Meanwhile, looking at Dr Who...

[rmd]

spoilers up through the beginning two-parter, "impossible astronaut" and "day of the moon"...


So. Amy Pond grew up in and lived in a nice house. (It looks like she and Rory are living somewhere else now that they're married but who knows.) We've seen the interior and exterior of that house a bunch of times since the start of last season thru all the Matt Smith episodes.

Amy's bedroom is on the second floor, at the foot of a flight of stairs leading up from the 2nd floor. Except ... all of the exterior shots show that it's a two story house. Where does that set of stairs go to? It doesn't look like there's much of an attic, and certainly not enough attic to burn the real estate for a whole full-sized set of stairs up to the crawl space.

Parts of Amy's house have been invisible to her (blah blah perception filter blah blah) even though we can see the door to the prisoner zero room. Is this another part of her house that nobody notices? (except the Doctor noticed the 'missing' room, so, idunno) Is it like the top floor of the house in "The Lodger", where the upper part of the house where nobody goes is actually a space ship? (which, I'll note, looks a lot like the consoles that are at the place in Florida they go and hang out) Has a big mystery been hiding in plain sight for a season and a half, which is as long as characters have been saying "Silence will fall" portentiously, from prisoner zero onward?

Comments

[thespian.livejournal.com]

it's actually not at all uncommon for old houses (especially in the British Isles and Eastern Canada) like that to have a garret, that's actually only one room, often that you could only stand fully upright in the very middle. If it was to be used as a sewing room or storage room, you had to make it accessible to the lady of the house, who, in 1890, was going to need a real staircase, not a pull down or ladder.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Hm. I'm more familiar with US architecture than UK, but usually if it's going to be a space that's used there's some kind of window, and I don't see windows on that roofline. (if there's a dormer window on a side of the house we haven't seen, i'll feel a bit cheated)

[wrog]

goddammit
when is Season 5 going to be out on DVD so I can catch up with this shit...?

[spinrabbit.livejournal.com]

Netflix has season 5, both streaming and on DVD. Not season 6 at all yet though.

[lioritgioret.livejournal.com]

All the stuff they're leaving hanging and you're worried about Amy's house???????!!!!! ;-)

[clauclauclaudia]

If she might have a spaceship on the floor above like in The Lodger, yes. :)

But in the end I don't think she does.