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Steven Moffat Has Completely Changed The Ending For Doctor Who’s Amy & Rory

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:05 am, August 17th, 2012

As if Steven Moffat wasn’t hurting us enough by letting the Ponds go, he’s just revealed the ending he originally had planned for Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill’s Amy and Rory has been altered. Will we ever know what their fate would have been if he went with his first choice? Hit the jump to find out why he did what he did and what it meant to Matt Smith.

Late last year, Moffat broke the news to fans that the Ponds time was coming to a close. “Amy and Rory will be rejoining us next series and joining the Doctor back on the TARDIS, but the final days of the Ponds are coming – and during the [7th] series,” he said. “I’m not telling you when and certainly not telling you how. But that story is going to come to a heartbreaking end.”

Not many of us really want to know the “how” of it, we’d like to postpone that as long as possible, but as it turns out, Moffat’s plans changed significantly since he first informed us the Doctor would be getting a new companion.

“I completely changed the ending as I was writing it, thinking ‘No, I’ve got it wrong… I’m on the wrong emphasis’ – but it’s a good one and it’s properly emotional,” he told Digital Spy.

Meanwhile, the actors are keeping mum on the plot but are open about how much they loved the script.

“I instantly phoned Matt [when I read the episode] and I was crying and laughing hysterically,” said Gillan, “because it’s so good!”

Darvill remarked, ”It was like getting the last chapter of the best book you’ve ever read and being really surprised by the ending… and really satisfied. It was pretty emotional.

Meanwhile, Smith had this to say. ”I was very moved, very moved indeed, because not only is it two characters that I love, it’s two actors that I love working with. To see them go – and I think go so beautifully… it’s moving.”

I’m already sobbing.

(via Digital Spy)

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http://www.facebook.com/kerry.timony Kerry Dolan Timony

How about Moffat stops dropping all these hints and just gives us an airdate. His new policy of “keep them hanging” is getting OLD.
Sefa

Didn’t he also say a long time ago that someone wasn’t going to survive? HE BETTER NOT HAVE KILLED RORY FOR REAL.
Sefa

That probably has more to do with BBC programming. I doubt Moffat, in all his infinite power, has that much say in it.
http://twitter.com/FroWillis Sarah

The more I hear about how I’m going to be heartbroken, the more I just want the Ponds to leave already. Let me decide if I’ll be sad!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=608821449 Adrianna Watkins

Please let them just go! Sorry but I’m tired of the Ponds!
Anonymous

I’m gonna place this Clever Theory here, just to put it on the record.

What’s the way Weeping Angels kill people in the ORIGINAL story Blink?

The one that got completely ignored in the second story, presumably because these angels were so weakened they couldn’t do the trick?

Just…think about it.
silja olesk

I’m gonna miss the Ponds very much
http://www.facebook.com/Intangir Anders Vesterberg

the link for “A Tribute To Donna Noble” dont work you forgot to change it from “example” to the real one.
http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/4142005/the-aresian-saga-doctor-who Desareilla

I will be sad the see the Ponds go, but all companions leave eventually.
I can’t wait for the new series/season to start.
http://ladymercury-10.livejournal.com/ Maiasaura

Good, ’cause if it was gonna be properly heartbreaking, I think I’d want to break some things. Gah.
http://ladymercury-10.livejournal.com/ Maiasaura

Yeah, I’ve been hearing stuff connected to that! It is a very cunning plan. Part of me hopes they just get a happy normal life in Leadworth, though.
Anonymous

The question isn’t WHERE they live out a happy life…

But WHEN.