one more thing

[such_heights]

God, mostly I keep going back to Amy's afterword. And how I love Amy and River as the two storytellers in this episode, it's so gorgeous. Anyway, some kind soul has already transcribed this:

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 that we 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 which 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.

It's pretty much everything I could have wanted. It was a good send off for her, really it was, and she's going to have such an amazing life.

I just don't understand what I'm supposed to do without her. :(

Comments

[ladymercury_10]

That afterword really is the loveliest thing. And they are going to have amazing lives--I mean, it can't be easy to get taken away and sent to another time, but if anyone could do it, it would be the Ponds. Rory made it as a Roman and Amy survived in the compressed timestream with killer robots, so they'll do just fine, and have a lot of fun, too, I would think.

But yeah, I don't know what to do without Amy and Rory either. The part where she tells him "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." just makes me want to cry, because that's really what Amy has been for me. When I started watching Doctor Who, I think I had gotten really jaded in a lot of ways--I had been raised religious and I was losing my faith, and I was realizing just how hard my professors had to work and how tired they were all the time, and that made me really sad, and all my English majoring had sort of taught me to distrust happy endings because they were too simple and unrealistic. And it sounds really silly, but watching Series 5 and just the really unexpected magic that kept coming even with the painful bits, and then the finale, is a big part of what reminded me to believe in hope again.

[such_heights]

*hugs you a lot*

Yeah. Her story has just been a gift to me too, and I can't believe it's over.

[ladymercury_10]

*hugs back*

[pocketmouse]

I liked the afterword, in that it did answer one question from the first season that never got answered, but aaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh! No visual? Anyone can buy a gravestone. And who puts Williams on a gravestone? I'm sorry, no. They're still the fucking Ponds, and I don't know why they didn't put that.

That was the cheap-assedest, lamest-excusedest, they're-so-totally-coming-back-later-est companion leaving thing since that time someone else came back, omg.


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

[such_heights]

Yes, the Williams thing annoyed me a lot, because what's the point of that?

The amount of wriggle room left in their departure was sort of delightful from a fic point of view, I must say. *plots*

THEY'RE NEVER REALLY LEAVING ME. I REFUSE TO LET THEM GO.

[pocketmouse]

In my head Amy pops back in time, and River's there waiting for her with Rory, drinking coffee, and River says 'right, I've bought a gravestone, and the plot, who's up for a trip to Mars?' and they all live happily ever after.

[skywaterblue]

LOL.

[frayadjacent]

I wrinkled my forehead at the Williams thing too, and chalked it up to going back to the 30's, but then I remembered: didn't Amy sign her divorce papers (in 7x01) as Amelia Williams?

[pocketmouse]

Well, legally that is their name in 2015 (except in my headcanon where they remarried as Ponds). But if they're back in time, they don't have to stay as Williamses.

[calapine]

YOU MADE ME CRY AGAIN. BOOOOOO.

I almost want to watch tEH but I'm afraid it will just be a bit too emo at the moment.

[such_heights]

Yeah, I think that might make some time. I rewatched the past two finales before the episode and the Big Bang in particular destroyed me even without knowing what was going to happen.

[theniwokesoftly]

The part about Vincent was where I really lost it all over again. Oh. Now that we've had the Ponds, how can we ever go without them?

[such_heights]

I DON'T KNOOOW. I'm so excited for the new companion, but. BUT PONDS.

[hibernate]

I was holding up so well until the afterword and little Amelia, and then I was sobbing. So painful, yet so perfect. A timey-wimey send-off for the most timey-wimey family. Bitter-sweet, indeed.

[such_heights]

Absolutely. I suppose it always had to be something like this, and I loved bringing it back to the beginning again, but OUCH. *sobs some more*

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

Second ALL of this. The afterword is so like her - to the point and so so loving

Making me tear up AGAIN

[kass]

I love this afterword SO MUCH. Oh, Amy. Oh, Rory. Oh, Doctor. Oh, my heart!!!