Awkward Geek Confession: I Cried After an Episode of DOCTOR WHO
It was a weird time in my life. I had recently taken a new job in a new state and one week after getting the job, I was in a new place with no friends or family and a night job that kept me alone most hours. Needless to say, the Netflix and Amazon Instant on my Wii U became my best friend. I spent most nights catching up on Doctor Who. It was interesting, engaging, and a great escape from the fact that I was two hours away from any familiarity or my now-fiancee (but girlfriend at the time).
To set the scene, it's late at night and I had just gotten off my shift at the radio station, and stopped by the 24 hour Hardee's (Carl's Jr. to you westerners) and picked up a huge thickburger and fries. I had just gotten into series 7 and after the whole centurion/locked-in-a-box business with Rory and Amy, was really into the romance the two shared. I waited for the load to finish, got into the episode (Asylum of the Daleks) and....
THEY'RE DIVORCING?! My jaw dropped. I might have spilled some ketchup on my shirt even. I couldn't believe it as the episode went on. "It has to be some joke," I told myself as I continued to get angry at every writer of Doctor Who ever for letting this happen. Surely The Doctor would mend things right? The lack of love between the two continued for a majority of the episode and bothered me so much that I actually really didn't care about the storyline.
I felt betrayed. How could a couple that had been through so much just leave it like that? The years of waiting beside the box for Rory, the years spent by alternate Amy waiting for Rory. It wasn't fair, how could they not handle a year without time travel? I continued to work it around in my head until about 3/4's of the way through the episode when the big reason is revealed. Amy left Rory because she knows he wants kids and she can't have any...
I broke down and started crying. It was Amy and Rory's fictitious romance that filled my insecurities about anything could be happening between me and my significant other. It wasn't like I was super into it, but it really drove home the small nuances that can drive a couple apart, and for a guy who just left the love of his life with a week and a half notice, that hit home hard.
So there I am, crying into a big ass cheeseburger in a dark room at Doctor Who. I eventually calmed down after seeing they got back together, and now feel silly about the whole situation. Anyway, yeah haven't cried about Doctor Who since...although the 50th hasn't happened yet. Any sci-fi show ever make you cry?