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The Doctor

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Hello there! I'm The Doctor! Don't mind me I'm just passing by. You wouldn't by any chance want to join me in a completely timey wimey adventure? Bring your toothbrush. It'll be fun.
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"I need your help on a case, I believe it is your speciality with beings other then humans. Can you help me? Two are dead already and I do not want anyone else dying."

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"What do you need me to do?" The Doctor said. He had just found a broken remote control helicopter and he spent all morning trying to fix it. "Do you like my helicopter? Something was wrong with it and my sonic wasn't working so I had to fix it by hand." He said slowly as he attempted to turn the toy to the left.  

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This isn’t a regression, this is an evolution.

When we first meet Amy - as a child - she is already disillusioned. She thinks she has figured out people and she doesn’t really trust that the Doctor will return for her.

And the Doctor does not make it better by being 12 years late. There she is, talking about her Raggedy Doctor with no one believing her. He promised her he’d be back in five minutes and now he is just another person who didn’t keep their word. And even as she goes travelling with the Doctor she still doesn’t believe that he wouldn’t abandon her. She is so sure that he would just leave her there to die, even putting on a brave face.

And that has absolutely changed in series 6. Whatever happens to her, she is certain that Rory and the Doctor will come for her, they have her absolute trust. Her changed circumstances - in this timeline she never lost her parents - likely play a role in this. However, it seems probable that at least one of her reasons is realising that she can depend on them.

Now, that doesn’t mean that she is passively sitting back. She still saves the Doctor and Rory in The Curse of the Black Spot, she still saves River during Let’s Kill Hitler. She’s still awesome in episodes like The Wedding of River Song or Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. We get to observe just how much initiative she can take if her hopes are disappointed again in The Girl Who Waited - and we see that even now some of her fears and issues can still creep back in Asylum of the Daleks.

But overall, she has learned. She has learned to trust, she has learned that she matters to other people, she has learned that at least two of the most important people in her life - Rory and the Doctor - won’t abandon her.

And that is beautiful.

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