Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility where time moves faster than in reality, while the Doctor is confined to the TARDIS. Can Rory save his wife in time?Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility where time moves faster than in reality, while the Doctor is confined to the TARDIS. Can Rory save his wife in time?Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility where time moves faster than in reality, while the Doctor is confined to the TARDIS. Can Rory save his wife in time?
- Interface
- (voice)
- Handbot
- (uncredited)
- Handbot
- (uncredited)
- Handbot
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Tom MacRae
- Steven Moffat
- Sydney Newman(uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOriginally an older actress was going to play Older Amy, but Karen Gillan insisted on playing Older Amy with the aid of prosthetics and it was decided Karen Gillan playing both characters would be more believable. Gillan developed different body-language, vocal range and attitude for the new individual, whose character has changed after being left behind and in danger. To achieve this, Gillan studied with a voice coach and movement coach. Gillan also wore a padding which affected her movement and she spent hours in makeup.
- GoofsWhen Rory hits the handbot over the head with the Mona Lisa it tears like canvas. This is obviously a fake because the Mona Lisa is painted on wood, a white Lombardy poplar panel.
- Quotes
Old Amy Pond: All those boys chasing me, but it was only ever Rory. Why was that?
Amy Pond: You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful, and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later, they're as dull as a brick. Then there's other people and you meet them and you think, "Not bad, they're okay." And then you get to know them and... and they're face just sort of... becomes them, like their personality is written all over it. And they just... they turn into something so beautiful.
Old Amy Pond: [Together] Rory's the most beautiful man I've ever met.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Being a Girl (2013)
- SoundtracksDoctor Who Theme
(uncredited)
Written by Ron Grainer
Arranged by Murray Gold
Performed by BBC National Orchestra of Wales
I don't think it is a really top level episode but it is a good episode.
One negative for my taste is that the situation they find themselves in feels a bit unconvincing to me: The Doctor takes them to a leisure resort only to blunder into a quarantine situation and lets them get separated in a way I found a bit jarringly careless.
This leisure resort the Doctor rates so highly is a rubbish organisation. No warnings are given to prevent people getting trapped in quarantine. People in quarantine are left to wander around back rooms which look like empty factory units. Dangerous robots maraud about with no way of people controlling them. The setting looks a little unimpressive and unconvincing as well.
This isn't a major criticism though, it is just a minor grumble.
The impact of Amy's possible death is dramatic and is a positive for sure (albeit lessened a bit for me by constant fake deaths throughout series 5 and 6 which left me feeling cynical about her apparent mortal danger).
Writer Tom MacRae has done a good job overall on making an engaging and involving episode. The main positives are that the storyline is interesting, the dialogue is decent, the acting is very strong, there is a thoughtful study of how it feels for Amy to be left alone and separated for 36 years as well as to finally have to choose between changing the course of her life or endangering everyone by risking a paradox.
My Rating: 8/10.
- A_Kind_Of_CineMagic
- Feb 3, 2019
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- Uskmouth Power Station, Newport, Wales, UK(Engine room areas)
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- Runtime47 minutes
- Color