Spoilery spoil spoil

[sholio]

So I've finally figured out that I can't talk about this week's episode of Doctor Who without bringing up the spoiler I mentioned I'd run across recently, so I'll make a post all about that instead. (And I'm sorry, because I know full well how hard it is not to click on spoilers, even if you don't want to know! But I need to get this out of my system, I guess.)

The spoiler I ran across, that I mentioned in an earlier post, was that Arthur Darvill (Rory) is leaving the show.

So I was TOTALLY expecting him to die in this week's episode (in the doomed-last-stand scene) and then was completely amazed when he didn't! However, I would guess that River's startled/sad reaction to seeing him in the hallway means that he dies (or something else very morbid happens to him) quite soon in her past/our future, i.e. the back half of the season.

Which makes me very sad because I love Rory to bits and I don't want him to die! Or leave! And maybe it's just a rumor that he's leaving? But I think River's reaction is a pretty good confirmation that he's on his way out (and I've already seen some speculation on my flist about it). So I guess I'd better prepare myself.

I'm finding myself less than enthusiastic about the second half of the season. I think it's partly because I'm still kind of on the fence about the revelation regarding River, and partly because I'm still very much in a NOOOO, RORY sort of place. (Though he was seriously awesome this week. I will never stop being a total sucker for not-normally-badass characters getting their badass on. I think Rory appeals to me in a lot of the same ways that Mickey did, in the first couple seasons of New Who, and his character arc seems to follow a similar trajectory.)

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[xparrot.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ;_____________;

...dangit. I'm glad to be spoiled because I hate char deaths to be sprung on me...especially chars I really like...but still...dangit ;____;

[sholio]

NOOOOOOOOO was my reaction as well. ;_;

And yeah, once I got past the initial *wail*, I was glad to know, because at least that way I can brace myself (kinda like with you-know-who on Highlander). But still ... *snivel*

I'm hoping that it turns out, at the very least, they take him off in a way that leaves the door open for a return. Though it's tough with Rory because unlike many DW characters, he's not the sort who's just going to go gallivanting off on an adventure of his own! But I still hope that they don't kill him with no hope of return. (Though River's expression on seeing him makes me very worried about that.)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I spent most of the ep worried about him even not having wind of the casting spoiler at all, because River's reaction did seem so foreboding. Also because Rory has a kind of, erm, the chill air of the refrigerator about him? Like, he's mostly there to make Amy react, and killing him off would get a reaction. I was hoping not, because they already did that last year, but...

...but I really *like* Rory, he's one of my favorite things about Moffat's Who, with his despairingly matter-of-fact way of handling things. Siiiigh. I love you, Who; why do you gotta keep going and breaking my heart? ;_;

[aelfgyfu_mead]

NOOOOOO! ANYONE BUT RORY!

Like Xparrot, I'd rather be braced for it, which is why I clicked on the spoiler cut. (Hey, I'm now two weeks behind you on DW, so trying NOT to read anything about River lalalaIcan'thearyou.)

I love Rory! Right now, I love him more than anyone else on the show!

[sholio]

I know! He's my favorite thing on the show by far (well, okay, River too). I'm honestly not sure how interested I'd be in the Eleven-and-Amy Show ... I'd still watch it, but I think I'd look forward to it a lot less.

Hmmm...

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Okay, I just googled, and have possibly a little more spoilers about the casting (nothing specific about the show, but more detailed than what you mentioned?)...can't spoiler them I don't think (stupid lj comments!) but I will x 'em out in case you don't want...

Re: Hmmm...

[sholio]

Hmmm indeed. See, all I'd seen was just a linked headline on my Facebook reading list (something along the lines of Arthur Darvill confirming his departure from the show), and I am totally on board with the idea of Amy and Rory settling down and new Companions coming in! Two seasons is the longest we've had any Companion on the new DW anyway; I would love to see some fresh faces, and to see the Moffat-era cast grow a stable of recurring characters the way that the RTD-era show did. :) To have Amy and Rory get a happy ending somewhere, and then show up occasionally to help out the Doctor and his new Companion(s), would be the most awesome of all possible worlds!

So my fingers are crossed! I hope you're right (though the look on River's face when she saw Rory still makes me very worried ... but plenty of DW characters, including Rory himself, have died temporarily and come back, right ...?).

[mcalex22.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I really don't want this to be true... but I can sort of see it happening. Although I haven't heard about this - this is my first time - I have been having this uncanny feeling that he will die or something will happen to him. I don't know why but I've been having the feeling...

I've been thinking about River since this weekend's episode and I remember her saying that she once killed a great man - what if she wasn't referring to the Doctor but to her father? I love Rory to pieces and I really don't want him gone!!! I still hope that it's a rumour.

[sholio]

Oh wow, that's a really interesting take on River's comment, too! I'd been assuming all along that she's referring to the Doctor (as everyone does, I suppose) but that's very interesting and plausible!

And yeah, I've had a bad feeling about Rory all along, and a lot of my flist likewise. I'm not sure why; he's just got a "doomed to die" sort of vibe about him. (Possibly because, like Daniel Jackson, he does die a lot ... *g*) Anyway, xparrot speculates above that maybe he and Amy will both leave the show together, and go off and have a happy life somewhere else, which I really hope is the case? Though River's expression on meeting him gives me a lot of concern ...