You're welcome for the links! In canon, the Daleks generally make people into controlled clones or drones, though usually that does not involve protruding eyestalks from foreheads or guns from hands. But there are a lot of old school episodes where people get turned into Dalek drones.
I think the Amy/Rory plotline was a bit rushed but I forgive them for it because it really did seem to be an emotional grace note; part of the "take away love and add hate and anger" angle, and Amy and Rory didn't really have much to do this episode. I was saying in a different thread somewhere that I actually find it pretty true to character that Amy would run away from the pain of not being able to have kids or give Rory the life he wanted. She has been known to run from things she's afraid of in the past, and although she grew a lot in her travels with the Doctor, that is a lot for her to have to deal with, and I can see her putting on a very angry front about it and pushing away the people she needs most. That said, all of the above is my reading into the character and not necessarily what was really shown.
My co-worker suggests that the episode needed to be 10 minutes longer... but if it was 10 minutes longer, I don't know that they would want to add too much more of the Pond family drama. I'd like to see more Daleks and creepy-ass asylum rooms, personally.
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Date: 2012-09-06 02:59 am (UTC)I think the Amy/Rory plotline was a bit rushed but I forgive them for it because it really did seem to be an emotional grace note; part of the "take away love and add hate and anger" angle, and Amy and Rory didn't really have much to do this episode. I was saying in a different thread somewhere that I actually find it pretty true to character that Amy would run away from the pain of not being able to have kids or give Rory the life he wanted. She has been known to run from things she's afraid of in the past, and although she grew a lot in her travels with the Doctor, that is a lot for her to have to deal with, and I can see her putting on a very angry front about it and pushing away the people she needs most. That said, all of the above is my reading into the character and not necessarily what was really shown.
My co-worker suggests that the episode needed to be 10 minutes longer... but if it was 10 minutes longer, I don't know that they would want to add too much more of the Pond family drama. I'd like to see more Daleks and creepy-ass asylum rooms, personally.