Thoughts on ‘The Girl Who Waited’
Bits and pieces about this episode are starting to bleed through, so after giving DWM a thorough read, I think I might have put a few pieces together…
(Again, watch out for the spoiler!)
Looking through the various episode summaries in RT and DWM, it looks weirdly like Amy and Rory aren’t too bothered about finding their baby…they seem to just be swanning about in the TARDIS. The Girl Who Waited even seems to begin with the Doctor taking Amy and Rory on a relaxing break…I can’t see them doing that while Melody’s still captured. Unless they lose their memories of her, possibly in Let’s Kill Hitler?
But anyway- Steven Moffat said in Radio Times that The Girl Who Waited is about what happens when time travel goes wrong, and in the first trailer for Series 6b we see an aged Amy- so I think something timey-wimey is going to happen and it results in Amy becoming old. But! I also heard this huge spoiler, which I think might take place in this episode- (seriously, if you’re a spoilerphobe, look away now) -Amy apparently kills Madam Kovarian, possibly even Madam Kovarian as a child. And just like the prospect of killing Hitler, killing Madam Kovarian screws up the universe completely. So that’s certainly a case of time travel going wrong, so perhaps that’s what happens here? Also, people have speculated that River and Madam Kovarian are one and the same- so…well, that’s BAD. The episode summary says that Rory ‘discovers a very different side to his wife’ – child-killer different? WAH.
Also been reading interviews with Karen Gillan that say that Amy and Rory’s relationship is throughly tested in The Girl Who Waited, and that Amy and the Doctor’s relationship changes utterly in The God Complex. (Which makes me ponder…is the god complex in question the Doctor’s?) Oh man, it’s exciting. I can’t wait for Saturday. But yes! The Girl Who Waited, I think it’ll blow our tiny little minds.