People sometimes ask me, “How can you defend the characterisation of Amy Pond and other Moffat characters when you’re generally critical of Moffat’s writing?” (Actually that’s a massive lie. No-one’s asked me that ever.) But the answer, at its core, is:
Steven Moffat didn’t create Amy Pond.
Don’t get me wrong, he invented her, and I’ll always be very grateful that he did. But all the things that made Amy feel like a real person- that made me love her- that was the work of lots and lots of people, not just one man. Amy Pond was created by Karen Gillan, Caitlin Blackwood (them especially), Mark Gatiss, Neil Gaiman, Toby Whithouse, Simon Nye, Chris Chibnall, Richard Curtis, Gareth Roberts, Stephen Thompson, Matthew Graham, Tom MacRae, Adam Smith, Andrew Gunn, Jonny Campbell, Catherine Morshead, Ashley Way, Toby Haynes, Jeremy Webb, Richard Clark, Julian Simpson, Richard Hoar, Richard Senior, Nick Hurran, Steve Hughes, Farren Blackburn, Saul Metzstein, Douglas MacKinnon, Tracie Simpson, Peter Bennett, Patrick Schweitzer, Sanne Wohlenberg, Marcus Wilson, Denise Paul, and Moffat. And, cruically, probably a hell of a lot of people whose names I don’t know- I don’t know whose idea it was to give Amy a different nail polish colour for each episode, or which set designer thought to put a framed study of a non-sexualized naked woman above Amy’s bed (see?) or who it was actually drew little Amelia’s and older Amy’s drawings, but those are the little things that turned Amy Pond into a real person. That created her.