One, two, three, and they're off!

[nineveh_uk]

There are many reasons to consider that Amy might not actually be pregnant, starting with "She knows she has something really important to tell the Doctor, can't remember what it is, and her mind leaps to the obvious cliché". However, "she can't be because it would be irresponsible to show her drinking wine on a Family Show*" and "The Doctor wouldn't take someone who was pregnant on an adventure because it would be risky" are not among said reasons.

*Family Show is an incredibly useful shibboleth in Doctor Who/Torchwood fandom, as it invariably signals someone who is pontificating without a clue.

Comments

[nineveh_uk]

It's the "he wouldn't take a pregnant companion" bit that really annoys me. The Doctor is willing to put humans into all sorts of incredibly dangerous situations, why would he draw the line at an embryo if its owner doesn't mind?

[shewhostaples]

Haven't you heard? A woman must climb into a box of cotton wool five seconds after conception, and remain in it until Medicine has decided that it is appropriate to remove the infant from her, a point which may or may not coincide with the baby's views on the matter. The Doctor, being a doctor, must subscribe to this worldview.

[nineveh_uk]

Silly me, I forgot that for a moment. (I've just been told that the Doctor wouldn't take a pregnant Amy in the Tarsis because of our evolutionary programming to protect pregnant women. My evolutionary programming is seeing stone axes.)

[ankaret]

I'm not sure what Time Lords evolved from, but having seen Timothy Dalton's turn as one my best guess is something akin to a Gila monster.

[legionseagle]

Do Gila monsters splutter a lot?

Actually, I seriously wondered on that performance whether the travelling salesman in FIVE (the one with the implausible lisp even by the standards of Jewish characters in Sayers) could have been Rassilon, incog.

[ankaret]

They have venomous salivary glands, and it's only a matter of time before they evolve gauntlets with a variety of Sith-like powers.

[legionseagle]

Are Gila monsters and Komodo dragons related?

[nineveh_uk]

Only the ones in the House of Windsor.

[ankaret]

Oh, win.

[ankaret]

Bristol Zoo says yes. Also the blue-tongued skink, which I can quite see evolving into John Sim.

It sounds like a Shakespearean insult...

[legionseagle]

"The devil damn thee black, thou blue-tongued skink!"