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.

Me too, zuisa. That really resonated with me.

Yeah, Future!Amy was fantastic. (Though I kind of wish they'd let her hair start going grey. I know it's pretty much impossible to convincingly age someone 36 years through makeup, but the lack of grey hair didn't help.)

Matt Smith was talking so damned fast I missed a lot of it.

This happens with me pretty much every episode.

Ergh, that episode was so good. Like, even though, intellectually, all I could think was "Uh, of course you keep the Amy who DIDN'T live through hell and spare her that," the ending was very powerful and made me want to cry for reals.

I did cry for reals. It was rough.

I also felt so bad for The Doctor - always having to make difficult decisions that people dislike. He knows they are necessary and yet he hates himself for it anyway.

I know that companions don't really have the greatest track record for getting happy endings on this show, but I really don't know if I'll be able to cope with anything bad happening to Amy or Rory at this point. I love them both something fierce.

Once in a while I feel like I need to remind myself that these are, in fact, fictional characters.

Skimmity-skim because I haven't watched the episode yet-- y'all might get a kick out of these adorable icons for DW, SGA, SG-1, ATLA, and a bunch of other fandoms. Pentapus is SO talented.

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I know that companions don't really have the greatest track record for getting happy endings on this show, but I really don't know if I'll be able to cope with anything bad happening to Amy or Rory at this point. I love them both something fierce.

Yeah, quite a lot of bad stuff has happened to Amy and Rory in the last two years. I wouldn't be surprised if they just said, "We're not doing this anymore." Except, you know, for the part about them being fictional characters whose destinies are controlled by Stephen Moffat.

I wouldn't be surprised if they just said, "We're not doing this anymore."

Neither would I.

I loved the episode and it made me tear up a whole lot, but...

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."

ita - you are not alone. I would have thought the Doctor would have thrown it in her face as a reminder if nothing else. I could see Rory not being willing too especially, as someone else pointed out, Rory signed on for the waiting (though not for the Centurion immortality, it must be said). But I kept saying (cue Jeremy Piven in Grosse Pointe Blanke) - "TWO THOUSAND YEARS?!?! TWO! TWO! TWO THOUSAND YEARS!?!?!"

I wonder if Rory didn't bring it up, not only because he's a really good guy and doesn't throw things in people's faces, but also because he did grok the difference in signing on to wait, willingly and knowingly, versus expecting rescue at any moment. It's the expecting that gets you. How many months, how many years did Amy spend wondering if the noise she just heard on the other side of the door was a handbot or the Doctor? It's stressful to do that for a day or two - but as the months dragged on, it would have been hell.

Pretty sure if I waited 2000 years, I'm not even picking up around the house.

"Uh, honey, picked up around you for millennia. My feet hurt."