Howling:Amy Pond's time periods - 90s, 2008, and 2010

We are we classing the events of the Eleventh Hour as happening in 2010, and the Doctor's second return as 2012? When the Atraxi look at tEarth's recent history, it shows only events that happened prior to 2008, it showed no 2008 or 2009 events. The latest thing it showed was The Runawya Bride - the end of 2007, nothing after that. In Vincent and the Doctor, when the Doctor takes Amy back to her time period, it's 2010, placing most of The Eleventh Hour in 2008.

It fits, though: they only show events that happened prior to to 2008 (the latest being the end of 2007), placing it more in 2008, and then two years later, 2010, fitting with how it's 2010 when the Doctor goes back to Amy's time period later in the series, and calls it 2010. Delton Menace 19:42, April 3, 2010 (UTC)

So... Are our timelines synced now? Finally >.< Cannon881 19:46, April 3, 2010 (UTC)

They are as of the shaky 2009 specials forcing them that way, and the grand Moffat, being how he is, wouldn't want a confused chronology. Many reports cited child Amy scenes as 1996, which when adding 12, makes 2008, and another 2, makes 2010, which again fits with the dialouge in Vincent and the Doctor. :) Delton Menace 19:48, April 3, 2010 (UTC)

Hah, good, no more confusion about the one year ahead thing RTD had (the only bad thing in his era.....that and the new cybermen) the twelfth doctor 20:02, April 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Course none of this takes into account the prominent shot of the London Eye in the opening sequence . . .  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍ 03:59, April 4, 2010 (UTC)

Nothing they could do about that, they got a helicopter to film an overview of London at some point this year, and wa-la, the landmarks are there! Basically - nothing they could do, they probably don't have the money to edit our landmarks and replace them.Or they just weren't bothered/thinking. We can always come up with the lovely excuse that the Whoniverse had some things built earlier. Plus, when the Doctor left Earth, it was a snowy 2005; however, when the TARDIS crashed back down, it's monitor with the time-reprisenting synbbols went mad, he could have been knocked into different time periods before ending up in Amy's Garden. Delton Menace 04:18, April 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, just on that point, of course there's something they could do about that. They did the same thing for Daleks in Manhattan. They de-aged modern shots of Manhattan. London Eye would've been somewhat easy to paint out in those shots as well, cause there's not much around it.


 * Anyway, you've got bigger problems than the London Eye. The only definitive date in the entire episode is Rory's ID badge, issued —wait for it — 30th November 1990. That makes the Amelia stuff in the early 1980s at the very latest. If that's not a production error, this whole episode can't be any later than about 2000. Your whole theory of 96/2008/2010 is frankly shot to hell.  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍

MY THEROY? That's what has been reported from on-set, that the child stuff was 1996, plus the Atraxi see 2007 events when looking at Earth's history, and when the Doctor returns to Amy's time period in a later episode, the year is - wait for it - 2010. Rory's ID badge is frankly shot to hell, too, say Earth's history and a later episode. Delton Menace 04:57, April 4, 2010 (UTC)

That's not the only thing! Facebook, Twitter, and a very modern laptop - and multi-webcam conversations. Twitter, for a start, didn't exist until like 2008, and Facebook was 2004. Webcams like that seen in the episode, along with that laptop, are very wouldn't have existed prior to the 2000s, too. To add fuel to your fire, people weren't too suprsied by the aliens, either. Rory wasn't shocked, and asked if they were bad aliens - note how "bad" aliens invaded in the mid to late 2000s. *rolls eyes* Delton Menace 05:00, April 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, your theory. No need to shout.  "Reports from the set" aren't valid references.  That's not to say I don't understand everything you're saying.  The chronology of this episode, taken in isolation, is frankly quite confusing.  They didn't have to make the badge the way they did.  Despite what you've said above, they didn't have to leave the London Eye in a shot ostensibly from some point in the 20th century.   They didn't have to show us the latest models of cell phones and laptops.  THe props and backgrounds are incongruous.  Somewhere there is a production error in the episode — or some kind of purposeful statement from Moffat that the DWU is not running at the same time as the real world.  After all, the DW of Moffat's youth wasn't contemporaneous with the year of the viewer..


 * Until we get to these later episodes, we won't be able to tell what about the many conflicting things in The Eleventh Hour is a production error, and what isn't. At the moment, the best we can say is that the only firm date in the entire episode is what's given on Rory's badge.   Czech Out   ☎ | ✍  08:54, April 4, 2010 (UTC)