#well. It will now also be your problem 🫴you're welcome

[transmasc-rose]

A few more personal griefs about Amy's Choice:

The Tardis was the normal Tardis for the sake of the end-of-episode plot twist. But if the two dream worlds were supposed to be sort of idealized versions of reality for Rory and the Doctor, then wouldn't at least SOME of the Tardis world be different? Companion back from the dead, or mentions of the Time Lords still being alive, or anything of that sort?

Amy's choice didn't mean anything because both worlds were false, the Doctor ended up saving the day, and her choice was rendered pointless. Her choice was also sort of a non-choice because of the circumstances but I think? It was supposed to be romantic? So I guess that can slide?? I am not the person to ask about romance.

This is the start of "Amy can't make any important life choices without it being about Rory, or, to a lesser extent, the Doctor." Another example being in The Girl Who Waits when her final decision about what to do revolves around making Rory happy.

I don't think the muddying of the water with "Amy has to choose between her boys" and "Amy has to choose which reality is literally real" worked very well. The existence of the latter makes the former annoying when it SHOULD be the compelling part of the episode. But it isn't. Because they should be worried about freezing to death instead. Whether Amy "wants" one of the boys more than the other is irrelevant to the situation as much as the writing wants it to be.

And now a couple excerpts from the script I thought were fun:

The (Dream Lord bastardized version of) the Doctor being weird about humans <3 This IS what the companions' partners always are though.

This is SO fucked up considering what happens in s6.