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Who doesn't love Amy Pond? But it can't be avoided she has made some questionable decisions.
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00:00The grouping of 11th, Amy and Rory are highly regarded as one of the greatest TARDIS teams in the show's
00:06history.
00:06Played by Karen Gillan, Amy became an instant hit with fans, and her tenure is heavily praised for the enthusiasm
00:13she brought to the role,
00:14as well as clear chemistry with co-stars Smith and Arthur Darville.
00:18However, as is very common for Doctor Who companions, Amy has made some questionable decisions during her TARDIS adventures.
00:25With that in mind then, I'm Ellie with WhoCulture, and these are the 10 worst things Amy Pond has ever
00:31done.
00:32Number 10. Wearing a Skirt, Space and Time
00:35Now, this entry may be a little unfair on Amy's choice of outfit, a rather short skirt,
00:41but this choice could have led to a significant space-time catastrophe.
00:45As a part of Series 6, 2011 saw several mini-episodes filmed aboard the TARDIS,
00:50filling in little adventures between the main episodes.
00:53Two such mini-episodes were Space and Time.
00:56This two-part short story saw Rory assisting the Doctor with TARDIS repairs when something goes wrong,
01:01and so the TARDIS materializes at the nearest safe place.
01:05The issue is, the nearest safe place is within the TARDIS itself.
01:08This results in a Logopolis-type situation where there are two TARDISes within one another.
01:13But what has this got to do with Amy's skirt?
01:15Well, the 11th Doctor's first TARDIS is a beautiful design,
01:19part of which is a glass floor raised in the console up above the maintenance section, where Rory is.
01:25So, without obviously going into too much detail,
01:27our dear Rory looks up to the Doctor and Amy wearing the skirt in question,
01:31and as a result, Mr. Williams drops a thermocoupling, setting the events of the Minnesota in motion.
01:37Once everything starts going pear-shaped, Amy even apologizes to the Doctor,
01:41saying it was my skirt and my husband and your glass floor,
01:44which of course takes our innocent 11th Doctor a few seconds to catch on to.
01:49As it is Doctor Who, in the end all is resolved, but the Doctor does insist Amy put some trousers
01:53on.
01:54Number 9. Pressing the wrong button, The Girl Who Waited
01:58Again, maybe not a situation that Amy could have helped,
02:01but it is a mistake which could have easily been avoided and stopped a whole chain of awful events taking
02:07place.
02:07Series 6, The Girl Who Waited, ends with one of the most tragic ends to a Doctor Who story,
02:12and it all revolves around one choice. Quickly summing up how the events of the story kicks off,
02:17the TARDIS arrives at the Two Streams facility, and the Doctor and Rory wander off,
02:20and are presented with two buttons, red waterfall and green anchor.
02:24Rory chooses the green anchor and waits in a room with the Doctor.
02:27Amy then comes out from the TARDIS after looking for her phone,
02:30and is presented with the same two buttons.
02:32She asks what to do and is simply told,
02:34Press the button, resulting in her choosing red waterfall,
02:37leaving her in a room completely different to the boys.
02:40As a result, the episode tragically plays out, and will be addressed properly in a later entry.
02:46But these events didn't need to happen.
02:48Okay, yes, equal blame could be given to Rory and the Doctor for not specifically telling Amy which button to
02:53press,
02:54but equally she could have asked more specifically.
02:56This may not sound like a grave action,
02:58but those who know the episode will definitely feel this tragedy could have been avoided.
03:02Didn't your parents or Aunt Sharon tell you not to randomly press buttons, Amelia?
03:06Number 8. Reckless decision-making, The Beast Below
03:10The Beast Below is Amy's first trip in the TARDIS,
03:14picking up directly from her and the Doctor's departure in the closing scene of the 11th hour.
03:19And straight away, she's making decisions with potentially awful consequences.
03:23With the revelation that the Starship UK is being transported through a tortured star whale,
03:28the Doctor is left with a decision to see if he can save the creature,
03:31or as harmlessly as possible put the creature out of its misery.
03:34As is a theme throughout the story, there are two buttons with two options,
03:38this time presented to Liz 10.
03:40She can either abdicate, releasing the creature,
03:43or get on with the way things are, going with no memory.
03:46But Liz doesn't make this choice.
03:47Amy sees that the star whale is kind to the children,
03:50and believes that it is here by its own free will.
03:53As a result of her theory, she makes Liz abdicate,
03:55and the torture of the beast halts,
03:57potentially leaving Starship UK to be destroyed.
04:00With that, the ship rumbles, but then stops.
04:02The star whale continues to help the ship travel through space.
04:06So whilst it all worked out for the best in the end,
04:08there is no way Amy could have been certain
04:10her actions would end as positively as they did.
04:13What if they didn't?
04:14Well, the whole of Starship UK would have been destroyed,
04:16killing the entirety of the population of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
04:20But not Scotland.
04:21They wanted their own ship.
04:22That's two entries in a row where Amy is making questionable decisions with buttons.
04:27Thankfully, this one was the right choice,
04:29but the alternative would have been horrific.
04:32Number 7.
04:33Not properly talking to Rory, Asylum of the Daleks
04:36Series 7A features the last five episodes
04:40to show Amy and Rory travelling with the Doctor.
04:42By this point, after Series 6,
04:44the couple from Ledworth travel more on a now-and-then basis.
04:47But as shown in prequel minisode Pond Life,
04:49something is wrong with Amy and Rory.
04:51When we are first reintroduced to Amy and Rory for the series,
04:55Amy is at a modelling job,
04:56and after being told her husband is here,
04:58she heartbreakingly replies,
04:59I don't have a husband.
05:01Going to her dressing room,
05:02she is met by Rory,
05:03who is waiting for her to sign divorce papers.
05:06The story goes on,
05:07and the two are separately captured by the Daleks
05:09and taken to their parliament,
05:11before being sent into the titular Dalek Asylum,
05:13along with the Doctor.
05:14Later in the story,
05:15whilst the Doctor is off trying to collect Oswin,
05:17the Ponds, or really Williamses,
05:19begin to discuss why they are separating.
05:21Rory reveals Amy kicked him out.
05:23The couple argue,
05:24and Amy breaks down revealing she did not kick him out,
05:27rather she gave him up.
05:28We learn Rory has always wanted kids,
05:30and after whatever was done to her at Demon's Run last series,
05:33Amy can no longer get pregnant.
05:35Everything gets more emotional
05:36before they discover Amy has the Doctor's bracelet,
05:39and so is now safe.
05:40Now waiting for the Doctor,
05:41and the Asylum beginning to be destroyed,
05:43Rory asks how long they can wait to teleport off.
05:46To that, Amy responds,
05:47for the rest of our lives.
05:49They kiss,
05:49and seemingly everything's okay again
05:51by the end of the episode.
05:52Whether a slightly rushed script element or not,
05:55it cannot be said
05:56whether the two would have reached the stage of near divorce
05:58if they would have actually spoken to each other properly,
06:01rather than the argument and storming off
06:03that we were shown.
06:05Number 6.
06:06Not saving herself,
06:07the girl who waited.
06:09We've already mentioned the girl who waited,
06:11and the first questionable decision of the episode,
06:14but moving on from that is another questionable decision.
06:17By Amy entering the Two Streams facility
06:19by the alternative button,
06:21she finds herself on a faster time track.
06:23When Rory finally gets into the facility,
06:25Amy has waited for 36 years,
06:27and has totally changed and grown whilst trapped.
06:30Eventually, the Doctor and the gang
06:32get a plan to restore their younger Amy,
06:34and get her out of the facility.
06:36However, in doing so,
06:37the Doctor convinces older Amy
06:39that he can save them both,
06:40allowing them both to live.
06:42However, time doesn't work like that.
06:44You remove younger Amy,
06:45then older Amy can never exist.
06:47And in the end,
06:47older Amy realises this.
06:49Knowing she will cease to exist,
06:51older Amy demands to be taken with the Doctor and Rory,
06:54rather than giving back the younger version of herself.
06:56If you think about it,
06:57it's not out of Amy's character.
06:59She's been through so much,
07:01you can understand why she would be selfish
07:03about this matter.
07:04But she would also know
07:05that a happier Amy would take her place.
07:07This poor older Amy has lived alone
07:09with a robot companion for 36 years.
07:11Why would she not want the proper life
07:13with her husband and best friend for her younger self?
07:16In the end,
07:16this could come down to her wanting to survive.
07:18But when you know you could give yourself a better life,
07:21would you take it?
07:22Who knows?
07:23Number 5.
07:24Kissing the Doctor the night before her wedding,
07:27flesh and stone.
07:28This is the big one for a lot of people, really,
07:30but let's get inside Amy's head for a minute.
07:32Amy has just been through an ordeal.
07:35The Doctor, Amy, River and the Clerics
07:37have just climbed out of the Byzantium,
07:39in which Amy had an angel in her mind
07:40and had to climb out with her eyes shut.
07:43Or did she?
07:43For anyone, that seems pretty traumatic.
07:46After this, she asks to go home
07:47and show the Doctor what she's running from,
07:49returning to Amy's bedroom the night before her wedding.
07:52She reveals the dress and engagement ring to him,
07:55saying that this is what she ran away from
07:56during the closing moments of the 11th hour.
07:59After this, Amy tells the Doctor that she needs comforting
08:01and proceeds to make advances on him.
08:04He tells her that he is 907 years old
08:06and that this wouldn't work out,
08:08but still she continues to try it.
08:09In the end, as we all know,
08:11Amy kisses and tries to undress an awkward 11th,
08:14and even jokes at the fact that he considers this
08:16more than just a one-night stand.
08:18Realising the incoming date of the 26th of the 6th, 2010,
08:22he quickly collects Amy and hurries them into the TARDIS
08:24to avoid the incoming temporal explosion,
08:27which she believes to be a further advancement.
08:29And with that, the episode closes.
08:31Most people may personally feel
08:32this is the worst thing Amy ever did,
08:34and maybe it is.
08:36Cheating the night before her wedding night
08:38to one of the Doctor's most precious companions, Rory,
08:40for some weakens Amy's character.
08:42But maybe it's not that deep,
08:44and the rest of the entries on this list
08:46are far worse than a bit of a snog with her raggedy mouth.
08:494. Shooting the Astronaut
08:51The Impossible Astronaut
08:53The sixth series of New Who
08:55begins with The Impossible Astronaut,
08:57which kicks off the timey-wimey story arc
08:59of the events which take place at Lake Silencio.
09:02In these opening moments,
09:04Amy, amongst others,
09:05witnesses an astronaut step out of the lake
09:07and seemingly kill the 11th Doctor.
09:09Jump forward in time to the closing moments of the story,
09:12where the TARDIS team go back in time
09:14to the year of the moon.
09:15Amy and a younger 11th Doctor
09:17are met by the same astronaut.
09:19In a heated cliffhanger,
09:20the astronaut approaches,
09:21and Amy picks up a gun.
09:22Whilst busy picking up the gun,
09:24the astronaut lifts its mask,
09:26revealing a little girl.
09:27But Amy instantly fires the gun
09:29before even realising this,
09:31trying to eliminate the potential threat
09:32to her friend without second thought.
09:35Obviously, guns are not something
09:36the Doctor approves of,
09:37and so when asked what she is doing,
09:39Amy simply responds,
09:41saving your life.
09:42Later in the series,
09:43the audience learns that the person inside the suit
09:45is actually Amy and Rory's daughter,
09:47who grew up without her parents.
09:49So that's some potential trauma for you,
09:51with your first meeting with your mum
09:52being her taking a headshot at you.
09:55Thankfully, Amy is an appalling shot,
09:57and misses the little girl,
09:58and simply damages the suit.
10:00We know Amy takes this drastic action
10:02to save her friend,
10:03but it is another example
10:04where she seems to act before any thought.
10:06But again, luckily,
10:07this does not come to any horrific ramifications.
10:10Number 3.
10:12Risking time and space for her husband,
10:14the Angels take Manhattan.
10:16Amy and Rory's departure from the show
10:18comes in the form of a clash
10:20with the Weeping Angels
10:21in the Series 7A finale.
10:23This is maybe an incredibly sweet moment,
10:25but was also potentially catastrophic.
10:27After already having thrown themselves
10:29off a block of flats to crash a timeline
10:31in which Rory is previously got by the Angels,
10:34the couple reawaken in a graveyard,
10:36along with the Doctor, River, and the TARDIS.
10:38But this graveyard has popped up in the episode before,
10:41and we're left to wonder its significance.
10:43Well, here it comes.
10:44When the team wanders back into the TARDIS,
10:46Rory spots a gravestone with the same name as his.
10:49Zap!
10:50An Angel gets him,
10:50and once again,
10:51he's sent back in time,
10:52to the horror of his wife,
10:54asking if once again they can go back
10:56in the TARDIS and collect him,
10:57but apparently another such trip
10:59would rip the universe in half.
11:01Thinking there is room on the gravestone
11:02for another name,
11:03Amy decides to make what could be considered
11:05an ultimate sacrifice.
11:07After the various escapades of the episode,
11:09creating paradoxes to stop the Angels,
11:11Amy decides to create a fixed point in time
11:14by letting the Angel touch her too,
11:16and find herself in the same time
11:17as her dear husband.
11:18Taking time and space into her own hands
11:21for the man she loves
11:21does seem very much in Amy's character,
11:24whether it is the wrong thing or not.
11:25Either way,
11:26it's a moment that really breaks the 11th Doctor.
11:29Number 2.
11:30Killing Madame Kavarian in Cold Blood,
11:32The Wedding of River Song.
11:34But you'll still save me though,
11:36because he would,
11:37and you'd never do anything
11:38to disappoint your precious Doctor.
11:40That's a quote from Madame Kavarian,
11:42seconds before being killed by Amy
11:44in the Series 6 finale.
11:45As you should already know,
11:47Series 6 is a beast of a story
11:49when it comes to its Series arc,
11:51all coming to a conclusion in a timeline
11:53where River refuses to kill the Doctor.
11:55In the closing moments of this story,
11:57all our heroes present
11:58are doing Nick Fury impressions
12:00by wearing eye patches,
12:01or eye drives rather,
12:02which they believe allows them
12:04to view the Silence.
12:05However,
12:05these turn out to simply be a ruse,
12:07and the eye drives turn on their wearers
12:09as they begin zapping them.
12:11Madame Kavarian,
12:12believing she is in charge of the Silence,
12:14thinks herself safe from this massacre,
12:15incorrectly.
12:17Kavarian's drive begins twitching too,
12:19leaving her also to get zapped.
12:21In order for the Doctor,
12:22River,
12:22and Amy to escape,
12:23Rory stays behind,
12:24keeping his eye drive on
12:26to defend them
12:26from the incoming Silence.
12:28As they burst through,
12:29Rory goes down
12:30from the pain of the deadly eye drive,
12:32about to die once again.
12:34Until...
12:35Amy returns with a machine gun,
12:36and mows the incoming Silence down.
12:39Brutal,
12:39but justifiable,
12:41to save the man she loves
12:42in another timeline.
12:43What isn't so justifiable
12:44is her actions towards
12:46Madame Kavarian.
12:47Amy goes over
12:48to the still-conscious Kavarian,
12:49has a little exchange with her
12:51over what she'd done
12:51to her daughter,
12:52and reapplies the eye drive firmly,
12:55allowing it to kill her
12:56as she casually walks off.
12:58Yes,
12:58Kavarian turned Amy's daughter
12:59into a psychopath,
13:00but is casually murdering
13:02someone in her character?
13:03Maybe.
13:04Number 1.
13:05Rory Williams
13:06or the Doctor?
13:07When we first meet
13:09adult Amy Pond,
13:10we learn that her first encounter
13:11with the Doctor when she was younger
13:13left quite the impression.
13:14The little girl from Ledworth
13:15had everything from custom figures
13:17of the Doctor and the TARDIS
13:18to making her future husband
13:19dress up in cosplay of him.
13:21But a thread of Amy's character,
13:23especially in her first two series,
13:25is whether the Doctor or Rory
13:26was more important to her.
13:28Yes,
13:28both characters were significant
13:30in her life from a young age,
13:32but were both vastly different
13:33from one another.
13:34As shown by a previous entry
13:36on this list,
13:37in the end,
13:37Amy risks time itself.
13:39But before that,
13:40Rory still questioned
13:41their relationship.
13:42Most of us know what it's like
13:43to be compared to someone else,
13:45but imagine that person
13:46is a 1,200-year-old Time Lord.
13:49How does one live up to that?
13:50Particular examples include
13:51vampires in Venice
13:52and the Day of the Moon,
13:54where Rory feels totally overlooked
13:55compared to the Doctor.
13:57An argument can be made
13:58that Rory is very insecure
13:59about the situation
14:00and should simply trust his fiancée.
14:02However,
14:03we've all seen the 11th hour
14:04to The Angels Take Manhattan,
14:05and whilst we do see
14:07the couple grow,
14:07we also see Rory get
14:09unfairly treated
14:10from time to time.
14:11Technically,
14:11the Williams get
14:12their happily ever after,
14:13but her early treatment
14:14of Rory is largely wrong.
14:16Amy is an exceptional companion,
14:18but just not always
14:19the best person,
14:20especially to her Rory.
14:22And that concludes our list.
14:23If you can think of anything else,
14:25then please let us know
14:26in the comments below,
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14:30I've been Ellie with Who Culture,
14:32and in the words
14:32of Riversong herself,
14:34goodbye, sweeties.
14:37I'll see you next time.
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