The Girl Who Waited

What begins as an intergalactic sightseeing trip turns into a harrowing adventure. Trapped in a time-stream running much faster than her traveling companions, Amy Pond is left to fight off robots with all-seeing hands threatening to kill her with kindness. As Rory and the Doctor look helplessly on – with the Time Lord unable to help because a one-day plague could kill him – Amy must survive, alone, for decades. There’s existential angst galore in a spooky, unsettling story, with Rory forced to choose between the wife he knows and loves and a bitter, older version of Amy – giving him a rare insight into the dilemmas the Doctor faces on a daily basis. No wonder there’s such sorrow and darkness lurking in the Doctor’s eyes...

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.