HOW OLD IS AMY POND? - Doctor Who's Impossible Mystery

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  • Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
  • Amy Pond (played by Karen Gillan) has one of the most complicated eras of any Doctor Who character. One such complication is her age which is increasingly hard to track throughout the show.
    In a different kind of video, I attempt to answer a seemingly impossible question from my favourite show: just how old is Amy Pond?
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 298

  • @TheInkTank
    @TheInkTank 2 роки тому +20

    Excellent video!

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому +5

      Thanks! I’m a huge fan of your videos since I loved Ben 10 as a kid and your breakdowns have reignited my love for that series now I’m older. It really means a lot to get feedback from you guys.

    • @TheInkTank
      @TheInkTank 2 роки тому +5

      @@TBowenMedia Thank you, that’s really cool to hear! Keep up the great work with your videos.

    • @JDJG3493
      @JDJG3493 6 місяців тому +1

      @@TBowenMedia Only problem with the video was that it was a couple of years since they last meet during the night before the weeding day.

  • @OverWims
    @OverWims 2 роки тому +332

    When The Doctor said his death was "tomorrow" he didn't literally mean the next day. He meant his tomorrow. He's a time traveller. He followed by saying "I can't put it off anymore" meaning that he had decided that he would finally go back to that date to meet his demise.

    • @Stormbringer2012
      @Stormbringer2012 2 роки тому

      His death was his tomorrow because he wouldn't say just tomorrow but, a tomorrow. You're wrong and your theory sucks azz. Now apologize to everyone. SAY YOU"RE SORRY!!!!

    • @ninjagamer1359
      @ninjagamer1359 2 роки тому +19

      Yeah, that line never read as a literal calendar reference to me, either. We must assume the prop designer misinterpreted it as such, though, when dating the newspaper.

    • @roryfenelonfilm
      @roryfenelonfilm 3 місяці тому

      Agreed.

  • @ChildrenOfWhistler
    @ChildrenOfWhistler 2 роки тому +6

    You have a small channel and undertook a big mission to try and make a video about this. And you pulled it off. Answered some questions, posed some opinions and at the end of the day just respected the work you were analyzing. Congrats.

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому +2

      Thank you so much. That really means a lot especially considering this was so different to what I've made in the past and I wasn't entirely sure there'd be an audience, it was just a video I personally wanted to see which is a good a reason as any to make something. Respecting the work I'm analysing was especially important to me as a big fan of the Eleventh Doctor era but I'd try and treat all art I'm talking about with that respect since I know it will always be important to someone.

  • @aaronwilliams1461
    @aaronwilliams1461 2 роки тому +18

    My one complaint about your way of treating their time on the tardis as them being frozen in time is that its already been established later with Clara that they still age when on the tardis. I've always personally looked at it is that a hour on the tardis is still an hour you are aging. The tardis might not have a day night cycle, why would it? It can be in either place it wants. But my point is that once you enter the tardis. Your age no longer can be counted by the earth. I see it as you have a limited number of seconds to live. And whether those seconds are spent on another planet, in the tardis, on earth. They are still going by. So perhaps the 10 years is Amy and Rory adding up all the house they've spent with the doctor and adding it to what would be their normal lives

  • @SeanS102
    @SeanS102 Рік тому +2

    When I got recommended this, with it's 85k views, I feared a takedown of the Moff era, thank you for taking only 35 seconds to put me at ease 🙏

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  Рік тому +1

      A year after this was uploaded I wrote a 10,000 word dissertation on Moffat’s take on Doctor Who; it’s safe to say I’m a fan. Honestly though, I get feeling reassured by something like that. Performative showrunner hate instantly puts me off a video so i try to make my videos fun and removed from that kind of content.

  • @ashleytuchin7693
    @ashleytuchin7693 2 роки тому +1

    Great work, dude! Things really did get confusing with the Ponds by the end there, so I tip my hat to you for taking a crack at it.
    I had a go at working it out last year for something I was working on, so I know it's no simple task.

  • @mcswordfish
    @mcswordfish 2 роки тому +1

    My philosophy for all Doctor Who is to treat each series as it's own canon, and view the links between each series as loose context and guidance only.
    Obviously, the series do inform each other more heavily, but within 2-3 series, there is significant drift, and events that once occurred are no longer referred to. The Slitheen invasion from S1E4 is clearly ignored when there are future alien invasions, as is every Dalek invasion in history (of which there have been many). As long as each individual series makes sense, and the transition from one series to the next is OK, I'm happy.

  • @PLAYER42_ready
    @PLAYER42_ready 2 роки тому +1

    Great vid! Never would’ve guessed that, can’t wait for more and I you are so underrated!

  • @josephinegosselin6623
    @josephinegosselin6623 Місяць тому

    Here's my theory:
    Amelia - 7 yo when she meets 11 for the first time. (Obviously)
    19 yo when he came back (obviously)
    21 yo after he closed the time paradox and gave her parents, so at the end of season 5 (obviously as well).
    In season 6 she might be between 21 and 23, she didn't age much because she was pregnant for 7 episodes, only at the end of the season when Rory and Amy waited for the Doctor to find Melody - she said in Let's Kill Hitler it's been months since last time. So Amy = 22-24 from episode 8. In the Christmas special, 2 years added -> 24-26 yo.
    In season 7A, she is at least 31 because Rory said in Dinosaurs on a spaceship: "Dad, I'm 31. I don't have a Christmas list anymore." We can assume Rory and Amy are the same age. (Although I think Amy's slightly older than him)

  • @Noggies
    @Noggies 9 місяців тому +1

    I've never heard that series 7A being out of order theory before but I love it and I'm gonna believe it to be true.

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  9 місяців тому

      It’s a neat theory. Not perfect since the exact order gets a bit confusing but it adds an element of tragedy to the Eleventh Doctor being unable to bear losing his friends

  • @irrevenant3
    @irrevenant3 2 роки тому +1

    Maybe Kate and the Doctor met out of order, and she just went through with their 'first meeting' from his perspective to not screw with the timeline? Honestly, I'm surprised there isn't a lot more meeting out of order on this show...

  • @animequeen1010
    @animequeen1010 2 роки тому +1

    How do you only have 175 subscribers your amazing I love doctor who keep up the good work

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you! Weirdly, I think about sixty to seventy of those subscribers came after this video. Definitely planning more videos like this.

    • @animequeen1010
      @animequeen1010 2 роки тому +1

      @@TBowenMedia I think you found what you are good at

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому

      @@animequeen1010 I was in a bit of a creative block and feeling quite restless recently and making this video and the response to it gave me a real confidence boost. It means a lot hearing your feedback.

    • @animequeen1010
      @animequeen1010 2 роки тому +1

      @@TBowenMedia I glad keep it up

  • @hewiy33
    @hewiy33 2 роки тому

    Relativity would explain the doctors statement that "I die tomorrow" for the doctor may mean that in 24 hours from the saying he is finishing his farewell tour. The doctor is showing up to lock in his time and date of death.

  • @schubertuk
    @schubertuk 2 роки тому +6

    Amy's age is Steven Moffat's ode to the 1960s/70s/80s UNIT dating debacle [in particular note the Pyramids of Mars v The Ark of Infinity]. Doctor Who should always have lots of internal contradictions to stop fans worrying about what is and isn't canon. This saves us from the fate that some Star Wars/Star Trek fans suffer from: having apoplectic fits everytime they spot an inconsistency that they treat as existential crises. Enjoy the inconsistency. Embrace the inconsistency. It's Doctor Who - it's all wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey OK.

    • @louisalectube
      @louisalectube 2 роки тому +1

      *sigh* That's an excuse for terrible, hack writing. smh I have more respect for my own brain, TYVM.

    • @schubertuk
      @schubertuk 2 роки тому

      @@louisalectube I think it is a fantastic solution to a problem all long-running franchises run into. And the result is very popular. Focusing on fun, rather than trying to make an impossible equation add-up - ultimately makes a show I like to watch. You find an odd way to respect your brain if you'd rather just read through these comments and post your disappointment... But each to their own!

    • @fellinuxvi3541
      @fellinuxvi3541 2 роки тому

      @@schubertuk maybe it works, but have you seen this guy's writing on Sherlock? His bad writing is sure as hell not intentional.

    • @schubertuk
      @schubertuk 2 роки тому

      @@fellinuxvi3541 I don't agree, but I fully respect your opinion - as I hope you would do me the courtesy of respecting mine?

    • @fellinuxvi3541
      @fellinuxvi3541 2 роки тому

      @@schubertuk I respect that you like his work.
      If you think it's good, that's subjective, not my business.
      What I take issue with is the idea that it's intentional. That part is not an opinion.

  • @optimisticexistentialism999
    @optimisticexistentialism999 2 роки тому

    I really love the timeless child in Doctor who becouse is show the continuity missy timeline in Doctor who probably it is a beauty in itself so we can Interpret the canon anyway we won’t to interpret it

  • @papalaz4444244
    @papalaz4444244 2 роки тому

    Don't forget time was rewritten and she got both her parents back and so she was never alone. Then it was all dropped by the next ep.

  • @willherondale6367
    @willherondale6367 2 роки тому

    The difference between something like this and the timeless children is that that reveal cheapens the story hugely, and flattens the Doctor's character.

  • @mattwho81
    @mattwho81 2 роки тому +1

    So you could say Amy’s age is less a strict progression of cause to effect, and more a great big ball... of wibbley wobbley... Timey wimey... stuff...

  • @melodyyeager6076
    @melodyyeager6076 2 роки тому

    Here's another one to cook your noodle
    I believe there is more than one River Song running around the Doctors timeline.

  • @stevealston201
    @stevealston201 2 роки тому

    Good work my friend. Amy Pond was gorgeous

  • @Bman-dr8hx
    @Bman-dr8hx 2 роки тому

    To me if the nearly 2000 years counted for Rory after the reboot. It should count for Amy because she wasn’t completely dead. If it doesn’t count for Amy it shouldn’t count for Rory.

  • @kevinxxx8093
    @kevinxxx8093 2 роки тому

    Maybe the show should have been called Doctor When.

  • @DoctorTimelord
    @DoctorTimelord 2 роки тому

    did you just say "Firty one years old" ?

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому

      Yep, and I apologise. That's what half an hour of recording will do to you.

  • @malcster2
    @malcster2 2 роки тому

    the biggest mystery is why her character has a scottish accent....

  • @seminp205
    @seminp205 8 місяців тому

    I hate Amy pond she is the most annoy character ever added to the show

  • @ClappingForChlamydia
    @ClappingForChlamydia 2 роки тому

    31

  • @arvadonraxin1263
    @arvadonraxin1263 2 роки тому +136

    I had always thought that when the Doctor says he will die tomorrow in Closing Time, that it was his personal tomorrow, not the tomorrow of the current time he finds himself in. It has to be a self-imposed deadline as a time traveller, because he can just avoid 11th April 2011 for as long as he likes, so long as he eventually does go there

    • @rebeccahill6187
      @rebeccahill6187 2 роки тому +4

      He does presumably have to do it while he's 1103 - his recorded age upon death, but that still gives him a year to play around with. Maybe he was like 11 months in in Closing Time, but decided to put it off even more at...the eleventh hour.

    • @arvadonraxin1263
      @arvadonraxin1263 2 роки тому +3

      @@rebeccahill6187 Definitely, though the Doctor has somewhat regularly pointed out they have no idea what their real age is. But yes, it would certainly need to be at some point when the Doctor reasonably believes himself to be 1,103

  • @jimkirk4357
    @jimkirk4357 2 роки тому +112

    He's a Timelord. Trying to make sense of his life is like a 10 year old trying to make sense of quantum entanglement.

    • @kaizoisevil
      @kaizoisevil 2 роки тому +1

      Jimmy Neutron be like

    • @ThePeaceableKingdom
      @ThePeaceableKingdom 2 роки тому +5

      "...is like a 10 year old trying to make sense of quantum entanglement."
      Or indeed a 65year old...

    • @randybaumery5090
      @randybaumery5090 Рік тому +1

      A Chinese 10 year old probably can!

  • @magicalgirllaurie
    @magicalgirllaurie 2 роки тому +139

    The thing with Time Travel stories is that they always have very loose canon. They have to in order for things to make sense in the fictional universes, with things constantly changing and being retconned and stuff. And that's what's great about Doctor Who. It doesn't matter that Amy's age is inconsistent, or whenever the UNIT stories took place, or whatever race the Doctor is at this point in time. Because really it doesn't matter. It's a fun show and people love it. You literally cannot destroy canon in a show which has a constantly shifting canon. It's like schrodinger's cat. It either happened or didn't, but it doesn't really matter because it was fun.

    • @samb1123
      @samb1123 2 роки тому +2

      @MagicalGirlLaurie Exactly what I was thinking but I can't put it any better

    • @obiwankenobi687
      @obiwankenobi687 2 роки тому +4

      RTD always managed to keep his canon perfectly consistent across three shows whilst in charge so I don’t see any reason why moffats era couldn’t

    • @jimkirk4357
      @jimkirk4357 2 роки тому

      What I meant by that is that in universe, it's fun to pretend that it all makes perfect sense if you know everything the Doctor knows! A bit of mystery makes it more fun. Wibbly wobbly timey wimey fun!

    • @The_Blue_Otaku
      @The_Blue_Otaku 2 роки тому

      To be honest all this video has done for me has made me think that Clara's title as the the impossible girl should go to Amy because wow trying place all the events with Amy and the Doctor into a cohesive timeline is impossible even for Steven Moffat and he was the showrunner of the show

  • @DavidCornell1
    @DavidCornell1 2 роки тому +33

    I like all the logic here, but one comment about aging: there’s a line, I forget which episode but I know Amy says it (maybe Pond Life?), where she mentions being concerned that their friends might start wondering why they’re aging faster than they should, since they had been spending time on the tardis AND living their earth lives without missing any earth time, which would imply that they do age as normal while on the tardis. Or at least, that Amy believes they do.

    • @DavidCornell1
      @DavidCornell1 2 роки тому +2

      This doesn’t conflict with anything you said in the video though, if I’m not mistaken

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому +7

      @@DavidCornell1 Thanks for reminding me. It’s from A Town Called Mercy, and I did make note of it when scripting the video but just couldn’t find a place for it. It does suggest the Ponds were ageing while on the TARDIS but obviously with Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill only shooting the show for about three years as opposed to the supposed decade they spent travelling with the Doctor in-universe, they obviously don’t look as old as maybe they would do.

  • @patrickchapman8583
    @patrickchapman8583 2 роки тому +27

    I think Amy's and Rory's timeline, in terms of Earth time, is further complicated by the doctor not always dropping them off right after he picked them up. I'm sure there were a couple of scenes when Amy and Rory were trying to live a "normal" life that their friends and coworkers commented that they found Rory and Amy to be unreliable because they'd disappear for days or weeks with no warning or explanation. And that it was a big deal when Rory and Amy committed to some event a few months out like normal people because they had stopped traveling with the Doctor.

    • @mikespangler98
      @mikespangler98 2 роки тому +6

      There definitely were mentions that the Ponds were often gone for long periods. Rory's father was in the habit of watering the houseplants when they were gone.
      In other notes, the Ponds and Clara had to overlap. Clara was not traveling with the Doctor routinely, and I doubt her room had bunk beds.

  • @tortysoft
    @tortysoft 2 роки тому +12

    I've been living the Drs life since 1963. It has been part of my family - my father worked on the show from Hartnell to Tom Baker. I worked on it from Tom to Colin Baker. OK, on and off ... that's how it was done - randomly. I would delight to be in the new show in any way at all ! I'm an actor now, as old as William H !

  • @tideoftime
    @tideoftime 2 роки тому +12

    Amy is approximately 40 years old when she parts ways with the Doctor in The Angels Take Manhattan, relative to her personal timeline, totalling up all of her general personal experiences. (That is, she could 39, 42, or some age in that general ballpark.) We can deduce this in relative terms by her and Rory's appearance (makeup to make them look older than the actors were IRL, and Amy dressed to make her look like she's gained a few pounds relative to being 40+ vs her 20s) as well as her needing reading glasses (many/a majority of people who didn't need to wear glasses before usually find themselves needing some help with reading at around 40-ish, plus or minus). So when she is sent back in time after Rory to 1938, she then ages forward to dying at age 87 (approx.) circa 1985, relative to that math and general averages, and therefore Rory dying five years earlier circa 1980.
    In Re: the dates you cite and the Doctor's relative timeline. You are confusing/conflating the Doctor's personal timeline, as well as Amy's, relative to sequential dates (such as the incident at Lake Silencio, et al). It actually makes sense when you track their personal timelines, where they deviate from sequential chronology, separately from that sequential.

    • @togepipi
      @togepipi 2 роки тому +1

      How was she 40? Didn't she meet the doctor in 2005 or am I stupid cause I didn't see 10 leave 2005

    • @tideoftime
      @tideoftime 2 роки тому +1

      @@togepipi ? -- what are you referring to? Amy met the Doctor for the first time, in her personal timeline, in 1996 (when she was 7); she met him again in 2008 (when she was 19); then again and continuing from 2010 (when she was 21 and engaged). However, relative to her personal timeline, you can't count her age relative to linear years after 2010 because, as noted by her multiple times in the series (particularly in her last season), her personal timeline stretches further than our linear timeline because she is time traveling. That TATM takes place in 2012 (which coincided with the real-life year the episode originally aired) is completely irrelevant to her personal age at that point. At that point, she was already well passed her linear anniversary marrying Rory (as the Doctor spent a year living with them in the prior story, covering 2020 to 2021), and had been traveling with the Doctor for protracted periods during her time(s) with him. (Her 10th wedding anniversary night, alone, had her gone for almost two months while her quests only perceived her being "absent" for a couple hours or so. She also remarks to the Doctor how it's getting tricky to explain to her friends how/why she and Rory seem to not be aging well as the years go by, primarily because more years are passing for her, personally, than for her friends because she goes off for months, or even years, at a time and then returns more or less when she left in linear time.)
      I think you are very much confusing real-life airdates for episodes with the in-narrative passage of time for the characters in the show. As I noted, Amy is approximately 40 or so years old when we last see her in TATM; it doesn't matter what year, linearly, the story happens to take place in (2012) because she and the Doctor are *time-traveling* -- their personal timelines differ significantly from the linear years of the series as-aired in real-life, as I note/example above.

  • @safebox36
    @safebox36 2 роки тому +41

    Regarding the 10 year thing, friends of Amy and Rory refer to them looking a lot older than the last time they were seen in Power of Three. With them avoiding the topic when it's brought up.
    So I think it's implied that they spent 10 years with the Doctor. With short breaks in their own lives. And Amy saying what she did to the Doctor was her saying that she and Rory have lost track of time as a consequence, they're aging faster than those around them by popping back in where they left.

    • @monkstandinglast
      @monkstandinglast Рік тому

      I agree there was a throw away comment in an episode I forget which that someone said "They always look different when they have just seen them both only the other day like they are getting older" or something very similar to it.

  • @sageseeker9197
    @sageseeker9197 2 роки тому +19

    One thing, you don't usually start showing until around week 16-20 (4-5+ months) with pregnancy, and that's only a tiny bump. For some it's not even until the very end of the second trimester. So it makes sense for Amy not to show anything, if at all.

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому +5

      Thank you for pointing this out. I think my logic was that she goes into labour in The Almost People so I assumed she must be further along earlier in the series. Should’ve looked into that more.

    • @mikespangler98
      @mikespangler98 2 роки тому +3

      Tall women especially are late to show in an obvious way.

    • @thomaspowers1375
      @thomaspowers1375 2 роки тому +2

      @@TBowenMedia If I remember correctly, she said she was pregnant in The Impossible Astronaut, is kidnapped and resued in Day of The Moon (three months after The Impossible Astronaut), and then denies she's pregnant. It's pretty clear the substution was made during the kidnapping. She was probably about 4.5 to 5 months pregnant at the time of the kidnapping, and episodes 3-6 of series 6 took place over the balance of her pregnancy. Series 6A covers about 7 months.

  • @scibanana3542
    @scibanana3542 2 роки тому +8

    Personally, I think the trio of Amy Rory and the 11th doctor was the best era of the show. A perfect example of this was the Battle of demons run, showing what the characters would do for each other.

  • @RebelWhovian
    @RebelWhovian 2 роки тому +18

    Great video Tom. I've never really thought about Amy's age before but now that you've made a video on it, it really is a bit of a pickle isn't it. Keep up the great work!

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому +2

      Thanks Joe, love your videos. I thought it was a bit surprising when Steven Moffat described it as “impossible” to make work but then after delving into the episodes, I see what he meant.

  • @davidknight7034
    @davidknight7034 2 роки тому +23

    Great vid Tom, you certainly made it a good one. The way I see it, the fact Time Travel is involved automatically provides a big FU to characters aging, especially given the adventures we don't see - something Big Finish will one day fill in like they did with Rory's adventures during that 1000 year period he guarded the Pandorica

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому +3

      Time travel does sort of make age irrelevant as shown by the Doctor's inconsistent age being over 950 by the end of the classic series then suddenly 900 in the revival.

    • @hologilion2868
      @hologilion2868 2 роки тому +2

      @@TBowenMedia There is some extended universe material (a novel or audiobook, I believe) where the Eigth Doctor decides to count his age from the first day of that specific regeneration. Which, while written a whole while before the War Doctor was introduced, actually fits quite nicely with how much the War Doctor was shown to age.
      (I got that info from this video: ua-cam.com/video/ONU1WI4AIig/v-deo.html Which is a pretty good attempt to figure out the Doctors actual age)

  • @DoctorWhoAdventures
    @DoctorWhoAdventures 2 роки тому +46

    Awesome work!! This was a super breakdown of Amy's era and I think, judging the circumstances, you've done a great job at making sense of it :D

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому +2

      Thank you. It certainly took a lot of digging to piece it all together.

  • @vinniequick
    @vinniequick Рік тому +2

    well they don't age when in the Time Vortex/Tardis and we can assume if Time Energy affects Amy's baby then we can assume even if it's only for 24 hours to hell 30 minutes it slows down their physical ageing temporally
    so by 2013 Rory is mentally 31 and physically 25 where as Amy is mentally 31 and's physically 24

  • @RamblingRose08
    @RamblingRose08 2 роки тому +9

    Mel's introduction to the Doctor is one of my favorites. I love that she completely knows him when he is introduced to her, and then they just "continue" traveling. Wonderful!

  • @spacepenguins8939
    @spacepenguins8939 6 місяців тому +2

    I’m guessing Kate just acted as if she didn’t know 11.
    In the star beast Shirley talks to 14 and assumes it’s 10 and acts as if he isn’t allowed/shouldn’t know who 11-13 are.
    So Unit likely have to meet each doctor and act accordingly to what they ‘know’ or what other incarnations tell them before hand
    The novel of day of the Doctor (I think) says 3 picked her up from school once- which can count as her first meeting with him.
    So she is used to meeting him (and other doctors) out of order and having to deal with it

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  6 місяців тому

      I like this explanation. I loved the implication in The Star Beast that UNIT has specific training to avoid revealing future info to previous incarnations.

  • @nothingspecial163
    @nothingspecial163 2 роки тому +3

    Everything would work and seem to be logical, if Amy hadn't mentioned those 10 years in "the power of three" LOL,

  • @lew5547
    @lew5547 2 роки тому +8

    I’m pretty sure Closing Time is set in April 2011 from backstage script dates etc. and I’m glad you’ve mentioned about Amy & Rory’s appearance in Closing Time. With the Doctor dropping them home presumably April 2011, this means there’s two versions of the ponds possibly around in April 2011. As ganger Amy and Rory would be getting ready to go to America.
    If Amy is now a model as with the petrichor thing, that means both her past versions would be very confused about why she’s now a model. As even when the ganger Amy and Rory go off travelling, the real Amy and Rory would suddenly be returning home at some point in 2011 before the summer.
    And yeah the continuity in series 7 is so bad. One minute it’s supposedly 2012, then it’s 2013. Then Kate Stewart meets the doctor prior to when she should’ve done .
    In script notes for closing time, originally it said that Amy and Rory are shopping for items for their new house. If it wasn’t for the petrichor sign, it would be even more difficult to determine

    • @lucifersdevilishdetails.
      @lucifersdevilishdetails. 2 роки тому

      2011: march to September no one on earth die torchwood is still in the same universe. Putting closing time in April 2011 just break me the doctor was on earth for at least 2-3 days and not to notice that no one on the planet was dying.

  • @leethememerwolf
    @leethememerwolf 2 роки тому +4

    Mat Smith and Karren Gillan were damn great!

  • @TheDanishGuyReviews
    @TheDanishGuyReviews 2 роки тому +2

    Doctor Who has no canon. And every canon. At the same time.

  • @johngalt2069
    @johngalt2069 2 роки тому +1

    Biggest surprise for was that Amy Pond is Nebula. I never realized it lol.

  • @jonahxddd2932
    @jonahxddd2932 2 роки тому +1

    chris chibnall wrote Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, so obviously nothing in that episode is going to make any sense ;)

  • @davidhenderson3400
    @davidhenderson3400 2 роки тому +1

    Saying any story about time travel has an inconsistent time line any continuity errors is like say water is wet. Any story about time travel is by definition is going to have an inconsistent time line any continuity errors. That is what makes it time travel. Try to explain the timeline and continuity of any time travel story is pointless. If you could then it is no longer a time travel story.

  • @xLostxPuppyx
    @xLostxPuppyx 2 роки тому +3

    Do a timeline for the daleks, i dare you, you wont
    But amazingly done, fun to watch. You put in a huge amount of work trying to put this crazy show in any order

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому +1

      Oh god! That would be a nightmare to put together; I haven’t even seen every classic Dalek story. But I’m glad you liked the video. I’m planning to make more like it.

  • @gunlovingliberal1706
    @gunlovingliberal1706 2 роки тому +1

    If you cannot suspend disbelief, you should not watch Doctor Who.

  • @jackgillette7831
    @jackgillette7831 2 роки тому +5

    Just stumbled upon your channel, and I loved this video! Props to you for all the research you did for it! You’ve got really good pacing and editing, and in general a positive yet inquisitive outlook on Doctor Who as a whole, which I think the fandom definitely needs more of. Anyway, brilliant video, would love to see more of this type of stuff mate!

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому +2

      Thank you, really appreciate it. I try to make these videos as accessible and positive as I can since the Doctor Who fandom, especially online, can be overly cynical and unwelcoming for many.

    • @jackgillette7831
      @jackgillette7831 2 роки тому

      @Tom Bowen absolutely. What a nice breath of fresh air! Cheers mate, keep up the fantastic work! :)

  • @MichiosGraphics
    @MichiosGraphics 2 роки тому +3

    This was a really well made video, awesome work and easy to understand, hope to see this channel grow!!
    You just earned a Subscriber!!

  • @drfrankensteinscreations
    @drfrankensteinscreations 2 роки тому +2

    It's time travel. Tomorrow could come years before yesterday. She could be anywhere from her mid 20s to thousands of years old depending on how old the writer needs her to be.

  • @MrMythul
    @MrMythul 2 роки тому +3

    there's an interesting theory that the first half of the season where Amy and Rory leave all take place after the doctor has seen them get taken by the angels and that it's just him going back to have a few more adventures

  • @julien.4617
    @julien.4617 2 роки тому +1

    I love them. That's enough for me. But good try. 👍

  • @THATGuy5654
    @THATGuy5654 2 роки тому +2

    I'm not criticizing you for trying to figure this out, but Amy Pond was the companion of the "timey wimey, wibbly wobbly" Doctor. Precise numbers were never a priority.

  • @vasp99
    @vasp99 2 роки тому +2

    Amy is the same age as Rory . Except Rory waited two thousand years to see her after he was killed , so Amy is about two thousand years younger than her husband Rory . She's also pretty much the same age as her daughter Melody who spent several years in the 1960's so .... Amy looks great for her age .

  • @DaveG6HNI
    @DaveG6HNI 2 роки тому +1

    Tom a great video, but please, please, please will you pronounce your th's correctly, "THREE" is not pronounced "free", "THIRTY" is not pronounced "firty" and "THROUGH" is not pronounced "frew". It really grates when I hear simple words mispronounced.

    • @Pilcro
      @Pilcro 2 роки тому +1

      This comment is incredibly ignorant.
      Not everyone speaks like you.

  • @twylenb
    @twylenb 2 роки тому +4

    The thing is, I think season 7 takes place in the late 2010s to 2020. Amy and Rory have to be on that hill in 2020 in the Silurian Episodes. Amy and Rory look through binoculars and see older versions of themselves revisiting their old adventures.

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому +3

      Completely forgot to bring that up. The Power of Three could take place c.2020 but that doesn’t explain Kate first meeting the Doctor there despite The Day of the Doctor in 2013. That scene in The Hungry Earth with their older selves doesn’t quite fit with the theories in the video but thank you for bringing it up .

    • @twylenb
      @twylenb 2 роки тому +1

      @@TBowenMedia With the power of 3 I always viewed it as a year that no other episodes took place because of the cube debacle. Or else the Doctor would have known about the year of the cubes.

  • @genesisreaper2113
    @genesisreaper2113 2 роки тому +2

    this channel is obscenely underrated, you deserve at minimum 10x more subs for this quality of content!

  • @ptolemeeselenion1542
    @ptolemeeselenion1542 2 роки тому +2

    The three major inconsistencies in the history of Doctor Who: the Doctor being half-Human AND not, Amy Pond's age and Chris Chinballs.

  • @thelastofthetimelords9043
    @thelastofthetimelords9043 2 роки тому +1

    Rule one. Never apply logic to Doctor who

  • @kitsukailegendary
    @kitsukailegendary 2 роки тому +2

    Basically it's all Wibbley Wobberly Timey Whiney Stuff and likely get a headache just trying to figure it out but good job. I never actually thought about Amy's age or Rory's but given Rory was alive for 2000 years even though it was rebooted big bang 2, he still remembers those 2000 years.

  • @Historymanuk74
    @Historymanuk74 2 роки тому +2

    Amy pond is fit

  • @MonoverSusstereo
    @MonoverSusstereo Рік тому +1

    She's gorgeous regardless.

  • @group2gaming
    @group2gaming 9 місяців тому

    Series 6 ruins a lot of stuff in who continuity-wise. Amy's age/pregnancy, miracle day, and the plothole in the s5 finale where river doesnt recognize amy's bedroom even though she canonically grew up in it. Its ironic how much moffat set up series arcs and plotpoints and half of his ideas weren't planned ahead and had to be retconned. Seriously the whole Mels/River thing would've been mindblowing if it had been set up in series 5.
    That being said, i still love Moffat's writing. Id love for him to come back for another era like RTD, but maybe have him do a couple drafts of all the series arcs and continuity first?

  • @bearnaff9387
    @bearnaff9387 2 роки тому +3

    Time is supposed to pass within the TARDIS on a one-for-one basis with time on Gallifrey. I'm not sure what that means with the time-lock surrounding the Time War, or Gallifrey being gone/inaccessible from certain chains of continuity. Either way, I'm pretty sure that people travelling in the TARDIS still age just as they would have when Gallifrey existed.

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому

      I hear this a lot and I always assumed it was a fan theory since when Gallifrey’s relative present day is has never been clear. What stories confirm that time passes at Gallifrey’s speed in the TARDIS?

    • @bearnaff9387
      @bearnaff9387 2 роки тому

      @@TBowenMedia Yeah, I'm feeling like an idiot. I can't figure out where I even heard that now. I mean, technically whatever I say has as much authority to the Doctor Who canon as any BBC writer ("none" is an amount, right?), but I cannot find a source.

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому

      @@bearnaff9387 I did a little digging since I remembered a RadioTimes article about this very fan theory. This seems to be the original Reddit post that suggests TARDISes are synced with Gallifreyan time.
      www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/52xpnw/doctor_who_the_order_of_time/

  • @charlesharris6697
    @charlesharris6697 2 роки тому +2

    Amy and Rose are my favorite sidekicks of all time on Doctor who they've had others but to me they're not been as good

  • @nicholasmaude6906
    @nicholasmaude6906 Рік тому

    It would be fun seeing a crossover between Dr. Who and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle where the Tardis materialises in the bazaar on Jumanji with Amy Pond and the Doctor stepping out of the Tardis just as Dr. Smoulders Gravestone and his buddies appear. I wonder what would happen if Amy met Ruby Roundhouse, Killer of Men?

  • @approachableactive
    @approachableactive 2 роки тому +1

    I always sort of assumed that we see things in the order in which the doctor experienced it. But that the ponds would have experienced things a little upside down and back to front. So some adventures may have been out of order from their perspective. Its the only way it makes ANY sense 😄 🤣 😂

  • @mtaimry
    @mtaimry Рік тому

    When the Doctor says in Closing Time that his death is "tomorrow", growing up I always assumed it's, like, his version of "tomorrow". Because he's a time traveler, so the word "tomorrow" doesn't really mean anything to him. I just assumed he decided "OK time's up, I'm gonna do it tomorrow". So Closing Time could really take place wherever we want it to. EDIT oh I commented to soon, you suggest that too :)

  • @ThisTrainIsLost
    @ThisTrainIsLost 2 роки тому

    A small quibble with the portrayal of the Führer, our old friend Hitler. Adolf is shown wielding a revolver. This is incorrect. Hitler's personal firearm was a Walther semiautomatic pistol, either a PP or a PPK; I can't remember which. Btw, in the beginning of the James Bond book series, Bond's weapon of choice was a .25cal Beretta but it was soon replaced by Q for a Walther PPK due to its greater stopping power. Ahh! Life in the fast lane!

  • @alyyoop6859
    @alyyoop6859 2 роки тому

    That doesn’t make sense: you said she’s 19 in 2008 so if she’s 31 in 2016 how you said at the end of the power of 3 would take place then she would be 27 in 2016 but claiming to be 31 around 2014/15 I believe you said ? Odd one this

  • @TheFTeam
    @TheFTeam 2 роки тому +1

    The show has lasted as long as some peoples whole lives obviously its going to have some loopholes or plot twists they ditched

  • @ANGEL_BOB_YT
    @ANGEL_BOB_YT 2 роки тому

    Rory is about 40 she 30 if you don't start a family before 40 you probably never will I know it's Doctor Who but they do have a baby or is that just my sister

  • @rekap9288
    @rekap9288 2 роки тому

    If amy died in 2012 at the age of 87 and she started in 1938. Just take 2017 - 1938 = 74. Then take 87 (the age died) at and subtract the time that passed before she died.) Making her 13 years of age during “the angles take manhattan”

  • @tomaszgoral8154
    @tomaszgoral8154 Рік тому

    Amy and Rory have been living on the Tardis throughout their travels with the Doctor. The Doctor probably put them back to the time they left off everytime he would pick them up. 10 years of living on and off on the Tardis. And their aging is explained by the fact that time is relative to every individual meaning they still age on the Tardis.

  • @briandaleske5139
    @briandaleske5139 2 роки тому +2

    I think this is a trick question, and it’s because of all the Time-Travel that was going on.

  • @romanfairy
    @romanfairy 2 роки тому

    Wibbly wobbly timey whimmy stuff, who said we see the episodes in Amy's chronological order....

  • @cheapskatecoins5709
    @cheapskatecoins5709 2 роки тому

    I never try to figure out this kind of stuff, way to much wibbly, wobbly, timey-whimy stuff

  • @hello.hi.5634
    @hello.hi.5634 2 роки тому +3

    To complicate everythings: trying to look at the timeline with "torchwood, miracle days" events 😆

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому +2

      Hence I deliberately never brought it up 🤣 Given how the events of Miracle Day are never acknowledged by Jack in either S12 or Revolution of the Daleks, I’m wondering if it’s just subtly been retconned out of continuity.

    • @hello.hi.5634
      @hello.hi.5634 2 роки тому +1

      @@TBowenMedia that's the best way to explain it

  • @Comicsluvr
    @Comicsluvr 2 роки тому

    It's time travel. If you CAN make it work, they're doing it wrong.

  • @DCMarvelMultiverse
    @DCMarvelMultiverse 2 роки тому

    Moffat eroded my love of Who so much, I just quit.

  • @Bobrogers99
    @Bobrogers99 Рік тому +1

    I've always accepted the many inconsistencies in Doctor Who as the result of traveling through time. Once you disturb one time line you disturb them all, and events are no longer sequential. So Amy can be the "wrong" age in some episodes and that's OK.

  • @neryskkiran1820
    @neryskkiran1820 2 роки тому +3

    Very nice work! Thank you!

  • @SamButler22
    @SamButler22 2 роки тому +1

    Huh, I don't remember the inconsistency in The Beast Below. You'd have thought people would have made a big deal about it. Because I definitely remember people making a big deal about Rory's hospital badge issued in 1990 in The Eleventh Hour. And that turned out to be a regular production mistake.

  • @finnche9555
    @finnche9555 2 роки тому

    Continuity doesn't matter, characterization does. That's what's made stories good or bad usually imo. Universal rules matter more though, but not all too much more.

  • @goldenbananas1389
    @goldenbananas1389 2 роки тому +1

    when there is something in doctor who continuity that doesn't make sense remember the answer is time travel.

  • @zachh6868
    @zachh6868 2 роки тому

    I don't understand why people bash The Timeless child for continuity errors, when Doctor Who is no stranger to them. If anything, complain about the stuff that does matter like the lack of character in the characters for those seasons, or the part where the Timeless Child took The Doctor from being just some guy who decided to be a good guy and ended up a hero to someone who was born special and didn't do anything to be the special

  • @lucifersdevilishdetails.
    @lucifersdevilishdetails. 2 роки тому

    Mate 2011 is a very weird year miracle day happen then march 19/20 and Rory being a nurse never bring it up. So seeing the doctor die is very odd.

  • @williamrust374
    @williamrust374 2 роки тому +1

    Wibbly wobbly timey whimy

  • @Woolley_like_sheep
    @Woolley_like_sheep 2 роки тому +1

    Great video man

  • @TokuNorth
    @TokuNorth 2 роки тому +1

    Realistically Amy and Rory were probably in their late 20's or early 30's in The Angels Take Manhatten
    Speaking as a 30 year old myself, they just look the age

  • @user-gw3im4pw4o
    @user-gw3im4pw4o 2 роки тому

    It’s going to be a long week wait for this video, I have always said the Atlantis was in Northern Africa, and when I saw you video on the subject I have watch very video you have made

  • @yalieyal4362
    @yalieyal4362 2 роки тому +2

    Great video tom, I saw two guys say this in a row and wanted to say it too

    • @TBowenMedia
      @TBowenMedia  2 роки тому

      All compliments are welcome 🤣 but really, thanks.

  • @chrisstrickland4433
    @chrisstrickland4433 2 роки тому +2

    She’s still hot.

  • @cathyhouston
    @cathyhouston 2 роки тому +1

    How time passes in the TARDIS was explained in an episode with the 5th Doctor

  • @brianfretwell3886
    @brianfretwell3886 Рік тому

    River Song was conceived on honeymoon in the big bang? Well isn't that putting it a bit crudely? 😂

  • @theunknowneditor63
    @theunknowneditor63 2 роки тому +1

    This was really interesting. You have a new sub! Please make more videos like this.