Doctor Who: 20 Things You Didn't Know About The Angels Take Manhattan
17. To Kill Or Not To Kill?
Booting off a companion can't be an easy job for any showrunner, even if RTD did it basically any chance he got.
When the time came for Moffat to say goodbye to Amy and Rory, the weight of this decision really affected him.
He told the Radio Times in 2012 that he went back-and-forth several times over the couple's fate:
"How and why would they leave? And would they live or die? I wrote and rewrote. I had a completely different ending and threw it away. So many times over those mad few days, the fate of the Ponds changed. Alive, dead, alive, dead... nothing felt right. Nothing felt inevitable."
In the end, he went for a halfway house – the couple were dead in the timeline of the show, but got to live out full lives in the past.
It makes you wonder what the ending he threw away was like. It can't have been any sadder, surely?!