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He is so beautiful...
I don't know if anyone noticed but it's Tom MACRAE who wrote the last episode of Doctor Who, "The Girl Who Waited". Not quite my Tom for there's an extra a in the name, but almost!
Apart from this funny homonymy that probably amuses only me, I loved the episode!
And I love Rory more and more with the passing of time. He is the Last Centurion and he is so beautiful!
Older Amy not wanting to die was well done, quite poignant. In a way, it echoed Ten's distress before regenerating into Eleven, but it was done in a more subtle way than Ten's crisis.The similarities were there, before our eyes to see: Amy, like The Doctor, would remain and go on, but not quite the same Amy, not The Amy who had experienced the 36 years and had been forged through them; and not quite the same Doctor since Eleven is not Ten. But there's a big difference: Eleven does have Ten's memory so he thinks of himself as Ten too, while Amy won't have Older Amy's memory. Older Amy would be gone for real, in the same way that The Donna who used to travel with Ten is gone. Once again the fact that we are, our identity is, the sum of our memories, is addressed here.
BTW I think there was an obvious hint at the parallel when Rory suggested to give a number to the Amys...of course they both wanted to be One!
Also, I wonder whether that episode is a huge red herring or a huge clue concerning what happened at lake Silencio. We had an older Doctor then and he died, just like older Amy did in "The Girl Who Waited".
I've always thought that the Doctor's death in "The Impossible Astronaut" wasn't something that had to be fixed but was actually fixing something, like a time paradox.
Once upon a time Amy made a choice; Rory had to choose this time too. Who's going to make the next choice? River?
I still think that it will be The Doctor himself, choosing to erase one life (and given his ability to regenerate it had to happen the way it did in Lake Silencio) so OUR Doctor will get to follow his "normal path".
And I guess that he will do it out of love, he will choose to do it for River, just like Older Amy did it for Rory, so River and her Eleven would have the opportunity to spend time together as a couple.
I think that Rory said something important when he told Eleven "you make me like you" (or something like that).
Vanishing will be The Doctor's choice (and it will show that Eleven is much tougher than Ten).
ETA: I also like that the episode adressed once more how much The Doctor screws up people around him and was a callback to Amy's first appearance back in "The Eleventh Hour," when she waited and waited and waited...
Oh and Rory the Robot was a nice callback to plastic Rory! The "pet" thing was quite bittersweet, summing up the nature of their couple while not undermining the depth of Amy's love for Rory.
ETA 2...I know I should think this through and write it down when I'm done instead of editing.
Since Rory acted as proxy in the episode, wearing the spectacles so The Doctor would see...I have a new idea about who is in the spacesuit in The Impossible Astronaut. I think it could be Rory actually.
In this episode, The Doctor made a choice by shutting the door but he let Rory make the choice of NOT opening the door, so it could foreshadow older Doctor choosing to erase himself for the benefit of a younger self, and using Rory to pull the trigger!
Apart from this funny homonymy that probably amuses only me, I loved the episode!
And I love Rory more and more with the passing of time. He is the Last Centurion and he is so beautiful!
Older Amy not wanting to die was well done, quite poignant. In a way, it echoed Ten's distress before regenerating into Eleven, but it was done in a more subtle way than Ten's crisis.The similarities were there, before our eyes to see: Amy, like The Doctor, would remain and go on, but not quite the same Amy, not The Amy who had experienced the 36 years and had been forged through them; and not quite the same Doctor since Eleven is not Ten. But there's a big difference: Eleven does have Ten's memory so he thinks of himself as Ten too, while Amy won't have Older Amy's memory. Older Amy would be gone for real, in the same way that The Donna who used to travel with Ten is gone. Once again the fact that we are, our identity is, the sum of our memories, is addressed here.
BTW I think there was an obvious hint at the parallel when Rory suggested to give a number to the Amys...of course they both wanted to be One!
Also, I wonder whether that episode is a huge red herring or a huge clue concerning what happened at lake Silencio. We had an older Doctor then and he died, just like older Amy did in "The Girl Who Waited".
I've always thought that the Doctor's death in "The Impossible Astronaut" wasn't something that had to be fixed but was actually fixing something, like a time paradox.
Once upon a time Amy made a choice; Rory had to choose this time too. Who's going to make the next choice? River?
I still think that it will be The Doctor himself, choosing to erase one life (and given his ability to regenerate it had to happen the way it did in Lake Silencio) so OUR Doctor will get to follow his "normal path".
And I guess that he will do it out of love, he will choose to do it for River, just like Older Amy did it for Rory, so River and her Eleven would have the opportunity to spend time together as a couple.
I think that Rory said something important when he told Eleven "you make me like you" (or something like that).
Vanishing will be The Doctor's choice (and it will show that Eleven is much tougher than Ten).
ETA: I also like that the episode adressed once more how much The Doctor screws up people around him and was a callback to Amy's first appearance back in "The Eleventh Hour," when she waited and waited and waited...
Oh and Rory the Robot was a nice callback to plastic Rory! The "pet" thing was quite bittersweet, summing up the nature of their couple while not undermining the depth of Amy's love for Rory.
ETA 2...I know I should think this through and write it down when I'm done instead of editing.
Since Rory acted as proxy in the episode, wearing the spectacles so The Doctor would see...I have a new idea about who is in the spacesuit in The Impossible Astronaut. I think it could be Rory actually.
In this episode, The Doctor made a choice by shutting the door but he let Rory make the choice of NOT opening the door, so it could foreshadow older Doctor choosing to erase himself for the benefit of a younger self, and using Rory to pull the trigger!