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