Doctor Who: Steven Moffat Says He Considered Killing Ponds
Spoiler Warning! Was there a dry tear in the whole of Gallifrey this past Saturday night when the beloved Ponds' made their exit from Dr Who at long last? Here at What Culture HQ we had to literally spend our annual budget on Kleenex just to mop up the tears! OK, so the end of Amy and Rory may have split opinion across the fan spectrum but according to the show's current big wig Steven Moffat the popular pair got off lightly. If you were unlucky enough to miss Saturday night's episode, Amy and Rory were transported back in time by the Weeping Angels, baddies so scary they make the Daleks look like Andrex Puppies, but their fate was revealed to be far from miserable as both their names appeared on a tombstone in present day Earth moments later - evidence they found one another and lived long happy lives. But Moffat really struggled with the shows ending and even considered just killing them off completely - a fate more fitting of a Moffat-era companion we feel. So what changed his mind? Finding the perfect coda to the Amelia Pond saga late one sleepless night. He told the Radio Times: "So many times over those mad few days , the fate of the Ponds changed. Alive, dead, alive, dead. Everything was wrong. Nothing felt right. Nothing felt inevitable.
...About four o'clock in the morning - with the gaspingly late script promised to the production team in a few hours - I remembered 'The Eleventh Hour'... and the single moment we've been heading for, since the very beginning."
Of course the show didn't make clear how Matt Smith's Doctor would be unable to locate the Ponds again despite having a similar fate himself in a previous encounter with the Angels only to find his way back to the right timeline. But then again, who are we to argue with a Timelord? How did you feel about the Pond's final bow? Did it live up to expectations? Was it too sappy? Would killing them have been a better end? Is Dr Who too restricted by it's kiddie audience? Have your say in the comments box below.