Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy
Rory
I was wondering why Rory reacted so mercilessly to the baddie in that episode, perfectly happy to go along with the Doctor’s initial plan. Then I thought-
Rory’s a nurse, a healer, who’s got the thoughts and memories of an near-immortal soldier hidden away inside him. What would he find more appalling than a man who was a doctor, should have been a healer, but used his skills to mutilate people and create immortal soldiers?
Amy
THANK YOU SHOW for finally remembering Amy is a mother AND POINTING OUT ALL THE WAYS IT MADE HER GREAT. Seriously, thank you.
Also: when Amy was asking the Doctor where it ended…if he was going to start killing anyone who’d ever killed anyone else…she was thinking of herself, wasn’t she? Herself and Madame Kovarian.
The Doctor
…is every bit as bad as Jex, really, isn’t he? Not in the same way, but he’s a war criminal, too. No wonder he wanted to kill him…and of course, last episode he killed Solomon. (Do the Ponds even know about that? Because Amy would certainly have called him out on it.) He really shouldn’t travel alone, but even with the Ponds he seems to be getting more merciless. And gunplay! Eleven isn’t Ten, that’s for sure.
The rest
-Damn the music was beautiful in this episode
-As was the direction
-AND THE SUPPORTING ACTORS, DAMN. I saw Adrian Scarborough in an episode of Miranda yesterday and here he was again and he was like ACTUALLY SCARY
-I ship Susan the horse/Arthur the horse
September 16, 2012 @ 3:31 am
In general, Rory’s the merciful one and Amy is more ruthless. So if it’s a question of whether a ruthless person deserves mercy, I think whether or not they could conceive of being in that position would determine whether they could grant the mercy. It’s empathy and not just regular compassion or morality, I think, that makes them switch their usual roles. Which, yeah I thought that, too, about Amy remembering killing Kovarian. Although…hmm…even Rory is getting more aggressive lately–he was pretty vicious when he threatened the robots in the dinosaur episode. Didn’t Ten have a gun, that one time? Or did Wilf try to give it to him and he wouldn’t take it? I remember them arguing about it. No, he took it, right, because then he had it when the Time Lords showed up en masse? The music was indeed good. HAHAHAHAHA it did not occur to me to ship the two horses but that is quite good.
September 18, 2012 @ 4:01 pm
He is, isn’t he? It worries me. I sometimes wonder if Rory’s loss of the child he always wanted affected him more badly than anyone realised… Ten did have a gun in The End Of Time, pointed it right at the Master in fact (and this was *after* his “I never would!” speech) but everyone seems to have forgotten that. :( EDIT: Including me apparently. Oops.
September 18, 2012 @ 4:37 pm
I worry about Rory, too. “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship,” aside from the whole threatening-to-violently-dismantle-robots bit, made me feel a bit better, because he actually seemed mostly okay for once. Like, a lot of the time he wanders around in looking slightly heartbroken, but in that episode he was back to looking vaguely confused and annoyed with the Doctor, but not actually entirely displeased to be hanging out with dinosaurs. Which seemed normal. I have way too many feelings about this. Rory, you’re not even a real person. *flails hands*