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Karen Gillan as Amy Pond behind the scenes of "The Eleventh Hour"
Amy Williams
Affiliated Eleventh Doctor
Home era 21st century
First appearance "The Eleventh Hour"
Last appearance Series 7, Episode 5[1]
Portrayed by Karen Gillan
Caitlin Blackwood (young Amelia)

Amelia Jessica "Amy" Pond[2] is a fictional character portrayed by Karen Gillan in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Amy is a companion of the series protagonist the Doctor, in his eleventh incarnation,[3][4] Amy's storylines have focused on her relationship with Rory Williams, whom she eventually marries. In the sixth series, Amy gives birth to their daughter, Melody, who is revealed to be recurring character River Song. She is planned to leave Doctor Who during the fifth episode of the seventh season.[5]

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Appearances

Television

Amelia Pond is introduced in the first episode of the fifth series (2010), "The Eleventh Hour", as a seven year old girl living with only her aunt when the Doctor (Matt Smith) crashes into her backyard one night. She asks him to investigate an unusual crack in her wall, but he is interrupted by the TARDIS' cloister bell. He promises Amelia that he will return in five minutes, but is inadvertently late by twelve years. In the intervening period, the Doctor is believed by Amelia's family and friends to be her imaginary friend; her insistence that he is real leads to her being treated by psychiatrists. When the Doctor returns, Amy is nineteen years old and working as a kissogram. She helps him save Earth from the galactic police force the Atraxi, and two years later begins travelling with him as his companion.[6] At the end of "Flesh and Stone", Amy reveals that they had left earth on the eve of her marriage to Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) and attempts to seduce him.[7] The Doctor finds Rory and takes him and Amy to 16th century Venice on an intended romantic date after which Rory continues travelling with them.[8] In "Amy's Choice", Amy is pressured to resolve her conflicted feelings for the Doctor and Rory and realises the depth of her love for Rory.[9] At the end of "Cold Blood", Rory is killed and then erased from history by the cracks in the universe. Because he is part of Amy's own time-line, she ceases to remember him.[10] The Doctor takes Amy to 19th century France to lessen his guilt about Rory's loss and she forms a close friendship with famed painter Vincent Van Gogh (Tony Curran).[11]

In the series finale, "The Pandorica Opens"/"The Big Bang", Rory reappears in 102 AD as a Roman centurion. He triggers Amy's memories, but as she remembers, it is revealed that the centurion Rory is actually an Auton—a duplicate of living plastic—created from Amy's memories to trap the Doctor. Rory's consciousness tries to fight his programming, but he is compelled to shoot and kill her.[12] Amy's body is placed in the Pandorica, which as a "perfect prison" will keep any occupant alive. Auton Rory protects the Pandorica whilst Amy is kept in suspended animation until she is restored and released. The Doctor realises that Amy is connected to the cracks in the universe which originated from a temporal explosion on her wedding day. He tells her that her parents had been erased by the crack in her wall and urges her to remember them. After he uses the Pandorica to re-boot the universe, the Doctor travels back through his timeline and is able to plant memories in Amy of the TARDIS. Amy awakes on her wedding day in a timeline where her parents are again part of reality and marries a restored Rory. At the reception her memories are stirred by the TARDIS diary River Song (Alex Kingston) left for her and she remembers the Doctor, restoring him to reality.[13] It is mentioned in The Sarah Jane Adventures serial Death of the Doctor that he has dropped Amy and Rory off on a "honeymoon planet".[14] The couple continue their honeymoon aboard an interstellar cruise ship which the Doctor saves from crashing into a populated planet.[15]

The sixth series (2011), begins with Amy and Rory living back on earth in the early 21st century. Amy receives an anonymous "TARDIS blue" invitation to the Utah desert where she and Rory reunite with the Doctor —aged nearly two hundred years —and fellow invitee River Song. She witnesses the Doctor's death at the hand of an astronaut. They then discover the older Doctor also invited a younger version of himself, with whom they travel to 1969 Washington, D.C. to investigate strange occurrences involving the Silence, an alien race who cannot be remembered after they are encountered. While there, Amy informs the Doctor she is pregnant before shooting a little girl in an astronaut suit in an attempt to save the future Doctor's life.[16] In an old orphanage in 1969, Amy finds strange pictures of the astronaut girl and herself holding a newborn baby. When the Doctor questions Amy later about the pregnancy, she insists she was wrong and further investigation by the Doctor is inconclusive.[17] Throughout the course of the first six episodes, Amy is plagued by strange visions of a woman wearing an eye-patch appearing sporadically only to her.[17][18][19] In "The Almost People" it is revealed that the Amy present is actually an avatar version created with "the Flesh" animated by Amy's consciousness, while the real Amy is about to give birth.[20] Her baby —named Melody Pond —is kidnapped by the eye-patched woman, Madame Kovarian (Frances Barber) and replaced by a Flesh version. River Song then arrives and tells Amy that she is as an adult Melody.[21]

A Flashback in "Let's Kill Hitler" reveals that a childhood Amy was close friends with a girl named Mels. When they were teenagers, Mels pointed out that Rory had been in love with Amy for some time which led to the two dating. Mels hijacks the TARDIS; and directs it to 1939. After being shot by Hitler (Albert Welling) Mels regenerates into River Song. Amy is persuaded by the Doctor to let her daughter make her own way in life.[22] In "The God Complex" the Doctor breaks Amy's faith in him after he discovers that she brought them to a prison for a being that kills by feeding on faith. The Doctor parts ways with her and Rory after giving them a house and car.[23] Amy appears briefly in "Closing Time" where it is revealed that she has become a model.[24] In the series finale "The Wedding of River Song," depicts an alternate universe created by River averting the Doctor's death where Amy leads a secret organisation. She reunites the Doctor and River and later murders Madame Kovarian for kidnapping Melody. After reality is restored, River visits Amy and reveals that the Doctor did not die in Utah.[25] At the end of the 2011 Christmas special, "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe", the Doctor returns to Amy and Rory two years later, and has Christmas dinner with them.[26]

In December 2011, the BBC's Steven Moffat confirmed that Amy and Rory would be leaving the series in 2012 in "heartbreaking" circumstances.[27]

Video games

Amy Pond has appeared in several Doctor Who video games. Voiced by Gillan, she appears in all five episodes of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games which were marketed as extra episodes.[28][29] The virtual character was created using rotoscoping of Gillan's movements.[30] She also is featured, voiced by Gillan, in the 2010 video games Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth and Doctor Who: Return to Earth, made for the DS and Nintendo Wii respectively.[31] Amy also appears in the smartphone app Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time.[32]

Characterisation

Creation and casting

Doctor Who executive producer and head writer Steven Moffat came up with the name for the character.[33] Moffat chose the name "Pond" to create a link between Amy and River Song, who would be revealed to be Amy's daughter.[34] Moffat's predecessor, Russell T Davies, stated in an interview with Dose magazine that "We've held off on companions for a long time, so you'll get rewarded with a great, big, strong character in Amy Pond, when she arrives. I think that plan's been good."[35]

Andy Pryor, the casting director, suggested Gillan to Moffat after her performance in the fourth series episode "The Fires of Pompeii", in which she played a soothsayer, but Moffat originally thought she was "short and dumpy".[36] Later, however, he stated that she was "exactly right for the role", though she portrayed the character differently from how Moffat originally wrote.[37] Gillan was reportedly the last to audition for the role, and stood out as she was "a bit kookier" than the others.[38] Moffat said of the casting, "We saw some amazing actresses for this part. But when Karen came through the door, the game was up — she was funny, clever, gorgeous and sexy. Or Scottish, which is the quick way of saying it. A generation of little girls will want to be her. And a generation of little boys will want them to be her too."[39][40] Doctor Who executive producer and drama chief at BBC Wales Piers Wenger concurred, "We knew Karen was perfect for the role the moment we saw her. She brought an energy and excitement to the part that was just fantastic."[4] Gillan was aware of the show but was not as big a fan of it as her mother was, due to it not being on when she was growing up. However, she watched some with her mother after it returned in 2005, and was also into other science fiction such as The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Voyager.[41]

Gillan auditioned for the role in both her natural Scottish accent and an English one, and it was not until after she was cast that it was decided Amy would be Scottish.[42][43] Gillan commented that she felt the Scottish accent better suited the character.[44] A younger version of Amy, known as "Amelia", appears in several episodes. Amelia was played by Gillan's real-life 10-year-old cousin Caitlin Blackwood. Though the two actresses had not met until the set of the show, Gillan recommended Blackwood for the role, although Blackwood still had to undergo rigorous auditions first.[45][46] Blackwood and Gillan did get to act together in "The Big Bang", which Gillan initially found "weird", though the two actresses became used to it quickly.[47]

Personality and character arc

"That's been what I absolutely most love about playing this character, is that she's not just a character. We know what she's like, and that's her run on the show. We're seeing her whole life pan out. That's what I love about her so much. I hope she's changing. She was quite snarky in the [fifth series]...Because she was always still such a child inside, as one of the monsters said to her at one point. And then we see the universe rebooted, so she's got two different versions of reality, so she's still a little messed-up, but she's far more settled as a person, having had a normal upbringing in one reality. She's married, and she has a kid. It's cool; it's really cool."

Karen Gillan[41]

Gillan stated that "having read the first episode I was utterly smitten [with the show], and with the character. Amy's a sassy lady, funny and passionate, and her relationship with the Doctor has a really interesting dynamic".[48] Gillan believed that the Doctor still saw Amy as the same seven-year-old girl he first met, and described their relationship as brother and sister, with Amy sometimes acting as an "annoying little sister". She also did not want Amy, like previous companions, to stand around "in awe of the Doctor all the time" or "mope around" while he was not there; Amy would "do her own thing, whether it's fighting monsters in strange new worlds or just getting on with her life in her own village".[49]

Gillan had substantial input into Amy's costume, as well as her hair and make-up.[43] In the first episode, Holman stated that Amy's identity was not clear and she wore her own clothes later on.[50] Gillan thought that Amy had inner confidence to wear clothes that showed "a bit of skin from time to time".[43] Gillan said she tried on many things, but when it came to short skirts she "just thought it was right" and showed that Amy was "comfortable and confident about her look".[51] She believed that the skirts reflected what young women typically wear at her age.[49] Executive producer Piers Wenger also noted that Amy's 1970s flying jacket, which she wears "quite a lot", reflected Gillan was a "born adventurer" and Amy developed a love for travel and adventure.[50] In the sixth series, Amy wears more jeans and longer pants; Gillan stated, "she's getting a little bit more tomboyish as she becomes more of an action girl".[52]

As the Doctor accidentally did not return for her until twelve years later, Amy grew up a different person than she would have. She had become "cynical" and "distrustful" as the Doctor did not return as he had promised and she was forced to believe he was just an imaginary friend, and had resorted to being "tough". Moffat theorised that Amy would have taken her anger out on Rory and would have been "mean" about things such as Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.[53] The second episode, "The Beast Below", was to introduce Amy into the role of the Doctor's companion and how much he needed one.[54] Though Amy soon tries to seduce the Doctor, Moffat believed that it was consistent with the character he had built up. It was also a reflection of how the two had just escaped from death and shared a hard time together, and Amy's tendency to do things "in the heat of the moment".[55] In "Amy's Choice", meant to challenge the Doctor and Amy's relationship,[56] Rory dies in an alternate universe that was a result of psychic pollen that had entered the TARDIS. This was when Amy realised her feelings for Rory.[57] As a primary part of the series' story arc, Rory officially dies and is erased from history and Amy's memory.[58] Though Rory later returns, he is an Auton duplicate who kills her, which reflected Moffat's belief that all good love stories end in tragedy.[59] The end of "The Big Bang", in which Amy stands up at her wedding and declares the Doctor is real, was the Doctor's success at restoring Amy to the spirit of the girl he first met.[47]

Moffat had always intended for Amy and Rory to get married "from the off".[60] Gillan stated, "What I love about that relationship is that we really saw it develop to get to the stage where they were happy together. Because we started off at a point where Amy didn't want to be committed to him, and he absolutely did, and that just gave us somewhere to go with it, rather than just them being happy together. So it was interesting, and it evolved, and Rory really became a hero in the process".[41] She was pleased that the audience was able to see Amy's life "pan out", starting when she was a child and through her marriage and daughter.[41] Gillan stated that the aftermath of "A Good Man Goes to War" would "change her in a big way for the long run and I think we are going to get to see Amy in a really different light".[61]

In December 2011, it was announced that the seventh series would be Amy and Rory's last.[62] Previously in November, Gillan had stated that once Amy had left, she did not want to make returning cameos, as she believed it would "take away from the big, emotional goodbye".[63] Gillan had arranged her exit with Moffat and the two decided on how Amy should leave. Gillan stated that she wanted to go "on a high when the character was at her prime" and that she "[wanted] to see her go with everything that she wants".[5]

Reception

Gillan signing autographs at the US premiere of "The Eleventh Hour"

With the premiere of "The Eleventh Hour", two viewers anonymously quoted in The Telegraph complained that Amy's character was too "sexy" for a family programme like Doctor Who. Executive producer Piers Wenger stated that Amy was intended to be "feisty and outspoken and a bit of a number. Amy is probably the wildest companion that the Doctor has travelled with, but she isn’t promiscuous."[51] On a similar note, Gavin Fuller, writing for The Daily Telegraph's website, criticised Amy's "attempted seduction of the Doctor" in the episode "Flesh and Stone", claiming that it "did seem out of keeping with the usual tone of the series", and that "Given the number of young children who watch, it may not have been the most appropriate of scenes to screen".[64] The Daily Mail claimed that the seduction scene led to complaints from some viewers who accused the BBC of trying to "'sex up' the show to attract more adult viewers." The article quotes a representative from pressure group Mediawatch-uk and an anonymous contributor to an internet message board. A BBC spokesman confirmed they had received 43 complaints of the scene out of the millions who watched the episode.[65]

Chris Haydon of Den of Geek argued that Amy was "much more than the supposed eye candy many journalists unfairly referred her to as, or indeed much more than a female human to accompany the Gallifreyan Time Lord. She is far more three-dimensional and developed than the pre-existing judgements made her out to be". He also praised Gillan's acting abilities and the way her relationship with Rory helped "render [her]character into something quite special".[66] The Daily Telegraph's Michael Hogan considered Amy "the joint best assistant of the rebooted Who era – far superior to Catherine Tate and Freema Agyeman, equally as excellent as Billie Piper". He also praised her relationship with the Doctor, saying that they were "totally believable as best friends".[67] Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times praised Amy for being "cheerfully free...of the emotional baggage that mired her predecessors"[68] and also reacted positively to her attempted seduction of the Doctor.[69] SFX named Amy and Rory the second-best science fiction and fantasy romance.[70]

Critics noted that Amy did not develop much throughout the 2010 series. Dan Martin of The Guardian, in a mid-series review, wrote, "I wonder whether I really know Amy Pond. Beneath the sass and the sauce and the wit and (there's no getting away from this) the skirts, I've yet to completely empathise with her, or work out what makes her tick".[71] In a review before the finale, Martin called her "a revelation", although she sometimes "felt a little one note...But I'd put all of that down to guest writers responding to a character brief that probably said little more than 'feisty redhead'".[72] IGN's Matt Wales shared similar setiments, writing, "Despite Gillan's effortless charisma, Pond was frequently painted in largely two-dimensional strokes that made for a brash, sometimes irritating turn. It's testament to Gillan's abilities and brilliant chemistry with Smith that she remained thoroughly watchable throughout but, bereft of back story (albeit intentionally), it was hard to really get involved with the character".[73] Paul Kerton of Zap2it, however, wrote in a review of "The Eleventh Hour" that Amy's "brilliantly executed introduction to the show stood out. Amy's character after just one episode is already one with depth".[74]

The Guardian's Krystina Nellis argued that Amy functioned more as a plot prop than a strong female character, citing the importance of giving birth to River Song.[75] Charlie Jane Anders of io9, while positive towards her relationship with Rory, opined that Amy was still "a bit of a cartoon character" in "The Wedding of River Song", believing that her killing Madame Kovarian was "no substitute" for dealing with what Kovarian had done to her child.[76]

The character has gone on to be referenced in popular culture. American supernatural drama Supernatural''s seventh season "The Girl Next Door" (2011), a character played by Jewel Staite operates under the alias Amy Pond. Digital Spy felt the Doctor Who reference was "rather random",[77] while IGN "loved" the shoutout.[78]

Gillan has won over six awards up to date for playing the role of Amy Pond. In 2010 she won Cosmopolitan 'Women Of The Year' Award.[79] In 2011 Gillan won an SFX Award,[80] a TV Choice Award,[81] and in 2012 she won at the National Television Awards.[82] In an online poll, with 3,000 participants, taken in late 2010, Amy Pond was listed as the fifth most popular companion.[83]

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