History Recap / DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited

* DistractedByTheSexy: When Rory enters the Waterfall Stream, there is a collection of various cultural icons from various worlds. He sees the Venus de Milo and the Doctor, seeing through the glasses Rory is wearing, has to tell him, "Eyes front, soldier!"

* MaleGaze: Rory stares at the naked breasts of the Venus de Milo copy for a long moment before being snapped out of it by the Doctor. It happens again when he meets Older Amy. "Eyes front, soldier."

* BadassAdorable: As always, Rory, who hits a Handbot with a copy of the ''Mona Lisa''.

** Multiple zones to experience various pleasures, like ''Film/Westworld''.

Alternatively, the one where Amy takes TheSlowPath all because of one wrong button push. And is ''pissed.''

** Justified, since he's basically lying through his teeth.

* {{Autodoc}}: The Handbots are doctors. Too bad they're designed for patients with two hearts, and would unintentionally kill any single-hearted patient.

** Again when told to think of the most powerful/important moment of their life, both Amys instantly think of the Macarena, because that was their first kiss with Rory.

* BottleEpisode: There are many white rooms, Karen Gillan [[ActingForTwo acts for two]] and the TARDIS fizzes a bit, plus there are robots and a quick shot of a garden, but there is nothing beyond that.

** Amy is broken over the course of 36 years.

* CallBack: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]]", the Doctor accuses Sexy (the TARDIS) of not always going where he wanted; she counters that she always brought him where he ''needed'' to go. In this episode, she brings him to the quarantine area of Apalapucia, instead of the resort area. If she had brought him to the resort area, he would have died from the plague without any chance.

* CharacterTitle: Amy Pond is ‘The Girl Who Waited’

** The reception area looks [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth familiar]]... so familiar, in fact, that there's an ''identical'' shot to one from "New Earth" in which the RecycledSet is especially noticeable.

* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Amy saves Rory from a handbot after he's stunned.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Rory notes that using a history book would have kept Amy safe.

* CruelToBeKind: The Apalapucian mercy that separates a person from their loved ones and makes them live a lifetime in a day is the inverse of what it first appears to be. It gives victims of a 24-hour death plague a full life to live, and lets their loved ones see it all in a day. (Green Anchor for visitors and Red Waterfall for victims, in case you were wondering.)

* DefrostingIceQueen: Older Amy, after meeting Rory again, and ''especially'' after speaking with her younger self, losses some of the harshness she built up living alone in the facility.

* DistractedByTheSexy: When Rory enters the Waterfall stream, there is a collection of various cultural icons from various worlds. He sees the Venus de Milo and the Doctor, seeing through the glasses Rory is wearing, has to tell him, "Eyes front, soldier!"

* FirstKiss: Hers with Rory inspires Amy to Paradox. We never see it.

** The first time that time goes wobbly you can see Amy pacing, being bored, sitting in various poses. As she later complains to the Doctor, it's because she was stuck there for a ''week''.

* GeniusBruiser: Older Amy, who is not only a total badass, but has managed to create a sonic screwdriver ([[InsistentTerminology probe!]]) out of her cell phone and has hacked most of the systems in the hospital.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Rory, again. It becomes even more apparent with the Rory-bot. He's considered a pet by Amy, completely "disarmed" and follows Amy's every command instantly. When Older Amy says "Sit down, Rory," both of them immediately do.

* {{Hipster}}: The Doctor is an age-old hipster, taking Rory and Amy to the ''second'' most popular tourist destination because the first is overrun by coffee shops.
* HopeSpot: After both Amys are in the same time stream, there's a few moments of awkwardness, but soon Rory starts making jokes about the benefits of having two of his wife. Maybe this can work after all, the audience thinks... and then Old Amy and the Doctor lock eyes across the gallery.

** Apalapucia. The episode opens with the Doctor saying it over and over again.

* JustFollowingOrders: The handbots aren't ''trying'' to hurt anyone, it's just that their medicine isn't made for humans and would be lethal to Amy. This is the second time this season [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseoftheBlackSpot a literal-minded medical program has unintentionally caused problems]].
* JustForPun: To make him harmless, Older Amy ''literally'' disarmed Rory the Handbot.

* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: Rory the Handbot turns away so Rory and Amy can kiss in private. At the end of the episode, the Doctor leaves Rory and Amy alone.

** "Killing with kindness" ''usually'' just means to be annoying.

* MadnessMantra: While Older Amy is telling him he shouldn't let her in, Rory can only repeat "I'm so so sorry" over and over again.

* MinimalistCast: The Doctor, Amy, Rory and Older Amy are the '''only''' physical characters here. The only exceptions are the Handbots, the holographic Check-In Girl and the Interface voice.

* MrsRobinson: Older Amy towards Rory, who flirts with him in front of her ''younger self''. When Rory asks her to stop, she mentions that in all the times they dressed up as "Doctors and Nurses", [[CasualKink he never complained before]].

* NerdGlasses: Older Amy wears them briefly but they are mostly worn by Rory. The Doctor thinks they're cool, Amy and Rory both disagree.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Both the Doctor, for taking them to the second most beautiful planet ''after'' it's been hit by a devastating plague, and Rory, for telling Amy to press the button while omitting the small detail of which button.

* NoodleIncident: Older Amy's [[TheSlowPath alternate life]] appears to have been a series of impressive and unexplained events. The list includes (but is probably not limited to): building a sonic ''probe'', disarming the Rory bot, finding a katana, building that armour and reprogramming Interface.
* NoOSHACompliance: The Doctor and company walk into a building intended to be accessed by normal civilians, walk ten paces, and press two buttons; as a result, they're mixed up in a temporal nightmare so deep and convoluted that even with the ''TARDIS'' they struggle to fix things. Let's just say the building could stand to have some labels. Or remotely competent robotic assistants. Or any living on-site staff.

* TheOner: It's easy to miss, but Rory leaves the Green Anchor room (with the Doctor still in it), goes back into the hallway, enters the Red Waterfall room (which is empty, has different signs on the wall, and chairs on the other side of the table) via the same door, then BACK to the hallway, then BACK into the Green Anchor room (where the Doctor is still waiting on his side of the table) all in one shot. Presumably, Matt Smith and the crew were scrambling like mad as soon as the doors closed each time.

* PoorCommunicationKills: If Rory had specified ''which'' button to press, or Amy had bothered to ask, or there was a sign saying "WARNING! CHEN-7 QUARANTINE IN EFFECT!" none of the problems in this episode would have happened.

* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: The reason the Doctor brings them here. It's considered the ''second'' best planet to visit. When Rory asks why they don't go to the best, the Doctor says that it's become a touristy nightmare: "The Planet of the Coffee Shops".

* SilverFox: Even after thirty-six years, Rory thinks Amy is ''hot''[[note]][[IronicEcho Eyes front, soldier.]][[/note]]. "You look great."

* TheSlowPath: Older Amy waited 36 years in what took Rory and the Doctor a couple seconds. Having run into this once before, she's ''doubly'' pissed off.

* StabTheScorpion: Older Amy's introduction has her ''appear'' to stab Rory but instead goes for the Handbot behind him.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: The handbots are nice enough to stop and let Older Amy tell Interface about this nice boy on Earth before swarming in to kill her.

* TooDumbToLive: Not only does Rory fail to tell Amy ''which'' button to press, but Amy goes ahead and assumes that the red button (which, at least on Earth, is a universal symbol for "caution") is the correct one, without bothering to ask.
* TookALevelInBadass: Older Amy. Fighting robots with a katana and hand-made armour, hacking into computer systems and making her own ''sonic probe''? Epic.

* VasquezAlwaysDies: Older Amy doesn't just die, she gets erased from existence. This is likely intentional on the Doctor's part, as he seems to think younger Amy is a better person. He doesn't like inadvertently turning his Companions into soldiers.

* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Rory the Handbot. Young Amy manages to point out ''why'' it's named Rory.

* NoodleIncident: Older Amy's [[TheSlowPath alternate life]] appears to have been a series of impressive and unexplained events. The list is: building a sonic ''probe'', disarming the Rory bot, finding a katana, building that armour and reprogramming Interface.

* AbandonedHospital: The entire episode takes place in a time-shifted hospital that is currently under quarantine and is completely devoid of any life other than the automated Handbots and the AI computer. While it can be assumed that each patient has their own version of the hospital relative to their time-stream, (it's stated that there are thousands of time-streams all happening simultaneously) the episode gives the impression that everybody on the planet has already died from the Chen-7 plague, leaving the place deserted.

* AbandonedHospital: The entire episode takes place in a time-shifted hospital that is currently under quarantine and is completely devoid of any life other than the automated Handbots and the AI computer. While it can be assumed that each patient has their own version of the hospital relative to their time-stream, (it's stated that there are thousands of time-streams all happening simultaneously) the episode gives the impression that everybody on the planet has already died from the Chen-7 plague, leaving the place deserted for decades.

* PlugAndPlayTechnology: Averted; the Doctor appears to plug the time glass into his console, then hooks up the actual connection via jumper leads that emit visible sparks.

* TechnoBabble: Subverted; the gibberish the Doctor spouts on how to fix the TemporalParadox is just that. He knows perfectly well he can't save both Amy's.

* DistractedByTheSexy: When Rory enters the Waterfall stream, there is a collection of various cultural icons from various worlds. He sees the Venus de Milo and the Doctor, seeing through the glasses Rory is wearing, has to tell him, "Eyes front, solider!"

* NoodleIncident: Older Amy's [[TheSlowPath alternate life]] appears to have been a series of impressive and unexplained events. The list is: building a sonic ''probe'', disarming the Rory bot, finding a katana, building that armour and reprograming Interface.

** Amy faces the threat of death from inappropriately-applied medical treatment intended for a two-hearted species. This is a direct inversion of how the Seventh Doctor died in [[DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie]].

** Amy faces the threat of death from inappropriately-applied medical treatments intended for a two-hearted species. This is a direct inversion of how the Seventh Doctor died in the TV movie.

->'''Older Amy:''' how me Earth. Show me home... Did I ever tell you about this boy I met there? [[TearJerker He pretended to be in a band...]]

->'''Older Amy:''' [[FamousLastWords Show me Earth. Show me home... Did I ever tell you about this boy I met there?]] [[TearJerker He pretended to be in a band...]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Tom [=MacRae=] had a ''lot'' of fun with this one.
--->'''Rory:''' Two Amys, together, c-can that work?\\
'''The Doctor:''' I dunno... It's your marriage.
** Amy and Rory played "[[PlayingDoctor Doctors and Nurses]]" growing up. How? Use your imagination.
** [[MaleGaze "Eyes front, soldier!"]]

* TwinThreesomeFantasy: [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Slyly invoked]] by the Doctor.

* MoodWhiplash: During a pretty serious scene, both Amys start doing the Macarena. It whiplashes back once Rory explains the significance: [[{{Adorkable}} that's what they had their first kiss to]].

As soon as Rory crosses the TARDIS threshold with his wife, the Doctor slams shut the TARDIS door behind him. As the older Amy pounds on the door, the Doctor explains that he had to lie to get her to work with them. There's no way of allowing both Amys to exist; if they both entered the TARDIS, the paradox would be too great to withstand (since we already wrote the stories that follow this one and [[StatusQuoIsGod older Amy's not even so much as referenced in them]] because nothing in this story is related to the big StoryArc whatsoever). The Doctor forces Rory to make a choice of which Amy to rescue, but the scriptwrit-er, older Amy ends up making that choice for him, telling Rory to stay true to his wife. They both cling to their own side of the TARDIS door as they're separated forever. As the TARDIS disappears, the older Amy asks Interface to show her Earth one last time as she's surrounded by Handbots and sedated. The screen fades to white, and older Amy vanishes slowly from existence.

'''The Doctor:''' I don't know... It's your marriage.

-->'''Rory:''' Two Amys, ''together''? Could that even work?\\
'''The Doctor:''' I dunno... it's your marriage.

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Even after thirty-six years, Rory thinks Amy is ''hot''[[note]][[IronicEcho Eyes front, soldier.]][[/note]]. "You look great."

** Younger and Older Amy find that weird that they are saying the same words at the same time, recalling [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight]].

** The Doctor gives Rory a pair of tricked-out NerdGlasses that bear a strong resemblance to the Tenth Doctor's PurelyAestheticGlasses. The Doctor thinks they're cool, Amy and Rory disagree.