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Doctor Who Series 6 Ep 10 - The Girl Who Waited

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Dai Bowie

This is a kindness

Lais

I hate this episode. The concept of two paralel timelines is fine enough, but, like, honestly, is Amy stupid??????? (answer: no, she's not. this episode is)

Lais

it does not make even a little bit of sense!! like, older Amy claims she was never saved and that's why she hates them. but when she was younger she SAW them there trying to save her. then she saw HER OLDER SELF denying to help. She should be mad at her older self, not at them. Also, the older one is like "oh no you all damned me to hell so i wont help save myself" WHY NOT??? it's not like she's saying "oh it sucked for a while but now i'm pretty happy" i get that she's stubborn and opinionated and everything, but this decision is just stupid. Even more, it took our Amy to remind her to do this for Rory. But like..... hadn't this thought crossed her mind the first time?? why wasn't it enough then??? ugh this episode infuriates me because that's not true to Amy. I get that this is like, Rory's Choice, but it does not resonate with me at all.

Michael Fallon

This is one of my faves! Will schedule to watch.

Mimi

I mean, they didn't save her though did they? She was left there for 36 years before they showed up. She thought they'd save her when she first got there! And to be fair, she did say why she wouldn't help - because if she did, then she'd die.

Dai Bowie

Yeah I’m not a fan of it but I’m glad Darcie enjoyed it tbh, however next two episodes especially but Darcie makes them feel refreshing again at least so I’m looking forward to seeing her reaction and point of view that’s the beauty of watching first time reactions

Dai Bowie

The writing makes Amy act fucking stupid and completely unlike her actual character. The real Amy would never behave that way, especially when she knows exactly who Rory is and how far he would go to save her. It would be different if the episode had established that something had genuinely altered her judgement, like a serious head injury, or had properly shown how those 36 years changed her personality and mindset. But it doesn’t. It just expects us to accept that Amy suddenly ignores everything she knows about Rory and the Doctor because the plot needs her to. It makes zero sense for this story to be written around Amy. The exact same idea could have worked with a one-off character who barely knew them and genuinely believed they had abandoned her. With Amy, it feels like the writers came up with the tragedy first, ran out of believable ways to make it happen, and forced her to act out of character to reach the ending.

Dani C

Ohh I love this episode. It is officially the weekend

Lais

Yes!! Exactly this.

Neil Silverman

Rory telling the Doctor "you're turning me into you" is a line that not only hits hard but really sums up this whole episode.

Mimi

If it was the young Amy acting like that, I'd probably agree, but I don't think you can apply the same ideas about her character to the version of her who'd been abandoned for 36 years! Of course that experience has changed her. I don't think they need to spell that out, I'd think anyone with an ounce of empathy would understand that. Who wouldn't feel angry and bitter after all that time? Also, her feelings seem to be mostly aimed at the Doctor, rather than Rory anyway! But hey, we all see things differently I guess! 🙂

Azalea Skye

I love this episode, because it broaches some of the more uncomfortable possibilities of time travel. In sci-fi shows, when people decide they're going to travel back to the past to change history, they are basically killing their present selves (and sometimes everybody else in their present if the change is impactful enough). You see this in shows all the time, and usually the stakes are so high that the characters are willing to make that sacrifice to accomplish their goal (to save a loved one, prevent the apocalypse, etc). But in this case, the stakes were completely personal to Amy. Older Amy has to sacrifice herself to save just one person, the younger version of herself. And I think we all selfishly would react as she did, because who wants to die so a completely different version of you can have your life. This brings up so many interesting philosophical questions about identity- like what actually makes a person themselves, what makes you "you"? Is it a metaphysical "soul"? Or is it our memories, or a string of memories experienced by our brain? And if those memories are removed or supplanted by different memories, are we still the same person? This episode provokes so much thought, I love when this show goes further than timey wimey into a full-on existential crisis.

Michael Fallon

Great reaction Darcie to an amazing episode!

SunnydaleClassof99

The voice of the Interface is Imelda Staunton aka Dolores Umbridge.

SunnydaleClassof99

Definitely agree 10 felt darker. I'm not saying that's bad about 11 or a knock on Matt. The different characterizations are a big part of the draw of the show.

SunnydaleClassof99

I understand why the trope central to this episode might not appeal to everyone. The emotion of it is just undeniable to me though.

Dai Bowie

Do not be alarmed