the eleventh doctor

Amy’s faith

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The relationship between the Doctor and Amy: It’s complicated and painful (although very touching too). By the time we reach The God Complex, which is a whole episode focused around Amy’s faith in the Doctor, I was wondering why Amy had any faith left in the Doctor at all. He’s saved her and Rory a few times, true, and saved the universe…but Amy’s daughter is still lost to her. Which is why The God Complex could be ‘fixed’ in just five words…”I can’t save your daughter.” If Amy’s faith had been about faith in still finding her baby, and the Doctor had destroyed that…I think it would have made for a much better episode.

But I guess I have to take The God Complex as it is, not how I want it to be, so I put together a sort of theory. I think perhaps Amy developed a blind faith in the Doctor as a way of protecting herself, as a way of reverting to her seven-year-old self and blocking out all the terrible things that had happened to her. That’s why she sees her seven-year-old self in her room, because she fears being that person, that little girl, for the rest of her life. Always waiting for the Doctor to save her and never moving forward.

Just like Gibbis lost all his sense of personal autonomy…possibly Amy did too, in a way. Because if she puts her faith in the Doctor and lets him make all the decisions then she won’t have to deal with any pain or (misplaced) guilt she might feel. As odd as it sounds, I wonder if him calling her “Amy Williams” wasn’t what jerked her out of it…if that suddenly made her realise “Hey, I was keeping my own name, not taking Rory’s..why are you making that decision for me?”

Some incredibly clever person on GB pointed out that the Handbots anesthetising Amy is an exact mirror to the Doctor’s hand-on-face sign of affection to Amy-

Like Amy’s using the Doctor to put herself to sleep, just run around the universe and forget the terrible things that happened to her. I think it sort of works- people often shut down due to grief, and Amy lost her baby, one of the worst things that can happen to a person. Even if she does know her child as an adult, she won’t get to raise her, and that may well have caused terrible grief. So the Doctor had to jerk her out of it before it was too late.

This theory isn’t perfect- the Doctor is still making a lot of the decisions, after all. Although Amy accepts it, I still don’t like that it was the Doctor’s choice to drop Amy off on Earth, rather than hers. Hopefully, though, this will be retified in S7, and Amy will choose to leave the TARDIS because she’s found other things she wants to do, and because she no longer needs him. (Though she will obviously always care for him.) So…yeah, I guess I like to think he did save her. Any more anesthetic and she’d have ended up (metaphorically) dead.

I enjoy poking at things I dislike until they turn into things I like…

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I started thinking, hey, Amy’s a famous person in the Whoniverse now! She’d totally be on magazine covers! And this is Amy, she loves art- she’d have her own craft magazine, she’d do all these fabulous things!

So I put together some magazine covers for Amy, telling a bit of her story between Series Six and Seven. See if you can catch all the references. Rather Big versions can be found here, here, here and here!

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Doctor Who AU: Apocalypse–

A gang of survivors make their way across an devastated world. All of them- Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Mickey Smith, River Song, and newlyweds Amy and Rory Pond- are slowly running out of hope. Until they meet a stranger called The Doctor.

Gif 1- Donna and Rose observe events
Gif 2- The fire takes Manhattan
Gif 3- Amy and Rory take to the road
Gif 4- The Doctor walks on
Gif 5- The survivors; Martha and Mickey share a look
Gif 6- The Doctor notices Amy’s wedding ring; River runs to an injured (dead?) Doctor
Gif 7- Martha and Amy run
Gif 8- Rory walks through the water; River watches him sadly

Sprites by me and dave

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The Pond family noticeboard

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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

A few quick Who thoughts

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The God Complex! There’s a great deal going on there and while I’m not sure all of it makes sense, at least it’s sort of trying to make sense. But, about the relationship between Amy and the Doctor, I think the Doctor’s definition of faith is the key: “They all believe there’s something guiding them, about to save them. ” The Doctor ‘s been guiding Amy, and once he lets her go, she’s free to be her own guide and make her own way. I think on the whole I like Amy’s exit, now I’ve thought about it – the thing that did it for me was ‘The Girl Who Is Tired Of Waiting’. Once the Doctor dropped her off, she stopped being The Girl Who Waited and became even more of her own person- still a best friend of the Doctor, but also with a career and house and husband and (very unorthodox) child. She’s not just His Companion anymore. Well, that’s my take on it anyway.

Course, I really want her to still be around for a good few years, making Martha-like appearances along with River and Rory…

Anyway! I have also updated the Representation charts, the notes on Andy and Rorie, and (I keep forgetting to post these) Series One screencaps! (They’re above the Series Five ones…)

Doctor Who: The Wedding Of River Song

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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

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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…

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