Amy/Rory fanart
“All Our Trials” I quite like it.
river song
The Pond family noticeboard
An ambitious project (sort of) but I have a more ambitious one planned if this one takes off. Click it!
TOP:
-The Doctor at the Pond’s wedding
-Amy and Rory in a happy moment [actually an edited shot from Confidential]
-Mels in Amy’s room, photographed in a slightly cross moment, without her realising [actually a shot from Eastenders with Amy’s drawings stuck in the background]
-Rory and Mels- not on a date, just friends! (Just say no to Pondcest.) [actually a promo shot from Eastenders with Arthur Darvill’s face stuck onto someone else’s] At the bottom it says ‘Leadworth High 2003′.
-Little Amelia [shot from Let’s Kill Hitler- but this picture was taken by Tabitha one day when Amy was in her school uniform]
-Amy, taken by Rory
-A note from Rory to Amy detailing the whereabouts of Sarah Jane Smith- someone they’d be very keen to meet
-Little Mels and Amelia
MIDDLE:
-Melody/River’s doodles of herself and her parents. Left as a little present for them when she popped in one day having come back from TARDIS shenanigans
-A snippet from a newspaper detailing Mels’ achievements at Sports Day [actually from The Brilliant Book] Amy and Rory found it in Mels’ old bedroom and kept it, because clearly it had meant something at some point.
-The Doctor
-The wedding
-River, photographed without her realising. Possibly by the photographer at the wedding, who assumed she was a guest. Her picture is tucked under the others because Amy and Rory didn’t feel like explaining to their relatives who that complete stranger was.
-Rory and Amy collecting sunflowers somewhere, possibly in France (note Amy’s Van Gogh style sunhat)
-Rory in his scrubs. Taken by Mels.
-Martha and Mickey- fellow companions. The note says ‘Thanks for everything X’ [Is actually from Noel Clarke’s Twitter]
BOTTOM
-Rory and Amy at a fireworks display [photos from a cast appearance at a Christmas light switch-on] In my mind this is them in a far-off country, enjoying the celebrations there
-The wedding again -this one torn from a newspaper. After Amy’s modelling career took off, tabloids occasionally ran old pictures of her. Because, well, they’re tabloids. The headline under this one was ‘HOT REDHEAD HAPPILY MARRIED, DAMN’.
-Amy’s parents dancing at the wedding
-Rory and Amy on a beach somewhere. Not Utah, though, too many bad memories
-Little Amelia, Mels and Rory at Halloween, taken by Augustus, who fancied himself a semi-professional photographer
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It still epicly annoys me that through most of the second half of Series Six Amy and Rory don’t mention their child. Why do a story involving a lost, stolen baby if you’re not going to deal with the fallout?
Snippets from The Brilliant Book
I love these books!
A bit I found interesting from the notes on A Christmas Carol- “There are 4000 passengers and crew on the ship, plus Amy and Rory. But 4003 are reported as facing death. Hmmm, you don’t suppose one
of them might have been, say, pregnant…”
Karen’s interview is interesting. She says that Amy’s leaving the TARDIS “is a interesting choice for Amy to make at this point…although it kind of isn’t her choice”. On Rory vs the Doctor, she says Amy loves Rory “in that way, and loves the Doctor in a totally different way”, and that the question of which of them is more important to her is harder, as Amy idolises the Doctor “more than anyone, even Rory”. She
says that she knows what’s happening next series and she’s very happy about it, and that when Amy does leave properly she wants her to leave for good, and she’d be fine if Amy was killed off, even. (eek)
Here’s a deleted scene between the Doctor and Rory in Day Of The Moon:
RORY: I don’t remember it all the time. It’s like there’s a door in my head. I can keep it shut.
THE DOCTOR: But he’s still in there- Rory the Roman?
RORY: I’m a nurse. I like being a nurse. Door stays shut.
THE DOCTOR: If I ever needed you to- maybe not today, but maybe sometime soon- could you open that door again?
RORY: No.
THE DOCTOR: If Amy needed you to?
RORY: If Amy did, of course.
Neil Gaiman originally wanted House to “ooze out protoplasmic tentacles that shoot up from the ground” but the budget wouldn’t have it. Also, according to his original opening for The Doctor’s Wife (as retold in comic form!) Rory is a Beatles fan.
The Corsair was killed in his ninth body- his fifth and seventh were female.
Rory is actually referred to as “Time’s New Roman”, which I thought was just a Tumblr meme.
Arthur thinks that Amy and Rory would still jump aboard the TARDIS when the Doctor returns, even after settling down. “Both he and Amy are just waiting for the Doctor to call.” And also: “In a way, the Doctor is messing up their lives, but there’s an addictive quality to it.”
Karen would jump right into the TARDIS if it came to her house, Arthur doesn’t know.
Alex told Arthur about River’s true identity before Steven Moffat could- he wrangled it out of her and was very pleased with himself.
The monster at the end of The Rebel Flesh (Jennymonster) was inspired by…………..Madonna. Yep.
There was a glorious and expensive-sounding ‘Doctor’s Happy Memories’ montage cut from The Rebel Flesh- it featured Susan, Sarah, Jo, Madam de Pompadour and Mickey, among others.
On whether there might one day be a spinoff of Madame Vastra and Jenny, Moffat says “There are plans. They’re over here in this safe marked TOP SECRET”. Holy cow! It might actually happen!
AND we learn how Vastra and Jenny met- Jenny was a match girl, and Vastra saved her from being dragged off by a gang. She “smelt more pleasant than any other ape I have encountered”, according to Vastra’s letters.
“You called the robot Rory. You didn’t call it the Doctor, or Biggles, our favourite cat, or Sexy Mr Jennings the hot, hot art teacher. You called it Rory. Because we always need a Rory by our side.” I don’t remember this line from The Girl Who Waited. But I like it!
Toby Whithouse says that the Doctor called Amy Williams because “he still can’t quite believe she’s grown up and isn’t a little girl anymore…he calls her Amy Williams, he finally uses her proper married name.” Lots of people didn’t like the Amy Williams thing, but heck, maybe Toby Whithouse wasn’t aware that Williams actually isn’t Amy’s married name. Meh. (Also, Rory is referred to as “Rory Pond” in
most of the book)
Could-have-been titles for Closing Time: Everything Must Go, The Last Adventure, Cybermen And A Baby.
Moffat has an ‘end game’ planned for Amy, Rory and River. And the fiftith anniversary is going to be MASSIVE.
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My headcanon: Because Mels spent so much time with Amy and Rory, and because she had no parents of her own (I imagine she probably lived at a children’s home), Tabitha, Augustus, and the Williamses dedicated a lot of time to her, buying her nice things, taking her on holiday, helping her with her homework and so on. So in a way, she was sort of raised by her grandparents. Which I think a lot of parents would consider a fair compromise, if they knew they couldn’t raise their own child…
Doctor Who: The Wedding Of River Song
The good:
-Rory being awesome and self-sacrificing as always
-Amy and Rory still being very much the Ponds rather than the Williamses
-The fact that I can write it into my head that Amy and Rory, once they’ve returned home, still see River quite often- when Rory arrived, he didn’t seem particularly suprised to see her, so it’s pretty easy to justify
-That Amy actually does feel anger over not getting to raise her child
-The mentions of Rose and Jack (okay, Rose not so much…I wish they’d reference, I dunno, Mickey once in a while…)
-The prettiness of alta-London
-Seeing Charles Dickens again
-Amy kills Madam Kovarian in cold blood. I want this to be brought up again so badly- the Doctor being angry and disappointed, Amy feeling the guilt- but I suspect it’ll never be mentioned again. Sigh.
-The Doctor forgives River. Very him.
The bad:
-I like River a little less now. :( I still like her, but the ‘MY PAIN IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE PAIN OF HUNDREDS OF OTHERS!’ got to me. At least the Doctor called her on it, quite harshly in fact.
-Sod it, I knew it would be the Tessalecta as soon as it was mentioned in the Previously. It feels a bit like a cop-out. :(
-Wait, what? What happened to the whole universe wanting to help the Doctor out?
The wonderful:
The tribute to the Brig. Oh, that was wonderful. :( I don’t care about the bad stuff in this episode when we got that as well.
Questions still unanswered:
-Why blow up the TARDIS?
-What’s going on with Rory’s deaths? Even the Silence mentioned it.
-Why did River remember the Doctor when Amy didn’t in The Big Bang? Steven Moffat promised this would be answered, and it wasn’t!
-Why exactly did the Silence need River in particular when anyone could have been inside the suit? (Okay, this one is more me being picky…)
-Why did Silence briefly fall in Vampires Of Venice?
I’m pretty sure this whole thing is building towards the revealing of the Doctor’s name- maybe next season?- and I dunno if I like that idea. Also, I’m pretty sure we’ll see Amy, Rory and River again next series? I hope so very very much, I want to see them be a family…
Doctor Who: The God Complex
Episode: B+, story arc: F
“If you see Melody, tell her to visit her mum.” OH FER PITY’S SAKE ALL THAT GAME CHANGING CLIFFHANGER STUFF AND THAT. WAS. IT? After the loveliness of A Good Man Goes To War and Amy and Rory’s obvious love for their kid, they really have just…mostly forgotten her? Just a quick mention and that’s it? Oh, this story arc has driven me insane, insane I tell you. All that and nothing.
Amy’s leaving scene was nice- although why didn’t the Doctor say goodbye to Rory- but I think both of them will be back for the finale anyway. I’m expecting it, otherwise I’d have more to say about that.
It’s not fair, I really liked this episode and then I started thinking about it and coming up with things I don’t like. Why does Rory have no faith for the Minotaur to hold onto when we saw in the pirate episode that he puts all his faith in Amy? Why introduce a cool Muslim girl who’d be an awesome new companion and then kill her? And why why why why have they not cared about River/Melody for so long? AAARGH I AM ANNOYED. But I still love these characters, and on the whole this episode was okay, it’s just I really can’t get over the mess they made of this series arc…
Doctor Who: Let’s Kill Hitler
Would you like some WHAT to go with that THE HELL?
I like it as a stand-alone sort of episode, I swear! It had Rory punching Hitler and Amy taking command and the Doctor in a top hat and so much awesome. And a ginger Terminator. And just forty-five minutes of sheer bonkersness. Buuuuuuuuuut.
River’s still Amy and Rory’s daughter and she’s still out there- Rory’s never even got to properly hold her. They had a kid and now she’s for all intents and purposes gone…and everyone seems okay with this. But the very real baby Melody is still out there somewhere in time with Madame Kovarian, why aren’t her parents ripping space apart to find her, crossed timelines be damned? Haven’t we already seen her alone and afraid in a creepy orphanage? What? What? WHAAAAAAT.
And they may have known her during her childhood, known her quite well, but that’s not the same- looking after your wayward best friend isn’t the same as raising a child, they’ll never have seen her first steps or first words or anything. And I dunno, this is sort of going WRONG WRONG WRONG in my head. Cos to just be okay with all that…
Um.
But I did like many things- I loved loved loved little Rory and Amelia, I loved that Hitler was actually barely in the episode, I loved the Doctor’s guilt over Rose, Martha, Donna and now Amy, I loved Rory’s little nod when River asks if the Doctor is worth it, I loved a lot about this episode. But I can’t turn off the little voice that says I may not like this series, cos they’re doing it wrong…