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" Steven Moffat has promised &amp;quot;a fitting end&amp;quot; to the story of Doctor Who companions Amy and Rory. The pair - played by Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill - will depart the sci-fi drama in forthcoming mid-series finale &amp;#039;The Angels Take Manhattan&amp;#039;.  &amp;quot;All stories have to end, and painful though that is, the most important thing about a story is how it finished,&amp;quot; said Moffat. &amp;quot;I had over a year&amp;#039;s warning to get this sorted out, and I&amp;#039;m very proud of what we&amp;#039;ve done. A fitting end to the mighty era of the Ponds!&amp;quot; Head writer and showrunner Moffat explained that he had devised the characters&amp;#039; exit while in New York, which influenced the episode&amp;#039;s setting. &amp;quot;There was something about [returning monsters] the Weeping Angels and New York that just seemed to make sense to me,&amp;quot; he revealed. &amp;quot;And I thought of the story for this episode while in New York.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s always good to find a new form for [the Angels] and we&amp;#039;ve got little cherubs this time. I had loads of ideas for the Weeping Angels on both the previous stories that I never got anywhere close to using, so it was good to find the opportunity.&amp;quot; Moffat previously revealed to Digital Spy that he &amp;quot;completely&amp;quot; rewrote Amy and Rory&amp;#039;s final scenes after completing his first draft. &amp;quot;I completely changed the ending as I was writing it, thinking &amp;#039;No, I&amp;#039;ve got it wrong... I&amp;#039;m on the wrong emphasis&amp;#039; - but it&amp;#039;s a good one and it&amp;#039;s properly emotional,&amp;quot; he insisted. Doctor Who continues this Saturday (September 22) on BBC One and BBC America. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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