The Girl Who Did Not Wait

[redbrunja]

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.

Comments

[ivy-chan.livejournal.com]

I thought it was based off of the Doctor saying: "Amy Pond, the girl who waited- you've waited long enough." But, yeah, she had a real life going on in that interim.

[aj.livejournal.com]

BLARGH. I HATE ALL PEOPLE WHO DO A CHARACTER VS. CHARACTER. Rose is Rose and Amy is Amy and Martha is Martha and Donna is Donna and Ian is Ian, AD INFINITUM. Everyone can STFU if they can't cope. Don't like a new companion? FINE. Just. Bitch about it in locked comm's and stop making other fans look bad!

(Not you. Y'know. The general audience who you probably don't have friended. And who suck.)

[keirelle.livejournal.com]

I hope she gets a title as cool as Bad Wolf by the end of the season. She deserves it, Amy is no passive waiting girl.

[lady-with-cats.livejournal.com]

Amy kisses the Doctor when she wants, where she wants. Amy is a two-man woman. Amy pats the TARDIS and calls it her spaceship. Amy hits the Doctor with a cricket bat.

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.

[kalliel]

I don't watch Dr. Who (well, yet, XD), but I felt the urge to tell you that if there was anything in the world that would speed that whole watching process, it's probably be your mini-meta right here.