"I took you with me because I was vain, because I wanted to be adored. Look at you: glorious Pond. The girl who waited for me. I'm not a hero. I really am just a madman with a box. And it's time we both saw each other as we really are."
This speech, in just a few sentences, captures the troubled soul of the relationship between Amy and the Doctor. It's a relationship unlike any between any other Doctor and companion, a relationship based somehow equally on love and on sadness, on the strength of their connection and the Doctor's unending failure to keep a promise to a little girl. For the first two years, that was what was at the heart of their relationship. Amy's desire to run away with her raggedy man, this hero who fell out of the sky. The Doctor's desire to keep his promise to little Amelia Pond. They didn't really see each other. They weren't facing the realities of time, of how people change and grow, and it was holding Amy back. It was going to get her killed. We know now that this did not mark the end of Amy's and the Doctor's relationship. But after this, it was a relationship between two adults, two people who understood one another.
Rebecca Kulik lives in Iowa, reads an obsence amount, watches way too much television, and occasionally studies for her BA in History. Come by her personal pop culture blog at tyrannyofthepetticoat.wordpress.com and her reading blog at journalofimaginarypeople.wordpress.com.
