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This is a wonderful fic. It’s TenToo x Rose with Eleven, River, Amy, and Rory. It’s set between series 5 and series 6 for Eleven and co.
It is a gorgeous fic that really dives into the Doctor’s feelings for Rose and their past together during series 2. However, it is a gorgeous character story for Amy, Rory, and River. It has Rose being just outstanding, River being a badass (and not always getting it right, which I love immensely), and Amy and Rory being Amy and Rory, with proper exploration of all their vulnerabilities. Eleven and TenToo are wonderful as well.
It’s the perfect fic for this part of the series because it’s clearly a TenToo/Rose story that allows the Doctor closure and hints at the future Eleven/River pairing without diving into it. It’s canon-compliant, which is all sorts of love. If you’re a fan of TenToo/Rose and want to see a wonderful appearance from Eleven/River/Amy/Rory with absolutely no cattiness, no jealously (except the Doctor being jealous of himself), wonderful friendships and everyone being their awesome selves, I can’t recommend this story enough.
More deleted scenes from “The Angels Take Manhattan” - 1/2
Note, these scenes are focused on the River and Doctor/River stuff since a lot of the Amy/Rory stuff is already out there.
In the first draft of TATM, originally there was more banter between River and the thugs who took her and Rory. She also referred to Rory as her “assistant.” The Doctor and Amy were accidentally worshipped as Viking gods and wound up creating a lacquered Chinese puzzle that River and Rory sees in 1938.
River opens this box and puts something inside. In 2012, the Doctor walks into a museum and opens the box himself and takes out River’s vortex manipulator and uses it to transport himself and Amy to 1938. This was all changed to the vortex manipulator being the beacon and the TARDIS goes to 1938.
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The following are all cut from the final episode.
This scene is the counterpart to the Doctor primping himself before he exists the TARDIS after they land in Grayle’s house and Grayle is blasted against the wall, this was the original dialogue:
RIVER: Sorry, dear, you’re blocking my way.
GRAYLE: *blinks in confusion, then passes out*
Grayle slides down the wall to reveal a mirror behind him. River takes this chance to check her hair.
The scene as aired takes place. At the end, the Doctor originally threw his sonic to the trapped River and runs to go save Rory from the cellar with Amy.
RIVER: Go get him, I’ll be fine …
Later on, during the conversation about how River was really, really good, the following took place. It was reblogged earlier, but I’m still looping it in with the rest of the cut dialogue here:
AMY: My daughter.
DOCTOR: My point. *rounds on River* But we’re not married - that wedding never counted.
RIVER: Which wedding?
DOCTOR: The one in the aborted time line, when I was disguised as a robot replica of myself.
RIVER: Could you be more specific?
After this, the subsequent scene with the Doctor and River revealing she broke her wrist, there was more to the scene outside where Amy asked why River lied to the Doctor.
AMY: Is there something wrong with him?
RIVER: I don’t know. But, Amy, have you been letting him travel alone?
Originally, the Doctor joined them outside at this point carrying River’s PDA.
The extended graveyard scene is in the next post. Break out your hankies.
— Source: Doctor Who Companion: Eleventh Doctor, Vol. 6
"River: Sitting in a car like this always makes me want a lap dog. Where is the Doctor?
*in the TARDIS*
Doctor: What did she say?
Amy: Doesn’t matter."
— Cut dialogue from “The Angels Take Manhattan,” from “The Doctor Who Companion: Vol. 6”
The latest Eleventh Doctor Companion gives us a better idea of when the events of “Night and the Doctor” take place for Eleven, River, Amy, and Rory. Here’s what I pieced together from the article. “Bad Night”/”Good Night” were filmed before series 6 began filming.
“The Pandorica Opens”/”The Big Bang”
“Bad Night”
“Time” and “Space” minisodes (Amy’s questions about her memories at the beginning of “Time” is linked to “Good Night,” and the article states these minisodes take place between the other two minisodes.)
“A Christmas Carol”
“Good Night”
“The Impossible Astronaut” through “Let’s Kill Hitler” or “The Wedding of River Song” (see note)
“First Night/Last Night”
NOTE: Moffat has said that “First Night” takes place after TWORS, but the magazine implies it takes place after AGMGTW/LKH. Amy and Rory are mentioned as being on the TARDIS in “First Night,” which doesn’t make sense if it comes just after TWORS. But, everything else points to the episode taking place after TWORS. So, your mileage might vary here.
What’s interesting is that this means the Doctor was having regular nightly adventures with River starting after “The Big Bang,” earlier than a lot of Doctor/River fans thought.
RORY: But the universe is full of tough needy girls in stale relationships.
AMY laughs and punches RORY on the arm.
RORY: What? I didn’t even mean you! You’re so paranoid. Seriously, you want to watch that.
AMY: Plus he is our son-in-law.
A moment of silence.
RORY: Still too weird.
AMY: Still way too weird. Maybe he’s trying to make amends. We’ve not exactly been left…unscathed by being with him.
RORY: I don’t blame him for that. I really don’t. But is this how he makes it up to us? Taking us somewhere in history to almost get killed every few months? Couldn’t he just write us a letter?
AMY: We keep saying yes, though.
-The Doctor Who Companion: Editing A Town Called Mercy
Rating: T Word Count: 2,074 Pairings: Doctor/River, Amy/Rory Spoilers: Takes place during the seven weeks the Doctor had Amy and Rory on their anniversary trip in “The Power of Three.” It has mentions of a theory in “The Angels Take Manhattan.”
Summary:“Surely you’ve figured it out by now, sweetie. My parents have segmented their lives into two parts: real life and Doctor life. I became part of Doctor life when they realized that Melody would never come back to them as a baby.”
Word Count: 2,972 Rating: T Pairings: Doctor/River, Amy/Rory Notes: This story has spoilers for “A Town Called Mercy” and a theory about “Angels Take Manhattan.” If you’re wondering where this is in “Mercy,” the fic takes place just after the Doctor speaks with Kahler Jex in the marshal’s office during the night. It also refers to an earlier story I wrote, “I can see the perfect sky is torn”.
Summary: Maybe it was the comments Kahler Jex said about her being a mother. Maybe it was seeing the Doctor get so dark that Amy worried she wouldn’t be able to pull him back. But Amy wanted to see her daughter so very much, and she had just enough time to make that happen.
Word Count: 2,972 Rating: T Pairings: Doctor/River, Amy/Rory Notes: This story has spoilers for “A Town Called Mercy” and a theory about “Angels Take Manhattan.” If you’re wondering where this is in “Mercy,” the fic takes place just after the Doctor speaks with Kahler Jex in the marshal’s office during the night. It also refers to an earlier story I wrote, “I can see the perfect sky is torn”.
Summary: Maybe it was the comments Kahler Jex said about her being a mother. Maybe it was seeing the Doctor get so dark that Amy worried she wouldn’t be able to pull him back. But Amy wanted to see her daughter so very much, and she had just enough time to make that happen.
Rating: T Characters: Amy, Rory, River, the Doctor and Oswin (see note) Word Count: 5,333 Note:This contains major spoilers for “Asylum of the Daleks.” As for Oswin, we’re still not sure if the Oswin introduced at Christmas is some earlier version of Oswin Oswald or an ancestor named Clara Oswin. So, I’m hitting middle ground and having the Doctor and River just address her as Oswin, covering first or last name.
Summary:This was something River Song couldn’t change. She and the Doctor had researched and, cajoled specialists and did everything they could to change Amy and Rory’s future. But to do so, it meant they would have to go so far back into Amy’s timeline that it most likely would affect River’s existence. They would always just have one daughter.
Summary: In a terraced home on a quiet street in Leadworth, behind a door of the bluest blue, Amy Pond and Rory Williams had a little family that no one knew about. It was somewhat broken, but it was still a very good family.
Story #10: Pond Family Kissing Club — Rory is initiated into a club he has no desire to be a part of at all — spoilers for “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.”
