More Amy/Rory stuff from The Doctor Who Companion:
-In the first draft of A Town Called Mercy, “That night the Doctor prowled the main street, worrying, while Amy told Rory she was thinking of being a travel writer; the couple discussed babies in a prickly manner with Amy saying that one option was for Rory to find somebody else who could give him children.”
I’m sincerely hoping that this first draft was written before Asylum Of The Daleks– I’m assuming it was- because otherwise that completely undoes all the character development in that episode.
-In the first draft of The Power Of Three, there’s a scene where Brian gives Rory details of an adoption agency and tells him he wants to be a grandad. “Later, Amy was furious at Brian telling them how to live their lives.”
I’m really glad they ditched all that stuff. I just…I don’t really like Amy’s infertility being a running thing, I just don’t. I don’t mind this (filmed, I gather, but cut) scene though:
BRIAN: You still haven’t talked to him, have you?
RORY: Don’t nag, Dad.
BRIAN: You can’t be with the Doctor forever.
RORY: Says who?
BRIAN: You both do. You’ve been cutting it back. Building a life. You said you’d had a meeting about applying to adopt…
RORY: We have, but what if we’re wrong? It’s a lot to give up. You’ve seen it, Dad. There’s so much out there.
BRIAN: And you’ll never see it all. You can’t. So don’t try. It’s better to leave the party while you’re still having fun…….I want to be a grandad, Rory. I’d be really good at it. Don’t make me wait forever.
Oh, taken with PS, that’s pretty heartbreaking.
DOCTOR [about River]: She’s really, really good.
AMY: [proudly]: My daughter.
DOCTOR: My point. [to River] But we’re not married- that wedding never counted.
RIVER: Which wedding?
DOCTOR: The one in the aborted time-line, when I was disguised as a robot replica of myself.
RIVER: Could you be more specific?
-The Doctor Who Companion: Editing The Angels Take Manhattan
“As Amy declared that the couple’s bond with each other would prevent the Angels taking Rory, the Doctor asked, ‘That’s all? True love- against the Angels?’ Amy looked at the Doctor, pityingly, and said, ‘You’re right, River. I shouldn’t have let him travel alone.’”
– The Doctor Who Companion: Cut dialogue from The Angels Take Manhattan
“AMY: Now I get why Riddell’s here. Bit of brute force.
DOCTOR: He saved my life. Long time ago. This is the least I could do.
AMY: Why?
DOCTOR: In his timeline, he dies tomorrow. On the African plains. This is his last night.
AMY: This is your gift to him.“
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The Doctor Who Companion: Editing Dinosaurs On A Spaceship
(Safe to say, that would’ve changed the tone of the ending.)
AU – The Doctor finds another version of Clara aboard the R.M.S Titanic, and quickly realizes that she has no memory of her past lives. While the Doctor uses every trick in the book to figure out the girl who was not possible, the knowledge of the upcoming tragedy is too much for Clara to handle.
↳ “No, Clara, the sinking of the Titanic is a fixed point in time, nothing you do now can change this! It has to happen!”
“Doctor, I will not have the deaths of hundreds on my shoulders for the rest of my life!”