Doctor Who XXXII.10: The Girl Who Waited

Instant reaction: not bad at all. The best of this half of the season so far, and with pleasing references to the Arthurian tale of Sir Gawain and the Loathly Damsel. While the fifty-plus Amy is by no means loathly, she's not the person Rory wanted or expected at first glance. Rory, like Gawain, leaves the choice to Amy; a pity almost that the Doctor has to play deus in machinam and turn the other Amy away, though in the end Amy's agency is restored. The rules of Doctor Who and the legendary roots are like magnetic forces repelling each other.

I also appreciated Amy being on the other side of a glass from the Doctor and Rory, repeating a motif from 'A Good Man Goes to War', but also more obviously reminding me of Cocteau's Orphee films. Amy acquires their accoutrements as if the magnifiying glass concentrates their props on to the Amy in the other time stream. Cocteau wrote an Arthurian play about doubles, too...