Amy Pond The Girl Who Waited
Best Episode: Amys Choice
If were going to die, lets die looking like a Peruvian folk band.
Amy is tough and fearless, with an adventurous streak that makes her such a good companion for the Eleventh Doctor. Theyre both reckless, flirting with danger at every turn, and this made it so much fun to watch the two of them taking on the universe together. Unfortunately, the show then tried to tackle a love triangle with Rory entering as new companion alongside Amy, which made Amy as a character take a turn for the worse. Granted, Amy didnt have a great character set-up to start out with. Her whole life has been defined by the Doctor; then, when he doesnt show up, she tries to settle with Rory. Then, when theres both the Doctor and Rory in her life, it becomes all about the love triangle, which is predictable and cliché; I expect better from a show like Doctor Who. Amy is fantastic with Eleven, as they both thrive on risk and recklessness, but shes also amazing with Rory as well, as his tendency towards caution balances out her rashness. Really, I couldnt care less which man Amy ended up with, as long as she made up her mind, which is why I loved Amys Choice so much, as Amy finally seems to make her decision. Unfortunately, the writers killed it by still dragging the love triangle out by dropping not-so-subtle references to Amys love for the Doctor and whether that still implied romantic feelings for example, in A Good Man Goes to War - an otherwise amazing episode - we think the Doctor says Amys child is his but then clarifies that when he said Its mine he meant the cot; and at the beginning of the episode when Amy is describing Rory to their baby daughter but her words are chosen so that we cant tell until the very end if shes talking about Rory or the Doctor. Those kinds of gimmicks create tension for the audience and for the characters, but in the end the love triangle does nothing for Amy as a character; in fact, her indecision makes her annoying, which is just poor character writing on the screenwriters part. However, I felt like she retained enough rebellious charm to still be likable; as to whether she is enough of a fully-realized character without her boys is debatable. (On a side note, Amys title is a bit of a letdown. After Defender of the Earth, The Woman Who Saved the World, and The Most Important Woman in the Universe, we haveThe Girl Who Waited? Lame.)