Doctor Who: The Best Episodes From Each Modern Series

Just like Ellen Ripley and the acid-drooling Aliens, Amy Pond is inextricably linked to the Weeping Angels. Therefore, it had to be the quantum-locked lonely assassins to provide a dramatic and heartbreaking end to hers and Rory's adventures in time and space. Plus Karen Gillan wanted to be "offed" by a Weeping Angel anyway, according to Steven Moffat.

If Blink was unknowingly foreboding, then The Angels Take Manhattan is knowingly foreboding - the doors creakily and creepily opening up for Sam Garner at Winter Quay (yep, would run like hell at that point); Rory's name on the gravestone; the unnerving chuckling and padding of the Baby Angels, where one of them rather inconsiderately blows Rory's match out; and the close-up of the foreboding chapter title: Amelia's Last Farewell.

Murray Gold creates a fittingly frightening film noir soundtrack that seems to include the Weeping Angels' version of a Velociraptor call, or an inbuilt alarm system to notify them of potential escapees from Winter Quay.

It was cruel enough that the Angels continually zapped those poor souls even further into the past at the "battery farm", but taking away Rory was just jaw-droppingly sadistic. Although the standard companion-departure-blubbing starts when Amy decides to follow her heroic centurion, the real hefty heartrending stuff is brutally albeit beautifully observed in the emotional aftermath.

Firstly, there's Amy's afterword to the Doctor, asking him for one final favour to go back and tell her younger self all the adventures she's going to have. Talk about spoilers though! Then if that wasn't enough to empty the Kleenex tissue box, we see Rory's dad, Brian, discover he won't ever see his son again...