The beginning, where you assume Amy’s talking about the Doctor but she’s talking about Rory? MY LITTLE SHIPPER HEART EXPLODED. I have reached Shipper Nevada. I never thought I’d say that. I thought she was talking about the Doctor when she said ‘The last of his kind’. But actually it makes sense, because Rory is the last Roman in the world, I suppose. Sort of.
But oh em gee, Rory was awesome and Amy was awesome and the Doctor was awesome and all the supporting characters were awesome. I loved the Sontaran (Strax?) and the kickass Silurian (and partner.) Bit weird that we’ve had two Jennys in a row though. And Lorma! What was her deal?
I liked the gay Clerics, and am sad that one of them died. Unless the Doctor swooped in and saved him (we never saw him actually lose his head, after all.) That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.
RORY IS A TOTAL BADASS. Also a dad. How lovely were the bits with the baby? And Rory wanted the Doctor to be part of it too. Awww. I LOVE THAT SCENE where Rory walks in holding the baby. It was gorgeous.
Funny how Rory is a nurse who became a warrior and Strax is a warrior who became a nurse.
Has the relationship between the Doctor and Amy (and Rory) changed for the worse now? It’s not entirely his fault that the baby was captured, but he didn’t save her. And she seemed pretty angry. I hope things aren’t going to change too much, because I miss the fun episodes where everyone’s friends.
And BABY is River. I admit I saw it coming, but there’s still a few more questions to be answered. And next they get to kill Hitler…
AMY POND GROWS UP
Doctor Who Series Five, Adulthood, And The Monomyth
I’m gonna let this speak for itself! Any comments are appreciated, hope you enjoy, and it contains speculation for Series Six. (Although no spoilers.)
AMY: I grew up.
DOCTOR: I can fix that.
–The Beast Below
So, there’s this thing about growing up…
Let’s look at the Doctor. He’s not exactly grown up, not really an adult, and can’t really have a relationship with a human. (Yes, there’s River, but we know nothing about her so far) He couldn’t tell Rose he loved her, he couldn’t understand John Smith’s love of life when he stopped being him, he’s the guide through a world of adventure but in adventures people die.
Let’s look at Rory. He’s a grown-up, completely. He’s got a job, a car, he’s left childhood behind. He’s very sensible, he’s totally reliable, and he’s so very in love with Amy. He could be, in some other (inferior) story, the boring alternative to the Doctor, a life of mortgages and beans on toast and nothing else. But, Rory questions the Doctor. But, Rory shows kindness to an enemy. But…he’s a good man. Probably time good men stopped being considered boring, and the Doctor would certainly agree.
Then there’s Amy- girl with an imaginary friend, a boy who couldn’t grow up. She’s Peter Pan’s Wendy, but we know how that turned out. She leaves with him the night before she herself grows up, flies away in her nightie to another world. And all the time she knows she’s running from adulthood, and while Rory tries to tempt her back she’s gotta find her own way. “Why would we leave all this, why would anyone?” says Amy to Rory, but the Doctor’s given his answer to that already. “I look at a star and it’s just a big ball of burning gas…after a while everything is just stuff.” No-one can stay on the TARDIS forever, or it’ll make the magical so mudane.
The greatest test the TARDIS ever gives is whether or not to leave it. It’s like walking away from it is an acceptance of adulthood, a taking with you of what you’ve learned. Sarah Jane did it, Martha did it, and their lives aren’t devoid of magic, they’re parents and warriors and heroes. And they still get to see the Doctor, be his friend, look at Sarah Jane! They get everything, a life to call their own.
So Amy, when we meet her, oh she’s no grown up. She’s wounded and careless and cruel. She won’t acknowledge Rory as her boyfriend, and space museums packed with astounding things bore her. (You promised me a planet). Series Five is Amy’s journey to adulthood- to be continued, hopefully, in Series Six. So let’s look a wee bit at that.
Snatched from Wikipedia:
“In a monomyth, the hero begins in the ordinary world, and receives a call to enter an unknown world of strange powers and events. The hero who accepts the call to enter this strange world must face tasks and trials, either alone or with assistance. In the most intense versions of the narrative, the hero must survive a severe challenge, often with help. If the hero survives, the hero may achieve a great gift or “boon.” The hero must then decide whether to return to the ordinary world with this boon. If the hero does decide to return, he or she often faces challenges on the return journey. If the hero returns successfully, the boon or gift may be used to improve the world.”
That’s basically what Series Five is! Amy’s hero’s journey, with Rory as the ‘gift’. And I figure that Series Six will be the ‘return journey’. Going into lots more detail, because I heart this sort of thing:
Departure-The Call to Adventure-“The hero starts off in a mundane situation of normality from which some information is received that acts as a call to head off into the unknown.”
Little Amelia meets and loses the Doctor. She’s not quite normal, but her life seems mundane, and although it takes a while for Amy to head off, eventually the Doctor comes for her…
Refusal of the Call- “Often when the call is given, the future hero refuses to heed it. This may be from a sense of duty or obligation, fear, insecurity, a sense of inadequacy, or any of a range of reasons that work to hold the person in his or her current circumstances.”
Amy hesitates, cos she’s getting married the next morning. (This would be her sense of duty) The hesitation doesn’t last long though…
Supernatural Aid-“Once the hero has committed to the quest, consciously or unconsciously, his or her guide and magical helper appears,or becomes known. More often than not, this supernatural mentor will present the hero with one or more talismans or artifacts that will aid them later in their quest.”
If we leave the Doctor out of this whole thing (he is the quest, sort of), this is so River. And the talisman would be her diary, given to Amy at her wedding to help her.
The Crossing of the First Threshold- “This is the point where the person actually crosses into the field of adventure, leaving the known limits of his or her world and venturing into an unknown and dangerous realm where the rules and limits are not known.”
Amy lands on the Starship UK, a completely new world. And heck yes,it’s dangerous. But she passes her test…
Belly of The Whale- “The belly of the whale represents the final separation from the hero’s known world and self. By entering this stage, the person showswillingness to undergo a metamorphosis.”
Ooh, Amy literally ends up in the belly of the whale. (Okay, okay, it was its mouth, but still.)
The Road of Trials- “The road of trials is a series of tests,
tasks, or ordeals that the person must undergo to begin the transformation. Often the person fails one or more of these tests, which often occur in threes.”
Where to start? Amy takes on multiple tests- the Daleks, the Angels…she escapes alive, but changed.
The Meeting With the Goddess-“This is the point when the person experiences a love that has the power and significance of the all-powerful, all encompassing, unconditionallove that a fortunate infant may experience with his or her mother. This is a very important step in the process and is often represented by the person finding the other person that he or she loves most completely.”
Hey, hello Rory!
“And when the adventurer, in this context, is not a youth but a maid, she is the one who, by her qualities, her beauty, or her yearning, is fit to become the consort of an immortal. Then the heavenly husband descends to her and conducts her to his bed – whether she will or not. And if she has shunned him, the scales fall from her eyes; if she has sought him, her desire finds its peace.”
Well, she shunned him, sort of, and in Amy’s Choice the scales fall from her eyes.
Amy’s totally ‘fit to be the consort of an immortal’, but she’s been looking at the wrong one. (as discovered by her in Amy’s Choice) To be with the Doctor completely would require a huge change, maybe even the loss of some of your humanity- you’d see the universe turn to stuff. Rory is what keeps Amy grounded in reality, even when he himself becomes immortal he’s still the embodiment of ordinary but phenomenally powerful love. He waits two thousand years just to make sure she’s safe. The Doctor would never, ever do that- it’s not in him to take the slow path. It would be boring, and he’s always got a quicker way…
Rory vs the Doctor. That’s a lot of what Amy’s journey is about. The best of humanity vs the world-saving, but also world-destroying hero. Not an easy choice, because the Doctor represents so much magic and power, but sometimes it all comes down to love.
Woman as Temptress- “This step is about those temptations that may lead the hero to abandon or stray from his or her quest, which does not necessarily have to be represented by a woman. Woman is a metaphor for the physical or material temptations of life, since the hero-knight was often tempted by lust from his spiritual journey.”
I’ve got nothing for this one. Plus it’s kinda sexist. Let’s just ignore it!
Atonement with the Father- “In this step the person must confront
and be initiated by whatever holds the ultimate power in his or her life. In many myths and stories this is the father, or a father figure who has life and death power. This is the center point of the journey. All the previous steps have been moving in to this place, all that follow will move out from it. Although this step is most frequently symbolized by an encounter with a male entity, it does not have to be a male; just someone or thing with incredible power.”
Amy confronts the universe and puts it right, bringing back the Doctor. The cracks in the universe held tremendous power in her life, but now they’re gone and everything is right again. She has Rory, and her parents…
Apotheosis- “When someone dies a physical death, or dies to the self to live in spirit, he or she moves beyond the pairs of opposites to a state of divine knowledge, love, compassion and bliss. A more mundane way of looking at this step is that it is a period of rest, peace and fulfillment before the hero begins the return.”
We’re a bit in the wrong order now, but Amy does die a physical death in The Pandorica Opens.
The Ultimate Boon- “The ultimate boon is the achievement of the goal of the quest. It is what the person went on the journey to get. All the previous steps serve to prepare and purify the person for this step, since in many myths the boon is something transcendent like the elixir of life itself, or a plant that supplies immortality, or the holy grail.”
Amy marries the man she loves and they run off in the TARDIS with a man they both love. She’s got her man, won the day, gets New Who’s very first happy ending.
But what comes next is the Refusal of the Return– “Having found bliss and enlightenment in the other world, the hero may not want to return to the ordinary world to bestow the boon onto his fellow man.”
SERIES SIX- BRING IT, MOFFAT. I don’t want them to, but I’m willing to bet Amy and Rory will leave at the end of the year, and go on to have plain awesome lives. The fifth step of the Return is ‘Master of two worlds’. I want Amy and Rory to be that.
But just for now, let’s stay in the Doctor’s world…
RORY:
You ran off with another man.
AMY:
Not in that way.
RORY:
It was the night before our wedding.
AMY:
We’re in a time machine. It’s the night before our wedding for as long
as we want.
RORY:
We have to grow up eventually.
AMY:
Says who?
Well…yes, actually, says Who. (Sorry). With the occasional exception, the Doctor teaches people and fixes them and then shows them back out into the world again. He needs to see the universe through new eyes all the time, and that’s why he’s loved all his companions, he’s seen so much of the universe through them. And none of them need be the consort to his immortal.
The whole story of Amy has quite a few things to say about not only the role of the Doctor’s Companion but about the roles of men and women in general- She’s the brave hero off having adventures, Rory’s the one who waits for her. She’s the one who cheats, he’s the one who forgives her. She’s the one who’s afraid of commitment, and he’s the loyal, commited partner. She’s the hero, he’s the prize. And he’s a nurse, a traditionally female role! But I think it’s worth pointing out, unlike previous companions, Amy gets to be married and still be everything she was before, still be devoted to the Doctor.
I’ve looked at Rory in depth before, but I think I was a bit hard on him then- basically I think now that the key to him is that he loves Amy totally unconditionally. He’s never make her choose between him and the Doctor- he may still have to entice her to step out of the TARDIS and complete her journey, but he’d never deny her her best friend.
Karen Gillan says in an SFX interview, “I think there’s alway going to be this thing between the Doctor and Amy that Rory can’t really be a part of, because they’ve just shared this thing together.” but if anyone could understand that, Rory could. The Doctor demanded back in The Hungry Earth that the three people in the church be the best of humanity, and Rory passed the test with flying colours- he was kind to Alaya, tried to save her life, carried her body back to her people and took Restac’s revenge for himself. And he’s pretty much grown out of jealousy now. The Amy who is dedicated to the Doctor is Rory’s Amy, and he wouldn’t change her for anything. The Doctor’s a part of her, and he accepts that. This is, after all, the man he died for.
Amy grew up and the Doctor can fix that. He does, but not in the way she expected. She grew up because she had to, he’s going to make her grow up because she wants to. By the end of Series Five Amy’s an adult
who knows enough of children’s dreams to save the Doctor from his own sacrifice. She’s learned. Now she’s just got to find her way back, to share what she’s learned- the Return. The last phase of truly growing up…
Refusal of the Return- As seen above, “the hero may not want
to return to the ordinary world to bestow the boon onto his fellow man.”
The Magic Flight-“Sometimes the hero must escape with the boon, if it is something that the gods have been jealously guarding. It can be just as adventurous and dangerous returning from the journey as it was to go on it.”
I think we can safely assume there will be monsters in the next series…
Rescue From Without- “Just as the hero may need guides and assistants to set out on the quest, oftentimes he or she must have powerful guides and rescuers to bring them back to everyday life, especially if the person has been wounded or weakened by the experience.”
Now this one is interesting-
Campbell explains it to us. “‘Who having cast off the world,’ we read, ‘would desire to return again? He would be only there.’ And yet, in so far as one is alive, life will call.” Oh, this will happen to Amy. After all- “Why would we give this up? Why would anyone?” But Rory, he’s her rescuer. He’s always been.
The Crossing of the Return Threshold-“The trick in returning is to retain the wisdom gained on the quest, to integrate that wisdom into a human life, and then maybe figure out how to share the wisdom with the rest of the world. This is usually extremely difficult.”
Ah, it will be hard- just look at Sarah Jane or Rose- but I think Amy and Rory will manage it. They’ll pass the TARDIS test, they’ll leave, and they’ll be okay. Hold out for The Pond Adventures in twenty years time!
Master of Two Worlds –“This step is usually represented by a transcendental hero like Jesus or Buddha. For a human hero, it may mean achieving a balance between the material and spiritual. The person has become comfortable and competent in both the inner and outer worlds”
Mentioned this earlier! This is what people like Sarah Jane managed to achieve- she had her time with the Doctor and used all she’d learnt wisely. She gets a son, a family, the continuing friendship of the Doctor himself and a geniunely fantastic life.
Freedom to Live –“Mastery leads to freedom from the fear of death, which in turn is the freedom to live. This is sometimes referred to as living in the moment, neither anticipating the future nor regretting the past.”
Well, this is the last step. They all lived happily ever after.
I’ll miss Amy and Rory terribly once they’ve completed their journey, but the Doctor said it best: if nothing ever finished, nothing would ever get started. So here’s to Series Six, just around the corner, and to Doctor Who, the best children’s show ever. The one that shows us adulthood and childhood and all the wonders of the universe, and has us grow up but not forget.
Title: Five Bad Things That Didn’t Happen To Amy And Rory, And One Good Thing That Did
Author: sarah531
Rating: PG13
Characters: Amy, Rory, The Doctor (and Ambrose, River, The Dream Lord and Aunt Sharon)
Pairings: Amy/Rory (and Doctor/River, Doctor/Rose, and what might be pre-slash Doctor/Rory)
Summary: Five alternative universes and one honeymoon.
Nice guys finish last, but Rory, like most people, isn’t quite a nice guy.
First time we met Rory, who didn’t think he was basically the Second Mickey? It was so bloody obvious, there’s this guy who likes Amy but Amy likes the Doctor. And Rory will either have to do the Mickey thing and stand aside, or he’ll turn vengeful jilted lover, or the Doctor will burst into that wedding and yell ‘I object!’ as Amy falls into his arms. You just knew he wouldn’t prove himself worthy, and then…he did.
Ever noticed how they’re all pretty flawed people, our Doctor Who companions? Especially the modern ones. Rose is selfish, Martha is jealous, Donna is quick-tempered and Amy…where to start. Rory? He’s selfish, too, in his love for Amy. Not in a way that hurts her- he’d never intentionally hurt her- but he so often sees her as the Amy he wants rather than the Amy she is. For almost all of the series, he wants her so much he barely sees her. Just like Rose never saw the Doctor through her rose-tinted (ha) glasses…
Oh, and he’s insecure, and desperately afraid he’ll lose what he loves. More or that later. But hey, all the Who characters are awesome despite their flaws, and this is the story of how Rory became awesome.
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Rory downright worships Amy. She treats him like rubbish in The Eleventh Hour, not acknowledging him as her boyfriend, but he still loves her so much he proposes to her a year so later. Makes you wonder a bit what he sees in her- I think Amy’s a brilliant character, but she is a terrible, terrible girlfriend! She makes her interest in the Doctor pretty clear, right in front of Rory…
That would put most people off. As would the running off with another man. And the mockery and the baiting and the name-calling and the fact that she’s never said ‘I love you’ to the man she planned to marry. Yet despite all this, he risks his life to save her in Vampires Of Venice. His idea of her, at this point, may well be “damsel in distress who I’ve gotta save”. But she ends up saving him!
In Amy’s Choice his whole world and whole dreamworld is centered utterly around her- an Amy who will marry him and live with him. He wants to settle down with her- just like Rose always wanted the Doctor to settle with her and get a mortgage and that- even though it must be sinking in that she probably won’t want that for ages, if she ever does. Yet he still persists, tells her she has to grow up, he wants her to want what he wants.
In a way he has a point: only those people who walk out of the TARDIS freely (i.e. just Martha) seem to have a happy ending in the Whoniverse.
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At the end of Amy’s Choice, Amy has thoroughly chosen Rory, and he couldn’t be happier. I always thought there were problems with the end of Amy’s Choice, like that fact that the baby is never mentioned again. Rory’s last thought was for the baby, and neither of them seem to care about its loss. And while Rory is touched that Amy risked her life for him, he’s also sort of happy about it, which makes sense (after all, no-one’s actually dead or were ever in danger) but there probably should’ve been a ‘don’t ever do anything dangerous like that again’ in there.
Next episode the trio are travelling happily along. Rory’s oddly patronising towards Amy when he asks her to take off her engagement ring- she’s not that careless, and rings can be replaced! – but I put that down to bad writing (the ring’s got to go from the finger to the TARDIS somehow). Rory spends the rest of the episode being brilliant- it really comes across what a caring person he is when he tells Alaya they’ll look after her, even though she’s one of the people responsible for their awful situation. There’s also a lovely cut scene in The Brilliant Book with Rory bringing Alaya food, where he refuses to sink to her level…
And then there’s the dying for the Doctor, which is a thoroughly unselfish act, but we’re talking a different kind of selfishness here, the same blinkered sort Rose had. Remember when Rose and the Doctor had their talk on Bad Wolf Bay, and the Doctor says that if she touches him the universe will die, and she says ‘So?’ and she means it?
Hey, ever notice how Rory got Ten’s dying words? While he’s dying he says “I don’t want to go.” Which I’m sure is hugely significant- characterwise, not plotwise- maybe it hits home the point that Ten’s death was so human? Anyway. Rory dies for Eleven without a second thought, on instinct in fact, and any doubts about Amy’s feelings towards Rory are dispelled when we see her screaming, grieveing reaction to his death. In one of the Doctor Who Magazines, Arthur Darvill ponders whether his last word, “Sorry.” is arrogant or not…”Sorry for dying because I know you’re in love with me!” Eventually him and the interviewer comes to the conclusion that “Rory’s not worried about himself dying, he’s worried about it’s effect on Amy,” and also, “Rory’s got this thing about lives being at risk.” I don’t reckon his decision to be a nurse was all about the Doctor…
Rory dies for Eleven, but lives for Amy…we know this bit, it was awesome. No lovers in the Whoniverse do much waiting around- Ten won’t, Jack won’t, River we don’t know, Reinette was forced to- except for him. Talk about a slow path.
Probably safe to say that the killing of Amy is the worst moment of Rory’s life (even two thousand years later he hasn’t forgotten.) Then she’s dead and the Doctor’s there, saying “Your girlfriend’s not more important than the whole universe.” and Rory punches him in the face and yells, “She is to me!” And I think that’s what sets Rory apart from Rose, she never got as far as the to me.
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So Rory’s a bit selfish, or he is when it comes to the woman he loves, he loves her so much he sometimes can’t see the big picture, fitting her into boxes she doesn’t belong in. But he learns! I don’t think Rose ever quite did.
Probably Rory’s biggest flaw, though, is his insecurity. Amy calls him on it, but then he had a reason to be – she’s never even said that she loves him! But in the reboot-verse Amy clearly has said it, and well, at the wedding we get this-
He doesn’t ask why Amy’s sad, just assumes it’s because of the wedding, because she’s married him, and withdraws into a gloomy sort of anger. But all isn’t lost, because Amy remembers the Doctor and Rory remembers everything. Which I hope is brought up in the next series, btw.
And watch them dancing at the wedding. Adorable!
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My favourite Amy/Rory moment is when they’re standing at the Pandorica, and Rory says “Are you okay?” and she says “Are you?”. He tells her he isn’t, and she snaps “Well, shut up then!” He doesn’t say anything, just hugs her. At this point, after everything he’s been through, he loves her now because of her flaws instead of in spite of them. I like to think that’s where Rory’s journey ends, in a way, him and her in the light of a magic box…
Title: It’s A Pretty Big Deal (In Timelord Land)
Author: sarah531
Rating: PG13
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Rory/Eleven
Characters: Eleven, Rory, Amy, mentions of Donna, Martha and Rose
Summary: Something that happened before is now happening again.
My journal still looks like shite and I am very displeased, but there is nothing much I can do about it…
Anyhoo, back to the Doctor Who stuff. How about it?
Amy and Rory- it’s occured to me that with these two, most of the traditional gender roles are reversed. Amy’s the one who runs off and has adventures, and Rory’s the one who keeps her grounded in reality. She’s the one who tries to cheat, he’s the one who forgives her; she’s normally the one who leads and he’s normally the one who follows; she’s the brave, wisecracking hero and he’s the loyal, love-interest (blonde!) nurse.
I’m sure it’s happened in myth or legend or another TV show or something, a woman waiting centuries for a man, but here it’s the man doing it, and then it’s both of them being awesome in unexpected ways. Amy saves the world, Rory saves her (and sometimes helps save the world.)
Maybe this is even why the Amy/Rory relationship works so well, because everything about that pairing You Did Not See Coming. Seriously, people who didn’t read spoilers, were any of you expecting Amy to actually marry Rory? I didn’t. I figured it’d be Rose/Mickey all over again, but man I’m glad it wasn’t!
This is probably more picspam than anything else, except the pictures aren’t brilliant cos I capped them off the iPlayer.
So, this is a brief picspam-analysis-thingy of the lovely couple, their Doctor and their wedding. Enjoy, y’all!
Pretty much everyone rolls their eyes at Amy’s speech, except Rory, who looks more concerned than anything.
Rory looks first confused and then delighted at seeing the Doctor.
“You may definately kiss the bride.”…or not.
Is Rory angry with her? Probably not, since he looks annoyed (or is that his neutral face?) and then smiling again in a second.
Really you could debate this for a loooong time, but since Amy/Rory are The Couple of Doctor Who series five, I somehow doubt we’re meant to think he’s annoyed at her flirting. He’s had over two millenia to consider the marriage, after all.
Aw, they look so lovey-dovey! Bless.
Kiss!
Rory looks so contented here. Awww!
Hug!
You know, I think this is partly the Doctor looking at what he can never have. He’s got a time machine but he’d never wait two thousand years for someone.
Looking at each other, agreeing to head out again…
Yay, they’re all happy!
Feel free to use any of these for icons or graphics, no need to ask. :D
Rory’s 2000-year wait to keep Amy safe is still the most romantic gesture ever in Doctor Who, but the more I think about it the more I reckon that Amy would do the same from him. She’d get bored and lonely and miserable but she’d still do it. I think in the end she really does love him more than she loves the travels in the TARDIS with the Doctor. And one day I imagine she and Rory will be done with the adventures and go back home and have kids…and then Amy will make the Doctor come back and take them all off on holidays to different planets and whatnot.
I sincerely hope the show never splits them up because I love them to tiny little pieces. I remember how in my last post I said something about Amy not showing as much love to Rory as he does to her, but now after thinking about it for a teeny bit I think she does in her own way. She’ll always put him first- in Amy’s Choice she risked her life to be with him (willing to die to be with him, even) so I think he’s still the most important thing in her life, more so even than the Doctor. He’s the only one who’s ever really understood her, he was her best friend, and he knows she loves him.
Also I find it interesting how when Amy and Rory are in the Doctorless world, Amy says ‘I love you’ to Rory without a second thought. I think it was the loss of her parents which screwed her up, perhaps, made her not want to tell anyone she loved them in case they went away too. And now that she has both sets of memories, of both having parents and not having them (err….maybe?) she’ll be generally more open and less cautious. I wonder if she remembers Rory dying for the first time as well.
And now I want to write a fic where them and the Doctor and little Amys and Rorys go off in the TARDIS and they all actually do manage to live happily after after, like fictional couples very rarely do.
RORRRRY! I’ve really grown to like him. It is actually him, right? I’m sort of confused. Is it a Rory-auton-clone? With Rory’s personality and memories but not him?? Moffat said on Confidential that he’s just a contruct of Amy’s mind, but I dunno. I love that he appears as Amy’s knight-in-shining-armour and I love the bit where the Doctor suddenly cottons on. I might have laughed harder at that than I ever did at Doctor Who…
I LOVE how the characters from the previous eleven episodes got brought back. Vincent! Bracewell! Winston Churchill! Liz 10! Oh, and the Daleks (just once, can’t there be a season finale without them? Oh yeah, there was. Never mind.) This somehow managed to be EVEN BIGGER than Journey’s End, with all the old monsters and old friends coming back. Moffat has out-Russelled Russell!
Ooh, and this is sort of a vague thing, but waaay back in VOTD Amy makes Bracewell be human again by getting him to remember past loves, and this is what she tries with Rory too. And it almost works…
Ooh! And they got the Eleventh Doctor to say ‘I AM TALKING!‘ Rememeber that from Rose? Anyone?
How on Earth they’re going to bring Amy back from the dead I don’t know, but I think Amelia will have something to do with it.
Amy’s dead, Rory’s an auton, River’s blown up the TARDIS, the Doctor’s trapped in the Pandorica…wow. Drama all round! Can’t wait for the next one…
