What is there to say, how can I put into words how much I adore this episode. I suppose the best place to start talking about it for me is the ending. My word the ending. My thoughts on the ending are endless, in my opinion the eleventh Doctor does not have more callous a moment. Locking older Amy out of the TARDIS, only to put the lock in Rory’s hand, claiming he’s giving him the choice when really he is absolving himself of the guilt. The handbots closing in on Amy insisting on their killing her as a kindness, but it's not them who kill her but the Doctor all in the name of saving her. It's heartbreaking, and these moments alone make this episode my favourite of the eleventh Doctor’s era.

Of course, none of those final moments would work without the bedrock of Amy and Rory’s relationship in this episode in particular. The episode convincingly portrays that to Rory older Amy is still his wife, her suddenly being older has no bearing on his love for her, and on Amy’s side just how much she’s missed him, he’s her first priority, and she is his, but instead of making things simpler it just makes it more complicated.

In a lot of ways this episode feels like well trodden ground, there have been many episodes where Amy and Rory’s relationship has been a if not the focus, about how they are the most important thing for each other, but at no point does this episode feel tired, somehow it finds new and impactful things to say about them.

I could go on and on about this episode, but I’m not sure any of it would sound particularly coherent, just random gushing. Suffice to say an all time great.