Asylum of the Daleks

[tempestsarekind]

Last night, on my walk home, I passed a guy wearing a fez! So I, er, kind of accosted him and his friend with eager, awkward questions about why he was wearing it. OOPS. (Also, when I got closer, I could see he was also wearing a tweed blazer, though no bow tie. Hurrah

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[sadcypress]

I am so very intrigued by this role-playing aspect of Amy; it sounds spot on to me. She's so eager to be somebody else, somebody Not-Amy. It's why she loves adventuring with the Doctor- when you're running away from monsters, you're someone exciting, someone who doesn't have to stop and deal with the Real Life that happens when you're not with the Doctor. She has such a hard time accepting Rory's devotion to her because I honestly think that SHE doesn't think she's earned it. She'll play other roles because she doesn't think she's very good at being Amy Pond (especially not any more

[tempestsarekind]

Yes! I mean, I don't want to see Amy give up that role-playing aspect entirely, because it's who she is, but it's also definitely a screen, a way of dealing with all the things that have happened to her. When you spend your life with people putting labels on you (like "the mad girl"), choosing the roles you play and defining how people see you is so important. I'm really interested in where the show is going to leave Amy. Karen's performance was subtly not-right;she even scared the Doctor with her hunger for adventure this time, so desperate to throw herself into a story that she wasn't even afraid of the Daleks! I wonder if all of that was because of the divorce, or if it's everything that's happened... You're right, last season's writing decisions were a problem in so many ways - do they try to address that going forward, or just ignore it? Because subtextually, between the lines, it's absolutely all there, and not being able to deal with it doesn't mean not caring or that it won't have knock-on effects. (Why oh why did Moffat cut