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
00:05in the show's history.
00:06Played by Karen Gillan, Amy became an instant hit with fans, and her tenure is heavily praised
00:12for the enthusiasm she brought to the role, as well as clear chemistry with co-stars Smith
00:17and Arthur Darville.
00:18However, as is very common for Doctor Who companions, Amy has made some questionable
00:23decisions during her TARDIS adventures.
00:25With that in mind, then, I'm Ellie with WhoCulture, and these are the 10 worst things
00:30Amy Pond has ever done.
00:32Number 10.
00:33Wearing a skirt, space and time
00:36Now this entry may be a little unfair on Amy's choice of outfit, a rather short skirt, but
00:41this 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, filling in little
00:51adventures 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
01:01goes wrong, and so the TARDIS materialises at the nearest safe place.
01:05The issue is, the nearest safe place is within the TARDIS itself.
01:09This results in a Legopolis-type situation where there are two TARDISes within one another.
01:13But what has this got to do with Amy's skirt?
01:16Well, the Eleventh Doctor's first TARDIS is a beautiful design, part of which is a glass
01:20floor, raised in the console up above the maintenance section, where Rory is.
01:25So without obviously going into too much detail, our dear Rory looks up to the Doctor and Amy
01:30wearing the skirt in question, and as a result, Mr Williams drops a thermocoupling, setting
01:35the events of the Minnesota in motion.
01:37Once everything starts going pear-shaped, Amy even apologises to the Doctor saying it
01:41was my skirt and my husband and your glass floor, which of course takes our innocent
01:46Eleventh 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
01:54on.
01:55Number 9.
01:56Pressing the wrong button, The Girl Who Waited
01:58Again, maybe not a situation that Amy could have helped, but it is a mistake which could
02:02have easily been avoided and stopped a whole chain of awful events taking place.
02:08Series 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.
02:14Quickly summing up how the events of the story kicks off, the TARDIS arrives at the Two Streams
02:19facility, and the Doctor and Rory wander off, and are presented with two buttons, Red Waterfall
02:23and 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, and is presented with the same
02:31two buttons.
02:32She asks what to do and is simply told, press the button, resulting in her choosing Red
02:37Waterfall, leaving her in a room completely different to the boys.
02:41As a result, the episode tragically plays out and will be addressed properly in a later
02:45entry.
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
02:52Amy which button to press, but equally, she could have asked more specifically.
02:56This may not sound like a grave action, but those who know the episode will definitely
03:00feel this tragedy could have been avoided.
03:02Didn't your parents or Aunt Sharon tell you not to randomly press buttons, Amelia?
03:07Number 8 – Reckless Decision Making, The Beast Below
03:11The Beast Below is Amy's first trip in the TARDIS, picking up directly from her and
03:15the Doctor's departure in the closing scene of The Eleventh Hour.
03:19And straight away, she's making decisions with potentially awful consequences.
03:24With the revelation that the Starship UK is being transported through a tortured star
03:28whale, the Doctor is left with a decision to see if he can save the creature, or as
03:32harmlessly as possible put the creature out of its misery.
03:35As is a theme throughout the story, there are two buttons with two options, this time
03:39presented to Liz Ten.
03:40She can either abdicate, releasing the creature, or get on with the way things are, going with
03:45no memory.
03:46But Liz doesn't make this choice.
03:48Amy sees that the star whale is kind to the children, and believes that it is here by
03:52its own free will.
03:53As a result of her theory, she makes Liz abdicate, and the torture of the beast halts, potentially
03:58leaving Starship UK to be destroyed.
04:00With that, the ship rumbles, but then stops.
04:03The star whale continues to help the ship travel through space.
04:06So whilst it all worked out for the best in the end, there is no way Amy could have been
04:10certain her 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, killing the entirety of the
04:18population of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
04:20But not Scotland.
04:21They wanted their own ship.
04:23That's two entries in a row where Amy is making questionable decisions with buttons.
04:27Thankfully, this one was the right choice, but the alternative would have been horrific.
04:32Number 7.
04:33Not properly talking to Rory, Asylum of the Daleks
04:37Series 7A features the last five episodes to show Amy and Rory travelling with the Doctor.
04:42By this point after Series 6, the couple from Ledworth travel more on a now-and-then basis.
04:47But as shown in prequel minisode Pond Life, something is wrong with Amy and Rory.
04:52When we are first reintroduced to Amy and Rory for the series, Amy is at a modelling
04:56job, and after being told her husband is here, she heartbreakingly replies,
04:59I don't have a husband.
05:01Going to her dressing room, she is met by Rory, who is waiting for her to sign divorce
05:05papers.
05:06Rory goes on, and the two are separately captured by the Daleks and taken to their parliament,
05:11before being sent into the titular Dalek asylum along with the Doctor.
05:15Later in the story, whilst the Doctor is off trying to collect Oswin, the Ponds, or really
05:18Williamses, begin to discuss why they are separating.
05:22Rory reveals Amy kicked him out.
05:23The couple argue, and Amy breaks down, revealing she did not kick him out, rather she gave
05:27him up.
05:28We learn Rory has always wanted kids, and after whatever was done to her at Demon's
05:32Run last series, Amy can no longer get pregnant.
05:35Everything gets more emotional before they discover Amy has the Doctor's bracelet,
05:38and so is now safe.
05:40Now waiting for the Doctor and the asylum beginning to be destroyed, Rory asks how long
05:44they can wait to teleport off.
05:46To that, Amy responds, for the rest of our lives.
05:49They kiss, and seemingly everything's okay again by the end of the episode.
05:53Whether a slightly rushed script element or not, it cannot be said whether the two would
05:57have reached the stage of near divorce if they would have actually spoken to each other
06:01properly, rather than the argument and storming off that we were shown.
06:056.
06:06Not saving herself, The Girl Who Waited
06:08We've already mentioned The Girl Who Waited, and the first questionable decision of the
06:13episode, but moving on from that is another questionable decision.
06:17By Amy entering the Two Streams facility by the alternative button, she finds herself
06:22on a faster time track.
06:23When Rory finally gets into the facility, Amy has waited for 36 years, and has totally
06:28changed and grown whilst trapped.
06:30Eventually, the Doctor and the gang get a plan to restore their younger Amy, and get
06:34her out of the facility.
06:36However, in doing so, the Doctor convinces older Amy that he can save them both, allowing
06:41them both to live.
06:42However, time doesn't work like that.
06:44You remove younger Amy, then older Amy can never exist, and in the end, older Amy realises
06:49this.
06:50Knowing she will cease to exist, older Amy demands to be taken with the Doctor and Rory,
06:54rather than giving back the younger version of herself.
06:57If you think about it, it's not out of Amy's character.
06:59She's been through so much, you can understand why she would be selfish about this matter.
07:04But she would also know that a happier Amy would take her place.
07:07This poor older Amy has lived alone with a robot companion for 36 years.
07:11Why would she not want the proper life with her husband and best friend for her younger
07:15self?
07:16In the end, this could come down to a wanting to survive, but when you know you could give
07:20yourself a better life, would you take it?
07:22Who knows?
07:23Number 5.
07:24Kissing the Doctor the night before her wedding, flesh and stone.
07:28This is the big one for a lot of people, really, but let's get inside Amy's head for a
07:33minute.
07:34She's been through an ordeal.
07:35The Doctor, Amy, River, and the Clerics have just climbed out of the Byzantium, in which
07:39Amy had an angel in her mind and had to climb out with her eyes shut.
07:43Or did she?
07:44For anyone, that seems pretty traumatic.
07:46After this, she asks to go home and show the Doctor what she's running from, returning
07:50to Amy's bedroom the night before her wedding.
07:52She reveals the dress and engagement ring to him, saying that this is what she ran away
07:56from during the closing moments of the 11th hour.
07:59After this, Amy tells the Doctor that she needs comforting, and proceeds to make advances
08:03on him.
08:04He tells her that he is 907 years old and that this wouldn't work out, but still she
08:08continues to try it.
08:10In the end, as we all know, Amy kisses and tries to undress an awkward 11, and even jokes
08:15at the fact that he considers this more than just a one-night stand.
08:18Realising the incoming date of the 26th of the 6th 2010, he quickly collects Amy and
08:23hurries them into the TARDIS to avoid the incoming temporal explosion, which she believes
08:28to be a further advancement, and with that, the episode closes.
08:31Some people may personally feel this is the worst thing Amy ever did, and maybe it is.
08:36Cheating the night before her wedding night to one of the Doctor's most precious companions,
08:40Rory, for some, weakens Amy's character.
08:43But maybe it's not that deep, and the rest of the entries on this list are far worse
08:46than a bit of a snog with her raggedy man.
08:49Number 4.
08:50Shooting the Astronaut in The Impossible Astronaut
08:54The sixth series of New Who begins with The Impossible Astronaut, which kicks off the
08:58timey-wimey story arc of the events which take place at Lake Silencio.
09:02In these opening moments, Amy, amongst others, witnesses an astronaut step out of the lake
09:07and seemingly kill the 11th Doctor.
09:10Jump forward in time to the closing moments of the story, where the TARDIS team go back
09:13in time to the year of the moon.
09:15Amy and a younger 11th Doctor are met by the same astronaut.
09:19In a heated cliffhanger, the astronaut approaches, and Amy picks up a gun.
09:23Whilst busy picking up the gun, the astronaut lifts its mask, revealing a little girl.
09:27In the suit, Amy instantly fires the gun before even realising this, trying to eliminate the
09:32potential threat to her friend without second thought.
09:35Obviously, guns are not something the Doctor approves of, and so when asked what she is
09:39doing, Amy simply responds, saving your life.
09:42Later in the series, the audience learns that the person inside the suit is actually Amy
09:46and Rory's daughter, who grew up without her parents.
09:49So that's some potential trauma for you, with your first meeting with your mum being
09:53her taking a headshot at you.
09:55Thankfully, Amy is an appalling shot, and misses the little girl, and simply damages
09:59the suit.
10:00We know Amy takes this drastic action to save her friend, but it is another example where
10:04she seems to act before any thought.
10:06But again, luckily this does not come to any horrific ramifications.
10:11Number 3.
10:12Risking time and space for her husband, the Angels take Manhattan
10:16Amy and Rory's departure from the show comes in the form of a clash with the Weeping Angels
10:21in the series 7A finale.
10:23This is maybe an incredibly sweet moment, but was also potentially catastrophic.
10:28After already having thrown themselves off a block of flats to crash a timeline in which
10:32Rory is previously got by the Angels, the couple reawaken in a graveyard, along with
10:36the Doctor, River, and the TARDIS.
10:38But this graveyard has popped up in the episode before, and we're left to wonder its significance.
10:43Well, here it comes.
10:44When the team wanders back into the TARDIS, Rory spots a gravestone with the same name
10:48as his.
10:49Zap!
10:50Rory gets him, and once again he's sent back in time, to the horror of his wife.
10:55Asking if once again they can go back in the TARDIS and collect him, but apparently another
10:58such trip would rip the universe in half.
11:01Thinking there is room on the gravestone for another name, Amy decides to make what could
11:05be considered an ultimate sacrifice.
11:07After the various escapades of the episode, creating paradoxes to stop the Angels, Amy
11:12decides to create a fixed point in time by letting the Angel touch her too, and find
11:16herself in the same time as her dear husband.
11:19Putting time and space into her own hands for the man she loves does seem very much
11:22in Amy's character, whether it is the wrong thing or not.
11:25Either way, it's a moment that really breaks the Eleventh Doctor.
11:29Number 2.
11:30Killing Madame Kovarian in cold blood in The Wedding of River Song
11:34But you'll still save me though, because he would.
11:37And you'd never do anything to disappoint your precious Doctor.
11:40That's a quote from Madame Kovarian, seconds before being killed by Amy in the Series 6
11:45finale.
11:46As we already know, Series 6 is a beast of a story when it comes to its series arc, all
11:51coming to a conclusion in a timeline where River refuses to kill the Doctor.
11:55In the closing moments of this story, all our heroes present are doing Nick Fury impressions
12:00by wearing eye patches, or eye drives rather, which they believe allows them to view the
12:04silence.
12:05However, these turn out to simply be a ruse, and the eye drives turn on their wearers as
12:09they begin zapping them.
12:11Madame Kovarian, believing she is in charge of the silence, thinks herself safe from this
12:16incorrectly.
12:17Kovarian's drive begins twitching too, leaving her also to get zapped.
12:21In order for the Doctor, River, and Amy to escape, Rory stays behind, keeping his eye
12:25drive on to defend them from the incoming silence.
12:28As they burst through, Rory goes down from the pain of the deadly eye drive, about to
12:32die once again, until Amy returns with a machine gun and mows the incoming silence down.
12:39Brutal, but justifiable to save the man she loves in another timeline.
12:43What isn't so justifiable is her actions towards Madame Kovarian.
12:47Amy goes over to the still-conscious Kovarian, has a little exchange with her over what she'd
12:51done to her daughter, and reapplies the eye drive firmly, allowing it to kill her as she
12:56casually walks off.
12:58Yes, Kovarian turned Amy's daughter into a psychopath, but is casually murdering someone
13:02in her character?
13:03Maybe.
13:041.
13:05Rory Williams, or the Doctor
13:08When we first meet adult Amy Potton, we learn that her first encounter with the Doctor when
13:12she was younger left quite the impression.
13:14The little girl from Ledworth had everything from custom figures of the Doctor and the
13:18TARDIS, to making her future husband dress up in cosplay of him.
13:21But a thread of Amy's character, especially in her first two series, is whether the Doctor
13:26or Rory was more important to her.
13:28Yes, both characters were significant in her life from a young age, but were both vastly
13:33different from one another.
13:34As shown by a previous entry on this list, in the end Amy risks time itself, but before
13:40that, Rory still questioned their relationship.
13:42Most of us know what it's like to be compared to someone else, but imagine that person is
13:46a 1,200 year old Time Lord.
13:49How does one live up to that?
13:50Particular examples include Vampires in Venice and the Day of the Moon, where Rory feels
13:54totally overlooked compared to the Doctor.
13:57An argument can be made that Rory is very insecure about the situation and should simply
14:01trust his fiancée.
14:02However, we've all seen the 11th hour to The Angels Take Manhattan, and whilst we do
14:07see the couple grow, we also see Rory get unfairly treated from time to time.
14:11Technically, the Williams get their happily ever after, but her early treatment of Rory
14:15is largely wrong.
14:16Amy is an exceptional companion, but just not always the best person, especially to
14:21her Rory.
14:22And that concludes our list.
14:24If you can think of anything else, then please let us know in the comments below.
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14:30I've been Ellie with Who Culture, and in the words of River Song herself, goodbye,
14:35sweeties.