You say many, many true things. I think my issue is . . . things can make sense without actually clicking? And precious little about Amy this season has clicked for me until now.
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?!" LOL! Ok, that I have to disagree with. She's so much work that the Doctor and Rory take turns for who has to deal with her next *pets them all*
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) Mmmm, that's a good point. I think the Doctor will . . . tussle with her in a way that they won't? He'll at least give her some friction to work off of . . . and the innuendo there was unintended, but I think I'm gonna leave it in.
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... I agree with you on that--they are very much alike and do function as mirrors quite a lot of the time. But, I also think that a key difference between them is that the Doctor does bottle (negative) things up far more. Keeping things that are bothering him to himself is his MO most of the time. But not Amy. Amy almost always needs to talk about things. Usually RIGHT NOW. And if not JUST RIGHT NOW, then she'll need to talk about them RIGHT NOW soon enough and probably A LITTLE LATER too. Rory gets that way too ("You said she kissed you!" "Now?!!? You want to talk about this now?!?!?!'), and River even does it in her quieter way: if something's bothering her she'll keep going over and over it ('not my Doctor, not my Doctor, not my Doctor . . .'). Whereas I think the Doctor needing to talk about something RIGHT NOW is more the exception than the rule? Or certainly this Doctor.
Not that I'm saying that Amy not talking in this case is out of character, but for her not talking is the exception, and not that there aren't a shit-ton of reasons she should be acting uncharacteristically, but I feel like a lot of people are taking for granted that "that's just how Amy is: closed off" and I'm feeling like, actually, that's not how she is at all and if she is now then the reasons really do need to click.
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. I really like your explanation for Amy's attitude in the gangers episodes. I'd never been bothered by her there, but I've never taken the time to work through why. Thing is, Amy does have a deep suspicious streak, and once it's roused it's pretty vicious. The first time she met the Doctor she was brave and excited. The second time she met the Doctor she knocked him unconscious, chained him up, and rained suspicion on him. Amy's last encounter with plastic people replicas didn't exactly go well . . .
Also I think dopplegangers are scary in ways beyond your average big bitey monster. They're not overtly dangerous; they're uncanny. They strike deep at your sense that something is wrong that you can't explain. The way that a crack that isn't in your wall but in the whole universe is also wrong. But your idea that Amy's subconscious is trying to tell her about her own state just plays right into that--I love it.
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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?!"
LOL! Ok, that I have to disagree with. She's so much work that the Doctor and Rory take turns for who has to deal with her next *pets them all*
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)
Mmmm, that's a good point. I think the Doctor will . . . tussle with her in a way that they won't? He'll at least give her some friction to work off of . . . and the innuendo there was unintended, but I think I'm gonna leave it in.
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...
I agree with you on that--they are very much alike and do function as mirrors quite a lot of the time. But, I also think that a key difference between them is that the Doctor does bottle (negative) things up far more. Keeping things that are bothering him to himself is his MO most of the time. But not Amy. Amy almost always needs to talk about things. Usually RIGHT NOW. And if not JUST RIGHT NOW, then she'll need to talk about them RIGHT NOW soon enough and probably A LITTLE LATER too. Rory gets that way too ("You said she kissed you!" "Now?!!? You want to talk about this now?!?!?!'), and River even does it in her quieter way: if something's bothering her she'll keep going over and over it ('not my Doctor, not my Doctor, not my Doctor . . .'). Whereas I think the Doctor needing to talk about something RIGHT NOW is more the exception than the rule? Or certainly this Doctor.
Not that I'm saying that Amy not talking in this case is out of character, but for her not talking is the exception, and not that there aren't a shit-ton of reasons she should be acting uncharacteristically, but I feel like a lot of people are taking for granted that "that's just how Amy is: closed off" and I'm feeling like, actually, that's not how she is at all and if she is now then the reasons really do need to click.
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.
I really like your explanation for Amy's attitude in the gangers episodes. I'd never been bothered by her there, but I've never taken the time to work through why. Thing is, Amy does have a deep suspicious streak, and once it's roused it's pretty vicious. The first time she met the Doctor she was brave and excited. The second time she met the Doctor she knocked him unconscious, chained him up, and rained suspicion on him. Amy's last encounter with plastic people replicas didn't exactly go well . . .
Also I think dopplegangers are scary in ways beyond your average big bitey monster. They're not overtly dangerous; they're uncanny. They strike deep at your sense that something is wrong that you can't explain. The way that a crack that isn't in your wall but in the whole universe is also wrong. But your idea that Amy's subconscious is trying to tell her about her own state just plays right into that--I love it.
*hugs* Good to be back : )