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...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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Date: 2010-05-16 03:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com
Thank you!! That line has been bugging me all night. I knew it was lifted almost exactly from something Who, but just couldn't place it. It's been doing my head in all night. I can sleep easy now.

Also, wasn't Rory's line "I'm not ready to go yet" a little familiar?

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Date: 2010-05-16 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com
"No, I'm not ready." Yeaaaah. It really got into youth and age and death and stuff.

But man. If that had been an RTD episode, I'd wonder why he was ripping himself off. :D

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