So, two hours before 'The God Complex' and I finally get around to watching 'The Girl Who Waited', 'The Unicorn and the Wasp' is still unfinished due to executive meddling and friends and a book. Also, my internet was taken away from me. Also excuses, excuses, excuses.
I will still be liveblogging this thing, just with BBCiPlayer. Now in fact.
Whu', Abbleappajeer? Appleapplechia? Appalappacheer? You guys so cute. Agree with Amy it's a beautiful word, so we get a "beautiful world" Doctor? YES! ALIEN WORLDS! Get our boogie on. ALIEN LANDSCAPES!
"Voted number two planet" in the universe. Number one is a "planet of coffee shops". Ugh, coffee's icky.
No Doctor, that's not soaring colonnades and sunsets. It's a white room. Ah, the Doctor "gives you doors".
Heh. Amy, wants her phone. For Twitter. Oh camera phones.
Green anchor button? Red waterfall?
Amy's going to push the -
what? Didn't tell her what button to push.
And now they're in the same room, but the wrong room.
And Amy's stuck.
The Doctor knows something's up.
God this music guys.
MAGNIFYING GLASS VIEWSCREEN. DO WANT.
D: "Robot with hands Rory". It's the robots from
I, Robot. Yes I saw that film, don't look like that.
Oooh! "TIme's gone wobbly" And wibbly?
"Good question, bit sinister."
Amy's been there a week? Ah, hello plot! "Same room, two different time streams [...] Amy you're in a faster time stream". No wibbly wobbly then. Just a bullet train compared to British trains.
Pausing a sec. How is Amy alive? No food or water? It's a white room with some stickers, two chairs, a table and a MAGNIFYING GLASS VIEWSCREEN THAT IS DO WANT. Basically: bottle episode.
And play. Loving that Rory's freaked out by the freaky Handbot trying to facepalm him.
INTRO!
Anyone else remember when Matt Smith got to play this theme with Orbital? Writer is Tom Macrae.
OH NO! He wrote for
Bonekickers (twitchy hate; you seen what that show did to history?!?!?!?!) and the Cybermen two-parter. Oh dear . . .
Rory's wigging - whut. The Handbot sees with its hand.
Well that is not a nice thing to make me remember. Ever. It even looks a little like it.
Why didn't Rory tell her which button to push? Why is Rory going in the red room? WHY IS AMY NOT IN THE RED ROOM? Stupid timey wimey.
Back to green.
D: "Can't follow her directly in".
The planet is under a quarantine. "This is a kindness facility for Chen7".
D: "You get it, and you die in a day."
Why is the Doct - only affects species with two hearts.
PLOT! Called it. THe no-food thing is important because techno
Treknobabble.
R: "Watch them grow old in front of your eyes [
in a day. THat's horrible." YES IT IS.
How is it kind Doctor?! Sit in the green room and watch them live, or watch them die.
You mo - what. Can the - the magnifying glass of do want is moving lots. It's a satnav.
Vandalism alarm. Divers alarum!
D: "Don't let them [the Handbots] give you anything. They don't know your alien. Their kindness will
kill you." Oh lovely.
And Amy's going to have to wait for a long time for the Doctor to break through quarantine no?
Well, not him, two hearts mate.
A: "Rory. I love you. Now save me. Come on." AMY/RORY OTP 4EVZ.
Oh look, stuff. Lots of stuff.
And Rory's brainy specs.
D: "Hello handsome man." TRUEST. THING. EVER.
And he's Rorycam.
Oi. I saw that 08:02. That says [BBC]one! Least we know where they got the set from. You know, the Kindness Place isn't so bad . . . white and boring; very freaky music throughout (thanks Gold)
RAY OF LIGHT!
It's an interface. Now called GLADoS. Oh dear. Yankee accent. They're not friendly sounding. And air hostess uniform?
Entertainment cells? What? Holodecks?!
Also, did GLADoS say she would be Amy's friend? Don't accept anything memeable from her. This includes: lemons, cake, opera singing turretbots, potatoes and portals. You can't cook with any of them.
- WARP SPEED DEATH RIDE!? "Provided for you with kindness."
So wiggy. It's all grey and stuff.
BAD HANDBOT.
"Unregistered bacteria?" Needles. Amy I under
- holy jesus the hell it's a needle torpedo that goes through walls
RUN AMY!
And hi dark and unused staircases.
Aaaah, that hand looking around corners. Flashbacks. Many flashbacks. Looking all around.
You run Amy. Stop transporting down Handbots with their "This is a kindness. Do not be alarmed." thing. Amy in a cage and can't climb up.
Why does this mean you can't detect her?
So much time going fowards.
STAR TREK CAMERA EFFECTS.
Venus de Milo?
Mona Lisa?
R: "Bit of Earth. Bit of alien. Bit of . . . whatever the Hell that is." RORY NEVER CHANGE.
What. GLADoS comes when you call? Oh God it is a holodeck/entertainment deck. Birdsong, so garden.
This is that clip fro the season 6b previews isn't it? Oh that is beautiful.
Sounds it too.
Amy has gorgeous eyes.
A: "You really could spend a lifetime here. Not that I'm going to." PLEASE DON'T BE FORESHADOWING.
Aaawwww, Amy's getting help from GLADoS about the Handbots. Okay. Airvents are timevents. Too much time confuses Handbots.
Amy just killed two Handbots by making them touch hands.
Eeee~ Lipstick messages. Someone's seen
Labyrinth.
I adore that giant magnifying glass.
Whoa. It's the ghosting effect from the Cybermen two-parter.
R: "Are they happy?"
D: "Oh Rory, trust you o think of that."
Darth Vader Amy. "I waited for you. I waited for you. I waited for ages."
Old!Amy.
Aaaawwwwww.
Still very beautiful though. Amy, I'll grow old with you (and Rory) any day.
Where did you get your katana from? The entertainment centre?
Wha'? Sonic probe? Amy made the Handbots think she doesn't exist.
A: "You didn't save me."
Punch in the gut.
Did you see Rory's face? You could
see that hit him.
Thirty-six years? Rory still thinks Amy looks great.
Why is Amy so - A: "I hate him. I hate the Doctor. I've hated him more than anyone I've hated in my entire life. [...] You told me to wait, and I waited a lifetime. You've got nothing to say to me." That from the Girl Who Waited . . . That's all you need to know to see how she's changed.
Amy's all different. She moves and acts different. Cold and indifferent. She's not looking at Rory.
R: "This is so wrong." Rory don't say that, that's Amy!
A: "I got old Rory. What did you think was going to happen."
R: "I don't care that you got old. I care that we didn't grow old together. Amy come on please."
R: "Don't touch me. Don't do that."
A"[...]I walked in here, and I died."
Amy lives in the Time Engines. With a friendly robot. Who sat when she said "Sit down Rory."
R: "You named him after me."
A:"Needed a bit of company."
R: "So he's your - "
A: "A pet."
Amy put your lipstick on, please. You were going to for Rory, I know you were, you still love him, please put it on. Please. Don't keep hiding behind your armour.
Another definition of the Doctor: "A blue box man flying through time and space on whimsy."
Amy, you're so bitter, you deserve to be. But
Amy . . .
Amy isn't meant to hate the Doctor, and she's meant to adore Rory.
A: "All I've got, all I've had for thirty-six years is cold, hard reality."
Amy . . .
The sonic screwdriver is a probe. Insistent terminology.
GLADoS doesn't work in the Time Engine.
A: "Stay or go?"
R: "Me? I'm staying with you."
The Doctor keeps interrupting good moments with techno
Treknobabble. And she still won't look at him.
Awwww, that music.
"I think that's the first time I've laughed in over thirty-six years." And that music, and Rory's face.
R: "I'll, just leave you two geniuses a minute" He's going to cry.
R: "How can you have a door without a wall?" Modern art.
RORY JUST GOT HANDBOTTED!
Ahhhh. Needle torpedo head.
Amy still cares for Rory, she's been crying.
R: Glasses."
A; "STupid"
R: "You saved me.
A: "Don't get used to it
R: "You've been crying [...] haven't you?"
A: "Woman with a sword."
Amy doesn't want to be saved. Gold that music. I want this track. Amy just ran away from the Doctor.
And she left the sign and it smeared away and tears because
that
music. Anyone else get sad?
Amy won't help herself because herself is Past!Amy meaning Older!Amy will cease to exist. She has a point.
R: "That's, that's good isn't it?"
A: "I will die. Another Amy will take my place. An Amy who was never trapped at Two Streams. I will die and another Amy will take my place." She's hurting so much. Karen you can
act.
R: "But you'll die in here!"
A: "Not if you take me with you. You came to rescue me, so rescue me." Her face.
R: "Leave her and
take you?!"
D: "We could take this Amy with us, easy, but if we do we have to come back in thirty-six years and rescue Amy."
R: "So I have to choose. Which wife do I want?" But
Rory. All the sad in this episode. Rory waited two thousand years for a slim chance at
an Amy, and now he has to choose an Amy. Rory . . .
A: "She is me." But she's not. She's not . . . cold. She hasn't been alone for thirty-six years. She can become you. 2We're both me."
Rory promised to look after her.
R: "This is your fault [Doctor]. This is
your fault. You should look in a history book once in a while, see if there's a plague."
D: "That's not how I travel."
R: "THEN I DO
NOT WANT TO TRAVEL WITH YOU." I gasped. I really did. Rory . . .
And Amy's crying. But I don't know which. Young Amy.
No. Rory can see and hear his young wife, and Amy can feel him, but they can't see. So he goes to Older!Amy who repeats again, "I will not help her."
This music guys. Minor key piano.
R: "Look me in the face [shows young Amy] and say it now." He can sonic things! Rory's ahead, and Amy can see Amy.
The music is full of wonder.
A: "Why are we still here?"
A: "Because they leave you. They get in their TARDIS and fly away."
Old!Amy tells young Amy that she's the one who made them go away, leaving Young!Amy to grow old there and timey wimey stuff.
Y!A: 2Three words: What about Rory?"
O!A: "I called my robot Rory."
The Y!A and O!A reminisce about Rory. This is bittersad and sweet. O!A "All those boys chasing me, but it was only ever Rory. Why was that?"
Y!A: "You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them, and five minutes later they’re as dull as a brick? Then there’s other people, you meet them and think: “Not bad, they’re OK”. Then you get to know them… and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality’s written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful. Rory is the most beautiful man I have ever met." (last bit said by both)
Awwwwww. All my tears welling up. All my tears, and that music.
Y!A: "Please. Do it for him."
O!A: "You're asking me to defy destiny itself [...] for a boy."
Y!A: You're Amy. He's Rory. Oh yes I am."
AND TRIUMPH! That music.
O!A: I'm gonna pull time apart for you.
And they kiss and wow. It's so. And
Awww, Rorybot looks away and hugs and crying and the music and sadness.
Amy's breaking all the laws if time itself and "defeat[ing] pre-destiny" because she's
Amy And that's all you need to know about Amy/Rory. They will do
anything for each other.
Anything. Plus Eleven's them so Awesome is happening.
O!A: "It's not about what I'm doing, it's who I'm doing it for." It's for Y!A, all sad and lost and this is making sure she's not put through Hel. "I'm trusting you to watch my back Rory."
R: "Always. You and me. Always." And he has to take them both in the TARDIS.
And the Doctor's shaking his head.
R: "Two Amy's together, can that work?"
D: "I don't know, it's your marriage." And then he says some stuff meaning yes. But the music was wrong. And the headshake.
And he ddin't like Captain Jack Harkness. And that means the TARDIS is a paradox machine. Please let me be ovethinking this.
YES! Amy called the probe a screwdriver. O!A is coming back to happiness!
The Amy's have to share a thought. "Something so powerful it can rip through time."
And then there's a ten minute time limit.
D: "Come on Rory, this is hardly rocket science. This is quantum phsyics!"
The Amy''s are going to do the macarena to break time. Their first kiss! I knew it was Rory. It's always Rory.
And now the Amy's are together. And Rory hugs Y!A, and is embarrassed because of O!A. Awkward moment time.
Amy/Amy bicker time. Also Rory's glasses made the TARDIS blow up because she hates time paradoxes and is trying to run away. Foreshadowing . . .
no please.
Eight minutes.
R: "I'm not on my own. I've got my wives." Hee~
Amy, Amr and Rory get to beat up Handbots to the Doctor's theme. Epic.
Rory's stuck between in wives. O!A wants to go travelling, so they get to be apart and together. Entertainment centre time.
What.
There was a weird moment.
O!A gets a minute and his "cutest smile". O!A is flirting with Rory in front of Y!A. IT's cute and they cosplayed together. D'aawww.
Epic figfht scene time in slow motion.
O!A is badass. Oh yeah..
I should comment, but this is amazing.
And the toung two get to kick ass together.
O!A has their back!
Y!A just got Handed! Rory go Last Centurion on them! GO! DON -
HE JUST TOOK OUT A HANDBOT WITH THE MONA LISA!
DUDE!
And now there's running in slo-mo.
To the TARDIS.
O!A why you look so sad? Rory just
kicked open the TARDIS doors O!A come on.
COME ON!
Run!
You -
DOCTOR WAT!
"I lied to her Rory"
Doctor. What/ She's real. There can be more than one Amy.
D: "Which one do you want? It's your choice."
R: "This isn't fair. You're turning me into you."
Doctor. what.
What.
Amy. But. O!A through the window. And the
Wrath of Khan moment.
O!A: "The look on your face when you carried her. You used to look at me that way. I'd forgotten how much I loved you. How much I loved being her. Amy Pond in the TARDIS with Rory Williams."
R: "I'm sorry I can't do this." I can't do this either ROry. Don't cry. Don't cry. Don't.
O!A: If you love me, don't let me in. I will, I'll come in, I don't want to die. I won't bow out bravely, I'll be screaming and fighting until the end.
R: "Amy, Amy I lvoe you."
A: I love you too. Give her the days... Tell Amy... Your Amy... I'm giving her the days. The days with you. Days to come... Days I can't have. Take them, please... I'm giving you my days."
And Rory's crying and whispering he's so sorry over and over and over. And tears.
Amy. Amy, no. Amy. Amy.
Fight them.
A: "Interface [...] show me Earth. Show me home." And the music swells. "Did |I ever tell you about this boy I met there. He pretended to be in a band"
AMY YOU'RE MEANT TO FIGHT! AMYT!
AmY!
No. Amy. Domn't.
Doctor you left Amy to die all alone.
You
bastard.
R: "Did you always know that would never work. Saving both Amys."
D: "I promised you I'd save her, and there she is."
R: "Yeah. There she is."
Amy wakes up, and the Doctor is happy and has some tact about leavbing them alone.
A: "Where is she?"
Preview thoughts: CLOWNS AND WEEPING ANGELS AND GODDAMED PUPPETS AGAIN! And minotaur. And ironic nursery rhymes again. And a mole? Whut.
Best Moment: Oh. Amy talks to herself through the magnifying glass. The fight. The
emotional scenes. All the scenes where the tragedy of the situation comes through.
Worst Moment: The Doctor left Amy to die . . .okay. That's an emotional worst. Um. The scenes in the green room weren't as strong as the rest of them.
Best Special Effect: I love that giant magnifying glass. But the Handbots. And the garden scene.
Worst Special Effect: The TARDISplsion
Best Actor: Karen Gillan. End of. She can
act.
Worst Actor: There were five characters, two were voices. Ergo, the worst doesn't exist today. At all.
Most Punchable Character: THE DOCTOR.
Death Count:
One. Amy . . .
Kink of the Episode:
Amy/Rory/Older!Amy. Needs to happen. Oh Amy, you grow old
so gracefully.
Thoughts overall?
Oh my tears. This episode. If it does
not have ramifications today I will kick up a fuss.
The acting was absolutely stellar. The sets were cheap and sterile which is good for the setting, and I think they're saving up for the finale. It also means the characters are
thefocus, no distractions whatsoever. And therefore this character study - the Companion story is just brilliant.
It's gripping, it's well-written and heartbreaking and it's in-character and I'm not going to stop gushing about this ever.
I know that Rory waited two thousand years, and Amy only thirty-six, and yeah. But here's the thing: Rory had
hope. He had a purpose, he was mostly indestructible and there was always a chance for Amy. The Doctor said so. And he keeps his promises.
Unless he lies.
And Amy. Amy thought - no, she
knew she was abandoned, because Older!Amy said so. And for thirty-six years she was alone, in Hell, knowing no one would ever come for her.
And the Doctor broke his promise to save her. Twice.
These two situations are incomparable. They both waited, but you can't compare them. It's not quite chalk and cheese, but it's not brie and cheddar either.
Tom Macrae, you brilliant, brilliant man.
Your strength isn't action. It's characters and their emotions. Learn from this.
You broke my heart, and Rory and Amy did it so well. Love.
Ah! One short break until the next episode. That's all for now.
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