Amy's Choice

It's five years since Amy last travelled with the 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 twenty fifteen? Or is she still travelling with Rory and the doctor in the TARDIS? Which reality is real and which is fake? Is it a dream or is it reality? Only one thing is clear, it's Amy's choice. This is Amy's Choice. Welcome to Regenerated.

Something is overriding my controls. Well, that took a while. Honestly, I heard such good things. Last of the time lords, the oncoming storm, him in the bow tie. Did you get into my TARDIS? What are you? What should we call me? Well, if you're the Time Lord, let's call me the Dream Lord. Nice look. No, I'm not convinced. Bow ties Hello and welcome back to Regenerate. Mine is Matt and I'm joined as always by the wonderful Becky. Which is wonderful. Yes, wonderful, beautiful, amazing.

No, I'm not. It's just been a couple of weeks. Uh again, things keep cropping up and uh we've had to have a little bit of a break, but this is obviously going out a day after it would have been up, as we're recording this on the Monday.

Um, we are talking about Amy's Choice this week, which is series five, episode seven. This one was uh writ um sorry, broadcast on the fifteenth of may twenty ten. It's one forty five minute episode. It was written by Simon Nye, who is probably more famous for writing th uh men behaving badly. And Right. Well, I was pregnant at the time. Okay. I think I was about Well yes, this was May, so Maybe. And uh this one was directed by Kathryn Mooreshead. Um

And basically I think Catherine Moorhead done two episodes as the first one and Simon Knight only wrote this one. So um we'll go into the synopsis and then we'll I suppose. So Snopsis, it's been five years since Amy Pond last travelled, but the doctor, however, when he arrives by accident and they have a reunion, Amy is left questioning what's real. Is she actually living with her husband Rory and 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 is Amy's choice. And does it get Becky's choice for being a good No. I actually quite like this one. I thought this one's just s to be honest, it was so sort of like There weren't much in terms of a plot. Mm. And I think it was a bit stale and it was too sort of expected. Yes. I don't expect um Because I

Very obvious. Yeah, I don't expect this episode of Regenerated to be that long because. It's kind of yeah, it the plot line Well, it's not crap. It it's just the plot line wasn't really that involved. Um we'll set it up and then we'll probably dive into it as much as we can. Actually, I think there's about as much plot in it as there is in what we But I still think it was better than the Vampires of Venice, which was last time. I don't think I really don't think so. Anyway, I actually like that.

So we're in upper Leadworth and it's twenty fifteen. Even vampire Uh a pregnant Amy Pond is in her kitchen. She's baking. When she hunches over in pain, a ponytailed Rory Williams returns home on his bike and rushes inside when he hears Amy screaming his name. believing her to be in labour, however, is merely a false alarm, and he finds her sitting on the kitchen floor, happily eating from the bowl of cake batter that she has just prepared with a cake spatula. You shouldn't do

Really, when you're pregnant because it's got raw eggs in it. Which I had a really big problem with when I did um K I couldn't eat it. And I like eating raw cake butter. Uh, they're about to resume their activity as normal when they suddenly hear the TARDIS materializing in the garden outside the window. Rory at first thinks it's the sound of a leaf blower.

How it's written. Uh he comments on how happy they both look after five years, com commenting um Amy's weight gain multiple times despite being told repeatedly that she is pregnant, apparently not listening, the doctor then asks if she's pregnant. I don't know I don't know if that's actually not listening or the fact he was just being sarky about it. Um

We did actually only watch this yesterday, but I can't remember what the called opening is. I think we established the story and then we go into the intro, the the the title sequence I think. I think we keep can keep going. Um So the couple then take him on a tour of Upper Leadworth, explaining that most of the people in the village are elderly, hence they live a quiet life. There's as they're walking around, there's not many people there either. It's quite void of people. Um

Sitting down on the bench, the doctor then fails mostly old people. Why is there parks? Well, there are children still though, because we see Yeah, but then how can they say it's... Sitting down on the bench, the doctor then fails to hide his aspiration with the dull tedium of the village. How do you fight off the self harm is what he said? They tell them uh they tell them the boring things they do.

I think that's meant to be They Tell him the boring things they do, as bird song chimes in the background and then they slowly fall asleep. The doctor then awakens awakes on the floor at the TARDIS. confused as to how he happened to fall asleep so suddenly and believing everything that happened in regards to Ledworth was a dream. He is relieved when Amy and Rory step into the control room, confused

uh expressions on their face. Rory describes a dream he's just woken up from, with Amy chiming in that she's dreamt something similar. As they both diverged details, it quickly becomes apparent that all three of them had the same dream. Something is wrong, but before they can decide what is happening, bird song sounds throughout the TARDIS and then they fall asleep and find themselves back.

But Leadworth at some point there is, I can't remember, a cold opening. Obviously, they we establish kind of like there's something off here, and then we go into the title sequence. I can't actually quite remember where it is. Normally I can, but because of this. That is basically what the plot of the actual

Episode is is that they're in two different worlds. They're in Upper Leadworth, where Amy and Rory are married now and she is pregnant. Um And then they basically keep falling asleep when they hear this bird song and then they wake up in a TARDIS where it's like normal, basically like we last left.

Uh Rory in the five years has grown a ponytail, which is quite Which is absolutely god awful. Oh yes, it is. Um it does remind me a bit of a um I i i it reminds me of uh Nicholas Lynhurst, who played Rodney. In Only Falls and Horses, there's like an episode where he gets like a fake ponytail. I knew that reminded me of Saturn. And it really looks like that in this. I thought.

Obviously, you know, the the the trouble is with like moo movies and T V shows, it's very difficult to actually have a convincing bump. just say that. So Amy's bump does look a little bit sort of really yeah terrible. Let's just say that. Um Is there anything else to say really?

I think at the minute there is. Um in Leadworth then the doctor then warns A Rory and Amy not to believe anything they see, hear, or feel from now on. They cannot be sure which world is real. The doctor then quickly deduces that they are not experiencing. experiencing virtual reality which is obviously like um well we know virtual reality as being like a headset Obviously this is a science fiction show, so f for the benefit of the doctor, he thinks it could be like a hollow show.

They really must be awake or dreaming, but is Leadworth the dream? Stopping outside the village retirement home and remembering Amy and Rory's previous explanation that many senior citizens in the town live well into their nineties, the doctor then goes inside to investigate something's wrong. Let's go and poke it with a stick. He says The residents all appear to be a little bit more than a little bit.

The residents then all appear to recognise Rory, addressing him as doctor Williams. The doctor meanwhile notices something suspicious about each one of them, especially misses Pocket. which uh who makes him try on a jumper. She is knitting for her grandson because he's obviously the same build and frame as her grandson. The three then fall asleep again, waking in the TARDIS as alarms blare. So uh we've established that uh Rory is now a doctor, even though he was a nurse.

So he's uh in that foot. It's really weird because in five years it takes like maybe seven years I think in the UK to become a junior doctor. I have no So is he just going around calling himself a doctor?'Cause there's no way he could have been a trained doctor in five years. I don't actually know. It depends on if he's a regular It's sort of like certain degrees. Yeah. You know, like we call we call it like a junior doctor, but obviously in America and places like that they call it a resident.

Which means they're still studying. Uh quickly to uh quick eject, I didn't actually mention where it come in the poll. So in the poll it actually come in at forty one. So that that's um sort of floating halfway. Uh the doctor then tries to figure out what is happening as the power dies. We're in a we're in a dead time machine, trying to bring the power back on. The doctor then realized someone is interfering with the TARDIS. A strange man then appears who calls himself the Dreamlord.

And he reveals that he is testing them. One of the worlds they are drifting between is fake and one is real. In each they will face a deadly danger. They must decide which world is which

If they are killed in the the dream world, which they suspect is the dream world, they will simply wake up in the real world. But if they are killed in the real world, well, we know what's gonna happen there. They're actually gonna die then. And then they are put to sleep again. Uh the Dream Lord is played by Toby Jones. And he uh

He's been in a few things, hasn't he? Well the latest thing is uh Mr. Bates versus the post office. Yes, he's been in that and he also played Captain Mannering in the the film version of uh D uh Dad's Army which wasn't wasn't really that that great never To be fair, I never watched it, I just watched the trailer. Just watched the trailer and it wasn't my thing to be fair. I I didn't like it against the original, so I thought there's no way.

Uh the trio then wake up in Leadworth again and immediately begin arguing with which world is the real one. The Dreamlord appears again, this time as a doctor. making fun of how he always sees through the doctor. Um as he appears he keeps dressing in different attires, like he actually dresses as the doctor at one point. And then there is a weird one in the future where he actually dresses as like basically like the Stig a little bit, but he's wearing a red coverall.

The white helmet. Yeah, I didn't get that. I didn't get that at all. I don't understand why he appeared in that later on, but he just does. Um So uh he makes fun of how he's always sees through the doctor. He then poses this if you die in a dream, you wake up in reality. Healthy recovery. in next to no time. Ask me what happens if you die in reality. When Rory then asked

The Dreamlord basically responds, You die stupid that's why it's called reality. So again, Rory is always the butt of the joke and always a bit of the dimwit and they've made it a little bit more here.

However, the doctor then quickly notices that the scene of citizens have disappeared and the Dreamlord vanish vanishes, leaving them to search around. They venture outside and see Mrs. Pocket approaching a group of school kids playing inside the local castle ruins, which is also like a playground as well. As the doctor then continues to poke fun at Amy and Rory's new life, Amy cries out in pen poin um both the doctors with Braxton Hicks. Isn't she just um

Well yes like false labour. Yeah, but I thought she was just taking the the pee Just trying to snap them out. Uh she cries out in pain, both the doctor and Rory react in terror at the prospect that she is going into labour, but Amy quickly reveals that it was simply a prank to remind the doctor that her world just turned him white as a sheet.

And he shouldn't make fun of it any more before they can approach misses Poggett, though they fall back asleep. Then they're in the TARDIS where the doctor then pulls out a spare generator from below the console and has Rory wind it up. To power the circular motor. It's kind of like a cross between a whisk and a corkscrew and a corkscrew. Amy then wonders why the doctor is so suspicious of Mr Poggart, but the monitor turns.

But the monitor turning on diverts their attention. They find the Dreamlord is propelling the TARDIS towards a cold star, which I thought was a quite interesting premise. That obviously we have stars that uh r radiate heat. And develop into suns. Yeah. And I just thought it was a quite interesting pros prospect of a cold star, which is actually f obviously radiating cold. And I just thought that was really that's a really good

It very clever, I thought, idea. And that they only have forty minutes before they freeze to death. The doctor is at a loss for an explanation about the cold star yelling that he can't know everything about the universe. Rory then suggests that they call for help, but the doctor points out that it is idiotic an idea as the universe is big. Bring the R. A. C. Well.

The universe is big, highly unlikely there will be anybody nearby nearby a cold star to help them. The Dream Lord then appears and taunts the doctor with a rhyme about the danger in both worlds before Sending them back to sleep. They wake up in Leadworth to find the children missing, and while the doctor investigates, Amy contemplates whether it or not life in Ledworth is something that she would settle for.

prompting some insecurities to arise in Rory, who insists that the Leadworth world is the real world. The doctor then spots some piles of ash scattered round the room. And he and Amy quickly deduced that the children had been vaporised by Mrs. Poggett. Um, the piles of ash were very reminiscent of Red Dwarf. I bet there are lots of old people who probably think they could do that with kids to be fair.

I thought very reminiscent of red dwarf. The piles of ash. But yeah, but at least no one's going around eating'em. Yes, um because obviously in that there are piles White ash. Well it's more of white dust. Yeah, dust basically. And it's gone around eating'em. Yeah, I just thought this is very reminiscent of that. And it definitely is. Or just put your finger in basically white dust and eat it. Yeah, but Amy does as well. At one point.

So so yeah that is uh Piles of ash that are around, they look back to the village and see the senior citizens led by Miss Poggett walking towards them. They approach, the dream lord then appears and he taunts that the attack of the old people is a dream and for everyone to jump under a bus and wake up in the Tartar. So he's sort of taunting and baiting them a little bit. I did make the joke it was kinda like the walking dead.

Yeah, well I I um I thought joke that one not really. Oh. Um because they're not dead. Well, yeah, but they kind of technically are. Um That Amy tries to defend the doctor, but the Dream Lord points out that loves a redhead. and our naughty doctor before mentioning his relationship with Queen Elizabeth the First. We have had this before with David Tennant's doctor about Queen Elizabeth the First, that she's no longer the Virgin Queen, I think was the R uh was the comment.

Uh the doctor then stops the time lord's taunts by telling him he knows who he is. There is only one person in the world who hates him enough to do this. And Mose the Doctor has figured it out, the Dream Lord then tells them to worry about the senior citizens then vanity. the scenic citizens then rev reveal that they are actually possessed by ekneknodines, which are aliens that are using them as hosts. And they they sort of spit out this sort of uh

Venom venom gas thing, which is what turns people into the dust. Venomy gas thing. I'd say it's more of like a um sort of I don't know, it's just like I can't I keep thinking of something like opening a smile and breathing on people. Anyway, their home world was destroyed, and so they've come to destroy the human race and make a new home for themselves on Earth. I think if

obviously we do f kind of find out what's the dream, what's reality, but I do think they missed a trick here because they could have done something with the silence here. Uh the silence and the crack don't

is not mentioned in this episode, it's worth mentioning at the minute. Um but yeah, I think they missed a trick that they could have kept the continuity going a little bit and then we could have still been like, hmm, well it's still a dream but they're still talking about the silence. So we could have been

The Echnodines then tried to kill the trio, but the doctor then steps in to protect Amy and Rory while the couple escape. The doctor accepts that Ledworth could be real, failing to try reasoning with the Echnodes. This is where uh Rory and Amy they sort of run away. They have to smack an old woman with a bit of wood, which I thought was quite funny. But then she quickly gets up. Um just beat the elderly.

Anyway, so the doctor then, dazed by drowsiness, stumbles through the streets of the village as an army of citizens pursue him. He's about to fall asleep, his bird's song is heard. cli insurance claim thing because they'd be basically lying on the floor Yeah, I know. He enters a butcher's shop and searches madly for means of escape. But the uh the dreamlord appears again dressed up as like a butcher. Uh the doctor ends up getting into the

So uh the doctor I think the doctor ends up he hides in a a fridge, isn't it? So he s sonic screwdrivers into a fridge. And then he closes himself inside and he falls asleep.

The trio then w on the TARDIS and argue about which of the world is real. The doctor then believes it's time to choose. He personally believes the TARDIS world is real. It's a bigger it's a big universe. Stars can burn cold and sofas can read, which I thought was a bit of a weird S uh weird thing to be honest. Yeah. But anyway, it's the doctor. Uh Rory, however.

Rory, however, assists the Leadworth world is real, prompting the doctor arg angrily wonder whether they they're really disagreeing or competing. So obviously Rory wants that world to be real because he's got Amy, he's married, he's got a family coming, he's got a house, he's got a career, you know, that's everything he wants. There's no way Amy's gonna want him and all that if Basically

Got the doctor. And obviously we know from last week's episode that Rory is quite jealous of the doctor and Amy's relationship. So, you know, th this is another factor I think into him wanting that world to be real. Amy then wonders what they're competing over and both give her a loot look. Annoyed, Amy then retrieves some blankets from a lower storage area of the TARDIS and turns them into ponchos, which according to Rory is the biggest crime against families.

Since Lederhosen's The Doctor then decides if they split up in each world the Dreamlord would have a harder time putting them back to sleep. The Dreamlord then materializes. The the Dreamlord then materializes thinking Veggie's idea is good uh and with that he sends the doctor and Rory back to Leadworth and keeps Ain Amy awake in the TARDIS before falling asleep, the doctor promises.

Rory wakes to find the house under siege. He quickly pulls the unconscious Amy upstairs to their unborn child's nursery and locks the door behind him. The doctor meanwhile calm calmly primes his sonic screwdriver and opens the freezer door. Supercharging the light bulbs to blind the Echnodine. and enable his escape. He then commandeers a van,

saving a man from attack and drives through the town, picking up various citizens along the way. After dropping them off at the town church, he goes off to find his friends. The Dreamlord then materialized in the back seat of the van, and this is where he's dressed in that red Yeah. Just a weird choice, I feel. I think it's more connected. Oh, is it? Yeah, because basically I think that's like someone dressed in a

I don't know. And taunts the doctor or the doctor's waning relationship with his past companions as they mature after their inventions with him. Never to see him again. A good friend would stay in contact, but the doctor is an old man who prefers the company of the young. Which was I spec you said a bit um Peter. strange. Yeah, it's a bit that's like Leo DiCaprio and basically as soon as anyone turns twenty seven he basically heaves them off and's like right new one

You know, is that gonna be w it you know, kinda makes me laugh. It's like he's the new Who Hefner. We do we we have had this before about the doctor and companions. Obviously he has companions, they leave and he kind of we never see them again. And that is supposed I kind of get what he's saying in a way. If you've got someone who's older

They could have all these ailments and they can't really run. Mm-hmm. So they could be potentially a liability. Yeah, I suppose. So I kinda get where he's coming from on that way, but it did The doctor then ignores him, prompting the Dreamlord to see that he can no longer affect the doctor.

He vanishes to taunt another of the trio. Meanwhile, the Dreamlord confronts Amy aboard Tardis. Anything can happen now that they are alone. Defiant Amy ignores the his lechery. He makes it clear to her that she is not the first woman to travel, the doctor and question. Her romantic inclinations, claiming Rory is nothing compared to the excitement the doctor can offer her. However, he also suggests settling settling for a look.

Settling for Rory would be better than loving and losing the doctor. He tells her that they're waiting for her to decide which world is real. Amy's men, Amy's choice, she decides to return to Leadworth to join Rory and the first time. And I don't think that's a case of which Which you know they're trying to make it out as to say well which land is real. I don't think that's a case of that.

It's more about her deciding between the doctor or Rory. Yeah, the doctor and Rory Because obviously we have had that in the past where she came onto the doctor. Because if she's another companion. It's like trying to say that if she chose the target Like it was you know, choosing they'd be choosing the doctor. Yeah, the doctor.

But you know, we get a bit Well, we do find out a little bit more in a bit um about what actually the motivations are behind this. So it's kinda makes sense I suppose. Um she finds out what has happened as a doctor climbs into the nursery via a window which is a little bit more than a little bit. Um yeah. He he then reveals that while he was once sure that the TARDIS was for real

uh was reality, he is now uncertain. Miss Poggart then breaks into the nursery second war window and Rory immediately stands to action, determined to protect Amy and their baby, however is promptly hit by the deadly gas. secreted from her eye stalk. The doctor then promptly jams a nearby lamp into Mrs. Poggett's face, causing her to fall to the ground outside in probably one of the most comedic moments of this episode. Um

Telling Rory to look after their baby, Rory then dissolves into dust. Amy then begs the doctor to save Rory, but he sadly says he cannot. Then what is the point of you? Which I swear is a line that we've kind of heard before. Yeah, kinda similar to that about Um Jackie Tyler, I think. Yeah, like 'Cause th the the thing is that w everyone expects the doctor to be able to save people or bring people back from the dead and he he can't do that but even though he's a time lord and he has

Access to all time you should. Yeah, and that it's all about and that's before that uh before we've had that as well, like should he do it? Should he interfere? You know, but anyway it's It's a bit of a deeper meaning so they say. So to straw Amy then decides that Leadworth is a dream, it cannot be real because Rory isn't there with her. She and the doctor then make their way outside, past the sudden, docile Echnodines, and approach the van. The doctor then explains that if the

If they're in a dream their attackers know what they're about to do. Before giving her the keys, the doctor then asks her if she is sure or what she's about to do. Amy then replies that she is and that even if it is real, she doesn't want to live in a world without Rory, as the Dream Lord watches the two drive the van straight into the house, killing themselves and several Ectodines in the process

The doctor Amy and Rory then awake in the TARDIS, almost frozen but alive, the Dreamlord appears and congratulates them. In a show of benevolence he steers the TARDIS away from the cold star and turns the power back on. Yeah, but turn on the power button. She's gonna turn that into a flooded room. Well, yes, but this is the TARDIS, so

Anyway, the doctor then, however, is not convinced and prepares to blow up the TARDIS despite Amy and Rory's protests. The doctor explains that the dreamlord would have had no power in the real world, and he was offering them a choice between two dreams. Uh Amy asks him how he could know that, to which the doctor then replies because I know who he is.

And a blinding white law light then fills the control room. The three then wake up in the TARDIS once more. The doctor then pres the doctor presents. hi presents his companions with a speck of psychic pollen from the candle meadows of Carras, Don Salavar

it has fallen it had fallen into the time rotor and heated up, causing the dream state. After blowing the pollen into space, the doctor then reveals that the Jar the Dreamlord was a manifestation of the dark side of his personality, a bit like the valley.

what I would say. Yeah. Because we know that the Valiard is like the dark side of the Doctor from obviously the trial of the Time Lord. Um it does make me wonder did the did the Doctor actually put that pollen into the TARDIS here because of the nature of it? Well yeah, because of the pure and simple fact. This whole one, she tried to snog him. And not only that, you know, she And then ends up snogging him. So yeah, there was a lot of question about her relationship with the biggest thing.

Because it's funny how the doctors manipulated this situation to get Rory in the TARDIS with them. Yeah. To try to bring them together. And now that they've got to this point where he's probably seeing that they're a little bit fractured and they're not really as sort of close as what they should be for boyfriend and girlfriend or fiance, you know, fiancee. Someone who's getting married the next day.

He's obviously done this to pull them together. So it makes you wonder if he put that pollen in there and you know. But the ending is a little bit ambiguous. Um, so it's kind of like you have to kind of make your mind up

He then sets the TARDIS on a new course. Rory asks Amy what stopped the Deadworth dream. Having forgotten his death, Amy tells him, confessing that she did not know what world was real, but that no matter what she could not live without him. The couple then share a kiss and

Rory, when asked by the doctor where they'd like to go next, tells him it's Amy's choice. There is a moment here where the doctor actually says when they're kissing, would you like me to go to the swimming swimming pool to do a couple of laps hinting at the Um if you remember rightly I also said before we said that that there's about a billion rooms

As a d well we know there's the we know there's a bedroom because Teagan and um Nyssa had a bedroom. Yeah. So there's a there's a lot of rooms and to be fair, you know, the TADA seems to create Yep. Sort of like a rumor requirement sort of thing. You know? But the thing is, obviously, you know, that's gonna come into play.

Well yes. As the doctor then works, the TARDIS controls he briefly sees the Dreamlord's face within his reflection on the console, giving a sinister smile. This troubles the doctor enough to look around when his reflection

shown again it is his own and the dream lord is no longer there. So they kinda do leave it a little bit ambiguous. So it's kinda like, do we think that the doctor did this or did this go a little bit further than what the doctor really wanted it to with his darker side'cause uh reading some of the uh little bit at the top of the wiki page actually says that this is the first sort of step uh into them exploring the doctor's darkness

So it does come back. Um yeah, you know that that is it. Like I said, it would be a shorter plot going through because it is it's basically two worlds as we find out both dream worlds, um, on the TARDIS, which they're not on very, very much to be honest. They're more in Leadworth than they were on the TARDIS. Um you know, it was just basically it it's basically

a a plot device really just to basically get Rory and Amy together together a bit more than what they were. I actually didn't mind Rory in this episode. Like he can I think it was more of Excuse me. Um I didn't actually mind Rory in this episode. Like he can be Yeah, he can be a bit annoying sometimes. I found that I found that in last time's The Vampires of Venice, I thought he was a bit Just a bit irritating. I thought you were better.

just think he worked a little bit better in the storyline. I think it's okay. Because the storyline is actually about Amy and Rory really, with the doctor as a kind of the sidekick in a way. You know, because it's about them Amy, like like say her choice. Um but yeah, I think if you do like look a little bit deeper into the subtext of it, I think it is probably the doctor trying to make her choose raw.

Um because obviously his doctor he can't be he can't be sleeping around with all his companions. Well he could, but it'd be a bit of uh Anyway, Mark Campbell's episode Guide Verdicts So it says a delightfully written fairy tale from an unexpected source. Toby Jones is chillingly funny as the low key villain, and the three regulars are on splendid form. There's more than a touch of the Avengers about the Dreamy Village sequences and the OAP violence is handled with comic strip panach.

Only the rushed resolution disappoints and he gave it a nine out of ten. A nine. He gave it a nine. I I do think it's better than last time. Well, I do think it's better than last time's. Maybe a seven. Mm maybe, I think. Not a nine. And uh

So next time i is another double parter, which I did actually think I d I knew there was a few double parters in this series, but I didn't realise it was a double part that quickly after the Weeping Angels one. But this is um this it's gonna be a very interesting It's gonna be a a very interesting watch because I think you'll find that it's Becky's all favourite. The Silurians are back and we can go through the controversial

um, thing that's at the minute happening with Doctor Who, which it will be a bit controversial. Um, but... To be fair, i the the fact that it's a science fiction creature, um, I think we can talk about it. It's basically the fact that they're renaming the sea devil. So Russell T. Davis, I think it's Russell T. Davis, so we will look into that before we actually go on a bit of probably a probably a bit of a deep dive into that.

Um can't spend too much time on that because it is a double part because then the double part of the episode will be like an hour and a half long. But anyway, we're we'll have to deep dive into this this situation quickly with the sea devils as we watch it. I think we'll we'll

Explain what's happening and what what's going on with that, that they're renaming them, they're changing the name from the Sea Devils because there's a Well the Silurians, but there are the sea devils as well, which we will explain that as well. It was a John Pertwee episode. Well two they were both in the Pert Pertwee era, but there were two episodes. One's with the Silurians and then the the subset.

The Solurians, the Sea Devils. Uh because there's a special coming out which is like to be fair, it doesn't really interest me. I'm probably never gonna I'm probably not gonna watch it, but'cause it's it's in the Doctor Who universe, it's just not really Doctor Who. And it does feature what were what used to be the sea devils, but they're now being called something else, and that's what I want to talk about.

Next time when we go through next time's episode, which is double part, which is the hungry earth and cold blood. And then we'll be getting towards the end of the series, to be fair, because then we've only got uh Vince Vincent and the doctor, the lodger. that one and uh the Pandora opens in the big band you like that one because I think the the lot isn't the Lodger the one with James Corden in it.

Again, that will be a very interesting episode as well, with a controversy about James Gordon then. 'Cause he's like our equivalent of he's like an actor's equivalent of Marmoite, you love him or you hate him. I love James Corden. Um So yeah, so that's this week's uh episode. Again, we have to apologize, it's a bit sporadic. It's probably gonna keep people obviously like It's gonna be a little bit sporadic, I think, going.

Whatever. For in the future, like I've had problems with my car, we've had illnesses. We've had family stuff. There's been a lot happening at the minute and it's probably gonna be a little bit more sporadic, but it's gonna keep we're gonna keep trying to get the episodes out. So we've got this one out today, Monday the uh seventeenth. And we'll probably It's the seventeenth today. You said Monday. Yeah, it's Monday today. Yeah, oh. It's the seventeenth.

There we go. Monday the seventeenth it's gonna come out and we're gonna probably push to remember what day of the week is leave. And then we'll probably push to get that double parter out for next time as well. um for s for Sunday when we r r uh hopefully we'll um go back to the schedule. So if I quickly on the fly keep having a look. So uh we'll have a look. So we got One, two what sorry, let me just quickly look. Uh one, two, three episodes. Um to go. We've got one, two, Three episodes.

Well yeah, we've got three up we've got we've got three weeks until we get into the fourteenth of December, uh, twenty five. If you're listening to this in the future it's already happened, but um So yeah, so we'll have a look we'll have the fourteenth. Now I don't know if they did a Christmas special because my the Mark Campbell episode gu guide only goes up to the Pandora opens and the Big Bang. That's the last one. So I don't know if there is a Christmas special in this series.

Um but if there is then we can get that done and then we'll have a couple week break. Well this is series five. I could quickly just look on here to be honest. I'm already doing it. I could just go like forward a couple of things. Um Yes, um a Christmas carol. There we go. So uh yeah, a Christmas carol. So yes. Yeah. And I yeah, we'll watch that one I think as well. So I think we'll we'll we'll we'll we'll try and get one from now until Christmas, basically. And we'll go from um

Uh we'll probably have a couple of week break from the twenty-first, the twenty-eighth, and might resume on the fourth. That's the plan, but we'll we'll talk about that. That idea. But yeah, like say a little bit of a shorter episode this week. Let's say, like this one. I do like this one. I think it is a very good. Um Return to form, as it were, after last time's uh The Vampires of Venice. But you obviously like that one. I wasn't too keen on it.

So anyway, thank you all for your continued support. If there is any change with the schedule, then it will be on X or Twitter or whatever you wanna say. And uh we'll keep updated on there. So like I say, thank you all for listening. Continue support. And we'll see you next time for that double parter with the Solurians. So I'll say goodbye and say goodbye, Becky. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.