โ the ponds and the doctor!
I love them!! Theyโre a family!!!!! And thatโs truly my favorite dynamic. I really think theyโre 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. Itโs 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 โThe Eleventh Hourโ Amy and Rory are nineteen. They both initially travel with the Doctor when theyโre 21. And also get married, which is bonkers young, but theyโre soulmates. Being an adult now and watching that itโs really striking to me and it also makes a lot of series 5 make more emotional sense knowing theyโre really just kids from this tiny village and thatโs all theyโve really ever known.
Anyway I think itโs 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. Iโve mentioned before how I go back and forth on how I feel about tAtM and I donโt know how the show couldโve 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 itโs a different way to get at the same conclusion of her character arc; that sheโs grown past the part of her life that is traveling with the Doctor. I think it couldโve been a very powerful thing for her to be like โI love you, and youโll always be my best friend, but this isnโt my life anymore.โ
Send me a โ๏ธ and a topic and Iโll talk about how I feel about it