Doctor Who: 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Weeping Angels

Besides the creepy montage indicating that every single statue in the world is a Weeping Angel, the ending of Blink is quite a happy one: Sally and Larry hook up, the Doctor gets his TARDIS back, and the Angels are permanently frozen in the basement.

But Moffat has been known to enjoy a much bleaker conclusion every now and then, especially for his female characters: in The Girl in the Fireplace, he killed off Madame de Pompadour (and returned fourteen years later to establish that her consciousness was trapped inside a spaceship); in Forest of the Dead, he killed River Song; in The Pandorica Opens, he killed Amy Pond (and blew up the universe); and in World Enough and Time, he brutally murdered Bill Potts, and then turned her into a Cyberman.

Considering all of these incidents - as well as the others that we didn't name - it probably won't come as too much of a surprise that the writer once toyed with giving Blink protagonist Sally Sparrow a similarly dark ending.

While reflecting on the episode on its tenth anniversary, Moffat talked about an alternate finale he'd thought of, wherein the Angels end up zapping Sally back in time:

"Makes me wonder why an Angel never sent her back in time. All these years later, I wonder why I didn’t end it like that? Just after she meets the Doctor, she pops back into the shop - and big fright, there’s an Angel there! A moment later Larry follows her in, and she’s gone. And for the first time he notices something about a painting on the wall - it’s Sally, in the distant past. And she’s smiling and waving."

Jesus Moffat, didn't the poor woman suffer enough?!