apparently this is an all-Rory, all-the-time blog now
So here I am, sitting in the box office and kicking back during Act I of tonight's show, keeping on with my rewatch of Doctor Who. I just finished the second Flesh episode and started "A Good Man Goes to War," and two thoughts IMMEDIATELY popped to mind
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But as for Rory and Amy: YES. And this is actually why Moffat's narrative sleight-of-hand there has never bothered me, because Moffat actually did too good a job on the key emotional Amy/Rory beats in "The Impossible Astronaut" (that little, shattered "Rory, what do we do?" from Amy always breaks my heart) and "Day of the Moon" for the trick to work. Moffat has already done that switch, back when Rory assumed that Amy was talking about the Doctor with her whole "I know you think it ought to be him", "get your stupid face where I can see it" speech. And Amy's response, when Rory admitted that, was this totally disbelieving, even kind of grossed-out, "you thought I was talking about the Doctor???" So there's no way that Amy could have meant that the Doctor ( ... )
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Plus, you know - I said this back when the episodes first aired, I think, but the really telling thing with "Day of the Moon" is that Amy has to ask whether the Doctor is out there listening, but when she's talking to Rory, she doesn't even bother asking, because she knows he's listening to her.
Please picture me rolling around on the floor, wailing and beating my breast over this detail. Carry on.
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So Amy gets these periodic speeches and voiceovers, right? There's the "when I was a little girl, I had an imaginary friend" one that opens "The Beast Below," the big one at her wedding, the "Lone Centurion" bedtime story to Melody in AGMGTW, and the final one: "this is the story of Amelia Pond." I love this because it makes the whole storytelling motif even more explicit, and makes Amy herself the teller of her own story - but the thing I was thinking just now is that if her first two speeches are about learning to believe in the Doctor, this one is so much about the fact that she's learned to be not just someone who can have faith in Rory - faith is Amy's specialty, she's the Girl Who Waited - but someone who can accept the faith and steadfastness of Rory. The Amy we met at the beginning of S5 ran away from that kind of devotion. And it's not a perfect process; especially after Demons Run, she has to relearn some of that, has to figure out how to believe ( ... )
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I don't know where I'm going with that except to say that I LOVE MY PONDS.
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That's so true about Amy, the way the shell she's built up around herself starts to break down in "The Girl Who Waited" - the way she laughs at Rory's jokes as if she hasn't laughed in years just *guts* me. Rory is the thing that makes her vulnerable, which is true in S5 a bit, as well. Amy has taught herself to stop hoping for or expecting anything, after the Doctor abandons her as a child, so when she thinks he might be dead (in "Vampires of Venice"), she just swallows and says flatly, "Is he…" as if, whatever happens, she is going to face it bravely. But when Rory dies, she just comes apart - and even when she can't remember him, the loss of him makes her cry. I have SO MANY feelings about that, the way some part of her is grieving even though she doesn't know why.
(In S6, Amy can weep for the Doctor - and then goes catatonic, the way she does: "Why are you still talking? He's dead" - but it makes so much sense that in "The Girl Who Waited," she might have shut her heart on those feelings for the Doctor, but Rory ( ... )
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