6. The Ponds
I hope you'll forgive me for blending the Ponds together, but there was simply no way to avoid it. Amy and Rory have always been wrapped up in each other, from the very moment that we met them. She was The Girl Who Waited, he was The Last Centurion. They both waited years for each other, and yet returned to each other time and time again. I don't believe that romance and Doctor Who really mix, but the ballad of Amy Pond and Rory Williams plucked at even my cold, dead heartstrings. With this admitted, you can probably already guess why they're on this list. The Angels Take Manhattan was their ending point, and boy was it an emotional rollercoaster. It started off happy, got incredibly creepy, developed to overwhelmingly sad, reached a brief crescendo of hope and then plunged right back into the depths of heartbreak. It was a single episode, but it felt like a profound journey. And, really, is anything more fitting for the timey-wimey antics of the Ponds? In my opinion, no. And, also in my opinion, their actual departure was just as fitting. Rory is zapped back to the past forever, and Amy naturally follows him. It's a moment that brought me to rather embarrassing tears for an entire night, and it's perfectly fitting for them. Because Amy will always follow Rory, just as Rory will always follow Amy the two characters are perfectly linked, and in departing together they bring their emotional progression to a satisfying conclusion. Because, seriously, there was a hell of a lot of emotional progression. At the beginning of the fifth series Amy wasn't even sure if she loved Rory, was keen to run away from her wedding and go see the stars instead. By the end of her tenure she was running towards Rory instead, turning away from her Raggedy Doctor and following her one true love. It's always going to be Amy and Rory, no matter what. And the end of their story is a satisfying conclusion to the path that they took to get there. Amy and Rory were part of an epic tale, and deserved an epic conclusion. They got this in abundance not dying, but still being parted from the Doctor forever. It was a final ending that actually looks set to stay final this time, and it was absolutely wonderful. It was not only a great end to their time in the TARDIS, but a great end to their character arcs. It showed how they'd both grown as people, and how they deserved each other for eternity. The Ponds' departure was heartbreaking, yes, but it was probably the good kind.