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

[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.