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heathershaped) wrote2010-05-16 01:21 am
heathershaped) wrote2010-05-16 01:21 am
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Amy's Choice
... I dunno. I haven't felt like posting about this ep till now -- most of this is bleeding over from what I was saying in Mia's post a little bit ago, and follows what I've been thinking since last week as well.
I think I was expecting a lot from this episode based on how much I usually love it when Moffatt plays around with timelines and parallels and things (even though he didn't write this one). Maybe that's why I felt so underwhelmed; the built-up expectations. As it is, I didn't really get the point of this one. It didn't fit in with this season's overarching plot, but didn't work very well as a standalone either.
+ Rory and Amy are cute, they're cute people who say and do cute things, but I don't get them as a couple. I don't think the show does a good job convincing me why Amy loves him (or how she feels for him at all). I can guess at things but that's as far as it goes. In some ways I'm happy that it's not a Rose/Mickey situation because Rose/Mickey was heartbreaking, but I ... believed that a little more, at least.
Amy told the Doctor that she never told Rory she loves him, so how is it they're getting married?
+ The title of the episode made me think the ep would be more about Amy, and I don't see where it was. From where I'm sitting, she was presented with Rory's dream and Eleven's dream (yeah I know they were both Eleven's dreams, but the village was very Rory-centric, so much that I didn't actually ever believe it could be the real one - which took a bit of the dramatic tension away). Neither scenario had much to do with Amy or her choices. She made no active choices - even the one she ultimately made was the only one she had by that point, because Rory was dead.
+ I don't know, the last two eps are giving me no feel for Amy's character progression, much as I love her (and I really do). And I'm thinking that this might be where Moffatt is weak and RTD is strong. Moffatt writes great stories, engaging and complex. RTD is a shit storyteller by comparison but there were few moments in the last four series (I'm fresh off a rewatch) where I didn't get his characters or their motivations, especially the companions. So... yeah.
Part of it may be that Amy's not our POV character as the previous companions were - she's part of the plot, in some ways she IS the plot, and she's a mystery. So in that aspect I get why she's harder to get a handle on and why her feelings aren't always made clear. But I've gotta say, the last two eps have been frustrating for me.
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miakun was saying that Moffatt might not be so great at running a cohesive show as he is at writing good standalone episodes, and I kind of agree with that. Maybe this ep would've been better in Moffat's hands, but he's exec. producer now and the buck still stops there.
I might feel better when I rewatch it.
I think I was expecting a lot from this episode based on how much I usually love it when Moffatt plays around with timelines and parallels and things (even though he didn't write this one). Maybe that's why I felt so underwhelmed; the built-up expectations. As it is, I didn't really get the point of this one. It didn't fit in with this season's overarching plot, but didn't work very well as a standalone either.
+ Rory and Amy are cute, they're cute people who say and do cute things, but I don't get them as a couple. I don't think the show does a good job convincing me why Amy loves him (or how she feels for him at all). I can guess at things but that's as far as it goes. In some ways I'm happy that it's not a Rose/Mickey situation because Rose/Mickey was heartbreaking, but I ... believed that a little more, at least.
Amy told the Doctor that she never told Rory she loves him, so how is it they're getting married?
+ The title of the episode made me think the ep would be more about Amy, and I don't see where it was. From where I'm sitting, she was presented with Rory's dream and Eleven's dream (yeah I know they were both Eleven's dreams, but the village was very Rory-centric, so much that I didn't actually ever believe it could be the real one - which took a bit of the dramatic tension away). Neither scenario had much to do with Amy or her choices. She made no active choices - even the one she ultimately made was the only one she had by that point, because Rory was dead.
+ I don't know, the last two eps are giving me no feel for Amy's character progression, much as I love her (and I really do). And I'm thinking that this might be where Moffatt is weak and RTD is strong. Moffatt writes great stories, engaging and complex. RTD is a shit storyteller by comparison but there were few moments in the last four series (I'm fresh off a rewatch) where I didn't get his characters or their motivations, especially the companions. So... yeah.
Part of it may be that Amy's not our POV character as the previous companions were - she's part of the plot, in some ways she IS the plot, and she's a mystery. So in that aspect I get why she's harder to get a handle on and why her feelings aren't always made clear. But I've gotta say, the last two eps have been frustrating for me.
miakun was saying that Moffatt might not be so great at running a cohesive show as he is at writing good standalone episodes, and I kind of agree with that. Maybe this ep would've been better in Moffat's hands, but he's exec. producer now and the buck still stops there.I might feel better when I rewatch it.
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Now this bit I understand. Amy was clearly feeling undecided about marrying Rory what with getting in to the Tardis the night before her wedding and kissing the Doctor. I know people who just don't throw around "I love you" and maybe Amy was holding it back because she felt those words were a real commitment that meant something more binding that being a couple, being engaged.
Amy's a frank, no bullshit woman. She never let's the Doctor get away with elision or obfuscation. She'd not say "I love you" unless she really felt she meant it.
My theory, which is mine :)
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but I guess I was having trouble reconciling that with this being the night before their wedding. I know life's not always linear that way, but I still can't see it, why she agreed to it at all. If she agreed to it on a lark, that doesn't gel with the girl you described, but it would fit if maybe she agreed to it BEFORE she was the girl you describe, if that makes sense ... but I don't know, we can only guess that which is my problem.
I'll come round to it; maybe I just need to rewatch both episodes. I'm still a Rory fan and ALWAYS an Amy fan, ofc. :D