I liked the way Amy's first appeared on Dr Who. She's maybe an eight year-old girl when the eleventh Doctor (and TARDIS) crash land in her back yard. What's going on? Is the Doctor about to take up paedophilia? Nope, after getting aquainted and helping Amy with one of your basic spacetime rift problems, the doctor jumps back into his TARDIS (which is now glowing ominously), and tells little Amy that he'll be back in 5 minutes.
He overshoots a bit and comes back 12 years later. Amy, who has now blossomed into a stunningly beautiful young woman says, "Where have you been? You said you'd be back in 5 minutes!"
"Oops," says the Doctor.
Their first season ends with a Shroedinger's Cat sort of episode where Amy is stuck in a box for 2,000 years and we don't know whether she's dead or alive, or both. Everything looks ok in the end, but you just can't tell how being dead for 2,000 years might affect a girl. We'll have to wait and see.
Karen Sheila Gillan (born 28 November 1987) is a Scottish actress. In May 2009, she was announced as the actress who will be playing the new companion, Amy Pond. She was in a previous Dr Who story called "The Fires of Pompeii" where she played a soothsayer. What the heck is sooth?
With Matt Smith and Amy, the rheumy-eyed old gnomes at the BBC seem to be going for a youth movement. That's fine by me, but I am a bit worried that they'll overdo it. If they have Amy say something like, "Omigod doctor, that was just like so awesome!" I'd have to stop watching after 40 years!