Doctor even does need to change the TARDIS's lightbulb is because she always stays in her police box form, and therefore the lightbulb exists for a long enough period of time that it occasionally needs changing. xD
And the bedroom scene. Did the Doctor plan that? Was he bored and decided he’d go scare the sh*t out of Amy and Rory by implying there was a possibly fatal event in the near future, ’cause Rory made it sound like it’d happened before.
The Doctor accidentally popping up in the wrong order in an awkward location is something that I have no doubt has happened before and is probably what Rory meant. I don't think the Doctor would ever have done it deliberately, though, because he wouldn't want to unnecessarily worry his best friends like that.
(Besides, what he does when he's "bored" is leave them answerphone messages detailing his recent wacky hijinks, clearly. x3)
(And when I say "bored", I mean "lonely", because he doesn't get bored; he has all of time and space to occupy him.)
I was sort of angry when Rory and Amy realized the Doctor didn’t need his nanogene wristband, but didn’t give it to Amy earlier, but then I started wondering if he knew that would get them back together all along. He does claim to be able to see all of time and space, though it seems like he’d have made some better choices at times if that were true. Maybe he just has occasional moments of clarity concerning the whole of time and space?
I don't think the Doctor can see all of time and space - at least, not in that much detail (it's the TARDIS who can do that). I think he'd simply realised that Amy and Rory were more likely to talk about and get to the bottom of their problems if they believed Amy to be in danger. If they'd known Amy had his wristband and was safe, then they'd probably have just sat in the teleporter room in hostile silence the whole time and never got anywhere.
I'm personally not that sure the Doctor does ever ask himself that. I don't imagine he's at all proud of the fact that his name is apparently so incredibly dangerous for whatever reason, so I can't see him being smug about the fact that only he knows the answer to the Question.I imagine he does ask himself from time to time:
“Alone on his planet, Answerer sat, waiting for the Questioners. Occasionally he mumbled the answers to himself. This was his privilege. He knew.”
- ‘Ask a Foolish Question’, Science Fiction Stories 1953, Robert Sheckley
I'm really interested about how the new companion is actually going to join the doctor. [...] so the only plausible explanation I can think of is maybe that the doctor wiped her memory before she boarded ALASKA.
That explanation had crossed my mind as well. It could potentially work. It would suck for the Doctor, though, knowing the whole time he was with her exactly what her fate would be but being unable to tell her because spoilers. It'd be kind of like his relationship with River in that sense, with a little bit of Donna thrown in, too - which is why, although this is plausible, I don't think it's that likely to actually be the case. I expect Steven Moffat has come up with something new that isn't so similar to some of the Doctor's relationships with previous companions.
So! Dinosaurs on a Spaceship! There is various not-too-spoilery previewy stuff available, such as Karen and Arthur discussing it and a whole bunch of images. Then there's a preview clip, which I've just watched and am still kind of giggling at.
Bahaha, Doctor. What is it with him and being irresistible to Egyptian royalty? xP I guess this is why Nefertiti ends up coming along on this adventure; she insists on joining him. Well, her contribution to this episode should definitely be amusing.
Rory's dad, Brian, should also be a lot of fun. According to Karen and Arthur in that interview, he really loves Amy but isn't quite as fond of his own son. Heh. Seeing the dynamics between Rory and his dad will be great, especially as Brian will no doubt get to see how badass his son can be in between being an adorable normal guy. Then the Radio Times also indicates that Brian protests that he is not a Pond - because of course the Doctor would consider him to be a Pond. Hee. The interaction between Brian and the Doctor is also likely to be pretty entertaining. (It is really weird to think that, technically, the Doctor is Brian's grandson-in-law.)
All in all, it's clear - especially from a whole bunch of those images - that this episode is going to be so much crazy fun. In a way, this episode is the one I'm least excited for in this half-series because it seems the least deep and charactery and rambleworthy, but that doesn't mean I'm not still excited for it in a totally different way because of how mad it's going to be. The Doctor in particular will undoubtedly take such gleeful delight in all of this craziness (I'm particularly fond of that one image of him making friends with the Triceratops x3) and aaaaa this is going to be so, so entertaining.
And. While this is probably the least character-arc-related episode of this half-series, there should still at least be a small amount of it. The talk halfway through this American trailer about how Amy is thinking of stopping travelling might be in this episode (his bow tie is at least the right colour for it). What definitely is in this episode is the shot of Amy and Rory looking out of the TARDIS doors while behind them, the Doctor, rather than enjoying the view with them, is looking at them as if he's wondering if they should really be here. D: And generally I'm still not entirely sure what the Doctor's inclusion in their life has been like since the end of Asylum; I mentioned this a bit in my ramble for that episode, but yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing how that's developed. It seems the most likely thing is that he has just gone back to occasionally popping in and inviting them on adventures, which is why they're here in this episode, but it could be something slightly different. We'll see.
Rory's dad, Brian, should also be a lot of fun. According to Karen and Arthur in that interview, he really loves Amy but isn't quite as fond of his own son. Heh. Seeing the dynamics between Rory and his dad will be great, especially as Brian will no doubt get to see how badass his son can be in between being an adorable normal guy. Then the Radio Times also indicates that Brian protests that he is not a Pond - because of course the Doctor would consider him to be a Pond. Hee. The interaction between Brian and the Doctor is also likely to be pretty entertaining. (It is really weird to think that, technically, the Doctor is Brian's grandson-in-law.)
All in all, it's clear - especially from a whole bunch of those images - that this episode is going to be so much crazy fun. In a way, this episode is the one I'm least excited for in this half-series because it seems the least deep and charactery and rambleworthy, but that doesn't mean I'm not still excited for it in a totally different way because of how mad it's going to be. The Doctor in particular will undoubtedly take such gleeful delight in all of this craziness (I'm particularly fond of that one image of him making friends with the Triceratops x3) and aaaaa this is going to be so, so entertaining.
And. While this is probably the least character-arc-related episode of this half-series, there should still at least be a small amount of it. The talk halfway through this American trailer about how Amy is thinking of stopping travelling might be in this episode (his bow tie is at least the right colour for it). What definitely is in this episode is the shot of Amy and Rory looking out of the TARDIS doors while behind them, the Doctor, rather than enjoying the view with them, is looking at them as if he's wondering if they should really be here. D: And generally I'm still not entirely sure what the Doctor's inclusion in their life has been like since the end of Asylum; I mentioned this a bit in my ramble for that episode, but yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing how that's developed. It seems the most likely thing is that he has just gone back to occasionally popping in and inviting them on adventures, which is why they're here in this episode, but it could be something slightly different. We'll see.
...oh, and apparently there's more preview clips on the way, one on Thursday and another on Friday. Oh, official site, Pond Life really got you into the habit of stringing these pre-episode tidbits out, didn't it? Then again, I don't really mind, as it gives me a little something to look forward to each day
-elyvorg/Amelia