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

[auctorial.livejournal.com]

Aha, yes! My thought exactly. At the end of that episode - I think the reason I like Amy so much is she reminds me a lot of Gwen. Personality-wise, and they have a lot of the same reactions. For example, the Doctor/Jack returning and expecting to be greeted with open arms. Or the fact that they follow the Doctor and Jack because, despite everything, and knowing they're not infallible, they have faith in them. And then their situations are similar - they're both thrust into this new scary alien world where they have to fend for themselves (I feel like Amy gets separated and has to figure things out for herself much more than the other companions, especially right off the bat). Not to mention choosing between Jack/Rhys and the Doctor/Rory.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Yes!

(I feel like Amy gets separated and has to figure things out for herself much more than the other companions, especially right off the bat). Not to mention choosing between Jack/Rhys and the Doctor/Rory.

Oh yes, this. Definitely.

Amy kissed the Doctor and Gwen kissed Jack (different circumstances).

I could completely see Amy's Choice as a Torchwood episode, with Gwen in an alternate timeline where she's pregnant five years later *cough* -- turns out she is at the end of S3 anyway -- versus in a world where she and the team are fighting the alien threat and Jack is there but Rhys isn't, if End of Days had "stuck".