I get a kid sister kind of vibe with Amy. He’s all protective and superior, and obviously she adores and worships him, but she’s just as protective of him and has no problem telling him when he’s being an idiot. I could totally see the two of them sitting in the back of the TARDIS yelling “Slugbug!” and punching each other while Rory is screaming, “I WILL TURN THIS THING AROUND AND GO STRAIGHT HOME!!”
Tangu - all true and thanks for the additional information. I think I just have a soft spot for Eight.
How many Crowning Moments of Awesome is one allowed? He had at least two, so far.
I think I will watch it again.
Yeah, I like Eight too (and Seven, who’s almost as loathed as Six)…but he had a far too short canon tenure, which was all I was comparing.
Liked Six. Disliked Seven’s wig. Knew too many guys back then with perms like that.
Ooh, you said “canon”.
The position of the BBC is that there is no official canon. Fans have never agreed as to what might constitute an unofficial canon.
You may seek agreement to voluntarily limit the present discussion to the TV series if you wish, but you cannot play the canon card in this game.
There is no canon.
Yes, very much. 
I just wanted to please remind everyone that some of us benighted souls do not have BBC America and haven’t seen any of Season 6 (it’s on my queue, but as a “long wait”) so we very much appreciate the spoilers.
Close. I saw or read an interview with either Smith or Moffat where they explained that in the Doctor’s eye, Amy is still very much little 7-year-old Amelia.
Exactly what I was gonna say. There is no Doctor Who canon. No-one’s ever imposed one, no-one with authority or ownership has ever felt the need. Thank god.
“Where should we take the kids this time?”
(If you saw That Episode, you recognize the quotation. If you haven’t seen it yet, I envy you. Keep watching!)
Yes, hence the Doctor providing Amy and Rory with bunk-beds in the Tardis.
But bunk beds are cool! They’ve got ladders and everything.
The Doctor has so messed up that whole timey-wimey thing that a single canon would be impossible.
I think the Doctor’s interactions with Amy are more complicated than big-brother/little sister, if only because she maks no bones about wanting to sleep with him.
The Doctor clearly doesn’t reciprocate, at least in this incarnation.
I didn’t say he reciprocated. I said that the simple fact that she wants to fuck* him* – badly enough to tease him about it on her wedding night to another man – adds an element to the relationship that makes fraternal the wrong word.
Also note that in the episode in which the Doctor, Amy, and Rory hallucinate that they are being reunited after 5 years apart, it’s pretty explicit that Amy is being obliged to choose between the two men in her life; and it’s the Doctor whose subconscious is generating the situation.
Cool, cool, see what you mean.
Or is it? The Doctor/Companion relationship isn’t as straightforward as that, at least not in the revival, with echoes way back to the older stuff. Remember that the Doctor isn’t a man, for a start.
At least for most families.
Well, she’s Scottish. You know how lonesome it can get in the Highlands. 
I’m only on series 3.
Are my wife and I alone in that we greatly prefer the stand-alone “time travel” episodes to the arc-related robot stories?
We just watched The Shakespeare Code and thought it was probably the best episodes we’ve seen. Anything involving Cybermen or Daleks and the two of us know it won’t be a great, great episode.