Okay, so I'm noticed on icons this tendency to label Amy as 'The Girl Who Waited' while Rose gets to be Bad Wolf wtf which is wrong.
Because, sure, when she was seven she waited all night for the Doctor.... before going on to write comic books and make dolls and force her boyfriend to dress up as 'The Raggedy Doctor' (question: when will that stop being awesome? answer: never) and grow up and become a kiss-o-gram and when the Doctor showed up she hit him with a cricket bat and locked his tie in a car door and didn't ever let him forget he was late, late, late and then she was about to get married (hardly the sign of a girl with her life on hold) before the Doctor had to practically seduce her to step into the TARDIS.
My point is 'the girl who waited' has a very passive vibe to it. Amelia Pond did not spend her life pining for the Doctor - or if she did, she pined very, very badly.
Because, sure, when she was seven she waited all night for the Doctor.... before going on to write comic books and make dolls and force her boyfriend to dress up as 'The Raggedy Doctor' (question: when will that stop being awesome? answer: never) and grow up and become a kiss-o-gram and when the Doctor showed up she hit him with a cricket bat and locked his tie in a car door and didn't ever let him forget he was late, late, late and then she was about to get married (hardly the sign of a girl with her life on hold) before the Doctor had to practically seduce her to step into the TARDIS.
My point is 'the girl who waited' has a very passive vibe to it. Amelia Pond did not spend her life pining for the Doctor - or if she did, she pined very, very badly.
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That's a good way to put it.
I loved how she reminded him he promised her a planet. That's what seemed to hurt & annoy her the most was that he didn't come back in 5 minutes, he broke his promise after making her believe he would keep actually keep it. She opened up to the possibility that someone wouldn't let her down again.
Well said. She's insisting on getting her money's worth out of this trip with the Doctor.
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(Not you. Y'know. The general audience who you probably don't have friended. And who suck.)
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I had hoped that no one would take my comparison as a Rose vs Amy thing.
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She doesn't wait for you to turn up, so much as make you pay for being late.
With space/timetravelling adventures. And snogs. Y'know.
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I would strongly encourage you to.