I should have written this post the minute I watched this episode. Nothing in this blog can measure up to the emotion I felt after the first viewing. Nothing can ever reach that level again. Holy crap.
So. Wow. Freaking wow. The Girl Who Waited was an incredible, incredible hour of television (even though I watched it on iTunes the day after it technically came out). I watched it with a big mug of coffee in my pajamas, with Colton sitting across from me on the couch, and I sobbed the entire time. Colton laughed at me. But I didn’t care.
This episode was beautiful. Even though it’s unimportant to the season arc, it’s incredibly telling in regards to the characters. In a way, it’s almost like a more epic “Amy’s Choice”, but for Rory.
Karen Gillan did a masterful job playing both young and middle-aged Amy, and I think this episode is the first that we’ve really seen her range as an actress. I believed in old Amy’s sadness and loneliness, I felt every passing year that she waited, alone and unprotected. And I sobbed my eyes out when she revealed that she named her pet robot Rory. God, that was perfect.
The Girl Who Waited really solidified these characters, for me. Rory is the best guy in the universe, completely without hate and ugliness in his heart. Amy is the most badass female companion yet, and the Doctor is able to make the hard decisions such a good person like Rory wouldn’t be able to do as quickly, but he hates himself for it. Those characteristics make for an incredibly interesting story in and of itself.
I’m actually sort of dreading watching this episode over again with my roommate Lindsey (who hasn’t seen it yet), not because it’s a bad episode, but because crying is really unbecoming for me. (Priorities. I haz them.)
This was kind of a crappy post, but I promised I’d get it to you, and I’ll be damned if I screw up another week of blogging. See you Friday for my review of God Complex!
