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!
For this, however, you win the Internet.
