Oh, jolly, happy day! This Saturday the BBC released a prequel to next week’s return of Doctor Who “The Bells of Saint John.” (BTW, if you weren’t keeping up, Doctor Who will return next Saturday, 30 March 2013.) Simply called “A Prequel,” we catch up to a despondent (see what I did there? DesPONDent? Pond? Yeah? Yeah.) Doctor sitting alone on a swing set in a park when he’s joined by a young girl. The girl and The Doctor get all existential about loss and finding lost things when the child gives The Doctor some insight to finding his lost friend. Now, make sure you’re paying attention to the very Moffat-y twist at the end. Let’s see if you called it.
I’ll see you next week.
Onwards!
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Lol. I totally thought it was going to be Clara, but then was like ‘nah, that girls too tall.’ Guess Clara stopped growing really young. Lol.
What’s with 11 hanging around his companions when they’re children? There is actually commentary about The Doctor there (touched the closest in Amy’s Choice), but I’d love to see it fleshed out further.
Also, hahaha Valerie, nice.
Nine did it with Rose (“Red bicycle when you were 12), we just didn’t see it. 😀
Oh, that’s true, I forgot about that. Well, that just cements it further.
Yeah, I was watching it and I thought about how Moffat of him it would be if the girl was Clara but then I brushed it aside thinking there was no way he’d do the same thing twice. In his defense though, his Who has been more fairy tale esque than sci-fi so it makes a kind of sense for The Doctor to be a once childhood hero. Also it involves the children viewers in their fantasy to meet a wizard and be the chosen child.
Wow. I feel like I hit some psychological something or another.
But yeah, my wife totes was all “That don’t look like Clara.” To which I replied, “Really? That’s the thing that ruins this?” And then we laughed.
Ooh, I like your point about the fairy tale nature of Moffat Who, with all the darkness that includes. I just thought that some of the questions raised in Amy’s Choice — like the Doctor constantly surrounding himself with youth — were really interesting, and I would like to see them pursued further at some point. It’s noteworthy that the Doctor tried to keep the Ponds more or less with him even as they aged, but still, I think it would be interesting.