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
A new promo picture! (With thanks to llenka)
I love analysing the set design of Doctor Who, so looking at this makes me so happy- those knick-knacks on the table, do you think they’re things Amy and Rory have picked up from their travels? And there’s so much art on the walls- Amy hasn’t lost her love of art! Or of plants and gardens, look, there’s plants everywhere!
And it’s all blue, the same shade as Amy’s bedroom I believe, or close to it. And, quite significantly, for me at least- there appears to be another picture of a naked woman at the back of the room. (Amy’s bedroom too had one.) Amy’s whole personality is expressed through this room. And that’s not even getting into the lovely picture of the trio, or the Amy/Rory picture we saw in Amy’s Choice sitting there on the mantlepiece. It’s fabulous. I love it!
I love the analysis, but I sincerely hope that Rory’s terrible ponytail is not canonical in the present universe (joking not joking). Although the implications are kind of interesting, especially since that was a dream state….
Also, I’m kind of impressed that the picture of the trio has Arthur/Rory smiling-that doesn’t happen too often on the show!
You’re right about the Amy/Rory photo! It shouldn’t exist! :O Should it?
My mind is slightly blown, although I think it’s an oversight…but still…
A new promo picture! (With thanks to llenka)
I love analysing the set design of Doctor Who, so looking at this makes me so happy- those knick-knacks on the table, do you think they’re things Amy and Rory have picked up from their travels? And there’s so much art on the walls- Amy hasn’t lost her love of art! Or of plants and gardens, look, there’s plants everywhere!
And it’s all blue, the same shade as Amy’s bedroom I believe, or close to it. And, quite significantly, for me at least- there appears to be another picture of a naked woman at the back of the room. (Amy’s bedroom too had one.) Amy’s whole personality is expressed through this room. And that’s not even getting into the lovely picture of the trio, or the Amy/Rory picture we saw in Amy’s Choice sitting there on the mantlepiece. It’s fabulous. I love it!
Amy’s hallucination:
(Yeah, I posted this on Tumblr originally. :p)
Amy’s seeing her own hopes and desires here.
Falling into her Dalek-induced hallucination, the first thing Amy sees is a loving couple. The man is returning to the woman and she greets him happily. A reunion with her own loved one is the thing Amy wants most in the world at this point, but she watches with a blank expression.
Then the smiling man gestures to the little girl, who is illuminated by a spotlight. She’s standing at the back of the room, at the end of Amy’s path. In front of her is another couple, laughing together- that thing Amy and Rory aren’t doing anymore. Opposite those two is another man, who seems to be watching them- and Amy and Rory too have a man always watching them-
There’s the little girl. Her hair is red, like Amy’s, and she’s wearing a crown, she’s someone’s little princess. On seeing her Amy smiles, and her expression is (heartbreakingly) one of love and relief.
That girl was probably Hannah, the woman at the beginning’s lost daughter. But I think she might have been someone else’s lost daughter too.
And lastly, Amy’s expression when she ‘looks again’-
Whatever she thought was in that room…she really, really wanted it.
When [SPOILER] happened I actually literally SCREAMED you guys SCREAMED
Oswin
(Wait, I thought her name was Clara…) Wasn’t she BRILLIANT? But where does it go from here? Does he pick her up in the past? Is the woman we’ve seen in set photos actually an ancestor or a descendant of hers? And as people have said…the Doctor doesn’t even know what she looks like! He could meet her, and not realise til much later who she really is. Oh my god…
Did you notice her little glance to camera, before she died?
Amy and Rory
I don’t know, it seems quite in-character for Amy to not tell Rory what was really going on, to push him away instead. People grieve in different ways…and after her first terrible loss, that of Melody, she barely mentioned her for ages, not even to Rory. And not only did she have to go through that, but now the prospect of another child has been taken from her too. (God, I bet she’s secretly so glad she killed Kovarian, now.)
If she’d ever sat down and talked to Rory about it, it would have brought the terrible experiences on Demon’s Run (which are now even more terrible) crashing right back into what was supposed to be a new life. She should have talked to him, not pushed him away, but I understand her actions perfectly…
Poor old Rory seems to be the innocent in this, but I wonder what exactly they argued about before they split. Did he ever fling his 2000-yr wait back in Amy’s face, like he almost did aboard the ship? I always hoped he’d never do that, but he’s only human after all.
The Doctor
THE DALEKS DON’T KNOW HIM AGAIN!
ballerina!Dalek
I find it telling that Amy, sliding into hallucinations, saw a little girl.
Her loss, her daughter is everywhere…
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