Episode review and some thoughts about Amy
May. 1st, 2010 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmic_celeryLet me start of by saying that I really enjoyed this episode. It felt more tense than Time of the Angels and definitely held my attention more effectively. I'm enjoying River a lot more as well and I like the hints that we're given about her and the Doctor's future (or past depending on perspective) we've been getting. She knows at least one other person who can fly a TARDIS, she keeps running back into the Doctor for some reason, she known Old Gallifreyan, she killed the best man she's ever known, and she knows about whatever the Pandorica is. The killing thing is hinting at her killing the Doctor himself, but I'm not sure about that. Maybe she's referring to whoever this other time lord she knows is. I doubt The Master could be the best man anyone's ever known, so it can't be him unless he's redeemed himself...which would be wrong on many levels. Pandorica sounds like it gets it's inspiration from Pandora's Box - Pandora opens the box and all the evil things, hunger and death and despair, escape out and all that's left in the box is hope. It's definitely going to be a bad thing.
As for the very end of the episode, I completely understand why Amy hits on the Doctor and it's bothering me how many people are saying things like "lol what a slut". The Doctor first showed up in Amy's life when she was just a kid and she created a gigantic mythos around him. She didn't move anywhere. She played dress up and drew comics and tried to convince herself that he was real. She bit psychiatrists who told her he wasn't real. She took on a job that allowed her to escape into various fantasy worlds. He is the central figure in her life and because of that everything else in her life is an attempt to measure up to that mystical event that happened when she was a kid.
Rory, who seems to absolutely love her, doesn't measure up. Not because he's not wonderful and not because she doesn't love him, but simply because he's not the Doctor. Rory looks a tiny bit like the Doctor, he went into the medical profession but he didn't become a doctor. His life has been shaped around her hopes and his inabilities to give her what she really wants: adventure and a time machine and a madman.
So it makes perfect sense that when this central figure from her life drops back into her life, she's going to doubt the life she's made for herself in his absence. If everything in her life was built around that one night when he dropped in and ran out again and she's getting married in the morning, she has just one chance to prove to herself that he really is more important than everything else.
To go Freudian on you, he's the father figure she never had.
She is, as the Doctor said, "the girl who waited". I'll be interested to see how she evolves now that she still is traveling with him and she has the chance to integrate Rory into that fantasy world.
As a side note: the doctor being clueless about her intentions was good. It reminded me a lot of that scene in Unnatural History with dark!Sam. He gave a lot of the same excuses.
Oh, and somebody better do an Amy vid to this:
As for the very end of the episode, I completely understand why Amy hits on the Doctor and it's bothering me how many people are saying things like "lol what a slut". The Doctor first showed up in Amy's life when she was just a kid and she created a gigantic mythos around him. She didn't move anywhere. She played dress up and drew comics and tried to convince herself that he was real. She bit psychiatrists who told her he wasn't real. She took on a job that allowed her to escape into various fantasy worlds. He is the central figure in her life and because of that everything else in her life is an attempt to measure up to that mystical event that happened when she was a kid.
Rory, who seems to absolutely love her, doesn't measure up. Not because he's not wonderful and not because she doesn't love him, but simply because he's not the Doctor. Rory looks a tiny bit like the Doctor, he went into the medical profession but he didn't become a doctor. His life has been shaped around her hopes and his inabilities to give her what she really wants: adventure and a time machine and a madman.
So it makes perfect sense that when this central figure from her life drops back into her life, she's going to doubt the life she's made for herself in his absence. If everything in her life was built around that one night when he dropped in and ran out again and she's getting married in the morning, she has just one chance to prove to herself that he really is more important than everything else.
To go Freudian on you, he's the father figure she never had.
She is, as the Doctor said, "the girl who waited". I'll be interested to see how she evolves now that she still is traveling with him and she has the chance to integrate Rory into that fantasy world.
As a side note: the doctor being clueless about her intentions was good. It reminded me a lot of that scene in Unnatural History with dark!Sam. He gave a lot of the same excuses.
Oh, and somebody better do an Amy vid to this:
