Did you watch Saturday's Doctor Who episode? It was an absolutely fantastic episode, although it ended with all of our main characters in dire straits. Amy Pond had just been shot by a plastic incarnation of Rory (and apparently died), River Song was trapped in the TARDIS while it exploded, and the Doctor was locked into a giant box (the Pandorica) by an alliance of his greatest enemies, who believed that he was responsible for the cracks in the universe. Turns out, he wasn't. They found that out too late as the galaxies around the earth all exploded, leaving the earth alone in silence.
Of course, knowing Doctor Who that isn't the end. It's very, very far from the end -- there's still another episode for everything to be resolved! Cue "The Big Bang," the second part of the two-episode serial. Out of the three big questions above (Will Amy survive? Did River survive? How will the Doctor get out?), I have three answers for you.
Answer 1: Yes. I don't quite know how yet, but Amy Pond will indeed carry on. Was there ever any doubt, though, really? Karen Gillan has been confirmed to appear as the Doctor's companion not only in the 2010 Christmas Special but in series 6 as well, which is slated to begin filming next month (and trust me, we will bring you all the spoilers from the set humanly possible). So don't worry about Amy. Once these ugly cracks go away, they'll probably take her gunshot wound with them.
Answer 2: Yes. Now, don't act as if this is any surprise either. River Song had to survive in order for us to see her in "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone." There's no question there. But a new photo of River as well (above), and she's firing a gun at someone. Who? Your guess is as good as mine, but I'm thinking it might be at the "best man she ever knew," whom she mentioned she killed in "Flesh and Stone." What are your thoughts on this? Think I'm onto something here?
Answer 3: Amy Pond. It can't be her! She's dead? Right? Well, maybe she is temporarily dead in the current timeline, but don't forget young Amelia. She wasn't introduced in "The Eleventh Hour" for nothing! She'll be back in "The Big Bang," and it looks like she might just open up the Pandorica and free the Doctor, judging from some promotional photos released by the BBC. They have a nice chat in the museum where the Pandorica is being held as well. But does this mean that the Doctor was holed up in that box for centuries? It'd certainly make for a slightly crazier Doctor, I think. Let's hope that isn't the case -- he's crazy enough.
"The Big Bang" airs on Saturday, June 26 on the BBC. I can't wait to see how this plays out.
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I have to agree with you on all counts here. 1) Series 6 notwithstanding, they (the writers) wouldn't kill off Amy. She's too hot to die. 2) Perfectly logical. He runs into her in his future. Her notes to him throughout the cosmos have to happen (as he likes to say, some events are fixed and must happen). 3) Whenever they see the cracks, one of the first pictures we see is of young Amy coming round from behind Prisoner Zero. It wouldn't make sense if the younger Amy weren't somehow included. I really really hope that all of this isn't some stupid dream sequence. That would really peeve me.
River was placed in the Stormcage Facility in the first place for killing the mysterious man, so whatever that was, it happened before the events in her timeline from "The Pandorica Opens". I'm guessing that whole story will be told in connection with the Eleventh Doctor's regeneration, whenever that happens.
This might sound a bit crazy but I think that when River went back to Amy's house and saw the books on Romans and things and the Dr said that the whole Roman thing was based around Amy's thoughts that infact the books were there because a young Amy had already been to save the Dr from the Pandorica and afterwards got the books on Romans, made the toy dolls and wrote her comic on the Dr. Which in turn could have caused the cracks maybe, seeing as the cracks wipe memorys which is why she cant remember saving him….possible maybe…
I like this mucho.
ChefDarrell, I'm afraid you will be disappointed. The "Amelia Pond" dream framework has been set up at many points in the previous episodes. One key point is during the end of the Eleventh Hour, when it looks like the Doctor was going to visit little Amelia after scaring off the Atraxi, but the scene cuts to Amy awakening to the Doctor returning 2 years after the Atraxi incident and the Doctor claims he's taken the new Tardis to the moon and back. Also, the Doctor in the early episodes keeps talking about how everything is about Amy, and even Rory in the middle of Vampires of Venice tells Amy that "it's all mental." Also, remember when the Doctor says to River Song at the end of Flesh and Bones that the Pandorica is a fairytale, and River responds "but aren't we all?" Finally, the ending of Amy's Choice with the explosion of the Tardis cut to the Doctor and the hallucinogenic crystals tale, but the Doctor sees the Dreamlord in the shadow of the console. There are several other incidents of this type that make the dream sequence the most likely deus ex machina.
That's what I'm afraid of…Just had a thought, the "crack" is from the backside of her eye as it is opening while she is waking up.
And why has The Doctor asked Amy more than once if she could remember the daleks?
Also, why would The Doctor ask Amy early on in this series if she could remember the Daleks from her childhood? Maybe something…
I have a new spoiler. In a June 22 interview published in whatsontv.co.uk, Matt Smith says "And there is a scene in this last episode featuring a character who comes back and is very significant. That was a great challenge for me, and an excellent piece of writing.” The imdb.com cast listing for the Big Bang program includes Philip Madoc as an unidentified character. Philip Madoc played The War Lord on the famous War Games episode of Patrick Troughton's Doctor Who (1969), and he was turned in to a Time Lord Board of Inquiry by the Doctor. He and his colleagues were entrapped in flat glass plate-like jail containers and exiled into a distant part of the universe, so presumably he survived the Last Great Time War. He would have the ability to control the Tardis externally because of his knowledge of the SIDRAT, which was the Tardis imitation that the War Lord used to keep the war games planet going.
I know how Amy will survive (I think) and I know how the Doctor gets out of the Pandorica. I'm pretty sure your answer to question 3 is wrong: Amelia doesn't let the Doctor out of the Pandorica, she let's Amy out.
rory lets the doctor out with a sonic screwdriver given to him by the doctor in a previous episode (there are actually 2 doctors running about). Amy is put into the pandoric as it has healing properties. In the museum young amy lets out older and now alive amy. Rory is brought back to human form. The crack is in fact a smile!!!!!
Any notice the symbols River found on the lawn? If you go to the DW website and tour the tardis, those are the same symbols above the Tardis doors. The Lodger epi, someone building a tardis. Tardis like burn marks outside Amys house. Just wondering…
In which previous episode did the Doctor give Rory a sonic screwdriver? Very few people would accept that an unseen second Doctor in some previously unscreened episode gave Rory (now Rory the Auton) a sonic screwdriver. Also, how would Rory get past all of the Doctor's enemies? Given the short time window in which Rory the Auton could survive post the destruction of all stars, it doesn't make any sense. I like the rest of your predictions, and the crack as smile is an interesting observation.
Do you remember that the Daleks invaded earth at the end of season 2 (army of ghosts &doomsday) The one Rose went to the other dimension and The Doctor told her that she was declared death and that a lot of people died that day. That was in the same time line as Amy lives in. So she had to know about the Daleks
Is it just me or does that photo of River Song with the gun look very similar to Zoe in Firefly? Almost the same clothes too. I am sure there is a photo out there somewhere almost identical.
i think that as in the lodga the second floor in amys hose is a holagram.
No, they happen after the Pandorica opens in her timeline. Remember when Amy mentioned something to her about the Flesh and Stone episode, and River hushed her up about spoilers? The second appearance of River Song in season 5 is earlier in River's timeline than the first
You win, if previous episode means preceding the museum sequence. Amazingly prescient. Don't know if I would describe the crack as a smile, though. It's not over yet.
i beat you doctor i am the number fan when i was little i always had dream exactly like this
I think that man River killed was the Doctor? A great and noble man… that or someone close to the doctor? PLUS I think because of the Tardis jumping through time its going off course more like at the start of the season when he though it was 5 minutes when it was actually much much longer and thus somehow making young Amy the actual Amy since the old Amy can't remember the Daleks. So young Amy shouldn't have been the one with him cause she would've been the one to remember the Daleks? Maybe I dunno haha.
I think River Song and Amy Pond are the same person. And I think that the good man that she killed is Rory.
i was on hols and didn't see the last episod:(was the last one where the doctor was put in the box that was showed on the 5th of june or has there been a new one?
Rory who became a partial killing machine who managed to humanly survive 200 years guarding his love Amy, part of him is a sleeper agent perhaps waiting to cause some major destruction. I bet River is Pond too OR Pond is a child she and the doctor had together