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Overview

First aired

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Production Code

1.7

Written by

Simon Nye

Directed by

Catherine Morshead

Runtime

45 minutes

Time Travel

Present, Alternate Reality

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Consequences, Mind Control, Pregnancy

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Earth, England, Leadworth, Space

UK Viewers

7.55 million

Appreciation Index

84

Synopsis

It has been five years since Amy Pond last travelled with the Eleventh Doctor. However, when he arrives by accident and they have a reunion, Amy is left questioning what is real. Is she actually living with her husband Rory in Leadworth, 2015, or is she still travelling with Rory and the Doctor in the TARDIS? Which is real and which is fake? Dream or reality? Only one thing is clear: it's Amy's choice.

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Bring back The Dream Lord!

So maybe it is meta and Inception-esque but I understood the plot just fine.

Rory's stupid ponytail.

"Ah! You've swallowed a planet!" XD

 


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This genuinely confused me and was definitely too smart for my brain to understand.

Embarrassed to admit that I thought that the Dream Lord was the Master.

I like how it fleshed out more of Amy and Rory's relationship because Vampires in Venice had me kind of doubting them. I'm happy that I (hopefully) won't have to deal with more of that.


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A gorgeous and funny episode with real emotional weight. Its a shame Simon Nye never returned because I think he proves himself as highly capable (assuming this didn't get a healthy Moffat script edit) at reflecting realistic relationship dynamics in dialog as well as realising pleasing, tight, sci-fi concepts.

90% of the jokes here hold up to modern day scrutiny, which is an impressive hit rate for an aging piece of comedy. The only drawback is that one of the worlds (Rory's world) is a lot more interesting than the other (The Doctor's world). There are also far more reasons to believe that The Doctor's world is the real one. I know they both turn out to be a dream but I think there would have been a more satisfying tension if both worlds were more equally unbelievable.

The idea of the Dream Lord being a malevolent aspect of The Doctor's psyche is genius. I hope we see this again one day. It suits The Toymaker vibe we've seen more recently - a tone which is rarely visited in Doctor Who.


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DREAM LORD: You can't fool me. I've seen your dreams. Some of them twice. Amy. Blimey, I'd blush if I had a blood supply-- or a real face.

DOCTOR: Where did you pick up this cheap cabaret act?

DREAM LORD: Me? Oh, you're on shaky ground.

DOCTOR: Am I?

DREAM LORD: If you had any more tawdry quirks you could open up a Tawdry Quirk Shop. The madcap vehicle, the cockamamie hair, the clothes designed by a first-year fashion student. I'm surprised you haven't got a little purple space dog just to ram home what an intergalactic wag you are.

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[Kitchen]

(In the quiet countryside, a cockerel crows. A very heavily pregnant Amy is mixing ingredients in a bowl, when she suddenly puts it down and gasps.)

AMY: Rory!

[Outside the house]

(Long haired Rory returns home on his bicycle.)


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