Doctor Who: Thoughts on Amy and Rory
When I think about Amy and Rory I am reminded a little of Kara no Kyoukai. Wherein Shiki (a somewhat more sedate Amy-equivalent in this comparison) and Mikiya (a somewhat more twisted Rory) are in love and their relationship is one of the driving forces of the series--in MIkiya's case because Shiki is a beautiful, fascinating, and beautifully and fascinatingly broken person who draws out the full measure of his compassion and love, and in Shiki's case specifially because Mikiya is the only remaining aspect of human normality and morality at work in her messed-up life. He saves her and she protects him.
I happen to be a fan of this sort of dynamic, especially if the girl is the beautifully broken and somewhat supernatural one. Hence why I like Amy and Rory as a couple. However, I hasten to point out that in Shiki and Mikiya's case this is developed over the course of seven feature films before they exchange impromptu vows in a drug dealer's bombed-out warehouse. Right now, Amy and Rory are more or less where Shiki and Mikiya were after 'Remaining Sense of Pain', not at the end of the series. So my issue with the idea of Amy and Rory being settled, writ into the stone of eternity, in two days isn't one of not liking the characters or the relationship or even the development. I like all of those things. Instead, it's really just a pacing problem. This would have been easy to fix, and I can't understand why Moffat turned to Chris Chibnall of all writers to carry an important part of it.
I won't mind if next weeks involves Amy marrying Rory and them travelling in the TARDIS happily married for the next season, but if I was in charge either the pacing would have been different or that would be in the pipeline for next season.
ETA: Also the Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? aspect. ACTUALLY DEAL WITH IT, SHOW, PLS KTHX.
I happen to be a fan of this sort of dynamic, especially if the girl is the beautifully broken and somewhat supernatural one. Hence why I like Amy and Rory as a couple. However, I hasten to point out that in Shiki and Mikiya's case this is developed over the course of seven feature films before they exchange impromptu vows in a drug dealer's bombed-out warehouse. Right now, Amy and Rory are more or less where Shiki and Mikiya were after 'Remaining Sense of Pain', not at the end of the series. So my issue with the idea of Amy and Rory being settled, writ into the stone of eternity, in two days isn't one of not liking the characters or the relationship or even the development. I like all of those things. Instead, it's really just a pacing problem. This would have been easy to fix, and I can't understand why Moffat turned to Chris Chibnall of all writers to carry an important part of it.
I won't mind if next weeks involves Amy marrying Rory and them travelling in the TARDIS happily married for the next season, but if I was in charge either the pacing would have been different or that would be in the pipeline for next season.
ETA: Also the Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? aspect. ACTUALLY DEAL WITH IT, SHOW, PLS KTHX.