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All in a Day's Work or Some time has elapsed between episodes?
Zeppelyn56
14-04-2010
Hi All, My first here and Point 1 of the the ten teasers for Victory of the Daleks (1. Some time has elapsed between episodes) made me smile.

It seems to me anyway that the events since the goodbyes and regeneration etc in the End of Time through The Eleventh Hour and then The Beast Below have all happened on the same day. I include the Beast Below as Amy has not had a chance to change out of here nightie so all appear to happen in a short time frame, well in the Doc's case anyway. Just an observation really.
Bananasaregood!
15-04-2010
Urrm, yes. I think 'days' are hard to keep track of in the TARDIS though. Obviously in The End Of Time the TARDIS crash-lands into The Eleventh Hour and that's key to the plot (as the Doctor doesn't even have time to really work out what he looks like and what to wear until the denouement of the story.
In The Beast Below, I think the excitement of adventure takes them away before she can properly think about getting dressed (finding the wardrobe, etc.). After Churchill rings them, Amy obviously thinks 'Ooh, Id better get dressed, I'm meeting Churchill...' and the Doctor doesn't yet no, possibly the severity of the problem.
Mulett
15-04-2010
This was something that was bugging me a bit too. Even though the events of 'The 11th Hour' take place over years for Amy, its only an hour or so for the Doctor. And 'The Beast Below' seems to follow straight on. So this next Dalek story - as far as The Doctor is concerned - could well be within hours of his regeneration.

I guess my only issue is that the 'death' of the 10th Doctor was such a big deal I guess I expected the 11th Doctor to spend some time reflecting on it. But I guess that's the point about regeneration - heals all those old wounds inside and out.
stud u like
15-04-2010
Originally Posted by Bananasaregood!:
“Urrm, yes. I think 'days' are hard to keep track of in the TARDIS though. Obviously in The End Of Time the TARDIS crash-lands into The Eleventh Hour and that's key to the plot (as the Doctor doesn't even have time to really work out what he looks like and what to wear until the denouement of the story.
In The Beast Below, I think the excitement of adventure takes them away before she can properly think about getting dressed (finding the wardrobe, etc.). After Churchill rings them, Amy obviously thinks 'Ooh, Id better get dressed, I'm meeting Churchill...' and the Doctor doesn't yet no, possibly the severity of the problem.”

How can you "yet no" something?
DutchCowboy
15-04-2010
Or
it refers to a time-difference between the phonecall of Churchill and the time the Dr and Amy actually arrive in that WWII time, provoked, of course, by the Crack in Time.
i.e. Churchill calls on f.e. April 15, 1940 and the Dr and Amy arriving a year afther that phonecall.
johnnysaucepn
15-04-2010
I certainly hope they take a bit of time to put their clothes through the wash. That magic whale vomit is really hard to get out.
crazzyaz7
15-04-2010
No you may all choose to not believe me as i cannot provide the source due to not remembering which exact interview i read it in....after all there have been so many since the serie s has come back....but SM did say that the Doctor has basically not slept from the moments since the beginning of when he arrived on the Ood Sphere....to the end of the Dalek story......so technically for the Doctor at least....it's been one hell of long day!!!!


Although I wonder if him being knocked unconciuos in the EOT part one would count as him sleeping?
CoalHillJanitor
15-04-2010
Originally Posted by crazzyaz7:
“No you may all choose to not believe me as i cannot provide the source due to not remembering which exact interview i read it in....after all there have been so many since the serie s has come back....but SM did say that the Doctor has basically not slept from the moments since the beginning of when he arrived on the Ood Sphere....to the end of the Dalek story......so technically for the Doctor at least....it's been one hell of long day!!!!


Although I wonder if him being knocked unconciuos in the EOT part one would count as him sleeping?”

And knocked unconscious again in TEH!
crazzyaz7
15-04-2010
Originally Posted by CoalHillJanitor:
“And knocked unconscious again in TEH!”

oh yeah ofcourse!!! so as Moff wrote that and stated that the Doctor hadn't slept, I guess it means being knocked out isn't the same as sleeping!
Rorschach
15-04-2010
It was the SFX interview (part 3)

"SFX: Does he need time to recover after the regeneration, like David did in The Christmas Invasion?

“All I’ll tell you is he does not spend the first episode on his back! He’s straight into the thick of the action, but that doesn’t mean he’s functioning at full capacity. Wait and see! That first episode he doesn’t get time to draw breath. It’s continuous action. He has no time to change his clothes or even check what he looks like before he’s back in harness. It’s a very bad day for him! I worked out once – and this is a moderate spoiler, I suppose – that from the time he arrives on the planet of the Ood to the end of our third episode the Doctor hasn’t been to bed! So by the time he puts on his pyjamas and picks up the book he was reading the previous night he thinks ‘Woah!’” [laughs]

So time has passed; e.g. between TEH and TBB he had time to hold Amy out of the door, and between TBB and ViOTD Amy had time to get dressed, but not a lot of time. Minutes certainly, hours maybe, but not days.
crazzyaz7
15-04-2010
Originally Posted by Rorschach:
“It was the SFX interview (part 3)

"SFX: Does he need time to recover after the regeneration, like David did in The Christmas Invasion?

“All I’ll tell you is he does not spend the first episode on his back! He’s straight into the thick of the action, but that doesn’t mean he’s functioning at full capacity. Wait and see! That first episode he doesn’t get time to draw breath. It’s continuous action. He has no time to change his clothes or even check what he looks like before he’s back in harness. It’s a very bad day for him! I worked out once – and this is a moderate spoiler, I suppose – that from the time he arrives on the planet of the Ood to the end of our third episode the Doctor hasn’t been to bed! So by the time he puts on his pyjamas and picks up the book he was reading the previous night he thinks ‘Woah!’” [laughs]”



Glad to know i wasn't making it up! even if i did paraphrase a lot of it!!
CoalHillJanitor
15-04-2010
Originally Posted by crazzyaz7:
“Glad to know i wasn't making it up! even if i did paraphrase a lot of it!!”

Been to bed, then. Clearly not the same as being unconscious.
Rorschach
15-04-2010
And of course it's all subjective.

To the Doctor it's the same day, but Amy had two years off between TEH and TBB.
Bananasaregood!
15-04-2010
Originally Posted by stud u like:
“How can you "yet no" something?”

Doh! I meant 'yet know', can't believe I got that wrong...
amos_brearley
15-04-2010
I would *love* if we actually saw the scene Moffat describes so well of the Doctor in his jimjams picking up his bedtime story at the end of "Victory of the Daleks"!

BTW does anyone else think that "Victory of the Daleks" really needs an exclamation mark after it?
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