Yay! It's actually really interesting because I was thinking about Amy earlier today. While I did always like her and enjoy watching her, she did not make me flaily with either meta or character love until her arc came together with all the epic themes at the end of season 5. While I quite often adore female characters that subvert metanarrative expectations or conventions (like River), usually I am still primarily all about the characters in my connecting with stories, in terms of, I don't much care how well the story structure or metanarrative or themes are being set up if I'm not connecting with the characters or identifying with them in some way, emotionally or intellectually. Yet Amy (and River too, to a certain extent, who I obviously LOVE SO MUCH yet who in many ways is not all that much like the characters I tend to fall this hard for) has really become an exception for me; she's a character I actually love SO MUCH MORE because of her role in this metanarrative. I wouldn't say I identify or particularly connect with Amy even, but meta about the themes of the season and the way her particular arc embodies them and makes the whole metanarriatve work makes me just ADORE her. (And I'd very much like to vid her if I could find the right song for any of this!) This whole show really is an exception to all my rules in terms of drawing me in almost primarily with the metanarrative. Prior to the season-ender last year, though I like Amy and Eleven, I was still really watching always and only for River. But when the themes all came together for everyone, I retroactively loved the whole thing with new eyes.

By which I actually mean that River is about the whole show.

Oh, that is such a good way to state it.