The Eye of the Beholder: An Analysis of The Girl Who Waited
Another addition to my analysises of Doctor Who. At this point, it's like some sort of a compulsive disease and I just can't help myself. Though, I suppose, that's what fandoms are. But, a buffet like The Girl Who Waited? There's no point in even trying to resist.
"I'm not from this world. Your medicine will kill me."
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The episode, too.
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...This is The Wife of Bath's Tale
YES! When he said this, I thought 'OMG IT'S THE WIFE OF BATH' and started mentally flailing because this is such an old tale and I was so excited for it to be given the Doctor Who treatment and when Rory said "I don't care that you're old, I care that we didn't grow old together!" I thought 'YES! GOOD ANSWER, RORY!' And there's a little bit of "Gawain and the Green Knight" in there as well, I think, though I'm not sure exactly why I think that.
Doesn't this sound exactly like the Tenth Doctor's line in The End of Time, right before he became Eleven?
I had never thought about it before, but yes! Although with Amy, I sympathise more than I do with Ten. This just shows how HUMAN Ten had let himself become, this fear of death when he was only being reborn.
I love how you show Rory as Amy's angel. He has always been a messenger, of sorts. In Series 5 he was the messenger of reality in The Vampires of Venice and Amy's Choice; then he became a messenger of ( ... )
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Oh, absolutely. And it is part of that duality thing, and Ten was acting so human that he couldn't allow for his own duality in becoming, literally, a new man. Amy also faces this.
Yes, absolutely, on nurses. They are the human ones, doing the work and being so very human. The Doctors are the otherworldly ones. Though, not sure how much literary analysis belongs in hospitals, but there it is.
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