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If you have any proof for/against post it here. [[User:Cory Jaynes|Cory Jaynes]] 03:49, August 3, 2011 (UTC) | If you have any proof for/against post it here. [[User:Cory Jaynes|Cory Jaynes]] 03:49, August 3, 2011 (UTC) | ||
:I don't remember the Doctor wearing the wrong pair of shoes...do you have a picture? --[[User:Bold Clone|<span style="color:darkblue">'''Bold'''</span>]] [[User Talk:Bold Clone|<span style="color:gold">'''Clone'''</span>]] 03:51, August 3, 2011 (UTC) | :I don't remember the Doctor wearing the wrong pair of shoes...do you have a picture? --[[User:Bold Clone|<span style="color:darkblue">'''Bold'''</span>]] [[User Talk:Bold Clone|<span style="color:gold">'''Clone'''</span>]] 03:51, August 3, 2011 (UTC) | ||
This has been brought up many times before. The future Doctor in ''The Impossible Astronaut'' is definitely wearing different shoes from the present Doctor we see through the rest of the episode. Then, in ''The Rebel Flesh'', his shoes are destroyed by the acid, and he has to change into new ones—but the ganger copied the Doctor before that happened, so he has the Doctor's old shoes. Amy pointedly notices their different shoes at 03:55 in ''The Almost People'', and uses them to distinguish the two. Then, at the end of the episode, we learn that at some point they switched shoes to trick Amy. So, the ganger Doctor ends up in the future shoes, which the real one returns to the TARDIS in the present shoes. | |||
Except that, if you actually look, this is backward. The "present Doctor shoes" in TIA are low 4-hole brown shoes with thick laces. Those aren't the shoes he's wearing when he lands at the monastery. (In fact, I think he's changed multiple times: it looks like he has different shoes in the second half of ''Moon'', yet another pair in ''Black Spot'', and a 4th pair in ''Wife'' and the start of ''Flesh''.) But, guess which shoes he puts on after burning his new shoes? When you see the two Doctors side by side at 03:55, the real Doctor, on the right, is clearly wearing the 4-hole brown shoes from TIA. So, after they swap, the ganger ends up dying in the present-Doctor shoes, while the real Doctor walks into the TARDIS wearing the future-Doctor shoes. | |||
The Doctors switched shoes to trick Amy into thinking she knew who the real Doctor was, and Moffat switched shoes before that to trick the fans who'd caught last year's jacket into thinking they knew who the future Doctor was. Very clever. (And even more clever that most full-body shots of the Doctor throughout the season show him from the ankles up, so you have to watch very carefully to catch his shoes.) | |||
Of course that doesn't mean it can't be the ganger who died. As if it wasn't obvious that people can change shoes whenever they want, he's already changed again by the middle of ''Good Man''. Then again, it's also possible that the real Doctor dies, and the ganger (stabilized by the TARDIS, just like Jimmy and Dicken) takes his place for the rest of the series (or until the current timeline gets aborted). Or the ganger Doctor could be completely irrelevant. Moffat wants to make sure we're in suspense. | |||
Anyway, here are some screenshots that I found online. To get a better view, find the scene on your DVR and watch for a few seconds; the lighting is changing in all four shots, which means the caps aren't very good. | |||
* [http://doctorfalco.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/dr-shoe-tia0757.png ''The Impossible Astronaut'' 07:57: future Doctor's corpse] | |||
* [http://doctorfalco.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/dr-shoe-tia1649.png ''The Impossible Astronaut'' 16:49: present Doctor] | |||
* [http://doctorfalco.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/dr-shoe-tap0354.png ''The Almost People'' 03:54: shoes side by side] | |||
* [http://doctorfalco.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/dr-shoe-gtw3155.png ''A Good Man Goes to War' 31:55: Doctor in future shoes] | |||
--[[Special:Contributions/173.228.85.118|173.228.85.118]] 06:11, August 3, 2011 (UTC) | |||
