Thoughts on Amy/Rory
You know, they’re my new FAVOURITE SHIP EVER.
Rory’s 2000-year wait to keep Amy safe is still the most romantic gesture ever in Doctor Who, but the more I think about it the more I reckon that Amy would do the same from him. She’d get bored and lonely and miserable but she’d still do it. I think in the end she really does love him more than she loves the travels in the TARDIS with the Doctor. And one day I imagine she and Rory will be done with the adventures and go back home and have kids…and then Amy will make the Doctor come back and take them all off on holidays to different planets and whatnot.
I sincerely hope the show never splits them up because I love them to tiny little pieces. I remember how in my last post I said something about Amy not showing as much love to Rory as he does to her, but now after thinking about it for a teeny bit I think she does in her own way. She’ll always put him first- in Amy’s Choice she risked her life to be with him (willing to die to be with him, even) so I think he’s still the most important thing in her life, more so even than the Doctor. He’s the only one who’s ever really understood her, he was her best friend, and he knows she loves him.
Also I find it interesting how when Amy and Rory are in the Doctorless world, Amy says ‘I love you’ to Rory without a second thought. I think it was the loss of her parents which screwed her up, perhaps, made her not want to tell anyone she loved them in case they went away too. And now that she has both sets of memories, of both having parents and not having them (err….maybe?) she’ll be generally more open and less cautious. I wonder if she remembers Rory dying for the first time as well.
And now I want to write a fic where them and the Doctor and little Amys and Rorys go off in the TARDIS and they all actually do manage to live happily after after, like fictional couples very rarely do.
June 29, 2010 @ 11:25 pm
I think that’s what I love most about the two of them: they have each made a huge romantic gesture for the other one. Amy was willing to die rather than live without Rory (in some ways that’s kind of morbid, but she at least had hope that it was a dream and she would see him again) and Rory, of course, guarded her for 2,000 years (I can’t tell you how much I adore him for that — I was already madly in love with him; that just sent it stratospheric). What I find interesting is that it’s clear that she does love him, that she always has, even when she isn’t sure of it herself. All through Amy’s Choice when she does things to ‘comfort’ one of her boys, it’s always Rory she actually touches. She throws the poncho to the Doctor, but she puts Rory’s on him (before she does her own, too, if I’m remembering correctly). When the Dream Lord leaves her alone with the two of them, it’s Rory’s blanket that she adjusts to try and keep him warm. Even in Vampires of Venice when Rory is filled with his jealousy thing the way she looks at him, and places herself around him, shows that she does love him and it is her who asks him to stick around. She needs him, she always has, but it takes the dream death for her to really face up to that. I’m with you in hoping they aren’t ever split up. They are just so perfectly balanced together, each giving the other what they need to be a rounded person. Her vivacity and adventurousness sparks Rory to grow and become more confident and his stability and care give her the solid base she needs to keep adventuring.
July 1, 2010 @ 5:32 pm
I didn’t notice those things in Amy’s Choice, I’ll have to watch it again. :D But I think you’re right in that Amy tends to show her love in actions rather than words. In both Vampires of Venice and the end of Amy’s Choice, she can’t find the words to explain herself or how she feels but she doesn’t need to because Rory understands. I see people being so bothered by how Amy treats Rory and the way she talks to him and it doesn’t bug me at all because I don’t see Rory as a victim or being the lesser in the relationship. I just think their relationship is underestimated because we didn’t see it develop and form. They have A LOT of history together. We know they grew up together and Rory played Amy’s Doctor games with her, we know that they were dating for at least two years prior to their engagement. Rory’s choice to stay with Amy during her 2000 years inside a box speaks volumes to how much he understands her. Look at his conversation with the Doctor: “She’ll be all alone.” “She won’t even feel it!” “You bet she won’t.” Amy, the girl who lost her parents, the girl who gets left alone in a big house by her aunt, the girl who waited all her childhood for a strange friend who promised to come back for her and didn’t…what would be her greatest fear? Being abandoned, being left behind by the people she loves. And so Rory stays, because even though she’s safe inside the box, he doesn’t want her to ever live with the knowledge that she was left alone.
June 30, 2010 @ 1:25 am
Yes. It’s a pretty established fact in ~the real world~ that people express love in different ways; there’s tons of book and internet quizzes etc. etc. about it, different “love languages” or whatever you want to call it. I don’t understand people saying that Amy isn’t as into Rory and their relationship as he is. She’s just not as tender about it.
June 30, 2010 @ 3:32 am
When Amy said “I love you” I had to pause the episode and roll around squeeing with joy, then replay that bit again just so I could watch it one more time. But I’d never thought about the fact that it happened after her parents came back. Good point. I definitely agree with you on every point. It would be the biggest tragedy if Amy and Rory ever split up. I also don’t think it’s very likely to happen. A) They’re married now. I know divorce happens, but still. Why make it a MAJOR plot point just to split them up later? B) They both overcome death and come back to each other. I don’t honestly believe Moffat could split them up without completely changing their characters.
June 30, 2010 @ 10:01 am
Love this. They do love each other…. (and since they’re the Doctor’s OTP, he’ll make sure it stays that way) Amy would (scarily enough) risk suicide in a world without Rory, and Rory is willing to wait for her forever. As much as I love how the Doctor interacts with Amy (Doctor/Amy/Rory is my OT3) I’m kind of irritated by 11/Amy shippers that hate Rory or are all like “but she wanted to kiss the Doctor on her wedding day so she loves the Doctor more!”. Let’s get this straight…. Amy does love the Doctor, she does very much…. but not in that way. Even when she couldn’t remember Rory, when she inquired to the Doctor about being matchmaker in “The Lodger” she asked him “why can’t you find me a bloke?”, not try to jump his bones again. I’m also a bit irked by people saying she does Rory a disservice by trying to kiss the Doctor again. Normally this would irk me too actually, but even before the Doctor popped back into her life she was a freakin’ KISSOGRAM. Rory still loves her even still. In fact considering that she tends to kiss people after stressful situations, I’m not surprised she wanted to kiss the Doctor after he was saved from nearly never existing. They love each other and are going honeymooning on the TARDIS. Even if it might get them killed.
July 1, 2010 @ 6:43 am
Amy wanting to kiss the Doctor on her wedding day didn’t bother me because I think she just wanted a BIG ‘Congratulations you are SO brilliant’ kiss. She wasn’t asking for a makeout session, the huge way she puckered her lips was pretty indicative of that. And then the whole ‘snog in the bushes’ thing later on was just teasing and possibly even her reverting back a little bit to parent-less Amy, since she has her memories back. And also, she does all of this in front of Rory, who doesn’t get the least bit upset about it. It would bug me if she did it behind his back. You know, I forgot about the Kissogram thing, lol. That actually goes a long way in explaining why Rory wasn’t more upset about Amy kissing the Doctor. It’s not like her kissing other guys is exactly new to him and he knows her well enough to zero in on the important issue, i.e. her running away the night before their wedding, instead of getting upset about the smaller issues.
July 12, 2010 @ 2:18 am
SOON JANE DOE WILL RISE FROM PANDORA’S BOX, AND THOUSANDS WILL CHEER AS THE ARMIES OF JUSTICE DRAG THE DEAD HORSE DOWN SESAME STREET!