N-S6E10: The Girl Who Waited

This was a great episode that could have been a lot better with a little thought.  Minor things, granted, enough to be bothersome buy not enough to detract from the enjoyableness of the installment.

Quotes!
Love the rip on today's generation at the beginning of the episode - hinted at earlier with the mention of the number one destination being the planet of coffee shops.

Amy: “Have you seen my phone?”

Doctor: “Your phone?  Your mobile telephone?   I bring you to a paradise planet two billion lightyears from earth and you want to update ...Twitter?”

Amy: “Sunsets, spires, soaring silver colonnades; it’s a camera phone.”

Doctor: “Glasses are cool, see?”

Are you genuinely promoting glasses or trying to appease the hipsters?

Rory: “Bit of earth, bit of alien, bit of whatever the hell that is…”

Looking through the gallery and commenting on odd alien art - something bubbly.

Amy: “And there he is, the voice of God.”

Are we foreshadowing The God Complex here?

This episode was more about Rory than Amy and it was wonderful being reminded what a sweetheart he is.

Rory: “I don’t care that you got old.  I care that we didn’t grow old together.”

Rory: “Two Amys together, can that work?”

Doctor: “I don’t know, it’s your marriage.”

Doctor: “What’s the nasty Amy done to you, dear?” to the TARDIS.

Doctor: “There can only be one Amy, which one do you want?  It’s your choice.”

Rory: “This isn’t fair.  You’re turning me into you.”

Way to place that moral dilemma on Rory, Doctor.  He obviously knew from the start and passed the blame off, which undoubtedly came up again later when young Amy woke up and asked where old Amy was.

I have to ask why they didn't just give the handbots eyes.  Obviously it needed its head to be filled with tranquilizer guns and no eyes to advance the plot.  Beyond that, it was totally a design flaw that they didn't have eyes.

When Rory left the green anchor room to find Amy in the red waterfall room, he should have wound up in a different time stream from both Amy AND the Doctor.  Again, it didn't happen so the plot could advance, but it would have been nice if they'd kept it consistent.

I loved that for once, FOR ONCE, Amy was focused on Rory.  She told him she loved him before they split to let the saving commence.  For once, she put her faith in Rory to save her instead of the Doctor (because the Doctor couldn't, due to Gen7, but that's beside the point [also, shouldn't Amy and Rory have had residual disease on them when they entered the TARDIS again?  Wouldn't that have affected the Doctor?].).  She (both of them) believe that Rory's the most beautiful man she's ever met, and not just in the physical way.  Also, as an aside, their first kiss had something to do with the Macarena, which is adorable.

When they finally make it back to the TARDIS, Rory kicks the doors open to make his entrance and I couldn't help thinking, "They open out the way!"

A new meme seems to be emerging: Rory dies all the time; Amy's fake all the time.

One of the things that bugged me about this episode was how quickly old Amy changed her gears at the end. She was so desperate to go with them, to keep living, but then when Rory's about to unlock the door and let her in, she tells him not to.  I guess they could explain it away that she traveled so much with the Doctor, she knew deep down that it couldn't happen, but it was still a break in character.

What bugged me the most about the episode was how bitchy Amy was about having to wait a whole 36 years, and that she bitched about it to Rory of all people.  Her waiting for them 36 years has absolutely nothing on Rory the Roman waiting 2000 years.  It was insult to injury and just plain insensitive.  Someone obviously forgot that fact about Rory when they wrote this episode.

Things to think about:

-Why does the Doctor keep giving Rory the screwdriver?  This has happened on multiple occasions and Tennant was so offended when River had the sonic in series 4.  Is there something special about Rory that he keeps getting his hands on it or what?  Are we going to be tuning into Nurse Who in the future?

-How did Amy make a sonic?  Where did she get the parts, how did she know how to assemble it, how did she get it to function?  How does one go about making a sonic from random parts?  Are they all getting Time Heads?