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

[mimarie.livejournal.com]

Heh, got halfway down the comments thinking 'omg, was that just me? That *was* TW incidental music, wasn't it?' Phew. Not mad - and the dialogue...

And I may have missed someone else noting this, but how about Rory's surname. Williams, wasn't it...?

I miss Torchwood

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I do believe you're right. Rhys. Rory.

Maybe they're cousins. :D

WEIRD.

I mean, I know RTD recycles names like nobody's business, but...

[mimarie.livejournal.com]

Ah, but this is all a part of the Moff's cunning inter-dimensional story arc. The crack that's following them is actually an unconnected tendril of rift, a result of... some Torchwood event or other that I can't think of on the spur of the moment, and that will eventually explain Amy's lack of knowledge about Daleks, planets in the sky, etc. (Rory and Rhys's shared lineage will reconnect in order to draw the sundered universe back into alignment, thus permitting Gwen and Amy to recombine into their original sexier-than-thou form, an event of such magnitude that it triggers Jack's return from his period of mourning (with Alonso in tow), just in time to tie together the madly waving strands into a lucrative multi-channel deal.)

Or something, anyway.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

And some Gwen/Amy femslash, while they're dressed as cops.

It could happen, OK?

[supergreak.livejournal.com]

And he looks like Rhys' skinnier cousin, too! Kinda sorta.

If it were set 20 years later, I'd say Amy was Gwen's baby. You know, her parents did die when she was young! But they were Scottish, not Welsh. Though that could all be a very elaborate cover story, and the Scottish accent is explained by...
um...
TORCHWOOD TWO! The crazy dude in Glasgow babysat her, so she picked up the accent.
So Amy fell through the Rift as a five-year-old. ;)
Everything can be explained by Torchwood.