Amy Pond, The Girl Who Waited
“The moment with the apple is the moment where she actually has to make the choice whether she goes with it or not. Goes with it – I mean she spent all those years hardening her heart against the idea of an imaginary friend and I can imagine she’s got difficult – I bet, I bet she gives Rory hell, we know she does cause she’s skeptical. She doesn’t – she’s learned to be tough on things like that. I bet she was mean about Santa Claus; I bet she was mean about the Tooth Fairy. And here’s the – and what you don’t expect when you’re that kind of cynic, when you’ve grown up with that sort of carapace formed around you, you don’t expect your imaginary friend to turn up and be EXACTLY what he claimed to be all those years ago. Even with that, can you remember? You’ve had twelve years of growing up to be a slightly different person than you were going to be because this person let you down and they’re standing there asking you, outrageously asking you, to trust them, even though everything they’re saying is completely bonkers. That’s the moment where she has to decide that she’s not grown up in a way, that she can still be a child. She’s still allowed to believe in her childhood hero.” – Steven Moffat, Doctor Who Confidential S05E01
