*laps up with spoon* Oh, you lovely person. Thanks for responding! Here: have some custard with that.
This makes perfect sense! I suspected it did, but its good to get some confirmation. I think I get to drop the crackfic label now. Although I do dearly love me some crackfic, this ain't it.
esp. the John Smith parts I suspect there is an awful lot of bad (and possibly some good) fic out there that uses this as a crutch, which is why I hesitate to bring it up. But as long as I've got other, more specific explanations too, no sense in denying the John Smith effect.
Also in 'Amy's Choice' he was an accidental visitor Very true. Well, there was a lot factoring into his attitude there. Also his now-resolved antagonism with Rory. Damn, that episode was forever ago in terms of character development.
where here he's Amy's *father*, a role he has put himself into for most of the season, and one he is very comfortable with. I love the bit in "Vampires of Venice" when he declares that they'll go to the school together and claim Amy is his daughter, perfectly natural . . . and Amy has to remind him that he looks "about nine."
*nods* Yes, I can see that. I think too that acknowledging that Leadworth is not the life she would have chosen had she not had a daughter has to help too. Well, "help" in the sense of helping her to adapt, not in the sense of helping her see what's going on. Like saying "I'm not sick; I always have allergies this time of year."
She'll go with what her gut tells her, even if reality seems to say otherwise. First thing we learned about her, wasn't it? She knew the crack was a problem. Admittedly, justifying why Amy would understand that something was wrong was never really the issue--of course she'd notice.
Also Rory has always been her confidante - even when he didn't believe her (see the Raggedy Doctor) he still went along with it to please her. Good point. I've really got to make a bigger effort to dig into Rory's character. He's not really as complicated as the others, but I do want to do him justice.
*dies* I didn't think I could love them more, but then you wrote that! :) :) Is Eleven actually as sarcastic as I write him? I can never decide.
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Date: 24 Jul 2010 06:37 pm (UTC)Oh, you lovely person. Thanks for responding! Here: have some custard with that.
This makes perfect sense!
I suspected it did, but its good to get some confirmation. I think I get to drop the crackfic label now. Although I do dearly love me some crackfic, this ain't it.
esp. the John Smith parts
I suspect there is an awful lot of bad (and possibly some good) fic out there that uses this as a crutch, which is why I hesitate to bring it up. But as long as I've got other, more specific explanations too, no sense in denying the John Smith effect.
Also in 'Amy's Choice' he was an accidental visitor
Very true. Well, there was a lot factoring into his attitude there. Also his now-resolved antagonism with Rory. Damn, that episode was forever ago in terms of character development.
where here he's Amy's *father*, a role he has put himself into for most of the season, and one he is very comfortable with.
I love the bit in "Vampires of Venice" when he declares that they'll go to the school together and claim Amy is his daughter, perfectly natural . . . and Amy has to remind him that he looks "about nine."
*nods* Yes, I can see that.
I think too that acknowledging that Leadworth is not the life she would have chosen had she not had a daughter has to help too. Well, "help" in the sense of helping her to adapt, not in the sense of helping her see what's going on. Like saying "I'm not sick; I always have allergies this time of year."
She'll go with what her gut tells her, even if reality seems to say otherwise.
First thing we learned about her, wasn't it? She knew the crack was a problem. Admittedly, justifying why Amy would understand that something was wrong was never really the issue--of course she'd notice.
Also Rory has always been her confidante - even when he didn't believe her (see the Raggedy Doctor) he still went along with it to please her.
Good point. I've really got to make a bigger effort to dig into Rory's character. He's not really as complicated as the others, but I do want to do him justice.
*dies* I didn't think I could love them more, but then you wrote that! :)
:) Is Eleven actually as sarcastic as I write him? I can never decide.