happy father’s day!
brian williams
More Amy/Rory stuff from The Doctor Who Companion:
-In the first draft of A Town Called Mercy, “That night the Doctor prowled the main street, worrying, while Amy told Rory she was thinking of being a travel writer; the couple discussed babies in a prickly manner with Amy saying that one option was for Rory to find somebody else who could give him children.”
I’m sincerely hoping that this first draft was written before Asylum Of The Daleks– I’m assuming it was- because otherwise that completely undoes all the character development in that episode.
-In the first draft of The Power Of Three, there’s a scene where Brian gives Rory details of an adoption agency and tells him he wants to be a grandad. “Later, Amy was furious at Brian telling them how to live their lives.”
I’m really glad they ditched all that stuff. I just…I don’t really like Amy’s infertility being a running thing, I just don’t. I don’t mind this (filmed, I gather, but cut) scene though:
BRIAN: You still haven’t talked to him, have you?
RORY: Don’t nag, Dad.
BRIAN: You can’t be with the Doctor forever.
RORY: Says who?
BRIAN: You both do. You’ve been cutting it back. Building a life. You said you’d had a meeting about applying to adopt…
RORY: We have, but what if we’re wrong? It’s a lot to give up. You’ve seen it, Dad. There’s so much out there.
BRIAN: And you’ll never see it all. You can’t. So don’t try. It’s better to leave the party while you’re still having fun…….I want to be a grandad, Rory. I’d be really good at it. Don’t make me wait forever.
Oh, taken with PS, that’s pretty heartbreaking.
BRIAN: You still haven’t talked to him, have you?
RORY: Don’t nag, Dad.
BRIAN: You can’t be with the Doctor forever.
RORY: Says who?
BRIAN: You both do. You’ve been cutting it back. Building a life. You said you’d had a meeting about applying to adopt…
RORY: We have, but what if we’re wrong? It’s a lot to give up. You’ve seen it, Dad. There’s so much out there.
BRIAN: And you’ll never see it all. You can’t. So don’t try. It’s better to leave the party while you’re still having fun…….I want to be a grandad, Rory. I’d be really good at it. Don’t make me wait forever.
-The Doctor Who Companion: Editing The Power Of Three
P.S. (the Angels Take Manhattan epilogue)
Amy and Rory got to raise a child after all. *sobs*
God knows if this is canon or not, and I’m still sad that now we’ve got a Pond kid who wasn’t River when River would have filled that role (and several plot holes) but it was nice. Mostly I’m just glad that Brian was okay.
If it is Real Actual Canon, it does open up a whole lot of ideas-
-Was Anthony the only child the Ponds adopted? Perhaps he’s just the eldest?
-If Anthony is 60 in 2012, is that confirmation that the Ponds travelled back to the 1950s? Is that why River isn’t mentioned- because she wasn’t in New York till the 1960s, and thus in their personal timeline they haven’t met a baby Melody on the streets yet? (No, I’m never gonna let that go.)
-River has a brother, you guys!
Doctor Who: The Power Of Three
A whole episode of the Ponds and not one mention of River ARGH this shouldn’t bug me as much as it does
-KATE the BRIG’S DAUGHTER she was FABULOUS I’m delighted to see her. And even more delighted that apparently she may be back.
-I thought that dude at the end was Ian McDiamid. He was not.
-Oh Brian. Your heart will be broken next week, as well as all of ours.
-Amy’s friend was marrying another woman! I love that!
-Rory’s a nurse and he’s good at it and he has friends at the hospital!
-And Amy’s a TRAVEL JOURNALIST! Inspiring others to do what she does! I love that. Somewhere, in some fictional bubble untouched by real life, Sarah Jane was her mentor.
-Steven Moffat’s approach to real life vs Doctor life is much, much better than RTD’s, I feel. Remember “for the first nineteen years of my life nothing happened, nothing at all”? But here both worlds were shown to be equally desirable, with people in both worlds the Ponds cared for, and…I liked this so much more than what happened to Rose. She couldn’t survive without the Doctor, in the end, but Amy and Rory could.
There’s a lot of stuff sort of lurking in the back of my mind about this episode but I can’t really explain it, woe.
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