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Old 02-05-2010, 03:52
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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
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Old 02-05-2010, 04:02
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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 ??
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.

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
OK, here I'm going to be really sad. (All times are episode times on i-player):

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.
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Old 02-05-2010, 04:12
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[quote=Fudd;39997189]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.

Left and no you're wrong there, I've screen-capped it for your benefit :P

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/2...aconfusing.jpg


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Old 02-05-2010, 04:16
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Amy set her clock wrong... I'm sure that's fairly common.
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Old 02-05-2010, 04:16
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Amy set her clock wrong... I'm sure that's fairly common.


But the clock jumps from 11:59am on one day to 12pm the next day! That's a 12 hour jump in one second!
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Old 02-05-2010, 04:22
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Yet another 'accidental' prop screwup from the production team...?
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Old 02-05-2010, 07:48
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even if that was an error, which I'm kind of doubting with all the stuff going on in this series if you keep your eyes peeled, it wouldn't constitute a "huge" one.
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Old 02-05-2010, 08:09
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But the clock actually flipped over from 11:59am to 12:00pm? In which case. how did the date change?

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?
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Old 02-05-2010, 08:23
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Maybe AM and PM are reversed in Leadworth? I doubt that's it, but I thought I'd throw that idea out there.
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Old 02-05-2010, 08:44
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Has to be intentional in my book. I mean I can see flashing Karen's stocking top in Confidential as serendipity but ...

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?
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Old 02-05-2010, 09:02
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But the clock jumps from 11:59am on one day to 12pm the next day! That's a 12 hour jump in one second!
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.
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Old 02-05-2010, 09:08
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There's something wrong with time so it makes sense there's something wrong with the clock (and not just because its signalling the date in the incorrect backwards American manner) and I agree its probably another visual clue to the greater story arc
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Old 02-05-2010, 09:26
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That sort of stuff doesn't matter to me. Its fiction for goodness sake, I'm not gonna let some minor prop malfunctions ruin it for me.
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Old 02-05-2010, 10:06
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But the clock actually flipped over from 11:59am to 12:00pm? In which case. how did the date change?

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?
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Old 02-05-2010, 10:07
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Has to be intentional in my book. I mean I can see flashing Karen's stocking top in Confidential as serendipity but ...

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?
And also they production crew have gone out and got a clock especially that shows the date aswell as the time....
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Old 02-05-2010, 10:07
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I thought it was a but weak the way he left Amy in the forest, I sure the Doctor and that other guy could have carried her.
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Old 02-05-2010, 10:08
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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
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.

Spoiler
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Old 02-05-2010, 10:14
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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.

Spoiler
Spoiler


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.
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Old 02-05-2010, 10:17
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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.

Spoiler
I noticed that, too. I think it was deliberate and will be gotten back to later in the series.
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Old 02-05-2010, 10:22
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I noticed that, too. I think it was deliberate and will be gotten back to later in the series.
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.
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Old 02-05-2010, 10:23
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I noticed that, too. I think it was deliberate and will be gotten back to later in the series.
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...
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Old 02-05-2010, 11:11
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12 hours gone in a second.
Maybe thats an explanation for the Doctor not going back to 7yr old Amy and 6 months between visits when its minutes to him.
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Old 02-05-2010, 11:54
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But the clock actually flipped over from 11:59am to 12:00pm? In which case. how did the date change?
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.
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Old 02-05-2010, 11:56
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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.
Maybe what we saw was the rewritten version of the past, and in the "original past" (?) Amy died.
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Old 02-05-2010, 12:09
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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.
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
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