10 Times Doctor Who Trolled You (And You Fell For It)
5. Who's Melody's Father?
From the moment Amy was introduced there were hints that she wasn’t fully devoted to her fiancé Rory and instead fancied the Doctor.
We say "hints", but her full-on snogging him was probably a bit more than a hint.
This love triangle was explored to varying degrees of success in Series 5 and became even more complicated in Series 6, with the reveal of Amy’s pregnancy raising the question: who’s the father?
It all sounds quite ludicrous now, but at the time it was something the show fully played into – initially in Day of the Moon, when Amy confesses her love to the man who “dropped out of the sky” (terrible wording there Amy by the way).
It all came to a head in the opening scene of A Good Man Goes to War, which sees Amy tell Melody about her father – a sonic screwdriver-wielding man who has a name other than the one on his birth certificate and, despite his young appearance, has lived for “hundreds and hundreds of years”.
Of course this man ends up being Rory. But the bit goes on for so long that you do begin to wonder whether the show’s about to pull a soap-style twist, where the Doctor fathers a child with his companion. And when the penny drops you can almost picture Steven Moffat cackling away at his keyboard.
Complicated familial relations between Doctor and companion isn’t actually a million miles away from where we leave things at the end of Series 6, with the Doctor revealed to be Amy and Rory’s son-in-law. Cue EastEnders theme…