Reused props across Doctor Who. Guess it’s up to us to decide the significance…
rory williams
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.
Doctor Who fic: Better
Title: Better
Author: 
sarah531
Rating: PG13
Characters: Amy, Rory
Spoilers: For A Town Called Mercy
Summary: Amy and Rory find themselves in a moral quandary.
Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy
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!
