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Into the Dalek // Dark Water - Requested by charlesdances
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She is so much older.
Her features are softer, her flirtatiousness abated. All that sass and fire kept neatly behind her professorial title. And she lets him lead. She lets his younger self swoop in and out of deductions and only guides him when he can’t seem to see through his emotions. There’s no teasing or presentation, there’s just her hand to hold. A hand that no longer keeps a sonic blaster but his sonic screwdriver. This isn’t the wild River that baits Sontarans, she’s the Professor that slips her husband a note with a kiss before going to work. She’s so familiar and intimate and that’s why this moment kills me, because she’s giving it all up. She knows that whatever happens today will write their entire story - and without even blinking, she still lets him choose.
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“The Doctor. The man who makes people better”.
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This isn’t a regression, this is an evolution.
When we first meet Amy - as a child - she is already disillusioned. She thinks she has figured out people and she doesn’t really trust that the Doctor will return for her.
And the Doctor does not make it better by being 12 years late. There she is, talking about her Raggedy Doctor with no one believing her. He promised her he’d be back in five minutes and now he is just another person who didn’t keep their word. And even as she goes travelling with the Doctor she still doesn’t believe that he wouldn’t abandon her. She is so sure that he would just leave her there to die, even putting on a brave face.
And that has absolutely changed in series 6. Whatever happens to her, she is certain that Rory and the Doctor will come for her, they have her absolute trust. Her changed circumstances - in this timeline she never lost her parents - likely play a role in this. However, it seems probable that at least one of her reasons is realising that she can depend on them.
Now, that doesn’t mean that she is passively sitting back. She still saves the Doctor’s and Rory’s ass in The Curse of the Black Spot, she still saves River during Let’s Kill Hitler. She’s still awesome in episodes like The Wedding of River Song or Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. We get to observe just how much initiative she can take if her hopes are dissapointed again in The Girl Who Waited - and we see that even now some of her fears and issues can still creep back in Asylum of the Daleks.
But overall, she has learned. She has learned to trust, she has learned that she matters to other people, she has learned that at least two of the most important people in her life - Rory and the Doctor - won’t abandon her.
And that is beautiful.
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This series has truly been the series of character development.
Source: yourblessingindisguise
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24th December 2013: The day the Sherlock fandom decided to love Anderson
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Some common Moffat misconceptions (1/?) - “Amy, River and Clara’s life revolve around the Doctor”
They have always had a life outside of the Doctor - Amy and Rory grew up together, and without knowing it they grew up along with their daughter - and had perfectly ordinary lives The Doctor met Amy as a little girl, and made his impact - but she still kept her accent - she was always Amy, and even though getting left behind by the Doctor affected her, she still managed to find love on her her own. When she travels with him we see her constantly defying the Doctor, she has ideas on her own, and she is never fully dependent on him. We see her regaining her parents, and we see her getting a family in form of Rory and River. Amy’s story is about growing up, and detaching herself from the Doctor - in TPOT we see this struggle - we also so her hanging out with friends, and being normal and domestic with Rory. The last thing we see Amy do is choosing a normal life with Rory - she actively leaves the Doctor to have a life on her own.
The first time we meet River she is leading an expedition - she is a professor, and even though The Doctor was the reason for choosing archeology (both Martha and Rose chose their careers because of the Doctor as well,but people tend to forget that) - she continue with archeology long after she finds the Doctor again She goes on adventures on her own, she visits her parents - and occasionally she runs into the Doctor - but she manages herself perfectly fine on her own. She refuse to travel with the doctor regularly on two occasions. She also mention having dating other people. The line “Time can be rewritten” is repeated on show several times - it shows that the characters are perfectly capable of changing the future by making other choices - River is never tied to the doctor due to their reversed timelines - being together with him was always her choice. When she says her final goodbye to the doctor, she admits being able to cope with loosing him - meanwhile he admits having grown too attached to her. Clara doesn’t travel with the Doctor all the time either - in NIS it seems like they only travel together on wednesdays. Clara commits her time taking care of the Maitland kids - as her mother died, and she felt a sense of obligation to her. We actually got an entire episode with Clara protecting the kids- We also get a good understanding of how close she was to her mom - we see that it was her mom who inspired her to travel, and it was her moms memory that motivated her to save the Doctor.
In addition we see Clara fight Cybermen on her own, she stops herself from getting to attached to the doctor emotionally (“The trick is don’t fall in love - I do that trick every day”) - and sometime between TNOTD and TDOTD she got a job as a teacher.
So yeah - their storyline might be related to the Doctor - but we’ve seen quite detailed aspects off their life outside traveling - including family, jobs and friends.
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It’s not a clear cut parallel but look how far he’s come. Back then, in TBB he really didn’t know River. Before his ‘death’ he asked for Amy, not her (and of course he wanted to tell Amy how to bring everyone back.) But in LKH, he knows who River truly is and what she’s come to mean to him. And as he’s dying he asks for her. For River. And for all he knows his last words are of River, for River, whispered in her ear.
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The Hunger Games vs Catching Fire character development
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Just look at her now though.
In the first movie, she was white as a sheet, with fake colours, hair and emotions.
She looks more natural in the second movie because Katniss and Peeta inspired her, and she felt close to them. Now that they’re being ripped away from her, she doesn’t love the Capitol enough to smile.
She’s burning with fear and anger and sorrow.
honorary-winchester-boy
now this is what i call minor character development at it’s finest