Series 7 Web Episodes
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The thing I'm taking away from this series is that the Doctor has become almost like a clingy ex-boyfriend in his Eleventh life. The sort who calls up at 2am becuase he's feeling insecure and wants to talk.
I'm starting to think that they aren't going to kill off Amy in the mid-series break, but rather she and Rory are simply going to get fed up and tell him to piss off and leave them alone.
Well to be fair, they're both still pretty young. Late twenties or thirty. I could see Rory moving on to more charitable work once they've settled into their lives.
I'm starting to think that they aren't going to kill off Amy in the mid-series break, but rather she and Rory are simply going to get fed up and tell him to piss off and leave them alone.
Well to be fair, they're both still pretty young. Late twenties or thirty. I could see Rory moving on to more charitable work once they've settled into their lives.
#4 = Best one yet! 
I liked Rory's lunchbox. I guess these are doing the job because I look forward to the next one every day. With the time difference in the US these are ready when I get up and it's a fun way to start the day.
Should be called "Ood Life" with this one. 
And yes, I certainly sense a theme here. Rory has already been cheesed off enough and certainly would welcome an end to the Doctor's constant invasions of privacy. But loyal Rory will buckle it up as long as Amy is okay with it. Hence, someday soon I feel Amy will no longer be okay with it.
Mark
And yes, I certainly sense a theme here. Rory has already been cheesed off enough and certainly would welcome an end to the Doctor's constant invasions of privacy. But loyal Rory will buckle it up as long as Amy is okay with it. Hence, someday soon I feel Amy will no longer be okay with it.
Mark
That's true, although the second most exciting event in Doctor Who after getting a new Doctor is having the current Doctor meet a new Companion. And of course, the third most exciting event is having the current Companion meet a new Doctor.
It can be fun to meet new Doctors and new companions, sure, but I'm kind of getting tired of all these companions meeting such permanent ends. Rose is trapped in an alternate universe. Donna can't remember the Doctor without her head exploding. Martha is really the only nuCompanion that can potentially pop up again without universe-imploding consequences, and she's the only one so far that I couldn't care less about.
For me, it's really hard to find a balance. I loved Donna and I wanted her to come back, but I also loved how tragic it was when the Doctor took away her memories. I loved it and hated it at the same time because it just broke my heart. I felt the same at the end of Season 2 when Rose was banging on the wall after being trapped in the alternate universe. Heart-wrenching.
So, as much as I love Amy and Rory, I have no doubt that their departure will move me greatly, even if it also completely pisses me off when it happens.
For me, it's really hard to find a balance. I loved Donna and I wanted her to come back, but I also loved how tragic it was when the Doctor took away her memories. I loved it and hated it at the same time because it just broke my heart. I felt the same at the end of Season 2 when Rose was banging on the wall after being trapped in the alternate universe. Heart-wrenching.
So, as much as I love Amy and Rory, I have no doubt that their departure will move me greatly, even if it also completely pisses me off when it happens.
One of the common threads that the new series has reinforced is that being a companion of the Doctor IS TOTALLY AWESOME, and who would EVER want to stop seeing all of space and time FOREVER AND EVER?????
Martha.
And kudos to her for having that perspective! She may not have been the most popular of the companions, but she was grown up enough to realize that she WAS a grown-up, and to move on without it having to be forced on her. Some of Who's companions have indeed grown up like that and decided to stop on their own: Jo Grant, Tegan Jovanka, and Leela to name a few. They may not have had stellar exits, but it shows that not everyone is star struck by the Doctor's lifestyle forever.
I feel that Amy and Rory are moving in that direction, which sync with the whole fairy tale motif Moffat has been putting out there. Fairy tales are for kids, but all kids grow up. Eventually your fairy tales are passed on to your own kids - and oddly enough, River has the Doctor.
Mark
Martha.
And kudos to her for having that perspective! She may not have been the most popular of the companions, but she was grown up enough to realize that she WAS a grown-up, and to move on without it having to be forced on her. Some of Who's companions have indeed grown up like that and decided to stop on their own: Jo Grant, Tegan Jovanka, and Leela to name a few. They may not have had stellar exits, but it shows that not everyone is star struck by the Doctor's lifestyle forever.
I feel that Amy and Rory are moving in that direction, which sync with the whole fairy tale motif Moffat has been putting out there. Fairy tales are for kids, but all kids grow up. Eventually your fairy tales are passed on to your own kids - and oddly enough, River has the Doctor.
Mark
I feel that Amy and Rory are moving in that direction, which sync with the whole fairy tale motif Moffat has been putting out there. Fairy tales are for kids, but all kids grow up. Eventually your fairy tales are passed on to your own kids - and oddly enough, River has the Doctor.
Mark
While I agree with this assessment, I can't help thinking that the Pond's exit (especially Amy's) will be the most tragic we've seen yet. Amy has been infatuated by the Doctor since she was a little girl; he is her best imaginary friend that can never let her down...except that he does. He lets her down again and again. She waits for him, and he's always late. He fails to save Rory in "Amy's Choice." He allows her daughter to be kidnapped in "A Good Man Goes to War". He lies to Old Amy and dooms her to die in "The Girl Who Waited." And through all of it, Amy still believes that he is her savior, and when all is said and done, I think that will be her downfall.
And if Rory survives, I have a feeling he will grow to hate the Doctor for what happens to Amy. And once again, we will find the Doctor broken and on a path to much darker places.
I have a feeling that Moffat is going for a Time Traveler's Wife-type ending. That something will happen that will keep Amy and Rory from traveling with or seeing the Doctor again until the very end of their lives. The death that Moffat has promised, then, will be a death from from adventure but from old age, and the Doctor will be there to witness it.
I'd personally find a Tegan style goodbye a lot more tragic and memorable than the usual boring "Kill them off". And if they do leave him, will the Doctor actually learn anything, or will it just be business as usual once the new girl rolls around in the Christmas special?
For those who've never seen the Tegan goodbye scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHjr4JusPA8 It always makes me tear up.
For those who've never seen the Tegan goodbye scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHjr4JusPA8 It always makes me tear up.
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What would be even more tragic from Amy and Rory's POV would be for them to live out their days, waiting for the Doctor to come for one last adventure, only for him to let them down again and arrive too late (kind of like what happened when he called the Brigadier).
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