Ahhh, that scene...would have explained so much and made all those who bitch and snark easier to put in their places.
Amy has always needed others to validate/okay what she feels. Evveryone needs to remember too, that Amy may have been 'raised by loving parents' but that was AFTER she spent a rough childhood being invalidated by everyone for being...odd, out of place, orphaned - and not just by her parents.
Amy is loud and shiny and not a big demander of attention beyond the fact of "look I'm here!! what are you going to do about that?!" - but she's always been insecure, waiting...and the Doctor dying? Shook her world up. The one constant - the bane and driving reason behind her smiles and her dreams - dead at her feet. Honestly, even without that talk, I can see where she'd learn to wall herself up, off, and learn to trust the validation of those around her LESS. River and Rory are so steady and 'we have to move on' (a way of dealing with their own grief and shock and trying to find a way to honor the man who was RIGHT UPSTAIRS) - and then...she was a CLONE. So everything she was feeling...was it real? a dream? No one is fighting the only way SHE knows how. And then...she's not even REAL. Amy's behavior on RF threw me. It appalled me. Then...then I understood. Her 'real self' was trying to show what had happened to her with this shocking prejudice that wasn't AMY. But that told the Doctor who/what she was (because she WAS still Amy, just not the original version). He constructed a flesh-self to 'talk' with flesh!Amy, but it backfired and left him wide-open for an unintentional psychic attack.
Then...then she IS real and AWAKE (but who's too say that's even TRUE?) and then, the baby...she is gone. She is gone and the Doctor came but he didn't fix it and Rory came but HE couldn't fix it either. rory's human, he fought for her, she could relate better to his turmoil - he did his best because that is HIS BABY TOO - but the magick of the Doctor died that day (and now he's dead completely, but she can't let go yet). And then he gave a thoroughly human display and she finds out her daughter is the woman she had always turned to for stability and guidance because she was just as wild and magick as the Doctor...I don't know. That's a lot to throw at someone. Amy shut down. She neede a break. Then to get further screwed in the head, her best friend is ALSO her daughter. And her daughter just tried to kill her best friend (maybe not magick, ut still her best friend) and she never KNEW her as River, but she grew up with Mels and this is the final straw.
Then River/Mels redeems herself.
I don't know. I think Amy was consistently Amy through S6. She handled things a sight better than I could - though rug after rug was yanked out underneath her. For such a strong spirit, she's a fragile soul. Her and the Doctor have so much in common, so much that connects them. I saw Amy as a human mirror, a reflection of him all season long - and nothing she did threw me...except in Rebel Flesh because that instant hatred and anger? was NOT AMY. So when I found out she WAS a flesh avatar? I sighed in pain, because that? That explained a hell of a lot for me. From that point and on.
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Amy has always needed others to validate/okay what she feels. Evveryone needs to remember too, that Amy may have been 'raised by loving parents' but that was AFTER she spent a rough childhood being invalidated by everyone for being...odd, out of place, orphaned - and not just by her parents.
Amy is loud and shiny and not a big demander of attention beyond the fact of "look I'm here!! what are you going to do about that?!" - but she's always been insecure, waiting...and the Doctor dying? Shook her world up. The one constant - the bane and driving reason behind her smiles and her dreams - dead at her feet. Honestly, even without that talk, I can see where she'd learn to wall herself up, off, and learn to trust the validation of those around her LESS. River and Rory are so steady and 'we have to move on' (a way of dealing with their own grief and shock and trying to find a way to honor the man who was RIGHT UPSTAIRS) - and then...she was a CLONE. So everything she was feeling...was it real? a dream? No one is fighting the only way SHE knows how. And then...she's not even REAL. Amy's behavior on RF threw me. It appalled me. Then...then I understood. Her 'real self' was trying to show what had happened to her with this shocking prejudice that wasn't AMY. But that told the Doctor who/what she was (because she WAS still Amy, just not the original version). He constructed a flesh-self to 'talk' with flesh!Amy, but it backfired and left him wide-open for an unintentional psychic attack.
Then...then she IS real and AWAKE (but who's too say that's even TRUE?) and then, the baby...she is gone. She is gone and the Doctor came but he didn't fix it and Rory came but HE couldn't fix it either. rory's human, he fought for her, she could relate better to his turmoil - he did his best because that is HIS BABY TOO - but the magick of the Doctor died that day (and now he's dead completely, but she can't let go yet). And then he gave a thoroughly human display and she finds out her daughter is the woman she had always turned to for stability and guidance because she was just as wild and magick as the Doctor...I don't know. That's a lot to throw at someone. Amy shut down. She neede a break. Then to get further screwed in the head, her best friend is ALSO her daughter. And her daughter just tried to kill her best friend (maybe not magick, ut still her best friend) and she never KNEW her as River, but she grew up with Mels and this is the final straw.
Then River/Mels redeems herself.
I don't know. I think Amy was consistently Amy through S6. She handled things a sight better than I could - though rug after rug was yanked out underneath her. For such a strong spirit, she's a fragile soul. Her and the Doctor have so much in common, so much that connects them. I saw Amy as a human mirror, a reflection of him all season long - and nothing she did threw me...except in Rebel Flesh because that instant hatred and anger? was NOT AMY. So when I found out she WAS a flesh avatar? I sighed in pain, because that? That explained a hell of a lot for me. From that point and on.
Sorry...blithering...
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