32.09: Night Terrors

[Tillane]

And why are they not more concerned that the doctor seems to have given up looking for their newborn daughter?? I know they know she's going to grow up to be River, but Amy MUST still have some sort of maternal instincts which are being blatently ignored.

I think this is purely down to the fact that the episode was originally written and filmed to come before the big River/Melody reveal (this would also cover the fairly blatant "back in the flesh" reference the Doc makes near the end - I suspect this ep would originally have come right before the double ep where we met the Flesh). That being the case, they wouldn't be concerned, because...well, because Melody wouldn't have been born yet.

 

[Ursa major]

A much better episode than the previous week. The only thing that really bothered me was that when Rory and Amy woke in the house, they didn't try to look through the windows, which told me that they weren't a real house. (I can't recall whether I'd seen the dolls' house at that point, but having seen both that it and the ignoring of the windows, I knew that they were inside**.)



** - Although there weren't. They were inside the child's version of what the inside of the dolls' house must be. I'm sure there must be some dolls' houses that are architecturally accurate, but I doubt a child in a tower block would have one of those. All of which begs the question of what could be seen through the windows; this didn't have to be the interior of that wardrobe. Oh, and given that they weren't in the real dolls' house, they weren't necessarily miniaturised (again); there were just experiencing the illusions the child was able to generate.

 

[PTeppic]

Loved the Time Lord bedtime stories

Which on re-watch this morning I noted as:

The Three Little Sontarans
The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes
Snow White and the Seven (mumble, mumble)

So, what was the final story and do we think he was just making them up as part of a distraction before getting to the point, i.e. "discarding" the toy in an effort to focus on the wardrobe?

 

[Tillane]

Snow White and the Seven Keys of Doomsday, if memory serves. Which it most likely doesn't.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Enjoyed this episode - finally back to the low-budget psychological writing Moffat excels in, where the Doctor is the main character again - thankfully!

 

[Fried Egg]

Sorry to come at this a bit late but I only just watched this yesterday.

Best episode I've seen in ages. Exactly the sort of thing I think Dr Who episodes should be. I definitely prefer them when they focus around a good stand alone story and we get a break away from the meta story (yawn).