And that's exactly why the scene just did not work for me.
Bye-Bye Ponds?
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I seriously doubt Amy actually did the Chemistry for creating the Perfume. It's perfectly acceptable, I believe, for Amy to have been the person smelling the results produced by a Chemist that was contracted for her, and asking for te perfume to be altered to be a sweeter or more acidic scent, etc and still say she "Created it".
The scene was more designed to show the growing realization that he can have a bad effect on those close to him. His growing concern is what led to the Doctor dropping them off for their own safety. The alternative is that they travel with him until something really bad happen to one or both.
However, I have a feeling that despite the Doctor's best wishes, fate (or whatever) has other plans.
So, I'd take it more as an expression of care and concern from the Doctor than a real goodbye (although he meant it as such).
Mr Awe
@StScoop...how would it be a coincidence if Amy was the campaign face? Wouldn't it be more of one if she were behind the fragrance? It's possible she signed some kind of endorsement deal and I didn't mean "create" as in come up with the formula or whatever but signed a deal, etc. As mentioned above like other celebrities.
In fact as I look at page 137 of the Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012 it states her job is indeed as an advertising model for the fragrance Petrichor.
In fact as I look at page 137 of the Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012 it states her job is indeed as an advertising model for the fragrance Petrichor.
Well, I didn't mean she literally mixed it up herself; it's more the whole idea of going from being an unemployed kiss-o-gram to the face of a Perfume Range in what, a couple of months or a year. Unless the Doctor set that up for her too.
Then again given how they've repeatedly emphasised his lack of understanding of mundane human tasks I don't know how he even arranged the house and car.
Hmm, that's odd. I can recall Moffat telling someone on Twitter that Amy hadn't become a Model after that episode aired.
Heh, The conversation seemed to be steering towards "Yea, right, a Kiss-O-Gram girl gained Chemistry skills to mix up a perfume in a couple of months", so I was actually defending the statement that she "created" the perfume by pointing out "Created" doesn't need to mean she mixed the stuff herself.
We don't know if she ever was a kiss-o-gram in the reconstituted universe. For all we know she could have been an entrepreneur instead.
She was wearing the kiss-o-gram outfit on her honeymoon in the Christmas special.
I'm betting they die. It would fit with Karen Gillan's desire to end her character with finality.
Or Amy dies and Rory leaves the Doctor because he no longer has any purpose. That'd be heartbreaking as well.
If Amy dies, it most likely will be caused (directly or indirectly) by the Doctor. That could make River resent him but in SitL (which is after her "adventures" with the Doctor) she doesn't seem to. So I doubt that Amy will/should die. Just let her get pregnant again and leave the Tardis before another wacko tries to pervert this baby. (It will also give Melody/River a sibling. Can s/he regenerate too?).
And after all the fake-outs what could they do to persuade people that they were really, honestly dead this time, no takebacks?
I doubt it. Melody/River's ability to regenerate is a result of being conceived within the TARDIS and the genetic manipulation done to her by Madame Kovarian. There's no reason to assume another child of Amy and Rory's would also regnerate.
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Unless the baby is conceived in the same manner, or Amy's eggs and Rory's swimmers are permanently affected from all their travelling. Jo Grant, I believe, is the only other person we know of for sure, throughout all of Dr. Who televised history who has had a child(ren), and her husband never travelled in the TARDIS, but, we don't have any proof that Jo's child(ren) won't be able to regenerate. The Time Lords became Regenerative due to TARDIS flying, so no reason to think River has be the only one.
Most likely River was only because she was conceived in flight, but, Rory and Amy could do so again before they permanently leave
That would be my perfect ending to series 7.