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6.5X012 Closing Time (Grading/Discussion) (SPOILERS!)
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That can't be a pre-"Impossible Astronaut" Amy and Rory, as Rory had never heard the word "petrichor" in "The Doctor's Wife," which was the name of Amy's perfume here.
I mean, he can be dense, but hopefully not that dense.
Like Allyn, I suspect the episode is set in 2013 or so, the Doctor having dropped Amy and Rory off in late 2011 in "The God Complex."
I mean, he can be dense, but hopefully not that dense.
Like Allyn, I suspect the episode is set in 2013 or so, the Doctor having dropped Amy and Rory off in late 2011 in "The God Complex."
Checkmate
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Yes, the mysterious figure who slipped the unmarked envelope under the door and darted away.
Petrichor: The scent of rain on dry earth.
The Doctor's Wife: The episode in which Amy learns the meaning of the word from Idris.
Closing Time: An episode in which Amy is the face of a perfume called Petrichor.
The Impossible Astronaut: An episode which in Amy and Rory's timeline clearly precedes the other two.
(Edit: Steve got there before me.)
The Doctor's Wife: The episode in which Amy learns the meaning of the word from Idris.
Closing Time: An episode in which Amy is the face of a perfume called Petrichor.
The Impossible Astronaut: An episode which in Amy and Rory's timeline clearly precedes the other two.
(Edit: Steve got there before me.)
The newspaper is dated April 19, 2011.
Except that can't possibly make any sense, because then there would be two Amys and two Rorys living on Earth in early 2011. And given that the older Amy knows when the Doctor dies, wouldn't she try and stop it from happening?
Exactly. He has also previously referred to days and weeks as units of time from his own perspective, eg in the Big Bang rewind when he sees Amy delivering the note to set up the events in the Lodger. Closing Time also indicates that the Doctor has a limited amount of time, which he uses to tidy up Craig's place.
Aw, cr@p.
Exactly my feelings about it. We know the Doctor isn't going to die. It's the one thing we do know, so any kind of tension about what's going to happen is a non-starter. No matter how good the build-up, and some of it has been very good, the denouement has already been completely undermined because it started with a lie.
Er, yeah, but that's my point as well - that if it is literally tomorrow, there must be two of them, or else it's a goof in the episode (which I think it is)
Hah! I was right - either there are two of them, or, more likely, it's a big fucking goof!
Not only should Amy and Rory not be there, but she's the face of Petrichor before she ever heard of the word (in The Doctor's Wife...) And the days don't line up either- the 19th was a Tuesday, but the following day is Sunday, and the Doctor died of Saturday the 22nd - which was actually a Friday...
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Thats pretty much a given. What I'm dying to find out is how the hell he manages to dodge the bullet.
Have you ever seen Remo Unarmed and Dangerous?
Ah, the Doctor as a master of Sinanju...
Have you ever read the books? They would be right up your street - think of the odd couple but via a racist lens and where one of the 'couple' is homicidal and will kill anyone who gets between him and his 'beautiful dramas' (daytime soap operas).
Oh and Remo breaking a killer cock-ring simply by flexing his penis.
It was very much an RTD show, wasn't it? With the focus on family life and relationships, the power of emotions, a quick and unsatisfying conclusion and explosions. I loved it.
Matt Smith was fantastic and I think he works very well with Corden. Actually I think Corden seems to have quite an easy rapport with pretty much any other actor, which is a great gift.
Matt Smith was fantastic and I think he works very well with Corden. Actually I think Corden seems to have quite an easy rapport with pretty much any other actor, which is a great gift.
I think the fact that Canton said that should be important. I don't like when writers acknowledge an obvious thought and then lie to our faces to hide it. They could deflect it or ignore it, but to distract us, they shouldn't directly lie. While I feel they need some way around this, I think that needs to be the Doctor.
While I believe they'll explain it (guess based on the trailer), I wonder if a causality thing. What if they don't like that the Doctor has essentially made them hunted, so they want their revenge.
I saw it. Could be anything, but it's there.
And Rory's hospital ID badge was dated 1990, because the person printing it made a mistake.
Unless Amy was a successful model/entrepreneur between 'A Christmas Carol' and 'The Impossible Astronaut' and just forgot to mention it, 'Closing Time' takes place a year or two after the end of 'The God Complex' from her POV.
The Doctor's a time traveller. His own personal tomorrow could be a thousand years from now or a million years ago.
When was the episode filmed? The only reason for it to be a production error that I can think of would be to have the date of the newspaper right around the date of filming.
We're talking about something that can't even be seen on TV unless you pause the episode and probably not even then if you're not watching the HD version.
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