Reedy No, it became a fixed point as soon as he looked at it as far as i understood it? Maybe im wrong, would love to get a more accurate explaination then.
Serry Yes, this is correct. As is made clear in this episode, when you witness your own future, it becomes fixed. If Rory & Amy instantly went back to the TARDIS, the gravestone would’ve either remained unmarked, disappeared or simply removed from existence.
@@tsukopara2054 Actually, they had seen earlier that the last chapter of the book was called "Amelia's last farewell" so it was inescapable before they even got to the graveyard
When Amy dies, the Doctor starts crying, meaning he looks away from the angel. This means that River kept her eyes on it. *Her mother just died but she held herself together for the Doctor, clearly knowing he was weaker in the feels department.*
I don't like Rory because Amy died so she can see Rory and if Rory wasn't person in doctor who Amy wouldn't die just for Rory BECAUSE HE WOULDN 'T BE A PERSON IN DOCTOR WHO (%4 I like Rory)
That was certainly a beautiful touch they added.....though Amy does blink more than once in her goodbye speech while looking at the angel, so River's eyes must have been glued to that angel to give Amy time to say goodbye.
While it's sad, what I do like about Amy and Rory's departure is that they never had to experience or adjust to another incarnation of the Doctor. They spent years travelling with the fun, quirky, magical Eleventh Doctor, and he was a pivotal part of both their lives. The fact they never had to remember him otherwise gives me some comfort. They'll always remember him as their raggedy madman in a box.
I also thought it was a mercy on the angel's part to send them back in time to be together. After "The Time Of The Angels", it easily couldve just snapped her neck instead.
@@Lexie955idk about that, she did kiss the doctor while being in a relationship with rory and was also trying to kiss the doctor TWICE on their wedding day💀
You have to admire River's strength in this scene. She just witnessed her parents' demise and whilst the Doctor collapsed and broke down, she kept her composure and stayed strong for him, even though it must have been killing her inside. River may have been feisty like her mother, but she definately inherited her father's compassion.
Peter Andrew- that wasn't technically their demise they went back in time and lived to be in their 80s. I would've rather my mother been with my dad than live and unhappy and regretful within my timeline. That would be selfish don't you think?
Remember that this version of River hadn't yet written the book, so she knew she would meet up with her parents again at some point. We know this hasn't happened because she goes on to say she'll ensure that Amy leaves a note for the Doctor. The Doctor can't take the TARDIS there. Why he didn't think to use River's vortex manipulator to jump back, go get them, and then jump again is beyond me. I know the TARDIS would rip New York apart, but as stated before, the TARDIS is a sports car compared to the vortex manipulator. It likely doesn't have the strength to damage New York.
Stenir Rpg It might also have to do with their names being on the stone. Since they saw it, time set. So even if he managed to go back somehow, he wouldn't be able to pull them out of that time. That would create a paradox.
I know the Doctor wanted to rip that angel apart, when it took Amy and Rory from him. Just look at how he's looking at it, at the end. He's crying, but you can just feel the anger.
ElbigEmo - haha, funny that you say that, considering she's his mother-in-law :D Echelon - So that's why he selfishly wanted to prevent Amy from going to him?
Domihork He wasn't being selfish, he just didn't want to lose Amy. He basically watched Amy grow up. You think he just going to be like, "Oh yeah, go ahead." Don't be ridiculous. He loved both of them, like I said, but obviously he was wayyyy closer to Amy. What do you expect?
I've always seen the 11th Doctor as the happiest and most enthusiastic of them All. Watching this scene is really sad to see as he breaks down and cries
I did too, until he was gone and I was thinking back on him. He's not the happiest doctor... He may very well be the most sad... His happy, silly, funny side was all just to cover up how much pain he was in. The doctor lies. He lies because he's in denial. It makes sense when you consider things like his creation, at the death of 10, not wanting to accept his death, the fact he is out of regenerations and is on the clock, even his first day, meeting a child only to come back after Amy was already grown... Even the fact that he keeps calling her "Pond" even after she's married is an indication of his state of constant denial, which is why it's beautiful when he calls her "Amy Williams" in "The God Complex", indicating that he has accepted her for who she is now, and how she has grown since they first met. Sometimes it is those who laugh the loudest who are struggling the most...
its really a cover of his trauma in the time war, always hiding his guilt and role in it, "the man that forgets" and in denial (don't hate him at all just pointing out his flaws). so really 9th, 10th, and 12th have these's major flaws with nine just "came back" from the war, ten regrets and has all this anger about it, and 11th just selfishy forget it. 12th repents from it, despite saving it, he still has the memories but he doesn't let the trauma control him or haunts him. so far I think 13th is a recovered/healed veteran as the war is honestly a fading memory. I like all revival series doctors (9th-now) but the first three are part of those phases after coming back from a war or something bad happening to them.
Rorys and Amys Story ended with a Nonsense-Plot-Hole-Nonsense. Time-Dissortions made it impossible for the Tardis to land - which is already the Logic Hole. I wont say more, you have to understand yourself how much wrong is up with this and how it makes no sense. A little help though: Remember what the Tardis is and can do...
“Melody... You look after him. And - you be a good girl and you look after him.” She said that River kissed her hand. A final goodbye between mother and daughter. Dammit this show knows how to yank on the heartstrings!
@@pinkjellyfish9638 Wait, then why can't the Doctor just use her vortex manipulator to see Amy and Rory? I understand if he can't remove them from the time period (as that would create a paradox), but at least he could _see_ them? [Edit] Maybe because he doesn't like endings and wouldn't be able to bear visiting them without being able to travel with them?
Toymaker: And then, he was meeting Clara. (Making crying noises) But she was killed by a BIRD! Doctor: She still survives in her last second of life. Toymaker: Well, THAT’S ALRIGHT THEN!
Doctor should have known he was gonna lose this argument. He was basically asking her to choose between Life with him or a life with Rory..In a choice between Rory and anything else the choice is always Rory
Rorys and Amys Story ended with a Nonsense-Plot-Hole-Nonsense. Time-Dissortions made it impossible for the Tardis to land - which is already the Logic Hole. I wont say more, you have to understand yourself how much wrong is up with this and how it makes no sense. A little help though: Remember what the Tardis is and can do...
He's the Doctor and the he has a time machine. He would've figured something out. If everyone just sat down and talked it through and Amy still didn't see any other way, THEN go back to Rory. At least leave the options on the table.. although they could've died another way and wouldn't have been able to live a whole life together
Technically, while they both died, Amy and Rory ended up living together. This may be bad for the Doctor, but at least they finally had the chance they desired to live a normal life and grow old together.
I just remembered about the scene with the Doctor and Amy's dad. The only thing he wanted was that the Doctor kept her safe. That must have been an awkward conversation.
@@Angi3_6 well technically, they were still "safe". They even grew old together and probably went out surrounded by their children and probably some friends they made. I think that's a happy ending to the Ponds, just not to the Doctor and the their relatives living in present time.
River is the MVP of this whole scene. I already loved that she kept looking at the angel so her husband could mourn, but watching it this time around highlighted other moments. While the Doctor is trying to talk Amy out of going, River advocates for the one chance of her parents being together, even if it means losing her mom and dad within minutes of each other. And she does it with a smile (the romantic side of her peeking through). The way she gently holds and kisses her mom's hand is so beautiful. She's even sure to take care of the TARDIS after such a rough journey. She consistently shelves her own agenda to look after her family.
The Doctor cries and grieves when his companions dies, but imagine how Melody Pond/River Song will be feeling, watching your parents die, never to see them again.
River can actually see them again since it wouldnt mess with her timeline. She mentions she’ll tell Amy to put an afterword for the doctor in her detective book
Liam Catterson me too, like everyone else, I lost my Amy. My sweet, witty, sarcastic Amy. Great, now I'm gonna get depressed Everytime I see the kissogram now.
I love this scene. I love this ending for Rory and Amy. No better ending for any of the companions in my mind, even Rose. Amy and Rory might not be the perfect couple, but they understood marriage in a way I could only dream off. This ending may be devastating to the Doctor, but to Melody, Rory and Amy, it's sad, yes, but it's beautiful and perfect.
Mev Wetzker sure the ending is beautiful, but there's one problem with it. It's an ending for probably my favorite doctor who character. And the woman who made me laugh more so than any other characters from this show. Every single syllable out of this woman's mouth was quotable and memorable. She was a witty, sarcastic, feisty, alpha female. God I miss Amy. But, then again, all good things must come to an end.
This part made me break down. I had spoiled myself accidentally, but the realness of this scene made my heart break. You could hear the desperation, fear, sadness, and rage, in the Doctor’s voice, and Karen Gillan’s face just makes me want to cry. Amy and her boys were the best group in the TARDIS for me
I've been rewatching all of new who lately (started at 9th Doctors first episode, am currently up to Clara's re introduction in the snowmen episode ) And although I have seen all the episodes multiple times, some scenes just don't lose their power. For me the only scene more powerful than this is ten's mental breakdown 'I could do so much more' speech to Wilfred before sacrificing himself in the radiation chamber. That is the definitive modern who moment for me, but this is a close second.
"Hello, old friend, and here we are. You and me, on the last page. By the time you read these words, Rory and I will be long gone. So know that we lived well, and were very happy. And above all else, know that we will love you, always. Sometimes I do worry about you, though. I think once we're gone, 'you won't be coming back here for a while, and you might be alone, which you should never be. Don't be alone, Doctor. And do one more thing for me. There's a little girl waiting in a garden. She's going to wait a long while, so she's going to need a lot of hope. Go to her. Tell her a story. Tell her that if she's patient, the days are coming that she'll never forget. Tell her she'll go to sea and fight pirates. She'll fall in love with a man who'll wait two-thousand years to keep her safe. Tell her she'll give hope to the greatest painter who ever lived and save a whale in outer space. Tell her this is the story of Amelia Pond. And this is how it ends."
"The Lonely Assassins, people call them. The only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely." - The 10th Doctor, Blink And in the end, she did. That angel could have sent Amy to anywhere in the universe, at any point in time. But she sent her back to live out her life with her husband instead. She killed her nicely, and I think that gives the Weeping Angels far more complexity than people realise.
The same angel always send you back to the exact same time period - in Blink, the Doctor found the police officer because they both got transported by the same angel
I actually think it was extremely kind of the angel to take amy as well. It didn’t have to. The odds amy and Rory had the same amount of life left in them for the angel to feed on couldn’t be the same. So instead the angel sent amy back to Rory and took what it could. Evil? Sure but some kindness I like to think.
This particular angel, at least, while not sparing them completely, seems to have at least shown a measure of kindness as you say. It didn't have to do that. They lived a long life together in love, just many decades in the past. They wouldn't have known any different.
On top of that, this Angel lost all its fellows a few minutes ago. I think that's why it's just with that face of sadness when It "kills" Rory or Amy. I mean, Angels use to attack their victims while showing emotions in their faces, like those monstruous fangs. But this one is just sad and wants to survive
Angels are smart too, it could have snagged him when no one was watching, gotten a meal and run to survive. Instead it took a gamble showing Amy that headstone basically saying to her I want another meal, you want your husband. Win win.
This entire scene had so many damn emotions that I cry every time. The moment Amy asks “no, we can just go get him in the Tardis. Just one more paradox.” She was willing to risk an entire city for her husband, and when she was informed that would not be feasible, she took the risk upon herself to hope she will be sent back in time to find him, even if no one truly knows if she could do that. River telling the Doctor to shut up and let her mother go for the sake of love, and then keeping her eyes on the Angel while the doctor wept made even more formidable. I panicked so much watching this episode the first time because everyone was so conflicted, particularly Matt Smith as you could tell how aggravated he was. The music score in this scene really added the beautiful touch too. Truly, one it the most emotional moments in DW
Mnatalie99 well, he could go back to just before they got sent back and wait for them, couldn't he? Maybe park the Tardis far away then take them with him to go back to the Tardis. Idk
Exactly! They both died in their 80s which still might have happened if they hadn't met the Doctor. I still cried at that point but I think it was more because of the music.
Darcy Brummett true but he could find their age when they went back and take it away from the age they died at then take that away from their year of death
They got to live out the rest of their lives unlike katrina, sara, adric, kamelion, peri (depending what continuity you follow), ciriz and lucie, who all died and stayed dead
Ah yes, the episode that told us the statue of liberty was a giant weeping angel that never in it's history got off liberty island and wandrered around new york until the Docyor, Amy and Rory went to the past and even then it didn't even do anything except stand and look angry. Tbis episode was the epitome ofshit writing, just like the rest of the series, and the series before, the garbqge river song arc that Moffat managed to screw up with the casting of matt smith then broke his own continuity by having river meet Smith Doctor, again after lets kill hitler and then again with meeting Capaldi's Doctor.
"Everyone dies alone. But if you mean something to someone, if you helped someone, or loved someone, if even a single person remembers you, then maybe you never really die at all."
No prob. Its more powerful coming from the Machine anyway. Afterall "if a Terminator, a Machine, can learn the value of human life than maybe we can too."
thats terrible :( people need to stop funding all this cancer and aids bullshit and be aware of the horrid things people have to go through on a daily basis
Everyone is talking about Matt Smith's performance in this scene, which is amazing. But can we take a moment and talk about the damn Weeping Angel. One of the scariest villains in Doctor Who history and the frigging thing actually showed a bit of mercy and gave Amy another life time with Rory.
Amy and Rory should’ve stayed until the 50th at least. Edit: still a very sad ending though. I just wish they’d stayed longer, I loved these two with the Doctor, I don’t know how they’ll find another set of companions like these again.
Oh I see, so pulling Amy and Rory out of their time stream at any point in the roughly 50 years before their death and putting the tombstone there anyway to keep the timeline intact is too dangerous, but pulling Clara from her timestream a split second before her death with no intention of putting her back is totally okay. Honestly, why hasn't he gone back for the Ponds yet. Does Capaldi just not care about them anymore?
This was before the Time Lords returned. At that time, The Doctor didn’t think he had the power to bring back people from fixed points in time. When Clara died, he believed he could change history by forcing the Time Lords to bring her back, however, as to why he hasn’t brought the Ponds back... Maybe it’s because the Doctor they knew was gone and it was better to let them have their lives together instead of bringing them back into the dangerous life of time travel.
@@buckwheatjackson1761 It's because they are out of the show. They won't return after such a long time (real time I mean). I mean, River returned and Sarah Jane Smith too, in a way, but I highly doubt these old (… damn it feels like the 11th Doctor era was only yesterday) companions will be seen again. :/
This brings back way too many feels. It angers me so much that all my favorite companions have no way in seeing the Doctor (Rose is in an alternative universe with a human Doctor, Donna lost her memories completely of the Doctor, and Amy and Rory were sent back in time at a fixed point where the Doctor couldn't go and see them). Moffat ruined the weeping angels. They were a much scarier concept when they were first introduced. Also it was just a way to get rid of them so that the doctor could be forced to move on, but ever thought "Well what about their friends and families?! " To think that Rory's father, for instance, outlives his kid. I swear I am not crying. One of the saddest DW scenes I've seen. :(
If I remember right it's in the previous episode where Rory's father asks what happened to the previous companions and tells the Doctor to take care of them. This was a stupid episode in so many ways ,they just found an easy way to get rid of them . The Tardis could easily maintain the paradox ,it has done more in the past.
That’s true love from River, when the doctor broke down and cried, she let him have that moment by still focusing on looking at the angel even though she had just lost both of her parents.
this was very very painful, like Rose's, and Donna's final; I have only seen the modern series, but for me they are the ends of season with best script, as well as the strongest emotionally speaking. The hallucination with Amy at the end of journey of 11th, also left me very bad. within all the series I have seen, Doctor Who is the most spectacular in all areas
This honestly makes me cry every time I watch it. The 11th doctor was my complete favourite and I miss him so much. I'm just happy that Rory and Amy got to be with each other in heaven but I feel so sad for the doctor because he had no one else and he was all alone. I would have given anything to be with him myself at this moment in time. Farewell ponds and to the doctor
Could you imagine if Tennants Doctor had to experience this? He probably would have kidnapped that angel and stuck it in a room of a thousand eyes, constantly watching for all eternity.
I cried the first time I saw this scene. It took the happiness I thought that was going to be at the end of this episode, and ripped it out from underneath me.
Something tells me that Angel didn't live much longer than that. At least, not in one piece. Knowing the Doctor, that Angel is probably residing in pieces in some kind of stasis unit deep in the TARDIS where it can never escape.
Oh, we learned in a minisode that with the TARDIS to back it up the sonic screwdriver can actually kill them. And in said minisode the Doctor killed one just in self-defence, so I'd be very surprised if the Doctor's kill count didn't increase that day.
***** Who are you pretending to include in "we"? I fully accept that minisode as canon, along with the Day series, the Space and Time minisodes, Clara and the TARDIS, Time Crash, and any other official DW minisodes out there.
When the doctor was shouting no u could hear how scared he was for her and how much he didn’t want her to die but y did Rory have to do that! Nowww I’m crying 😭 Doctor who will forever be my fav show!❤️💕
I nearly lost it just by watching this scene and it touched my heart, also made me almost burst into tears just to see Amy and Rory go, plus when the doctor reads the last page Amy says " This is the story of Amelia Pond, and This is how it ends" They show the her as a kid now she is just a memory now, so sad!!!😥😥😥
The saddest thing about this is that Brian Williams will never know exactly what happened to Amy and his son. He’s still at home watering the plants, possibly waiting for them to return or accepting that they may have died.
Jack's World that's how it shoulda happened but when Amy turned around the Doctor either was looking at her or his view of the angel was blocked by her and probadly so was Karen.
i think the reason this was so emotional was also Karen and Arthurt and Matt became such a great friends. he was crying over the fact this is their last day filming together, sure he was acting but I am sure he put lot of emotions he felt knowing they won't be on place with hi. into it😊
I was devastated by this scene. It was one of the first new Who I watched. I watched a lot of classic Who back in the day, and while it had its strengths, powerful emotional scenes wasn't one of them. The closet was the death of Adtic, but this is 50x more emotional than that.
After all these years I realized something the doctor probably made that angel feel the pain of 1000 hells, probably even if the doctor blinked it wouldn't kill him because it would just want to die itself.
The angel could’ve split them up, but instead decided to send Amy to Rory. I wonder what it was thinking when it did that. Was it afraid that the Doctor would do something incredibly dangerous if he looked at the gravestone and it still only said Rory’s name, or did it decide to keep them together as a “small act of kindness” to them.
Didn't notice this on the first view, but count how many times Amy blinks in this scene, or all the times this whole episode people have looked away from the Angels and nothing happened. Normally I wouldn't nitpick about actors flinching and imperfect staging and such, but Moffat made such a big deal out of this: the central plot point and namesake of "Blink," brought up in every episode the Angels are in, and Amy literally JUST SAID she has to blink to get zapped, and then does at 3:05 it... just... grrr!
The doctor and River were both looking at it. The only reason she got taken was she blocked the Doctor's view and (presumably) River looked away so her parents could be together
And as the doctor wept and broke down, river had to stay strong and not blink so they wouldn't be taken by the angel too and that messes me up every time
The stone can't die... hardly a comforting thought when that angel has just caused a lot of pain to two of the scariest beings in all of time and space. That stone might yet wish to be able to die.
Damn it Rory, you just HAD to go look at that gravestone, didnt you?
It was a fixed point in times, he was gonna be sent back either way.
Reedy No, it became a fixed point as soon as he looked at it as far as i understood it?
Maybe im wrong, would love to get a more accurate explaination then.
I'm pretty sure this is right, as soon as it lost it's quantum entanglement (when Rory looked) it became a fixed point kind of like schrodinger's cat.
Serry Yes, this is correct. As is made clear in this episode, when you witness your own future, it becomes fixed. If Rory & Amy instantly went back to the TARDIS, the gravestone would’ve either remained unmarked, disappeared or simply removed from existence.
@@tsukopara2054 Actually, they had seen earlier that the last chapter of the book was called "Amelia's last farewell" so it was inescapable before they even got to the graveyard
When Amy dies, the Doctor starts crying, meaning he looks away from the angel. This means that River kept her eyes on it. *Her mother just died but she held herself together for the Doctor, clearly knowing he was weaker in the feels department.*
To be fair hes encountered many deaths of friends and companions.
river knows she will see her one more time for the book
I don't like Rory because Amy died so she can see Rory and if Rory wasn't person in doctor who Amy wouldn't die just for Rory BECAUSE HE WOULDN 'T BE A PERSON IN DOCTOR WHO (%4 I like Rory)
@@kittywilliams6078 Wow, just wow... forget that Rory stayed with Amy for TWO THOUSAND YEARS!
anavan7 what do you mean?
Beautiful reminder that Amy decided to turn around and see the doctor one last time instead of just blinking 😢
Pablo Tinoco oh my god that’s beautiful
That was certainly a beautiful touch they added.....though Amy does blink more than once in her goodbye speech while looking at the angel, so River's eyes must have been glued to that angel to give Amy time to say goodbye.
@@astrangerhere yeah but river and doctor are looking at the statue. River stops looking and amy turns and blocks the doctor's view
@@astrangerhere or a continuity error
@@odile8701 don’t use God’s name in vain and it’s God*
While it's sad, what I do like about Amy and Rory's departure is that they never had to experience or adjust to another incarnation of the Doctor. They spent years travelling with the fun, quirky, magical Eleventh Doctor, and he was a pivotal part of both their lives. The fact they never had to remember him otherwise gives me some comfort. They'll always remember him as their raggedy madman in a box.
I also thought it was a mercy on the angel's part to send them back in time to be together. After "The Time Of The Angels", it easily couldve just snapped her neck instead.
@@jadenmurray1325 It was probably hungry. It could have sent her to another time though, maybe. So small mercies indeed.
"It'll be fine. I know it will. I-I'll be with him."
I love that Amy chooses Rory so finally in this moment.
and the angel was kind(?) enough to send her back to be with him instead of some random other time or place.
@@astrangerhere the same angel sends all it touches back to the same time.
@@astrangerhere They send people back to the same point. That's why Martha, the tenth and that police officer got together.
She has always chosen Rory
@@Lexie955idk about that, she did kiss the doctor while being in a relationship with rory and was also trying to kiss the doctor TWICE on their wedding day💀
You have to admire River's strength in this scene. She just witnessed her parents' demise and whilst the Doctor collapsed and broke down, she kept her composure and stayed strong for him, even though it must have been killing her inside.
River may have been feisty like her mother, but she definately inherited her father's compassion.
Peter Andrew when it took amy, she was the only thing keeping the angel from gobling up the doctor's timeline
Peter Andrew- that wasn't technically their demise they went back in time and lived to be in their 80s. I would've rather my mother been with my dad than live and unhappy and regretful within my timeline. That would be selfish don't you think?
Remember that this version of River hadn't yet written the book, so she knew she would meet up with her parents again at some point. We know this hasn't happened because she goes on to say she'll ensure that Amy leaves a note for the Doctor. The Doctor can't take the TARDIS there. Why he didn't think to use River's vortex manipulator to jump back, go get them, and then jump again is beyond me. I know the TARDIS would rip New York apart, but as stated before, the TARDIS is a sports car compared to the vortex manipulator. It likely doesn't have the strength to damage New York.
Peter Andrew nah she just like meh
Stenir Rpg It might also have to do with their names being on the stone. Since they saw it, time set. So even if he managed to go back somehow, he wouldn't be able to pull them out of that time. That would create a paradox.
I know the Doctor wanted to rip that angel apart, when it took Amy and Rory from him. Just look at how he's looking at it, at the end. He's crying, but you can just feel the anger.
I feel like he didn't really care about Rory...
he cared about Rory but Amy was the first one he met as the 11th so he took her like a daughter
Domihork Of course he did. He loved them both.
ElbigEmo - haha, funny that you say that, considering she's his mother-in-law :D
Echelon - So that's why he selfishly wanted to prevent Amy from going to him?
Domihork He wasn't being selfish, he just didn't want to lose Amy. He basically watched Amy grow up. You think he just going to be like, "Oh yeah, go ahead." Don't be ridiculous. He loved both of them, like I said, but obviously he was wayyyy closer to Amy. What do you expect?
I've always seen the 11th Doctor as the happiest and most enthusiastic of them
All. Watching this scene is really sad to see as he breaks down and cries
I did too, until he was gone and I was thinking back on him. He's not the happiest doctor... He may very well be the most sad... His happy, silly, funny side was all just to cover up how much pain he was in. The doctor lies. He lies because he's in denial. It makes sense when you consider things like his creation, at the death of 10, not wanting to accept his death, the fact he is out of regenerations and is on the clock, even his first day, meeting a child only to come back after Amy was already grown... Even the fact that he keeps calling her "Pond" even after she's married is an indication of his state of constant denial, which is why it's beautiful when he calls her "Amy Williams" in "The God Complex", indicating that he has accepted her for who she is now, and how she has grown since they first met.
Sometimes it is those who laugh the loudest who are struggling the most...
if anything he may have been the most sad of all? (Recent lot at least)
He was a lot sadder and angrier than Tennant was
its really a cover of his trauma in the time war, always hiding his guilt and role in it, "the man that forgets" and in denial (don't hate him at all just pointing out his flaws). so really 9th, 10th, and 12th have these's major flaws with nine just "came back" from the war, ten regrets and has all this anger about it, and 11th just selfishy forget it. 12th repents from it, despite saving it, he still has the memories but he doesn't let the trauma control him or haunts him. so far I think 13th is a recovered/healed veteran as the war is honestly a fading memory. I like all revival series doctors (9th-now) but the first three are part of those phases after coming back from a war or something bad happening to them.
Rorys and Amys Story ended with a Nonsense-Plot-Hole-Nonsense. Time-Dissortions made it impossible for the Tardis to land - which is already the Logic Hole. I wont say more, you have to understand yourself how much wrong is up with this and how it makes no sense. A little help though: Remember what the Tardis is and can do...
“Melody... You look after him. And - you be a good girl and you look after him.” She said that River kissed her hand. A final goodbye between mother and daughter. Dammit this show knows how to yank on the heartstrings!
It’s ruined a bit by the fact Rivers casually leaning on her dead parents grave a second after watching them vanish 3:39
They meet again to write the afterword
River can still see her parents, she doesn't travel by TARDIS so she can go to them (that's how Amy publish her book Melody Malone)
She also calls her mother, I think she usually calls her "mummy dearest/darling" or something
@@pinkjellyfish9638 Wait, then why can't the Doctor just use her vortex manipulator to see Amy and Rory? I understand if he can't remove them from the time period (as that would create a paradox), but at least he could _see_ them?
[Edit] Maybe because he doesn't like endings and wouldn't be able to bear visiting them without being able to travel with them?
The Doctor: “She died of old age”
Toymaker: “WELL THAT’S ALRIGHT THEN!”
A-Me Pond
I hated the toy maker in that scene all the people we loved died and he's just acting as if it was just a game and a few pawns were lost
@@LuciferMorningstar22666 well to him it is a game thats kind of the point
Toymaker: And then, he was meeting Clara. (Making crying noises) But she was killed by a BIRD!
Doctor: She still survives in her last second of life.
Toymaker: Well, THAT’S ALRIGHT THEN!
But then she was turned into a cyberman.
this was such a happy scene and then
im just so dead inside
Same.
I felt like this was such a sad scene and then
I'm just so happy inside...
Toa Tahu same
probably need healing
neptune my feels were killed by a hydrogen bomb because of this. great job angels, you little time eating shit heads!
and there goes the best companions of the modern era.
*****
nah the middleish is Rose.
Donna Noble is the best.
Donna left back in series 4
Well agreed buddy
AMY POND IS THE BEST COMPANION EVER
Doctor should have known he was gonna lose this argument. He was basically asking her to choose between Life with him or a life with Rory..In a choice between Rory and anything else the choice is always Rory
Dominique Jacques I think when he said come along pond please he knew that she was gonna die
Rorys and Amys Story ended with a Nonsense-Plot-Hole-Nonsense. Time-Dissortions made it impossible for the Tardis to land - which is already the Logic Hole. I wont say more, you have to understand yourself how much wrong is up with this and how it makes no sense. A little help though: Remember what the Tardis is and can do...
Yeah. We've seen her pick Rory over the Doctor loads of times during their time
Ohhhhh, thats very true OMG
He's the Doctor and the he has a time machine. He would've figured something out. If everyone just sat down and talked it through and Amy still didn't see any other way, THEN go back to Rory. At least leave the options on the table.. although they could've died another way and wouldn't have been able to live a whole life together
Technically, while they both died, Amy and Rory ended up living together. This may be bad for the Doctor, but at least they finally had the chance they desired to live a normal life and grow old together.
I just remembered about the scene with the Doctor and Amy's dad. The only thing he wanted was that the Doctor kept her safe. That must have been an awkward conversation.
@@Angi3_6 There was a letter. Shame it never made it to the episode.. But still beautiful
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Plus l’m sure they used there knowledge of the future to stake out a cozy little life for themselves.
@@Angi3_6 well technically, they were still "safe". They even grew old together and probably went out surrounded by their children and probably some friends they made. I think that's a happy ending to the Ponds, just not to the Doctor and the their relatives living in present time.
I took them away to make sure the doctor suffers as I once did to avenge my family that the doctor took from me.
River is the MVP of this whole scene. I already loved that she kept looking at the angel so her husband could mourn, but watching it this time around highlighted other moments. While the Doctor is trying to talk Amy out of going, River advocates for the one chance of her parents being together, even if it means losing her mom and dad within minutes of each other. And she does it with a smile (the romantic side of her peeking through). The way she gently holds and kisses her mom's hand is so beautiful. She's even sure to take care of the TARDIS after such a rough journey. She consistently shelves her own agenda to look after her family.
I think that’s the Rory in her popping out…. We see Amy’s fire in her every time she appears, but she’s all Rory here. Beautiful
It also shows how strong she is, she’s just seen her mom and dad die and she stays strong for the doctor knowing that he can’t handle ir
The Doctor cries and grieves when his companions dies, but imagine how Melody Pond/River Song will be feeling, watching your parents die, never to see them again.
River can actually see them again since it wouldnt mess with her timeline. She mentions she’ll tell Amy to put an afterword for the doctor in her detective book
And yep, I freaking broke down.
That was nothing. I broke down when I realized that they'd never see their little girl again. And I mean their little girl. Not Mels not River.
BunjiKugashira1990 Going into a corner and crying 😭. I miss my Amy and Rory Pond. Cries hard
Liam Catterson u Me too
Same!
Liam Catterson me too, like everyone else, I lost my Amy. My sweet, witty, sarcastic Amy. Great, now I'm gonna get depressed Everytime I see the kissogram now.
I love this scene. I love this ending for Rory and Amy. No better ending for any of the companions in my mind, even Rose. Amy and Rory might not be the perfect couple, but they understood marriage in a way I could only dream off.
This ending may be devastating to the Doctor, but to Melody, Rory and Amy, it's sad, yes, but it's beautiful and perfect.
Mev Wetzker yes, I agree, and the fact that Matt Smith's doctor is one of the happiest characters makes seeing him break down even more powerful
And not stupidly brought back like some other characters...
Mev Wetzker lemme change my mind about rose being first. Amelia pond......
I think to Melody it *was* devastating, but she still understood why it was done and supported the decision.
Mev Wetzker sure the ending is beautiful, but there's one problem with it.
It's an ending for probably my favorite doctor who character. And the woman who made me laugh more so than any other characters from this show. Every single syllable out of this woman's mouth was quotable and memorable. She was a witty, sarcastic, feisty, alpha female. God I miss Amy. But, then again, all good things must come to an end.
This part made me break down. I had spoiled myself accidentally, but the realness of this scene made my heart break. You could hear the desperation, fear, sadness, and rage, in the Doctor’s voice, and Karen Gillan’s face just makes me want to cry. Amy and her boys were the best group in the TARDIS for me
I've been rewatching all of new who lately (started at 9th Doctors first episode, am currently up to Clara's re introduction in the snowmen episode ) And although I have seen all the episodes multiple times, some scenes just don't lose their power. For me the only scene more powerful than this is ten's mental breakdown 'I could do so much more' speech to Wilfred before sacrificing himself in the radiation chamber. That is the definitive modern who moment for me, but this is a close second.
@@marcuswelby3116 very well said. It’s such a brilliant series.
"Hello, old friend, and here we are. You and me, on the last page. By the time you read these words, Rory and I will be long gone. So know that we lived well, and were very happy. And above all else, know that we will love you, always. Sometimes I do worry about you, though. I think once we're gone, 'you won't be coming back here for a while, and you might be alone, which you should never be. Don't be alone, Doctor. And do one more thing for me. There's a little girl waiting in a garden. She's going to wait a long while, so she's going to need a lot of hope. Go to her. Tell her a story. Tell her that if she's patient, the days are coming that she'll never forget. Tell her she'll go to sea and fight pirates. She'll fall in love with a man who'll wait two-thousand years to keep her safe. Tell her she'll give hope to the greatest painter who ever lived and save a whale in outer space. Tell her this is the story of Amelia Pond. And this is how it ends."
💔
I didn't need my heart anyway...😭
Little Liza Lover 😭😭😭😭
Okay, my heart...
SomeOtherSon altleast no one can break it anymore.
"The Lonely Assassins, people call them. The only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely." - The 10th Doctor, Blink
And in the end, she did. That angel could have sent Amy to anywhere in the universe, at any point in time. But she sent her back to live out her life with her husband instead. She killed her nicely, and I think that gives the Weeping Angels far more complexity than people realise.
The angle might have.... fellt sorry...or knew this would hurt the doctor most and espresso her name is on the Grave meaning the doctor cant save her
No, the same angel always sends you back to a certain time period. That's how Martha and 10 were still together
The same angel always send you back to the exact same time period - in Blink, the Doctor found the police officer because they both got transported by the same angel
Looks like your little theory has been denied
@@mrangryeyes4789 that's a whole lot of smug for a reply to something I did for fun.
All those out there who didn't like Amy and Rory....... I don't understand you.
LivePaintCreate ikr they’re my favourite
I just didn't like rory
@@RomeoX-bv4et Tbh same in a way. I much preferred Amy and the doctor, but still it wouldn't have been the same without him.
Amy was a terrible character
they are for sure my favourites, along with donna
I like that this settles the debate between her choice of the doctor and Rory
Honestly
Amy + Rory
River + The Doctor
=
Two of the most epic love stories of all time!
I bet Sutekh was sitting there enjoying this with popcorn lol.
I actually think it was extremely kind of the angel to take amy as well. It didn’t have to. The odds amy and Rory had the same amount of life left in them for the angel to feed on couldn’t be the same. So instead the angel sent amy back to Rory and took what it could. Evil? Sure but some kindness I like to think.
This particular angel, at least, while not sparing them completely, seems to have at least shown a measure of kindness as you say. It didn't have to do that. They lived a long life together in love, just many decades in the past. They wouldn't have known any different.
I thought this to, mad to think the Angel may have shown some compassion or emotion to send her to the same point in time as Rory.
The only monster in the universe that kills you kindly.
On top of that, this Angel lost all its fellows a few minutes ago. I think that's why it's just with that face of sadness when It "kills" Rory or Amy. I mean, Angels use to attack their victims while showing emotions in their faces, like those monstruous fangs. But this one is just sad and wants to survive
Angels are smart too, it could have snagged him when no one was watching, gotten a meal and run to survive. Instead it took a gamble showing Amy that headstone basically saying to her I want another meal, you want your husband. Win win.
I never knew the Weeping Angels worked for Thanos. But now we know why Nebula is so pissed off all the time.
Alex Corps fucking hell, I hate you and love you so much
Alex Corps i dont get it, explain the joke plz
Mythix Channel in the mcu she plays nebula who is thanos' daughter
SHUT UP NERD
@@melonhead8760 *literally in a doctor who clip*
This entire scene had so many damn emotions that I cry every time. The moment Amy asks “no, we can just go get him in the Tardis. Just one more paradox.” She was willing to risk an entire city for her husband, and when she was informed that would not be feasible, she took the risk upon herself to hope she will be sent back in time to find him, even if no one truly knows if she could do that.
River telling the Doctor to shut up and let her mother go for the sake of love, and then keeping her eyes on the Angel while the doctor wept made even more formidable. I panicked so much watching this episode the first time because everyone was so conflicted, particularly Matt Smith as you could tell how aggravated he was. The music score in this scene really added the beautiful touch too.
Truly, one it the most emotional moments in DW
I loved it when River held Amy's hand and kissed it. She really loves her mother ❤️
One of the saddest scenes to be ever written in movie history. It really breaks my heart.
It's a TV show
I feel like this scene is overrated
This scene made me cry buckets
Terminator Hamilton It doesn't really matter. I know that it's a TV show but it fits for every movie as well.
Blame Moffat
We shouldnt be sad. They ended up together, just as she hoped, and they lived together for so many years. And yet still.. wow. Gutwrenching scene.
this scene broke me
same????
Same.
same
ford explore I cried for 7 weeks after this
me two, so sad! :(
14th: she died of an old age
Toymaker: well that’s alright then
Sadder Than All Other TV Deaths
Same.
Donna
MLG Fox
Doomsday, End Of Time
Except Jenny didn't die, She was regenerated.
this vs rose Tyler's "death" this is much sadder
If Rory had just gotten in the TARDIS...
The Doctor is a panicking mess but River is calm, she knows her mother has already made her decision. So sad
Technically, it's not their death. They didn't die, they were sent back in time
but the doctor can never see them again and they died in this current time
Mnatalie99 well, he could go back to just before they got sent back and wait for them, couldn't he? Maybe park the Tardis far away then take them with him to go back to the Tardis. Idk
Exactly! They both died in their 80s which still might have happened if they hadn't met the Doctor. I still cried at that point but I think it was more because of the music.
Darcy Brummett true but he could find their age when they went back and take it away from the age they died at then take that away from their year of death
They got to live out the rest of their lives unlike katrina, sara, adric, kamelion, peri (depending what continuity you follow), ciriz and lucie, who all died and stayed dead
3:30 thats the most heart felt "No" ive ever heard, great acting, im a 30yr old bloke reduced to some real sad emotion about this
Back when Doctor Who was well acted, well written, genuinely scary, and really emotional
Ah yes, the episode that told us the statue of liberty was a giant weeping angel that never in it's history got off liberty island and wandrered around new york until the Docyor, Amy and Rory went to the past and even then it didn't even do anything except stand and look angry.
Tbis episode was the epitome ofshit writing, just like the rest of the series, and the series before, the garbqge river song arc that Moffat managed to screw up with the casting of matt smith then broke his own continuity by having river meet Smith Doctor, again after lets kill hitler and then again with meeting Capaldi's Doctor.
@@ValiantWrestlingthanks for your very much valid opinion, I’m sure everyone really values your super important input
@@ValiantWrestlingWhats blud yapping about
such a moving scene , my Heart just shattered. The Doctor crying... I felt so Close to them and now they've gone
"Everyone dies alone. But if you mean something to someone, if you helped someone, or loved someone, if even a single person remembers you, then maybe you never really die at all."
Gotta love Root, man..
That wasn't Root, that was the Machine in her form. You recognized the quote but didn't know that???
WarGrowlmon18 Oops forgot about that. Forgive me..! >.
No prob. Its more powerful coming from the Machine anyway. Afterall "if a Terminator, a Machine, can learn the value of human life than maybe we can too."
My allergies
Yeah mine too, this scene really seems to trigger them off right?
yea jeez this really makes my eyes sweat
I'm allergic to sadness and tragedy........somehow my nose gets all stuffed up and i can't breathe and....yeah...allergies.....
thats terrible :( people need to stop funding all this cancer and aids bullshit and be aware of the horrid things people have to go through on a daily basis
Lol the Angel is like "pull my finger" ;)
I hate and love you at the same time.
😆😆😆
I needed this
maxlancaster579 wow
Holy shit don't make me laugh at that moment please lool , hate you xD
Everyone is talking about Matt Smith's performance in this scene, which is amazing. But can we take a moment and talk about the damn Weeping Angel. One of the scariest villains in Doctor Who history and the frigging thing actually showed a bit of mercy and gave Amy another life time with Rory.
I loved how in 2023 the Toymaker tries to break/taunt an already weak 14th Doctor with the death of Amy, Clara, Bill and the Flux.
Amy and Rory should’ve stayed until the 50th at least.
Edit: still a very sad ending though. I just wish they’d stayed longer, I loved these two with the Doctor, I don’t know how they’ll find another set of companions like these again.
I've never seen the full episode, but out of all of the goodbyes this one is my favorite, I get goosebumps every time
Bruh
Oh I see, so pulling Amy and Rory out of their time stream at any point in the roughly 50 years before their death and putting the tombstone there anyway to keep the timeline intact is too dangerous, but pulling Clara from her timestream a split second before her death with no intention of putting her back is totally okay. Honestly, why hasn't he gone back for the Ponds yet. Does Capaldi just not care about them anymore?
clara was a mistake
This was before the Time Lords returned. At that time, The Doctor didn’t think he had the power to bring back people from fixed points in time. When Clara died, he believed he could change history by forcing the Time Lords to bring her back, however, as to why he hasn’t brought the Ponds back... Maybe it’s because the Doctor they knew was gone and it was better to let them have their lives together instead of bringing them back into the dangerous life of time travel.
@@buckwheatjackson1761 It's because they are out of the show. They won't return after such a long time (real time I mean). I mean, River returned and Sarah Jane Smith too, in a way, but I highly doubt these old (… damn it feels like the 11th Doctor era was only yesterday) companions will be seen again. :/
@@youtubecommentsguy9805 oh I wouldn’t hold my breath just yet.
@@aaronbuffalo7769 from day one.
Rory was very very underrated. He was honestly one of my favourite people to ever step foot in the tardis
To Amy and Rory, they lost a dear friend who they'd known for years.
To the Doctor, he lost a home he could go back to.
This scene is just 😢
This brings back way too many feels. It angers me so much that all my favorite companions have no way in seeing the Doctor (Rose is in an alternative universe with a human Doctor, Donna lost her memories completely of the Doctor, and Amy and Rory were sent back in time at a fixed point where the Doctor couldn't go and see them).
Moffat ruined the weeping angels. They were a much scarier concept when they were first introduced. Also it was just a way to get rid of them so that the doctor could be forced to move on, but ever thought "Well what about their friends and families?! " To think that Rory's father, for instance, outlives his kid. I swear I am not crying.
One of the saddest DW scenes I've seen. :(
If I remember right it's in the previous episode where Rory's father asks what happened to the previous companions and tells the Doctor to take care of them.
This was a stupid episode in so many ways ,they just found an easy way to get rid of them .
The Tardis could easily maintain the paradox ,it has done more in the past.
Moffat created the Angels.
There's a clip on UA-cam about Rory's dad
It's just storyboard, but it's a little bit of resolution.
@@alexandrawalker6696 I heard they didn't have enough time to film it.
I was like "YES THEY DID IT"
*Angels kills him*
Me dying inside
That’s true love from River, when the doctor broke down and cried, she let him have that moment by still focusing on looking at the angel even though she had just lost both of her parents.
River would've also had to look away or close her eyes so the angel could take her mother away too. it is truly sad for her.
One sad thing that no one talks about in this scene is that there’s a whole timeline where Rory lived presumably on his own til his 80s
At least they were together... One last time....
I CRIED MY ASS OFF
3:34 So beautiful when amy just truned back to see the doctor for the last time instead of just blinking so that the angle killes her😢
Such a beautiful and tragic emotional moment. Matts performance tears me up...
this was very very painful, like Rose's, and Donna's final; I have only seen the modern series, but for me they are the ends of season with best script, as well as the strongest emotionally speaking.
The hallucination with Amy at the end of journey of 11th, also left me very bad. within all the series I have seen, Doctor Who is the most spectacular in all areas
Why did River say “Amy and Rory... they’ll get really bored hanging around here all day?”
The angles didn't just take Amy and Rory. They took my happiness and sended it back in time
This honestly makes me cry every time I watch it. The 11th doctor was my complete favourite and I miss him so much. I'm just happy that Rory and Amy got to be with each other in heaven but I feel so sad for the doctor because he had no one else and he was all alone. I would have given anything to be with him myself at this moment in time. Farewell ponds and to the doctor
"I'm so so sorry"
Eleven your Ten is showing...
Anyone notice how the tardis is changed to the cold and grey,his suit becomes dark and he starts to wear Amy’s glasses after this 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Could you imagine if Tennants Doctor had to experience this? He probably would have kidnapped that angel and stuck it in a room of a thousand eyes, constantly watching for all eternity.
The pain in Matt's voice when he said "No" always made me cry
Ive never seen the 11th doctor be sad before. My heart was aching and breaking down.
"Raggedy man" Amy's last words
😭😭😭😢😥
I like to imagine the angel intentionally sent her to the same time as Rory
I cried the first time I saw this scene. It took the happiness I thought that was going to be at the end of this episode, and ripped it out from underneath me.
Something tells me that Angel didn't live much longer than that. At least, not in one piece. Knowing the Doctor, that Angel is probably residing in pieces in some kind of stasis unit deep in the TARDIS where it can never escape.
Oh, we learned in a minisode that with the TARDIS to back it up the sonic screwdriver can actually kill them. And in said minisode the Doctor killed one just in self-defence, so I'd be very surprised if the Doctor's kill count didn't increase that day.
Erm...yeah...we kinda tend to forget that minisode. We consider it retconned.
***** Retconned by what?
Althalus2010 Common sense & what remains of my sanity.
***** Who are you pretending to include in "we"? I fully accept that minisode as canon, along with the Day series, the Space and Time minisodes, Clara and the TARDIS, Time Crash, and any other official DW minisodes out there.
When the doctor was shouting no u could hear how scared he was for her and how much he didn’t want her to die but y did Rory have to do that! Nowww I’m crying 😭 Doctor who will forever be my fav show!❤️💕
In my opinion they were the best companions in the show and to be honest the show really wasn't the same after this and lost it's magic.
I nearly lost it just by watching this scene and it touched my heart, also made me almost burst into tears just to see Amy and Rory go, plus when the doctor reads the last page Amy says " This is the story of Amelia Pond, and This is how it ends" They show the her as a kid now she is just a memory now, so sad!!!😥😥😥
Both river and the doctor lost their family that day and it makes the scene so much sadder
What a nonviolent yet uncanny way to kill someone.
The saddest thing about this is that Brian Williams will never know exactly what happened to Amy and his son. He’s still at home watering the plants, possibly waiting for them to return or accepting that they may have died.
I believe they had a storyboard for Amy and Rory's sun to go find Brian but they didn't go through with it. I like to think the Doctor told Brian.
Toymaker had a lot of fun bringing this back up.
Why didn't the Doctor just stare at the angel?
"Nice try bitch but it ain't happening".
Jack's World that's how it shoulda happened but when Amy turned around the Doctor either was looking at her or his view of the angel was blocked by her and probadly so was Karen.
I know it is sad when Amy and Rory vanish, but it is also so sad when Amy reaches her arm out and says “Melody” :(
And that’s why the Doctor tells her to stop it. Cause he knows that she’s made her choice and that this is her goodbye.
@@wadeyoung4271 I know
One second: "I WANNA GO TO THE PUB"
One second later: *D E A D*
i think the reason this was so emotional was also Karen and Arthurt and Matt became such a great friends. he was crying over the fact this is their last day filming together, sure he was acting but I am sure he put lot of emotions he felt knowing they won't be on place with hi. into it😊
Who else would pay to watch a spin-off with Amy, Rory and River set in the 1950s?!
Watching this again post-Flux, I wonder if this surviving Angel is the same one we see running from The Division in Village of the Angels?
The look on that angels face. Just pure hatred and sorrow. It wanted revenge. But it wanted to let the doctor live with the fact he just let them die.
"Can't ever take the TARDIS back there"
Series 12: oops
Series 12: aight River must be the son of 11th Doctor and Amy instead of Rory. lol
Damnit Chibnall. Stop breaking the universe.
@@youtubecommentsguy9805 don't understand that
Just noticed the gravestone had a couple of misspellings, they spelled Mr & Mrs Pond's last name as Williams.
Rory's last name was Williams . Only Amy was pond her name before marriage to Rory
@@jonoble7136 It was actually a joke, you ever watch the episode of their wedding?
Jo Noble r/woosh
I was devastated by this scene. It was one of the first new Who I watched. I watched a lot of classic Who back in the day, and while it had its strengths, powerful emotional scenes wasn't one of them. The closet was the death of Adtic, but this is 50x more emotional than that.
I am crying, why am I crying?
They are just fictional characters right?
SO WHY THE HELL AM I CRYING?!?
petr pinc dame here sigh damn feels
I feel you, couldn't stop crying after that... 😭
The video about Rorys dad receiving a letter from Rory also makes me cry every time
Why are you crying though? Amy and Rory go on to live a happy life, just in the 19th century.
After all these years I realized something the doctor probably made that angel feel the pain of 1000 hells, probably even if the doctor blinked it wouldn't kill him because it would just want to die itself.
No matter how many times the doctor saves the universe , he loses in the process ...
I could only hope to have a love like this
The angel could’ve split them up, but instead decided to send Amy to Rory. I wonder what it was thinking when it did that. Was it afraid that the Doctor would do something incredibly dangerous if he looked at the gravestone and it still only said Rory’s name, or did it decide to keep them together as a “small act of kindness” to them.
One of the few companions the doctor cares the most of.
In loving Memory, Rory Arthur Williams, aged 82, & his loving Wife, Amelia Williams, aged 87
This will never not give me feels 😭😭😭 you think it will be all fine and bam this scene 😭
Didn't notice this on the first view, but count how many times Amy blinks in this scene, or all the times this whole episode people have looked away from the Angels and nothing happened. Normally I wouldn't nitpick about actors flinching and imperfect staging and such, but Moffat made such a big deal out of this: the central plot point and namesake of "Blink," brought up in every episode the Angels are in, and Amy literally JUST SAID she has to blink to get zapped, and then does at 3:05 it... just... grrr!
Hiccup Hufflepuff the Doctor was looking at it to
The doctor and River were both looking at it. The only reason she got taken was she blocked the Doctor's view and (presumably) River looked away so her parents could be together
That's the point. That's what makes angels scary.
"Why aren't they moving? No one in the show is looking at them!"
You are.
3:40
Dudes, look at rivers hand...
She got us
jkhfkdkfjd kudos to you for giving me a laugh during this scene instead just tears for once
10 years on and this scene still hits hard. Raggedy Man Goodbye 😭😢
And as the doctor wept and broke down, river had to stay strong and not blink so they wouldn't be taken by the angel too and that messes me up every time
Still shed a tear... Such a bittersweet ending for an amazing Doctor's assistant.
2:11 Just make the paradox, Rory will be back and Los Angeles will lose its rival to become the largest city in the US
The stone can't die... hardly a comforting thought when that angel has just caused a lot of pain to two of the scariest beings in all of time and space. That stone might yet wish to be able to die.