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5x07 Amy's Choice (Grading/Discussion) SPOILERS!!

What do you think about the episode?


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Oh, well why did you say so? If that's all it was, then...

RTD is a talentless hack who never wrote anything worth seeing after his early 90s episodes of Chucklevision. He turned Doctor Who into a soap opera platform for his own agenda, and wouldn't know coherent sci-fi if it clapped him around his smug luvvie face.

Or maybe we all agree on that now Moffat's in charge.
 
Oh, well why did you say so? If that's all it was, then...

RTD is a talentless hack who never wrote anything worth seeing after his early 90s episodes of Chucklevision. He turned Doctor Who into a soap opera platform for his own agenda, and wouldn't know coherent sci-fi if it clapped him around his smug luvvie face.

Or maybe we all agree on that now Moffat's in charge.
You have a random generator for that sort of post by now, right?
 
Oh, well why did you say so? If that's all it was, then...

RTD is a talentless hack who never wrote anything worth seeing after his early 90s episodes of Chucklevision. He turned Doctor Who into a soap opera platform for his own agenda, and wouldn't know coherent sci-fi if it clapped him around his smug luvvie face.

Or maybe we all agree on that now Moffat's in charge.
You have a random generator for that sort of post by now, right?

It's an automated template isn't it?
 
This is one of the first episodes in a long-time that has made me laugh out loud. The bit where Rory says (about the Doctor); "He's Mr. Cool" and then it cuts to the Doctor stumbling awkwardly down the street has had me chuckling since Saturday...

Same here, I loved that. In fact there were so many great lines and moments that just reading the script would probably be a blast. :D
 
Oh, well why did you say so? If that's all it was, then...

RTD is a talentless hack who never wrote anything worth seeing after his early 90s episodes of Chucklevision. He turned Doctor Who into a soap opera platform for his own agenda, and wouldn't know coherent sci-fi if it clapped him around his smug luvvie face.

Or maybe we all agree on that now Moffat's in charge.

Lol. Who watches Doctor Who for "coherent scifi"?? RTD's stories were more often than not fun and exciting and emotional, which are elements the vast majority of genre shows NEVER get right (SGU, anyone?).

Personally I'll take those things over an iron-tight, hardcore scifi plot anyday.
 
Lol. Who watches Doctor Who for "coherent scifi"?? RTD's stories were more often than not fun and exciting and emotional, which are elements the vast majority of genre shows NEVER get right (SGU, anyone?).

Personally I'll take those things over an iron-tight, hardcore scifi plot anyday.
That's a very good point.
 
This is getting quite hilarious now. It is so obviously biting, and biting makes much more sense.

And of course it was a joke, or if not a joke as someone said a punchline. As I recall the scene goes something like this...

"I had to see four psychiatrists..." pause while she looks all shifty. ‘I kept biting them.'

As opposed to...

"I had to see four psychiatrists..." pause while she looks all shifty. ‘I kept fighting them.'

No, the scene went this way:

Steven Moffat said:
THE DOCTOR: You're Amelia!

AMY: You're late.

THE DOCTOR: Amelia Pond -- you're the little girl!

AMY: I'm Amelia, and you're late!

THE DOCTOR: What happened?

AMY: Twelve years.

THE DOCTOR: You hit me with a cricket bat!

AMY: Twelve years!

THE DOCTOR: A cricket bat!

AMY: Twelve years and four psychiatrists!

THE DOCTOR: Four?

AMY: I kept fighting them.

THE DOCTOR: Why?

AMY: .... They said you weren't real.

Seriously which one of those two is less serious and more in tone with a romp for all the family?

"Fighting" -- that is, refusing to acknowledge that the Doctor was not real -- is obviously much less serious an answer and more in tone with a romp for the whole family than a child biting someone. "Fighting" is a word that simply implies a refusal to accept what they tell her to accept; "biting" is an actual act of violence.

Which is more amusing (and the scene was supposed to be light hearted)

"Fighting." The idea of her biting someone is just disturbing.

Hey Sci, remember when I made the point a few months back that you never ever admitted when you were wrong and you (of course) disagreed with me? ;)

Hey Starkers, remember when I told you I didn't care? ;)

Holy fuck. It's so obviously biting it's unreal to believe it's anything else.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rs6t7/b00rs63k/Doctor_Who_Series_5_The_Eleventh_Hour/ it's at 27 minutes

Yes, I saw the same episode you did. I heard "fighting." I saw it again, and I heard "fighting." Then I saw it again, and I heard "fighting. Then I saw it yet again, and I heard "fighting." Then I looked at that scene again after this debate popped up, and I heard "fighting."

Now, I could be mishearing it, but so could you. Until I see a script or hear from Moffat or Gillan, I'm not buying that she said "biting."

It's "biting".

Why on earth has this become an issue?
Because have to have something to argue about.

No we don't! :devil:

For this, however, you win the Internet. ;) :guffaw:
 
What, I don't get a consolation prize for setting up Starkers? :p

On a more serious note, I'll have rewatch the scene, but thought Amy said "fighting" for the same reasons Sci has outlined.
 
Two different subtitles both said "biting." The majority of the people heard "biting." "Biting" fits the tone of the scene. Yes, subtitles can often include typos. But that's not a typo. That's what people actually heard, and it makes sense.

You're wrong. So very, very, very painfully wrong.
 
Biting, she said biting. But could this be taken to another thread, since the line is in 'The Eleventh Hour' and let folks get back to discussing 'Amy's Choice'?

On that topic, could the Doctor be assuming too much guilt and darkness to say the Dreamlord was him? These parasites were accessing his mind through the TARDIS systems, couldn't they also be accessing Rory's and Amy's psyche's as well? The Dreamlord could be better seen as a compilation of all three folks?
 
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