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- For the companion of the Fifth Doctor, see Amy.
When I was a little girl, I dreamed of time and space. Last night, all my dreams came true
Amelia "Amy" Jessica Pond was a young Scottish woman who was the first companion of the Eleventh Doctor. When she met the Doctor for the second time, she was working as a kiss-o-gram.
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Early Life
Amelia Jessica Pond was born in Scotland in the year 1989. She was later orphaned and moved to England with her aunt Sharon in Leadworth
Meeting the Doctor
"Why did YOU say five minutes?!" - Amy Pond
Amelia first met the Doctor on Easter when she was seven. He crash landed in her backyard and accompanied her into the house. She made him a great deal of food in order to assuage his cravings, but he hated everything except custard-dipped fish fingers. Amy was avoiding a crack in her room that she heard voices from. The Doctor went up with her and opened the crack. Behind it was an Atraxi, who was looking for the escaped Prisoner Zero.
The Cloister Bell rang and the Doctor ran back to the TARDIS, promising to just make a five minute jump to the future and pick Amy up. She waited for him, but he did not return. Over the next twelve years, Amy became obsessed with her "imaginary friend"; she made dolls and drawings of him and went through four psychiatrists, who all tried to convince her there was no Doctor.
The Doctor returned twelve years later. Amelia, now a kissogram dressed as a police officer going by the name Amy, hit him with a cricket bat as he attempted to enter her home. She handcuffed him to a radiator. The Doctor showed her a room in her house she had never seen. She entered it to find his sonic screwdriver and there encountered Prisoner Zero.
Amy and her boyfriend Rory Williams helped the Doctor defeat Prisoner Zero and the Atraxi. The Doctor then vanished for a short trip to the moon, which actually lasted two more years. He came back for Amy, who joined him as his new companion on the day before her wedding (though she kept this fact from the Doctor). (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
Travels
Amy's first trip in the TARDIS was to Starship UK in the late 32nd century. There, she and the Doctor discovered a Star Whale being tortured in order to force it to propel the enormous ship. Amy had previously learned of the Star Whale's predicament through one of Starship UK's voting booths, but had voluntarily erased her memory of it, leaving herself a message telling her to get the Doctor to leave. The Doctor intended to destroy the whale's higher brain functions, leaving it in a vegetative state so it could not feel pain, but Amy sensed that the creature would willingly save the ship for the sake of the children of Britain if given the chance. She took the situation into her own hands and freed the whale. Her theory was proved correct in the end. Immediately after this, Amy answered a phone call in the TARDIS from Winston Churchill, asking the Doctor for help. (DW: The Beast Below)
Personality
As a child, Amelia was seen to be brave and not frightened easily even when alone, she was not suprsied to meet her mysterious Doctor, and wished to travel with him shortly after their meeting. In her later life, she was a somewhat fiesty companion with a wicked sense of humour and occasionally a short temper, but she showed signs that deep down, she was still the young Amelia Pond that she was upon her first meeting the the Eleventh Doctor. She was very cynical and skeptical due to him breaking his promise to be "back in five minutes" and returning 12 years later.
Amy was able to switch easily between Scottish and received pronunciation English accents. When she met the Doctor for the first time as an adult, she easily maintained an English accent so as to keep her identity hidden from the Doctor. She immediately returned to her Scottish accent once the Doctor figured out that she was Amelia. Later, the Doctor said that her stubborn maintenance of the Scottish accent in an English village was proof that she would come traveling with him. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
Key Life Events
- Born in Scotland, and raised there for long enough to have positive memories of it.
- At some point in her early youth, she went to live with her aunt Sharon in Leadworth, England. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
- Met the the Doctor at the age of 7. (DW: The Beast Below) (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
- Met Rory Williams at some point in her youth. Over time the relationship became romantic.
- Re-encountered the Doctor 12 years later and helped him save the world from Prisoner Zero and the Atraxi. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
- Got left behind by the Doctor for a second time. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
- Got engaged.
- The Doctor returned after two years and Amy joined him in the TARDIS, a day before her wedding. (DW: The Beast Below)
- Journeyed to the far future, and saved the Space Whale from death at the hands of the Doctor. (DW: The Beast Below)
Behind the Scenes
- Amy is the second consecutive TV companion to have red hair. This fact was noted by the BBC when it issued a statement in response to the so-called 'Ginger controversy' that erupted in early January 2010 due to misinterpretation of a statement made by the Eleventh Doctor after his regeneration.[1]
- Amy Pond is the second character with an aquatic-themed name to be created by show-runner Steven Moffat following River Song.
- Amy is the second televised companion to have a Scottish accent, and only the third regularly-appearing Scots character in series history, behind both Jamie McCrimmon and the Brigadier. Since neither Frazer Hines nor Nicholas Courtney are themselves Scottish, Gillan is the first Scottish actor to play a recurring Scot in the history of the programme.
- Following the premiere of The Eleventh Hour, the character of Amy Pond was criticized by a number of viewers for being "too sexy" for a family program such as Doctor Who. In response, Piers Wenger, the executive producer for Series 5, stated, “The whole kissogram thing played into Steven’s desire for the companion 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. She is really a two-man woman and that will become clear over the course of the episodes." [1]
References
- ↑ BBC Complaint response, 6 January 2010