Speaking of "shittily written," man did I dash that off. Sorry for the grammatical errors. But yeah,  the point isn't that the books are insipid, but that they are pernicious.

We're not angry at the fans. We're angry at a narrative meant, as you say, for young women,  designed around romanticising stalker behavior and a female protagonist who cannot have any agency within herself.

Haggis tastes like God's Gift to Food, only worth of those brave enough to try it. Seriously, it's fantastic.

Additionally, it makes the "Aunt Robin and Uncle Barney stuff make literal sense.

Just throwing it out there again: Barney's half-sister is The Mother.

This was my thought too.

It's possible it was a production mistake, but it's a big one and a weird one. Closing Time was filmed in March, so it's not like putting April 19 and such on the newspapers was innocent.

Nope, I didn't mean River.

No, and I did enjoy it, but understanding what happened when from Amy's perspective kind of does change the way one would look at the season as a whole.

Someone please make Amy's timeline make sense.

Just going to throw this out there, Film Crit HULK, but do you spend time over on Metafilter as well? Because we're either in amazingly perfect agreement or we've been frequenting the same discussions about this show.

Against the odds, HIMYM is 3 for 3 this season, coming off of a couple of troublesome seasons where they showed a lot of heart but couldn't really make it happen most of the time.

I believe that Amy and Rory have been placed into a weird timey-wimey loop at present. From Moffatt's own episode description of "The Wedding of River Song", as well as simple story logic, we know that in the finale he makes his date with destiny, and everything goes haywire.

I'll add right here that now the nominees for the role of the titular "Mother" have been narrowed down to two, by my estimation:

I'm with Donna on this one (though I haven't started Breaking Bad yet, so I can't compare the two shows, but I also can't imagine a universe wherein comparing those two shows would make any damn sense, so I won't.)

Nah, I think the Fridge Logic still holds up. Young!Amy had awoken only moments later, and it makes sense that Old!Amy wasn't erased quite yet.

I don't think the "Amy WIlliams" thing was about Rory being in charge now at all. It was The Doctor "seeing her as she really is," i.e. not as the idealized fairy tale girl he first met when she was seven years old, but as a real adult human with a life which he has massively disrupted for his own amusement.

Fun Fact: if you want to experience Doctor Who in a whole new way, rewatch the RTD seasons and mentally replace every utterance of the Doctor saying "Rose" with him saying "bros."

Okay, rewatched the key scenes in my theory and you are right that they recognize it as their home (and the Doctor was tossing them the car keys, not the house keys.) At least, I'm pretty sure. Rory kind of acts like he's looking the house over for the first time, and I took the champagne to be something that the…

Which explains why they didn't react as if it was their home and The Doctor gave them the keys at that moment.