selenak

If, like me, you're currently not in a position to aquire the most recent Doctor Who season (*eyes Christmas present opportunity*), then, like me, you might be delighted by the fact some of the deleted scenes are already on YouTube. THANK YOU FELLOW FANS. It's a funny thing with deleted scenes, sometimes you see at once why they were cut, and sometimes they are so important they end up in the previouslies despite never having been broadcast, which is bound to infuriate and/or frustrate the audience. (Battlestar Galactica made an art form of this.) With the two DW season 5 scenes which I've just watched, the case is divided. The first one, between The Eleventh Hour and The Beast Below, is incredibly cute and very fanboyish as Amy asks all the questions about the TARDIS that have been debated for the last 40 years, but it's not essential for characterisation. The second, however, set between Flesh and Stone and Vampires of Venice, is one that I really, really, really wish had been broadcast. It gives context to Amy's action at the end of Flesh and Stone, brings up the other companions, is excellent for both the Doctor characterisation (the reason he gives Amy for taking on companions just about sums it up) and really superb for Amy characterisation. (If you've tuned in just now, when the season was broadcast I thought Amy in the non-Moffat written episodes before Amy's Choice was too generic; this, however, changed with Amy's Choice and after.) The reaction she has to the other companions news and what she does then is uniquely her. (Also, the last bit of that scene is a fabulous meta in-joke about a certain tendency in DW casting history.)

honorh, this is so worth a TARDIS diary note!