Doctor Who: 5 Best And 5 Worst Companion Send-Offs

3. Amy And Rory

Alright, can someone explain to the class why the Doctor couldn€™t just go back and rescue Amy and Rory once they got sent back in time? Ok, maybe New York City on the exact date of their arrival is somehow time-locked for him, but is the entire planet time-locked on that date? Couldn€™t the Doctor just land in Boston, hop a train to New York, find Amy and Rory and bring them back to the TARDIS? Even if the entire decade of the 1930s is now time locked, and you know it isn't, well...this is a guy who spent hundreds of years on Trenzalore (more time, likely, than on Gallifrey and Earth combined, and I'll bet you good money now that we never hear about it again). Surely he could just arrive in the 1920s and kick it while waiting for the 1930s to roll around. Yeah, ok, there€™s maybe a predestination paradox, possibly, with the book and all, but still. Amy and Rory, the first married couple on the TARDIS, should have been allowed a good and noble exit. They should not have been sent off in a nonsensical timey-wimey fashion that did nothing but show Moffat trying to have his cake and eat it, too. It's the kind of ending we've come to expect from new Who, sadly, where death can't actually be a thing for anyone close to the Doctor (semi-companion the Brigadier not withstanding). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDgx2C1ltm4
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