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Erm... am I just being stupid or is this a huge error in tonights ep?
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At the end, when the Doctor looks at Amy's clock, it turns to 12:00 pm....
As it's night-time, shouldn't it read 0:00 AM ??
Also shortly before that, the Doctor has one brace down, the magically back up again in the same shot hahaha! And he doesn't pull it up that time XD
As it's night-time, shouldn't it read 0:00 AM ??
Also shortly before that, the Doctor has one brace down, the magically back up again in the same shot hahaha! And he doesn't pull it up that time XD
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If you look closely at the clock it actually says "12:00" with "AM" to the top right, and the date (6/26) to the left.
OK, here I'm going to be really sad.
40:04 - Amy pulls down both braces
40:06 - Doctor pulls both back up
40:10-40:13 - Amy pulls both down again
40:14 - Doctor pulls one back up, then shot goes solely on Amy, when he could've pulled up the other
He did make a strange movement at 40:27 to pull his brace up again, even though it was still there though.
But the clock jumps from 11:59am on one day to 12pm the next day! That's a 12 hour jump in one second!
Either it the clock was faulty, someone made a cock up somewhere and they've tried to fix it post production or it was very deliberate.
Edit: I've just realised this is another time related "mistake". I'm thinking of Rory's pass here. Are we seeing a theme?
buying a clock that's faulty and just happens to lose 12 hours at the point where they're using it to denote the fact that it's the day when time blows up?
There's a giant crack in the universe that is eating people, erasing them from time. I think that having a wonky time on Amy's clock, when Amy is vital to this plot point, is a skillful and clever piece of visual signalling.
Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Stuff!!!
And also they production crew have gone out and got a clock especially that shows the date aswell as the time....
There's another error, that probably isn't an error but might be a spoiler. At around 17 minutes in on the iPlayer when the Doctor leaves Amy with the soldiers.
Back in the first episode, we saw Amelia still waiting in the garden in the morning, and then heard the TARDIS arrive. Then we see Amy wake up and are left to assume she was dreaming, but what if she wasn't?
Clearly a different doctor entirely, it's pretty clear also from what he says to her - the context and tone of the discussion is different.
Most of the things that people are pointing out as being errors are more than likely meant to be there for a very good reason.
Agreed. From the editing alone it seemed clear to me this was no mistake. Blazer-less Doctor leaves with River and the soldier, then is back with Amy wearing blazer, then back with River and soldier as if he never left their side.
Definitely something to do with the over-all series arc, backed up by the line at the end about it all being about Amy.
I think while all these things are a part of the series story arc resolution, I do think that SM is also gently poking funny at people that make such an issue out of minor continuity errors as well, because he knows very well that threads like this will be created as the series progresses...:D
Maybe thats an explanation for the Doctor not going back to 7yr old Amy and 6 months between visits when its minutes to him.
Look at the screengrab and you'll see that the date doesn't change. The clock seems to show the change from morning to afternoon rather than from one day to the next.
Maybe what we saw was the rewritten version of the past, and in the "original past" (?) Amy died.
Look closer at the screengrab - the date does indeed change from 6/25 to 6/26 while the time goes from 11.59am to 12.00pm