10 Huge Doctor Who Moments That Didn't Matter At All

5. Amy And Rory Losing Melody

River Song turning out to be Melody Pond was an astonishing cliffhanger with major implications for everyone involved.

However, one thing that’s never followed up on is Amy and Rory’s grief over losing their daughter.

Consider how distraught Amy is when she realises Melody’s been swapped out for a Flesh avatar in A Good Man Goes to War. That should have continued into Series 6B, with the Ponds struggling to come to terms with the fact that they’ve missed out on raising their newborn.

Instead, Let’s Kill Hitler opens with Amy asking the Doctor if he’s found Melody as if he’s been searching for the next segment of the Key to Time, then we’re quickly propelled into a whole other adventure and the mavity of the situation is swiftly forgotten about.

Of course Melody does feature elsewhere in the story, in other, older incarnations. And the reveal that she was under the Ponds’ noses all along, as Mels, is something of a consolation for them. But the huge and monumental significance of them not getting to raise their baby is essentially swept under the rug.

Interestingly, this is something Steven Moffat has admitted himself, and is one of the reasons he wanted to write another story focused on grief, which became Heaven Sent. He said:

"I never found a way to have Amy and Rory grieve over their lost baby, and I still don’t know how I would do that. I could never work out how to write that. So I just cut forward several months, and rather ducked the issue."

Well, at least we got a banger episode out of it, but the original storyline definitely wasn't done justice.