Well, rationally, sure, but after a while being rational about it probably gets hard.
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-t - Sep 10, 2011 5:42:09 pm PDT #18069 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2011 5:44:00 pm PDT #18070 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He waited a REALLY long time. Like, I'd let him be late for everything for the rest of eternity, even considering time machine shenanigans. It's a lifetime+ pass.
tommyrot - Sep 10, 2011 5:48:51 pm PDT #18071 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, but it's easier to wait when you're plastic and immortal?
-t - Sep 10, 2011 5:49:25 pm PDT #18072 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
She wasn't mad at Rory. Some of her being mad at the Doctor sloshed onto him.
Maybe you are just a better person than Amy Pond.
zuisa - Sep 10, 2011 5:50:09 pm PDT #18073 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
And Rory did completely 100% volunteer to wait for her. Amy definitely didn't sign up for 36 years of abandonment and running for her life from robots killing her with kindness.
Tommyrot, that's where it ended for me as well, and it seemed so abrupt I wondered if BBC America cut it off early?
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2011 6:07:58 pm PDT #18074 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I might be a better person than Amy Pond, but I'm not better than Rory, because I'd surely have gone "Honey? 2000 years? IJS."
-t - Sep 10, 2011 6:17:22 pm PDT #18075 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Heh. I probably would, too. He really is a good guy.
I was much more confused by the time stream business and especially Future!Amy remembering not getting help from her Fiture!Amy than I usually am by timey-wimey shenangigans.
zuisa - Sep 10, 2011 6:28:55 pm PDT #18076 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I feel like they gave a pretty decent explanation for that (or, as much as all the wibbly wobbly stuff ever gets explained) but Matt Smith was talking so damned fast I missed a lot of it.
Rory really is the most fantastic person.
I also really loved Amy's speech about some people being so beautiful when you first meet them, but then five minutes later they're dull as brick. Whereas other people are just OK, but as you get to know them their personality makes them beautiful.
-t - Sep 10, 2011 6:49:31 pm PDT #18077 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Of course Rory also did the never having existed thing, too. He can't remember that, though, I hope.
"You're turning me into you" - Rory's said something similar to the Doctor before, hasn't he?
DebetEsse - Sep 10, 2011 6:51:32 pm PDT #18078 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
The episode did end on the shot of the Doctor after Amy asked, "Where is she?"
The explanation, from what I can tell, is that Future!Amy metaphorically punched a hole in space-time.