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.
Nevertheless, to me the heart of the matter is that Rory only stepped away from Amy because he thought that trusting the Doctor was the best thing for her.
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, IMO.
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.
Nevertheless, to me the heart of the matter is that Rory only stepped away from Amy because he thought that trusting the Doctor was the best thing for her.
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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, IMO.
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