Doctor Who Déja Vu

[51stcenturyfox]

...and we thought the space whale reminded us of Torchwood?

If you saw the Simon Nye-penned story Amy's Choice, you might have been reminded of a certain scene in End of Days (note: spoilery).

I mean, down to a coincidink premise and nearly identical dialogue (!) 


Doctor Who: Amy's Choice. Rory, Amy's boyfriend, is lying dead in the nursery, killed by a creepy old woman who is actually not what she seems (Mrs Poggett.) 

AMY: Save him. You save everybody, you always do. It's what you do.

DOCTOR: No. Not always.  I'm sorry.

AMY:  Then what is the point of you?

(moments pass)

AMY: This is the dream. Definitely this one. If we die here we wake up, yeah?

DOCTOR: Unless we just die.

AMY: Either way, this is my only chance to see him again...  if this is real, I don't want it. Don't want it.

 
Torchwood: End of Days (Series One final ep). Rhys, Gwen's boyfriend, is lying dead in the morgue, killed by a creepy old man who is actually not what he seems. (Bilis Manger)

GWEN: You bring him back.

JACK: No.

GWEN: The resurrection gauntlet ...

IANTO: Was destroyed.

GWEN: Something else.

JACK: I said no.

GWEN: No, there's something wrong with time, so we, we can go back to the moment,
to the very moment ...

JACK: Gwen ...

GWEN: There's something you can do, otherwise WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT OF YOU?!

GWEN: You, you bring him back! Bring him back! You bring him back! Do you
understand me, Jack-fucking-Harkness?

JACK: Gwen, I'm sorry.

(a few moments later)

GWEN: Bilis was right, he said open the rift and everything goes back to normal.
Owen's right. I'm going to get Rhys back.


*and she does go with the others to open the Rift, and Rhys is safe. And Rory was safe in the "other dream". (Did you really think he wouldn't be?) 

Dude.


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Comments

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

I wish Amy and Rory had chemistry. I love her to death. But I just- couldn't seem to care.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Aww. I sort of ship them as a triangle, with massive piles of Amy/Doctor UST.

Which is also familiar... :)

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

I think Rory is very...nice? But he's got nothing to recommend him other than that, you know? He just sort of IS. He's the stand in nice guy for every one of a male writers fantasies of what they think women want. Er, IMO obvs.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one thing was really weird to me, in that Rory seems pretty sure that he's second-best after the Doctor, yet he and Amy were getting married the next day.

So it sort of feels like a "we grew up together and are friends and really didn't date anyone else, and the Doctor is this omnipresent I-thought-he-was-imaginary figure from Amy's childhood and"... it's just a relationship that felt very one-sided until the scene above.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

It still felt one sided to me. Like she felt guilty more than in love. I JUST WANT CHEMISTRY DAMNIT.

I mean, Gwen totally obviously has the hots for Jack. But she also very obviously loves Rhys. Amy/Rory I am not sold on. I'd like to be, cause I think Amy is fucking awesome and I want her to be happy. But. Nope.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I can buy that she was going to marry Rory because he was there. And because he loved her, rolled with her quirks and she knew him to be a good,kind person... and then didn't realize how much she did care for him until he was gone.

Not feeling a ton of chemistry, though, no.