#jonathanstrange

as an arabic speaker i can still hear complete phrases in the song making the whole thing *so* uncomfortable to listen to. on top of that having people dance with that in the background.... i couldn't even watch it.

Sure! I’ll send the links to you shortly :)

Sorry for not answering for days! But yes, Ada's in it for life, and I think she knows that. She tried to leave when Freddie died, but got dragged right in again, so she's stuck. All she can do now is survive and help others do the same 🙃✌🏻 (and abondoning Tommy is not the solution, in her eyes, atm)

Btw, I love her and Tommy's bond, it's nearly wholesome, somehow. You don't get that a lot on this show.

I love them!! They’re a family!!!!! And that’s truly my favorite dynamic. I really think they’re platonic soulmates and the kind of relationship the three of them have just like, warms my heart. To see the three of them each with their own struggles (Amy with her mental illness and abandonment issues, Rory with his low self esteem and insecurity, and the Doctor with well, their everything) come together and by virtue of being together they all heal and grow. It’s this beautiful give and take that I truly think like, is the best of what a family can be.

I like how all three of them got the opportunity to grow alongside each other because they were all so young when they met each other (even the Doctor, despite being 900 years old, was freshly Eleven when he met the Ponds and I feel like each Doctor incarnation grows into themselves over the course of their run).

Rewatching S5-7 this year it really hit me that during “The Eleventh Hour” Amy and Rory are nineteen. They both initially travel with the Doctor when they’re 21. And also get married, which is bonkers young, but they’re soulmates. Being an adult now and watching that it’s really striking to me and it also makes a lot of series 5 make more emotional sense knowing they’re really just kids from this tiny village and that’s all they’ve really ever known.

Anyway I think it’s a really cool, unique dynamic for them to grow up alongside the Doctor for 10 years and have this fading out set up over Series 7A. I’ve mentioned before how I go back and forth on how I feel about tAtM and I don’t know how the show could’ve done a sort of slow fade on Amy and Rory (especially knowing Karen wanted there to be a hard out for Amy Pond and have her story be definitively over), but I think about it a lot because it’s a different way to get at the same conclusion of her character arc; that she’s grown past the part of her life that is traveling with the Doctor. I think it could’ve been a very powerful thing for her to be like “I love you, and you’ll always be my best friend, but this isn’t my life anymore.”