Doctor Who spoilers have landed

[such_heights]

Heads up: at a press screening of the Christmas special, Moffat let loose some spoilers about series seven that are probably going to fly all over the internet now. If you're avoiding spoilers, beware.

River Song will be back. Amy and Rory are leaving in series seven. The Doctor is getting a new companion. Moffat describes Amy and Rory's departure as 'heartbreaking'.

*cries and cries*

Okay, I mean. Okay. I've expected the Ponds' departure and the new companion, that's okay. Sad, but fine. A new companion is exciting!

The 'heartbreaking' line? Oh god. You guys know how invested I am in the Ponds and also how badly I tend to take bad things happening to my favourite fictional characters so, er. Yeah.

Now that I have calmed down a little, two things: every companion's departure is heartbreaking, really, no matter how it happens. It's always bittersweet even if everyone's agreed it's time to go and nothing particularly terrible has happened. Two: Moffat lies all the time and deliberately misleads audiences and implies things are far more tragic than they turn out to be constantly.

I'm still freaking out, but trying to remind myself of those two things. And also that nothing is going to happen for a year yet (season 7 is going to air autumn/winter 2012/2013 I believe) and three seasons of their faces is pretty good going.

Also, 'Amy and Rory' is trending worldwide on Twitter. ;_____; I CANNOT WITH ALL THESE FEELINGS. PONDS I AM GOING TO MISS YOU SO MUCH WHEN YOU GO, GOD.

Actually, you know what, can we keep this post on the optimistic side of things? I think I need to just keep telling myself that it's all going to be okay because otherwise I am probably going to sit here fretting (and, er, crying, god this is embarrassing) for the rest of the night and I have stuff to do, jeeze. I completely understand the freaking out and jumping to the worst case scenario because that's exactly what I did but I am now trying to keep calm and not believe anything until I see it.

BUT, PONDS. NO. ALL THE SAD.

Comments

[hmsharmony]

Of he's indeed telling the truth, by "heartbreaking" Moffat better mean heartbreaking because the Ponds and Eleven are BFFs and it's horribly difficult for them to finally have to move on, and not Rose Tyler and Donna Noble heartbreaking. NOT THE PONDS. JUST. NO. I will curl up into a ball and sob forever.

Also, this will be my first time losing a companion in "real time" (I didn't start watching DW until after S5 aired), and I'm not sure how I'll manage. D= I know I'm sure to love this new companion, but gyahhh, the Ponds have been so special to me (which is what I say about a companion every time we get a new one, BUT WHATEVER).

[such_heights]

Yes, that's what I'm hoping too. I could even KIND OF cope with a Doomsday-style scenario as long as Amy and Rory were still together. But a less dramatic parting of the ways seems plausible too.

And oh, yeah, I hear you. I was in bits when Rose left, she was my first companion. I'm always in bits when they leave, really. This time is going to be especially bad for me whatever happens, really, I've been so much more fannishly invested in this era.

[kass]

this will be my first time losing a companion in "real time" (I didn't start watching DW until after S5 aired), and I'm not sure how I'll manage. D= I know I'm sure to love this new companion, but gyahhh, the Ponds have been so special to me

YES THIS x A BILLION!

I am going to cling to the fandom and the vids and the fic if Moffat does us wrong. I really am.

Though right now I am focusing on the part where Moffat, like the Doctor, lies.

[kouredios]

I wad a little worried about you when I read this, NGL. ♥

[rhivolution]

I...can live without having them, but I am so scared about heartbreaking.

I am going to pretend that this is a big lie, I think. Yes? Yes.

[such_heights]

Excellent plan. He is such a liar, after all.

I'm going to be so sad to see them go, but having three whole seasons is pretty great and I accept it as the nature of the show. I really don't think a happy ending is too much to ask, though.

[gorgeousnerd]

It'll be heartbreaking because they'll be so happy and things will be so good that the Doctor will be wistful because his life isn't nearly as bright and shiny. I refuse to believe anything else.

(I'm really surprised the Ponds have been around this long, though. In a good way. I'm afraid I won't like Who nearly as much once they introduce someone new...but then, I've liked the one-offs they've had in s5 and s6, so maybe I shouldn't be?)

[such_heights]

Yes, I'm with you. That is obviously what will happen.

Yeah, losing your first companion(s) is super hard! I was so sad when Rose left and it took me a while to warm up the idea of Martha - five minutes into her first episode, though, and I was in love all over again.

[gorgeousnerd]

Eee, Martha! ♥ I could only be so lucky to have the post-Pond companion(s) be anything like her.

[such_heights]

Let's hope! (I want a queer companion so much omg PLEASE I HAVE BEEN EVER SO GOOD.)

[gorgeousnerd]

Yes yes YES. There'd probably be a lot of fail, but I'd be very willing to try anyway, since Jack went over reasonably well before Torchwood!

[hibernate]

I think it's going to be heartbreakingly full of squishy FEELINGS and emotional goodbye scenes, but not heartbreaking in a rocks-fall-everyone-dies way. Amy and Rory need a happy end after everything! And I just don't think Moffat would deny them that. *CLINGS TO HOPE*

I'll miss the Ponds, but I'm also really looking forward to a new companion, because new companions are always so shiny and new. CAN IT BE A LESBIAN CYBORG DRAGON-SLAYER THIS TIME? Not that I have a type.

[such_heights]

Yeah, I do think that is actually pretty likely the more I think about it, because that is how Moffat tends to roll in the end. I am good with squishy feelings and the Doctor being sad because it's time for his lovely Ponds to go!

A LESBIAN CYBORG DRAGON-SLAYER WOULD BE THE BEST COMPANION EVER OMG. I am really really hoping we get a companion who isn't straight&white&able-bodied, that would be lovely. *crosses fingers*

[coffeesuperhero]

Okay. Okay. Okay. First.

*GIANT HUGS*

Second.

WE ARE BUILDING A FANGIRL PILLOW FORT WHERE EVERYTHING IS HAPPY AND SPARKLES AND RAINBOWS AND SUNSHINE. And we are going to just move in there, okay? Forever. Surrounded by, like, happy family Pond stories and vids and things like that. NOTHING THERE IS SAD.

Third. Moffat is a troll. TROOOOOOOOOOLL.

But seriously, Project Fangirl Pillow Fort, just like the amazing pillow fort that Troy and Abed built on Community. 100% amazing; 0% sad.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[such_heights]

I LOVE THIS COMMENT. ALSO YOU. FANGIRL PILLOW FORT FOREVER. I am at least happy that this isn't for ages yet so we have lots of time for lots of fic etc? *buries self in family Pond verse*

SUCH A TROLL. SUCH A MASSIVE TROLL.

[coffeesuperhero]

I ALSO LOVE YOUUUUUUU. <3333333333 ALSO FANGIRL PILLOW FORT. It is a place of joy and wonder. WE HAVE A ROOM JUST FOR PEOPLE TO FLAIL ABOUT CANTON. JUST FOR EXAMPLE. Also probably a room where we do craft projects, like make tiny TARDIS earrings. Or something. And obviously we have a room to play Rock Band in, because that is what Amy and Rory do with Martha and Mickey on the weekends.

We have so much time for happy fic! So much time! We will write all the stories!

TROLL FOREVER. But sometimes he gives us Everybody Lives, in like, the 1% of the time when he's not trolling. THIS GIVES ME HOPE. <3

[laurificus]

Aw, honey. I know all about freaking out over fictional characters, but if it helps, there's a Moffat quote somewhere about the kind of stories he likes to write. The jist is pretty much that he doesn't like heartbreaking ones. He likes the ones where it seems like they're all doomed and then they all live. In general, I think his work reflects that. His doctor is a lot less dark than RTD's version, and I think that's how he'd like to keep it. Hard to do that if anything unfixably awful happens to Rory and Amy.

[kouredios]

Yeah, I'm going to go with trolling the fandom. He did a lot of teasing about the strength of Amy and Rory's bond this past season, and yet they were still strong, and awesome, and PONDS! He won't mess with them. He won't. He can't. *nods*

[lefaym]

I had a moment of OH NOES when I read the "heartbreaking" thing too, but after that I realised that this is Moff we're talking about, and he's always seemed to believe that joy is just as powerful as sorrow, so I definitely think that the "heartbreaking" ending will be more positive than negative overall. It'll be sad, because Amy and Rory won't see the Doctor anymore -- and probably River too -- but I don't think it will be devoid of hope and joy.

[pocketmouse]

The best heartbreaking I can imagine is the Doctor goes to visit them and they're all old, but happy. The saddest is the most logical one, where they actually call him on all his shi from last season.

[aria]

MOFFAT ALWAYS LIES. Also, I just -- at this point I cannot conceive of him giving them a cruel ending. A bittersweet one, yes, but not something awful.

I am also willing to be excited for the next companion! I always end up liking them within five minutes, no matter how skeptical I am beforehand.

[snorkackcatcher]

Rule Number One: The Moff lies.

Heartbreaking might just mean it ends up with them getting really pissed off with the Doctor a la Girl Who Waited, I suppose. Although that would actually be pretty heartbreaking after all the times they've had together.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

ooooooommmmmmmmmmggggggggggg so going to miss our Ponds, will be glad to see more River though (hopefully some going back to her truly badass ways).

AND NEW COMPANION! Cue speculation!

[havocthecat]

NO. PONDS! DO NOT KILL OFF AMY POND OR I WILL BE SUPER FURIOUS WITH YOU.

Amy and Rory need the happy ending that none of the other Companions got. I really would've been okay with them leaving the TARDIS the way they did in series six: Going off to be adults having their own adventures. (Because don't tell me they wouldn't have their own adventures on Earth and possibly elsewhere.)

ETA: And I love Martha, but the fact that she had to leave to-- Argh, stupid unrequited crush on the Doctor. I love Martha, but the way she left made me mad, because it was less about her and more about her needing to get away from the Doctor. And Martha deserves to be adored by all. I loved her guest spots in series four. LOVED.

[minim_calibre]

I AM 37 AND STILL NOT OVER SARAH JANE SMITH LEAVING.

I WILL HAVE A HARD TIME WITH THE PONDS.

PONDS.

Ahem. (I'm not kidding. Wow, it took me a looooong time to accept non-Sarah Jane companions as a child.)

[ashpags]

I just keep coming back and reading this and then going and looking at the GIF set of Amy's face and then smothering myself in the fangirl pillow fort. ::clings::