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

[supergreak.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of bizarre similarities. The space whale, this episode as a whole, and also River's line "There's a thing in that ship that can't ever die" and I expect to see Jack jump out and glomp the doctor. But noooooo, it's a weeping angel. Unless they're deliberately drawing up Doctor/Jack similarities in prep for bringing him back on the show(unlikely, but would be nice), it's just really sloppy writing.

In fact, there's been quite a bit of sloppy writing this season.

Another question I had-if at any point the Doctor wanted to check if the Zombieland world was real, he could, I dunno, call UNIT or Torchwood or any other bloody acronym agency and have backup stat.

[supergreak.livejournal.com]

Oh, and reading the other comments, I had a thought! the Doctor's significant look when he says "time can be rewritten" made me think of all kinds of possibilities. Throw the 456 into the crack in the wall, and there you go! Ianto Jones.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Maybe?! We'll see if there's any method to the madness. Maybe not, but it would be excellent to have an arc.

I thought the same thing about "can't ever die". Figures!