There are loads of things I’d change, I’d change all my mistakes but that would be exhausting so let me just choose one mistake, I’ll choose one mistake because it just rankles me to this day that I got this wrong. There’s a scene at the end of a season five episode, called Flesh and Stone, where Amy comes on to the Doctor. It’s a very good idea for a scene, it’s a very good idea because she’s been through this traumatic experience and she doesn’t quite know who or what the Doctor is and she actually doesn’t quite know what his interest is and there’s a brilliant scene to be written there and I entirely avoided writing it. I played it for laughs and it was so wrong.
Very interesting to have some sort of retrospective look on that scene seeing as it’s one that has always made me (and many other fans I know) fairly uncomfortable. Not sure I entirely agree with everything he says but it’s nice to see him acknowledge that it was a bad move to try and put it in a humourous context.
I was thinking the other day that it’s funny, Matt Smith was a twenty-something, who in the role of the Doctor felt fucking ancient, but Peter Capaldi is fifty-something and feels in the role of the Doctor like a twenty-something undergrad whose skipped every single class of their anthropology course in favor of eating a month’s supply of ramen and playing “Blitzkrieg Bop” 17 times in a row.
After finishing that Lorna gifset last night I suddenly got a story in my head. It’s short, and since it deals with Amy and the Demon’s Run stuff it’s probably not very nice, but here it is anyway.
Title: Justice Rating: PG13…I guess? Fandom: Doctor Who Characters: Amy Pond, Rory Williams, Jenny Flint, the Eleventh Doctor, Lorna Bucket, Madame Kovarian, River Song Warnings: Child loss, death, and abuse Summary: Three lives that touched the life of Amy Pond on Demon’s Run.
