I thought the whole chasing after Jenny bit was completely irritating, let alone the last bit.
Whatever. There are whole decades worth of Doctor Who that aren't worth watching, and some seasons that are worth obsessing over. This isn't one of them.
But he had also just seen gangers 'become fully human' through being in the TARDIS, so why wouldn't he assume that if Amy was a ganger the same wouldn't have happened to her? It makes no sense to me.
That's.....not how I read that at all. Rory is very clever and has 2000 years of experience in his head. He stood with her and demanded answers from the Doctor, and then I saw understanding of what was going on click behind his eyes. Before he obeyed and moved away.
I think maybe it's also worth noting that while Rory stood guard for Amy for 2000 years, he did it trusting and believing that the Doctor would return, and that his plan to restore Amy would work. That's huge, and the Doctor came through for them.
So, yeah, I think he let her go, believing that if he wanted to help his wife, who was clearly in labor *elsewhere*, he had to do as the Doctor told him.
There's not being an idiot and there's the emotional instinct to look after your loved one if she's upset. Plus Rory knows that the Doctor isn't always right, as Amy's pointed out a time or two. I just didn't see it as in character, as I explain more here.
You see, I don't get that at all. Yes, Rory has all that experience - but the first thing we always see about Rory is how much he loves Amy, and how much he will fight to protect her. 2000 years guarding her, and the way he behaved over that little device in the second episode which let him hear her voice... I just don't get that he'd abandon her when she's terrified just because the Doctor said so. I would think he'd need a bit more than that, even just half a sentence of explanation.
This isn't the first time that I've thought Moffat-Who required just a little bit more showing rather than leaving things to the viewers' interpretation, because people do interpret things differently. Some will think oh, of course Rory figured it out; others will do what I've done and see a thought process for him which also fits logically with the episode and see his actions as very out of character. Yet just one short explanation from the Doctor, along the lines of She's not the real Amy, and if we're to have any chance of rescuing Amy you have to
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Interesting. What I took away from that scene wasn't "Rory abandons Amy" but "Rory trusts the Doctor to only order something like that if it's really important for Amy's own protection." I also don't think Rory realized what the Doctor was going to do until he pulled out the sonic screwdriver.
Yeah, there are still problems with Rory's actions. He should have asked for more information about why the Doctor wanted him to step away and reassured Amy that he was just four feet away and still guarding her. If he did realize that the Doctor intended to destroy the ganger-Amy (again, I don't think he did), there REALLY should have been an argument there both for the ganger's own sake and because the Doctor better have a reason why he wanted to send Amy's consciousness to a place where she was alone and terrified instead of keeping her mind on the TARDIS until they rescued her body. There are big problems of paternalism with doing something for Amy's supposed own good but against her wishes
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As I commented above in response to skipthedemon, I needed more to believe that Rory really would have trusted the Doctor rather than putting Amy's needs first. He had so many reasons not to leave her alone, not least that he always has fought for her and shown his love for her (far more than the other way around), and also everything he'd learned about the gangers would have made him more inclined to stay with her, not less, if he did suspect that she was a doppleganger. I just needed more - preferably more of an explanation from the Doctor - to believe that Rory would move away from Amy and leave her to whatever the Doctor was planning to do (which he already knew would not be good).
More in-text explanation is always helpful, and it doesn't have to be banging people over the head; just a brief line here and there would be helpful. If you have to explain things in Confidentials before people get what you're up to (as apparently was the case with the overall 'Amy wasn't real' plot), then you're not doing a great job with storytelling on screen,
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Whatever. There are whole decades worth of Doctor Who that aren't worth watching, and some seasons that are worth obsessing over. This isn't one of them.
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That's.....not how I read that at all. Rory is very clever and has 2000 years of experience in his head. He stood with her and demanded answers from the Doctor, and then I saw understanding of what was going on click behind his eyes. Before he obeyed and moved away.
I think maybe it's also worth noting that while Rory stood guard for Amy for 2000 years, he did it trusting and believing that the Doctor would return, and that his plan to restore Amy would work. That's huge, and the Doctor came through for them.
So, yeah, I think he let her go, believing that if he wanted to help his wife, who was clearly in labor *elsewhere*, he had to do as the Doctor told him.
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This isn't the first time that I've thought Moffat-Who required just a little bit more showing rather than leaving things to the viewers' interpretation, because people do interpret things differently. Some will think oh, of course Rory figured it out; others will do what I've done and see a thought process for him which also fits logically with the episode and see his actions as very out of character. Yet just one short explanation from the Doctor, along the lines of She's not the real Amy, and if we're to have any chance of rescuing Amy you have to ( ... )
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Yeah, there are still problems with Rory's actions. He should have asked for more information about why the Doctor wanted him to step away and reassured Amy that he was just four feet away and still guarding her. If he did realize that the Doctor intended to destroy the ganger-Amy (again, I don't think he did), there REALLY should have been an argument there both for the ganger's own sake and because the Doctor better have a reason why he wanted to send Amy's consciousness to a place where she was alone and terrified instead of keeping her mind on the TARDIS until they rescued her body. There are big problems of paternalism with doing something for Amy's supposed own good but against her wishes ( ... )
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More in-text explanation is always helpful, and it doesn't have to be banging people over the head; just a brief line here and there would be helpful. If you have to explain things in Confidentials before people get what you're up to (as apparently was the case with the overall 'Amy wasn't real' plot), then you're not doing a great job with storytelling on screen,
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