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This is a tough one.



As someone said in the comments to my Favourite Rose Moment post, it's hard to choose a 'favourite' moment when you don't like a character very much. And I'm afraid that I'm still not sold on Amy. I read a quote today in a magazine which basically said that Amy so far has been more of a plot device than a character, which is what a lot of us have been complaining about. There was so much preoccupation on the part of Moff and the writers to make her odd and mysterious - a girl whose "life doesn't make sense" that they forgot to give her a real personality. As far as I'm concerned, she came across as self-centred and arrogant, a typically egotistical teenager who thinks she knows everything. Maybe my view is coloured by the fact that in my job, I come across that "type" every day - and she got on my nerves from the start.

I'm still determined to try to like her - and hope that in S6, now that she's "real" Amy again rather than the girl whose family was eaten by the cracks - she'll be more of a rounded character.

She did have a few good moments though - and here's the one I've picked. It's from Amy's Choice -



AMY:
Oh. Ow. Really. Ow! It's coming.

DOCTOR:
Help her, you're a doctor.

RORY:
You're a doctor!

DOCTOR:
It's okay, we're doctors. (squats down as if to catch the baby)
(bwah!) What do we do?

AMY:
Okay, it's not coming.

DOCTOR:
What?

AMY:
This is my life now and it just turned you white as a sheet. So don't you call it dull again, ever. Okay?


I think it's Eleven's reactions that make that a favourite moment :-)




The list

Day 1 - Favourite Incarnation of the Doctor
Day 2 - Favourite Companion
Day 3 - Favourite Villain/Monster/Alien/Baddie of the Week
Day 4 - Favourite Character
Day 5 - Favourite Guest Star
Day 6 - Least Favourite Character
Day 7 - Favourite Episode
Day 8 - Favourite Series
Day 9 - Least Favourite Episode
Day 10 - Favourite Scene/Moment
Day 11 - Scene/Moment that makes you cry
Day 12 - Scene/Moment that makes you giggle
Day 13 - Favourite Era visited by The Doctor & Co.
Day 14 - Fave Doctor Moment
Day 15 - Fave Rose Moment
Day 16 - Fave Martha Moment
Day 17 - Fave Donna Moment
Day 18 - Fave Amy Moment
Day 19 - Favorite Ship
Day 20 - Prettiest Scene
Day 21 - Favourite Location
Day 22 - Something Silly
Day 23 - Something Epic
Day 24 - Favourite Accessory of the Doctor's
Day 25 - Favourite Tardis Team
Day 26 - Scene/Moment that made you go 'awww'
Day 27 - Scene/Moment that made you go 'argh'
Day 28 - Favourite Series Arc
Day 29 - Favourite Music/Song
Day 30 - Why Do YOU Love Doctor Who

Date: 2010-12-12 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sue-denimme.livejournal.com
I think you (or that article) put your finger on a big part of why I too haven't warmed to Amy: her plot-device nature.

Which, it might be argued, harks back to a lot of the old-series companions, who often seemed to exist mainly to ask questions, scream at monsters, and need to be rescued. (Amy's a bit more rounded than *that*, true, but her starting out as an orphan not only was a bit of an old-school touch, but enabled Moffat to dispense with all that family-baggage stuff that the RTD-haters found so annoying.)

But I digress. I too hope that Amy might start to develop properly as a character now that that whole "cracks" arc has played out... but I'm not optimistic. Though I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong...

Date: 2010-12-12 06:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com
To blow my own trumpet a bit, I think I have said something similar about Amy somewhere - but it's nice to have one's opinions reinforced in print ;-)

Like you, I can't imagine there'll be all that much of a change in Amy - Moff is still writing her, after all. But I'll be celebrating with you if we're wrong.

Date: 2010-12-12 06:05 pm (UTC)
bas_math_girl: Doctor Come With Me (Rory)
From: [personal profile] bas_math_girl
I personally was busy looking at Rory since Amy didn't grab my interest at all in this series, so I'm glad I didn't have to choose a favourite moment [and I wickedly thought of the moment when she is shot then!! *smacks my own wrist for naughtiness*].

Date: 2010-12-12 06:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com
Oh, that's nothing. Read my Rose post - my favourite moment was when she (literally) "flew off the handle"!

Date: 2010-12-14 12:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com
I feel bad that sometimes I forget Rory is even there :(

Date: 2010-12-12 06:13 pm (UTC)
annissamazing: Ten's red Chucks (Default)
From: [personal profile] annissamazing
Oh my yes! That's a great scene!

Date: 2010-12-12 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com
As is "you've swallowed a planet!" *g*

Date: 2010-12-12 09:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chloris67.livejournal.com
I quite definitely like Amy more than you but that is exactly the moment I'm going to be putting up when I get to her day! I LOVED her there. The Doctor was being an ass (what else is new *g*) and she gave him just the verbal bitchslap he needed.

Date: 2010-12-12 10:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com
Amy did have some good moments, I won't deny that - but chances are, she'd then go and do something less amazing and I'd be back to remembering why I didn't like her very much.

Still, at least there's Rory to balance things out a bit next series :)

Date: 2010-12-13 08:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radiantbaby.livejournal.com
My fave scene from my favorite Doctor Who episode [see icon]. :)

Date: 2010-12-13 09:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com
It's one of my favourite episodes of S5, along with Vincent and The Eleventh Hour :-)

Date: 2010-12-14 12:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com
Idk if I have a favourite Amy moment?

Date: 2010-12-23 05:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedimasterstar.livejournal.com
I can't say that I have an opinion of Amy yet. I like her better than Rose but not as much as Donna.

What turned me off mostly was the nonchalant attitude she had. But at least she didn't dump her fiancee in the end. That would be too much like Rose (though she was never engaged) I hope that she will be better in Series 6.

I'm giving Amy a chance before I pass judgment. But I will say that I really enjoyed Eleven in the series.

Date: 2010-12-23 12:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com
Yeah - I think I'd rather watch Amy than Rose at the moment, even though I do find her rather abrasive. You're right about the attitude, too.

I hope that now she's "back to normal" with her family and her life-as-it-should-have-been restored, she'll be a bit easier to like.

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