10 Times Doctor Who Trolled You (And You Fell For It)

Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill’s Doctor Who departure was well publicised prior to the broadcast of The Angels Take Manhattan. But in true Moffat style, the episode kept us guessing about their fate right up until the final scene.

At first it looks like Rory is going to remain imprisoned in the Weeping Angels’ Winter Quay battery farm forever, after watching his older self die there.

But then he decides to take his death into his own hands and, together with Amy, jump off the roof of the building, thereby creating a paradox and thwarting the Angels for good.

And then the pair wake up back in the present, seemingly unharmed, suggesting they’ll escape unscathed after all. Yay! They survived! A happy ending for the Ponds!

Oh wait a minute, what does that gravestone say?

The great big bluff is soon revealed with Rory ultimately sent back in time by another Weeping Angel – and Amy offering herself up to the same Angel in a bid to find him.

Plenty of other companion exists have been misleading (just look at Rose’s “death”  in Doomsday or Clara’s in Face the Raven), but none have been quite as twisty-turny as this. One minute the Ponds are gone, then they’re back with us, then they’re gone again. Again, no doubt Moffat was hooting away at his keyboard while typing this one. Do you enjoy our pain, Steven?

Of course the ultimate irony is that they do end up surviving the Angels (in a manner of speaking), living long and happy lives in the 20th century. So whichever way you look at it, they got you!