#amy's choice

[brekkerholmes]

sometimes a marriage is you, your husband and your emotional support time-travelling alien

(i'm on episode 9 season 5, so no spoilers pls!)

#the doctor #doctor who #matt smith #amy pond #rory pond #amy's choice #eleventh doctor #tenth doctor #david tennant #steven moffat #russell t davies #tenrose #superwholock #karen gillan #catherine tate #donna noble #doctor donna #billie piper #rose tyler #dream lord #fourteenth doctor #14th doctor #10th doctor #11th doctor

[notyoujamie]

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #cwedit #doctor who #classic who #modern who #my gif #** #*dw #sixth doctor #twelfth doctor #peri brown #clara oswald #bill potts #the two doctors #amy's choice #deep breath #last christmas #the pilot #world enough and time #parallel #compilation

[comicaloverachiever]

Poor Amy. He always leaves you, doesn't he? Alone in the dark.

Doctor Who | The Eleventh Hour / A Good Man Goes to War

#doctor who #dwedit #doctorwhoedit #amy pond #karen gillan #eleventh doctor #rory williams #arthur darvill #tardis #the eleventh hour #amy's choice #a good man goes to war #dw #doctor who edit #amypondedit #eleven x amy #amy x rory #parallels #picspam #my edit

[seaweedstarshine]

Reading the newly-published Amy’s Choice original script, and!!! The Doctor's arc!!! I understand cutting back on it to better focus on the titular Choice of Amy, but the way the script uses the Doctor's self-hatred to really explore his feelings towards the Ponds and their relationship does feel balanced here, I wish more of it was left in!

As someone who loves the angle of the Doctor yearning to be worshiped and hating himself for it, I might have ulterior motive to wish this scene wasn't cut:

But really, it's the way it shows the Doctor is slowly unravelling as his relationship with Amy and Rory is picked apart — one thing I'm not sure the episode fully got across is that the Dream Lord is picking on the Doctor first and foremost, and picking on the Ponds because it upsets the Doctor to know that he's hurting them.

If only each episode just got a full hour runtime honestly!

The next screenshot is good. “You’re my friends.” Of course! They both are! Of course he's insecure — of course he wonders, in Amy's grown-up married life, where the imaginary friend fits in. (After all, Martha and Donna got married promptly after leaving, and Rose kind of ended up the same.)

But now that he's no longer insecure about their closeness excluding him, he's no longer so confident the TARDIS is real — a mirror to the way Rory no longer cares once he knows Amy would rather die than be without him.

This next scene is partially in the episode, but as much as I like the Doctor ignoring the Dream Lord, the Doctor's “Because they never see me again doesn’t mean I never see them” is everything for his Pond family vibes here — featuring inner turmoil. He does inevitably hurt his companions, but he always loves them, too.

In the frozen TARDIS, they're actually dying, their organs and brains are shutting down, so the Doctor forces them to keep moving and repeat after him to keep them alive and he shouts how he loves them, because that's what matters to him, they are all that matter to him:

Which makes Rory's inevitable demise in the next story so much harder! Honestly, I already been disappointed about the Hungry Earth deleted scene on YouTube where the Doctor is talking to Amy about how much he likes Rory, but hey, I see the love between these three in Season 5, and I love that we have so many scripts to affirm it.

If only each episode just got a full hour runtime so all this didn't have to be cut!!!

The script library, if anyone hasn't seen it. It used to mostly have recent stuff, but now it has a whole lot more! (Don't go there looking for Season 7 or 8 though.)

#amys choice is a favorite of mine and (remains so) but these are all so good. if only there was more season 6&7!!! #Eleventh doctor #Amy pond #Rory williams #11th doctor #pond family #doctor who #Amy's Choice #dark!doctor #words by seaweed

[angry-pole]

Doctor Who - S5xE7 - (Amy's Choice) ~ Original Air Date: May 15, 2010

#Doctor Who #Amy's Choice #New Who #dwedit #Series 5 #Amy Pond #Rory Williams #Eleventh Doctor #Karen Gillan #Arthur Darvill #Matt Smith #TV

[thefiresofpompeii]

based on all the harsh criticisms i've made in posts above towards the "competing over amy" narrative, i should for all intents and purposes absolutely detest the episode 'amy's choice', but instead it almost reads like a full-on deconstruction. it feels self aware. the dream lord takes on the role of a narrator, a vector for the author's voice, not quite breaking the fourth wall but pressing up close against it, not quite hanging a lampshade but holding it over the light. it's... clever, and tricky, and i need to think about it more, but i'm genuinely leaning towards considering this the best episode of series 5 (so far) by a long shot.

themes and motifs. et cetera. a frozen world with no love or a small life ground into dust by the years? you can get what you want or you can just get old

#and the. fairytale theme. we have to grow up someday...says who? #it's so well written apart from that one (1) misogynistic joke that i'm honestly forgiving #and the concept is finally something NEW that i haven't SEEN BEFORE. was getting a bit tired of #running through dusty old passageways and ventilation tunnels #dw #amy's choice #jamie catches up #jamie.txt

[nightmanatee]

amy's choice is unapologetically funny i can't believe i forgot about this. fuck vincent and the doctor THIS is my fav ep in s5 now. it's so chaotic i can't believe it exists.

#amy's choice #doctor who #11th doctor #the AMOUNT of times 11 hits old people is INSANE #s;lfksjdf;lksdjf #amy pond #rory williams #dw

[zonzolik]

Okay bitches, time for another round!

Doctor Who: Amy's Choice - here we go

English countryside, how lovely

AMY'S PREGNANT??!!

The urge to build the cottage in the sims is strong

What the actual fuck is happening? I don't want Amy to be pregnant and married to that lame bloke

WHO'S THAT RANDOM MAN AND WHAT HAS HE DONE TO POOR TARDIS

This episode is so confusing

The old people have eyes in their mouths. I don't like this.

This is all so wrong.

She chose Rory. I am not sure how to feel about this.

This was horrible. Never wanna see this episode again.

#doctor who #11th doctor #amy's choice #rory williams #amy pond #dream lord #thoughts no one asked for

[radio-ghost-cooks]

none of you fuckers understand Eleven like i do part 3

AND ANOTHER THING

Eleven is so full of self-hatred and most of you seem to forget that point

Amy's Choice was literally a manifestation of Eleven's insecurity, self-hatred and desperation

one of the very first things star says is that without some kind of stimulation, star would literally start hurting starself. The Dream Lord constantly insults star, and he makes such a big emphasis on Amy choosing what world she wants to be in because Eleven is so sure star is disposable

especially given the fact that The Dream Lord is literally all the darkest parts of star, all the parts that star bottles up, there's a lot rattling up in that 900-year-old brain that Eleven is trying to keep shut.

just look at how star reacts to Amy at the end. "But those things he said about you. You don't think any of that's true?" star immediately deflects and distracts her with Rory. star doesn't want to answer because star doesn't want her to worry.

#augh #amy's choice #star/starself Eleven #comprehensible radio static #eleventh doctor #11th doctor #augh i love star so much #tw self harm

[voidaxolotl]

Nothing too against Amy Pond (definitely a little-)

But Amy's Choice is one lf the few episodes that makes me actually believe she loves Rory- maybe also Pandorica Opens (she remade that man with all of her other favorite things)

But throughout the episode she's only touching Rory. Putting on his poncho, adjusting it later, staying closer to him when both Rory and the Doctor are knocked out, the whole "not wanting to be in a world without Rory" thing, etc.

In most episodes I find it hard seeing Amy's love for Rory, but I think thats just from how I express love for the people I know-

For me there are very few scenea between Amy and Rory that makes them feel like more than roommates or friends- this isn't to say that I see Amy loving the doctor more, she has a similar air or vibe to the doctor as she does to Rory (I'd call the three closer to a poly relationship if I had to with the way Amy acts the same to both most of the time)

But that might just be Amy's character, seeming to live her boys on the same level but in small moments she's showing just how important Rory is to her- just hard for me to see those moments. Their relationship has always felt clunky to me, rushed or just slightly off, like two puzzle peices that were forced to fit and are from different puzzle boxes. And the thing is, I know that the people working on Doctor Who can make a love story that I believe even if it doesn't use any of the love languages I know- The Doctor and River Song, Rose and the Doctor, the beginning of Rose and Micky. Actually Amy and Rory feels like a retelling of Rose and Micky but one where Rose isn't as interested in the doctor but still falls out of love with Micky- only we don't see the beginning of the story.

And now I'm just repeating myself- I would like someone to change my mind on this, I've seen so many posts of people loving Rory and Amy's relationship and seeing them together as amazing but I just can't. Someone help me out here, yeah?

#they/them for the doctor in both the plural sense and the pronoun sense #doctor who #polyamory between The Doctor Amy and Rory? #maybe more likely then one thinks I guess #I think Rory deserves better #but Amy still deserves love Don't worry #just maybe not with Rory? I don't know #definitely not withe the doctor #they're just best friends #but maybe all three together could be more? #two puzzle peices jamed together from two different boxes doesn't look good #but three put together from three different puzzles coukd be called art. #Amy's Choice #rory williams #amy pond

[starleska]

Toby Jones as The Dream Lord in Season 5 Episode 7 of Doctor Who, Amy's Choice 🐤💤

#why do we never talk about the Dream Lord? Toby Jones was fantastic and so intimidating even in just one episode 🙈💖 #this is my oddly specific curse of being attracted to dudes who look like or who have played Truman Capote #doctor who #the dream lord #amy's choice #toby jones #dw #starleskatalks

[beakyelk]

Painting a few interiors from series 5! Definitely one of my favourite new who seasons, I originally planned to skip through just to find screenshots to work from and ended up watching most of the episodes!

Captions read: Amy's House - The Eleventh Hour; Liz Ten's Bedchamber - The Beast Below; Amy and Rory's Nursery - Amy's Choice; The Silurian Court - Cold Blood

#doctor who #the eleventh hour #the beast below #amy's choice #the hungry earth #cold blood #doctor who art #my art

[notyoujamie]

And now it's time for one last bow, Like all your other selves. Eleven's hour is over now. The clock is striking twelve's.

#dwedit #doctorwhoedit #doctor who #modern who #my gif #** #*dw #eleventh doctor #amy's choice #journey to the centre of the tardis #cold war #the big bang #the god complex #the day of the doctor #a town called mercy #eras

[of-monsters-and-werewolves]

Seriously though, Amy's Choice has some absolutely stellar comedy here, mixed in with a level of darkness Doctor Who rarely reaches. I mean:

DOCTOR: What do you do around here to stave off the, you know... AMY: Boredom. DOCTOR: ...self harm.

This is an actual fucking line in a Doctor Who episode. I am fascinated.

#post i had in my drafts from about a year or so ago #thought i might as well post it #doctor who #amy's choice #dw s5 #self harm mention tw

[variousqueerthings]

SO! WE'RE WATCHING AMY'S CHOICE! the episode where a lot of my questions about Amy -- her back-and-forth about Rory, her unfinished business vis-a-vis the Doctor's abandonment, her fear of growing up and emotional immaturity

And is it delivering on that premise? kind of

it definitely is one of my favourite concepts of this season, especially the old people/Eknodines! it's very invasion of the body-snatchers with the extra bit of not knowing what's real

fun times! but does it work beyond the neat concept?

#im watching nu!who #im watching eleven who #amy's choice

[livepoultryfreshkilled]

the doctor when hes bored for .5 seconds: im gonna kill myself. if you dont give me stimulation in my enclosure i'll slit my wrists right here

#he did say this in 5x7 #amy's choice #doctor who #dw