The Doctor, brushed from history (but incompletely so, as Amy still had enough memories of their first encounter to have grown up with him as her imaginary friend) but physically just trapped on the other side of the cracks, piggybacked on that by dumping all those things that would remind Amy of him on her wedding day in her head when she was a kid.

There are some holes, sure, and I hope a few of them would be addressed (this season has been very good at having a character voice a complaint or question moments after one of my friends asked it allowed during the show, as in it has happened at least 10 times) but they didn’t diminish my enjoyment of the show very much at all.

Holy crap, I am so procrastinating from doing actual work. Sorry for the double dose of rambling.

Aside from personal preference, which covers alot (like the fact I didn’t experience the problems following what was going on as it unfolded or feel I was being led along by “oh, big shiny secret!” or feel Moffat does alot more showing while RTD did too much telling) my only real complaint is… the term Mary Sue.

Mary Sue is such an overused term that it’s really lost all meaning. It used to mean someone who was put into a pre-existing canon, almost always an author stand-in, who was better than everyone else at whatever it was they did (the literal Mary Sue was a Star Trek insert who was a better captain than Kirk, doctor than Bones, etc.) and could never do anything wrong and was loved by everyone (examples being where the man in a couple really loves the Mary Sue but, because she is so kind and perfect, she convinces him to settle for his canon girlfriend… or he leaves his girl for her). She’s a flawless and obvious self-insert by the writer.

Now it’s just broadly applied to characters people think are too competent, or too well-liked (usually because the person dislikes them and doesn’t understand why others would, assuming it must be mere writer fiat). When I see “Mary Sue” applied non-ironically these days I tend to assume the person using it wants to feel justified in their dislike of a character.

It’s ok to dislike Amy, but I certainly can see both why she’s charming and how she’s pretty flawed and don’t have a problem with the role she played. If anything the reason the Doctor brought her along being “because you were a riddle/the universe screwed you up” and not “because you’re so gosh darn cute and brilliant” makes her LESS of a Mary Sue to me.

Didn’t have time to read anything yet, just leaving this here cause you guys are a fan of doctor who.