Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E10 The Girl Who Waited: Difference between revisions

* [[Companion Cube]]: Rory the Handbot, the eternally faithful pet. Even young!Amy is surprised that the other Amy didn't call it the Doctor or their favorite cat, Biggles.

* [[Continuity Nod]]:

** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E08 Let's Kill Hitler|"I come in peace! Peace! Peace! Peace! Peace…"]] ([[Hypocritical Humour|Coming from a guy who claimed it would never work.]])

** Rory calling the Doctor out on his actions at the end of this episode seemed pretty remiscent of Steven Taylor doing the same, some [[Doctor Who/Recap/S3/E05 The Massacre|45 years earlier]].

** Amy [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E06 The Almost People|still has issues about]] [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E05 The Rebel Flesh|how real or valid a person is under weird circumstances,]] though the similar themes aren't mentioned by anyone.

* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]: The [[Nerd Glasses]] are a camera/two-way radio.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: {{spoiler|The Doctor shows himself to be [[Manipulative Bastard|unrepentantly manipulative]], getting both Amys and Rory to believe that he could save all three of them, knowing full well that he was never going to bring the Older Amy with them. Worse still, to the Doctor there isn't a choice; he intended from the start to leave the Older Amy behind. He forces Rory to make the choice when he protests and for added cruelty, he takes his hand and makes him lock the door himself.}}

* [[Harmful Healing]]: Of the "averts [[No Biochemical Barriers]]" type. All the medicine is meant for lifeforms with two hearts, and Amy can't make the robots understand that it's lethal to her.

* [[Heel Realization]]: Rory forces Older Amy to face her weeping younger self.

** The (in)famous fez gets mentioned again.

* [[Sadistic Choice]]: Rory can only choose to save one of his wives; the young, cheerful Amy he set out to protect, or the older, bitter Amy who is desperate to not be abandoned again. {{spoiler|In the end, he chooses the younger one, at Older Amy's behest.}} See [[What the Hell, Hero?]] below for the quote that sums it up.

* [[Scenery Porn]]: Brief, but it's there.

* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Amy's a remarkable woman indeed if she's managed to remain so stable after her predicament. Even the first week would affect most people a LOT more than what we've seen.

* [[This Ain't Rocket Surgery]]: The Doctor complaining about Rory being slow at rerouting the regulator valves for the temporal engines.

{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' It's hardly rocket science, it's just quantum physics!}}

* [[Vader Breath]]: {{spoiler|Older Amy's first appearance.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Vasquez Always Dies]]}}

 

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