Doctor Who: "The Girl Who Waited"

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SHOW! AFTER LAST WEEK'S WORLD OF DULL, YOU ARE BACK WITH ME!

THINGS I LOVE SO MUCH I HAVE TO LIST THEM IN CAPSLOCK:

- TIMEY WIMEY SHENANIGANS
- GIRLS WHO GROW UP TO BE SEVERE, UBER-COMPETENT OLDER LADIES
- ARMOUR AND KATANAS
- SLOW-MO ROBOT BATTLES
- SELF-SACRIFICE AND IMPOSSIBLE CHOICES
- AMY POND

I also like Rory quite a lot!  As in, he is a nice character and I enjoy watching him and I can see why Amy loves him so much, and his love for Amy makes my heart wibble a bit, although not in a shippery way because that seems redundant when there's so much on the screen.  And the Doctor being a bit faily and a bit manipulative, and trying to do the right thing and no one really knowing if he succeeded.

IN SHORT, THIS EPISODE.  ALL THE LOVE.  ALL THE TEARS.

I quibble with a couple of early points: I expected Amy's phone to have some relevance to the plot, and I was kind of WHUT? at Amy choosing the bottom red button instead of the top green button.  I dunno, that seemed an unlikely choice to me.  BUT EVERYTHING ELSE WAS GREAT.  Even though I'm really, really sad that future!Amy's memories weren't integrated into present!Amy's, so she'd be like Rory with the memory of a lifetime of waiting in her head.  BUT I CAN LIVE WITH IT. 

I loved how older!Amy was still flirty and sexy, but also her body language was different, and at first she doesn't even make eye contact with Rory, like she's forgotten how to do it.  Anyone who says Karen Gillan can't act after this ... I don't know, but they'd be wrong. 

Also, how pretty and viddable was this?  I need to think of a song.  And then move to a planet with a 30-hour day so I have time to make a vid in addition to all the other things I've got going on.