So long, and thanks for all the bread?


Where was the mention of the duck pond? I must have missed it

maybe ducks are the real villains. We could have an episode with ducks with those teeth (the ones that prisoner zero and the vampires and the angels all have). that would be cool.

Bugger you beat me to the joke...

Actually, I got in there first

That would be great and ties in with what Moffat was saying on Confidential about making everyday things like cracks scarey. Imagine every child in the country being scared to feed the ducks in case they suddenly rear out of the water with those teeth!

I think the ducks caused the crack in time. They may look like cute, unassuming little things, but ducks are fiendish meglomaniacs who are always plotting how to overthrow the human race.

Don't be fooled by ducks, people. Oh yes...

I think the duck pond is actually another TARDIS. Either that or it's not filled with water, just stuff that looks like water, which is why the ducks are avoiding it.

Yes. The reference is that, from Amy's viewpoint, there have never been any ducks in the duck pond, and yet the duck pond remains. The ducks were unwritten from history, but that doesn't mean that the events that happened around them didn't happen.

Much like the Byzantium crashing after River was sent to investigate the Weeping Angel. Just because the Angel no longer existed (temporal grammar?) doesn't mean the investigation and the crash didn't happen.

So sad that things came to a head...

Ah, but the ducks can't of been written out of history completely (like the Clerics) as Amy knows what a duck is.

I think they went off to support Howard in his battle against the Dark Overlords

No, the ducks from the duck pond, silly billy! Not all ducks. The people of Leadworth know it's a duck pond but don't know why.

Another probably ridiculous opinion from me:

I think the duck/pond question is an allegory on Amy:

It is assumed that the pond is a duck pond but on what evidence? (appearances but no "content", i.e. no ducks, i.e. something is missing).

We are assuming that Amy Pond is ... a typical companion, on appearances. But perhaps she's actually something totally different, eg. a key, a trap, whatever?

I have to admit, I find Amy so wrong in many ways that I really don't think she is what she appears to be, but this might be my personal paranoia

I suspect this is correct.

In a manner of speaking amy is a few ducks short of a pond.

By that i don't mean she's thick, jus that she isn't quite as she should be. I hope its vampire ducks time eating ducks though.

Perhaps Amy is an amnesiac Beverley Switzler, then? There is a certain resemblance...

Count Duckula????

Haha now that would be some crossover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5xY2...eature=related
http://www.wildewood.co.uk/lyrics/sinisterducks.php

Allthough no top down view of it as yet, could the pond be the same shape as the open crack????

Just a thought :sleep:

It doesn't wiped out species, just whatever gets sucked into it.

The cleric soldiers. Humans didn't get wiped, just the clerics that entered it.

It's easy. Amy is a load of ducks in an Amy suit.

Just happened to view this scene from Silver Nemesis (1988):

Ace is sitting beside a river when the Doctor calls from the nearby TARDIS:

'Ace! Duck!'

Ace quickly ducks. The Doctor says:

'No... duck!'

A duck walks out of the TARDIS.

Hmmmmmmmmm....

Hang on, I'm sure Eddie Izzard said something about Evil Ducks taking over the world on one of his gigs...thats it...ducks are evil, they the answer to the big bad!

Funnily enough, that's the first thing that popped into my head when I read this thread too.

If I recall correctly, he was pointing out the flaw in the Great Flood story - that all the evil fish and bad ducks would get off scot-free due to a loophole.

Yes thats right, the Ark story...I love his take on the bible!

Still think the big bad is an Evil duck tho!

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