The Matt Smith Review: Part 18 - The Girl Who Waited
What We First Thought: A MILF Amy. Really? One aspect I wanted to explore whilst watching all these episodes again was ‘ would I like them after enough time has passed' . I generally watch an episode twice – once live and again later in the week. If I REALLY enjoy the episode, I might watch it again. But then I leave it, perhaps for a couple of years or so. I just don’t see the benefit of watching an episode 5 times in a short space of time, because in life you may be in a certain mood at the time or in a certain situation which may affect your enjoyment of a particular episode. I didn’t really think The Girl Who Waited was brilliant, but now I think it’s easily one of the better episodes of the series. The Amy/Rory relationship actually makes sense in this episode. It’s such a simple (or perhaps, not so simple) idea to have the dilemma of 'which Amy' to choose, but it works brilliantly as it opens up that window for us, to let us have a che...