Originally Posted by
Jason Thompson
Sorry, no, I still can't see that. I think you must have a different definition of 'cold blood' than I do. Solon killing Condo is cold blood. The Dalek using a sprinkler system to exterminate dozens of people with one shot is cold blood.
This is an impulsive act. Amy sees the astronaut that she witnessed killing the Doctor, having already spoken of the possibility of killing it now so it can't kill him in the future, and picks up a gun. As she spins round to fire the gun the astronaut raises its visor to reveal a child just at the moment she pulls the trigger... and that's it. It's NOT a cold-blooded shooting of a child. She doesn't KNOW it's a child until it's too late, and looks suitably horrified when she realises: all she knows is that the thing in the spacesuit kills the Doctor in the future and she wants to prevent that. We don't see the child shot, only Amy firing the gun. Do you contend that children are incapable of understanding that sequence of events?
And thirty seconds later we have the 'next time' trailer showing Amy apologising for shooting at the child, so anyone who watched knows it's going to be OK.