"I just can't believe they're gone" is pretty much my default state right now, tbh. On an intellectual level I know they're gone, I know they had a long, good, fulfilling life and loved the Doctor to their dying day, but when the Christmas Special rolls around and they'll be nowhere to be seen it'll be ... jarring. I didn't want them to stay on forever, it was high time they went, but I loved them so.
I remember feeling much like this over Donna's departure. It was just as heartbreaking then.
ngl though i want to write amy and rory's life in nyc in the 30s now - would they meet frank and talulah and lazlo? they totally would.
exaaaactly. I know they had a good run and they lived a good life but I'm just terribly, terribly sad. I've had a decent night's sleep so it's not quite as fresh and raw but... still. I really did love them. I started watching DW only quite recently, during Matt Smith's run, and so to see Amy and Rory go just really hurts. ):
It's just - I'm glad, I'm glad they didn't face the same kind of tragic fate as Donna did, because I started watching Who with Donna (while S4 aired, at any rate; the first episodes I watched were Nine and Rose's, and then on chronologically) but S4 and Donna were the first I watched every week like this, with the suspense of having to wait for the ending every time, and the finale had really... gutted me. This is less terrible and less tragic, but it isn't any less sad. Even knowing that it was coming - subtlety is not one of Moffat's traits - to see them go like this, especially in a single episode, in one fell swoop, is unexpectedly heartwrenching.
They had a long, happy lifetime together. I'm holding on to that; it's all I've ever wanted for them.
My roommate is just getting dressed and I'm sitting here silently bawling with tears dripping on my shirt and snot rolling out my nose. And all I can think about is Brian, who will never see Rory and Amy again, and it's just making me cry more and more and more and fuck I can't handle it oh god dying help.
Oh gosh at least I had the night and morning to get ahold of myself, but last night at 2 am I was in bed with my laptop on my knees and crying my eyes out. I'm going to miss them so, so much. They'll have had to make up an entirely new life for themselves - new jobs, new family, new home, new city, can't travel to London for a long, long time, everything different and terrifying in the past. (Maybe one day in 1969 they'll find a toddler in NYC and raise her until she regenerates again and is sent to Leadworth, who knows?)
Fucking Melody, I didn't even think of that. I'm still hung up on poor Brian, he told them to go with the Doctor and they went and now he'll never see them again and will he spend the rest of his life wondering where they went or will the Doctor show up to tell him what happened or maybe it will be like Blink and he'll get mailed a certain book with a letter and just... agh. Maybe River will deliver the book and be like "Hey Gramps, got some bad news" and fuuuuuuck feelings.
And fuck, with that ending we really never will see them again. It's not like Martha where in the future they can just bump into each other and it'll be a guest episode - this really is it. No more Ponds. Never again.
I KNOW. :(((( I presume the Doctor will come himself, but he might take the coward's way out and send River instead; considering his breakdown in the churchyard, I assume it might take a while until he's ready to face this head-on - I wonder what that bodes for the Christmas special. When he lost Rose, he needed Donna to whack sense into him; when he lost Donna, he went half-mad altogether. What happens when he loses Amy and Rory?
Three times, actually! He died once as his paradoxical future self in the room the angels had prepared for him, once by jumping from the rooftop with Amy, and one last time of old age at the end of his life. Fitting, isn't it, that his last death is the gentlest one.
It was a very emotional ending, for all that the episode itself was a bit... wonky. In terms of plot-holes.
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oh god
i can't
my feeeeelings and i just can't believe they're goooone
i'm going to read some crackfic now DDDD:
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I remember feeling much like this over Donna's departure. It was just as heartbreaking then.
ngl though i want to write amy and rory's life in nyc in the 30s now - would they meet frank and talulah and lazlo? they totally would.
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pssst you totally totally should
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They had a long, happy lifetime together. I'm holding on to that; it's all I've ever wanted for them.
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And fuck, with that ending we really never will see them again. It's not like Martha where in the future they can just bump into each other and it'll be a guest episode - this really is it. No more Ponds. Never again.
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Fuck, Kat, I'm going to miss them so much.
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And Rory died twice in one episode! Impressive, even for him.
/is shot
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It was a very emotional ending, for all that the episode itself was a bit... wonky. In terms of plot-holes.
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