Ugh, can we get over the heartbreaking, please? We've had 7 years of heartbreaking, can we have a companion or two who leave amicably without having their lives completely ruined?

Given Doctor Who's penchant for endings that are somewhat less than happy, I'd say they'll heroically blow up a Dalek ship or something.

Recent penchant, anyway...time was when companions could go off and get married, do something non-angsty with the rest of their lives. It is starting to get a bit overdone, IMO.

I liked the ending of "The God Complex," the cameo in "Closing Time" a little bit less. That's where there story rests. They should not go back on the TARDIS.

I was actually looking forward to pretty much a clean slate this season, with maybe a River Song ep but basically saving her for the Fields of Trenzalore. I still say my dream Season 7 is "Day Care Center in the TARDIS"--Smith speaking baby is one of the funniest thing they've done. Seriously, if it can't be Craig or Lloyd, it should be a kid.

Perhaps Baby River Song? (The next thing we know for certain about her timeline has her as a young girl in a modified space suit under the care of the Silence in 1960's America. There's plenty of time for the Doctor to "rescue" her from eye-patch-woman before losing her again.)

Of course, any interaction the Doctor has with younger River Song, now that he knows who she is, has a bit of a creepy vibe to it, doesn't it?

Agreeing with the others, I'm willing to accept the overdone dramatic departures on occasion. I'm in the middle of my Who rewatch, and Adric did his thing a couple days ago. But there really has been a lack of balance - of being saying goodbye just because it was time to have new adventures. Martha came close, but even that was a little much.

Besides, I used to think that Amy was engaging and curious and Rory embodied many of the husbandly traits that I'd like to think I have while overcoming a lack of self-confidence. Now, they have me wondering if they are just symptoms of Moffat's strength as a writer but weakness as a showrunner.

Eh. Tired of heartbreaking. I hope by heartbreaking, he merely means a tearful and heartfelt, "Thanks." But since he actually just did that at the end of this season, I suspect not.

Please don't make Rory permanently dead. Don't kill Amy. They have the best love story in sci-fi. Just drop them off in Surrey somewhere and let them have humdrum lives again. Or spin them off into the 'River Song adventures with Mum and Pop'.

I'd like some sort of ending that gives Amy the respect she deserves.

At the end of "The God Complex" Rory was given the keys to a house and his favorite car.

Amy was told that she'd better find her adventures in domestic life from now on. In a house which she doesn't even have keys to.

In season 5, we got a clear idea of what Amy wants. She wants to travel with Rory, in the TARDIS, with the Doctor as their friend.

Rory's inclination is towards the domestic, but not strongly so. He's very happy when Amy invites him to travel at the end of The Vampires of Venice, and at the end of Amy's Choice, he is clear that he's happy as long as he has Amy.

The domestic ideal seems to be the Doctor's desire, to live a normal, safe life vicariously through Rory. It's the Doctor who talks about giving Amy away, about heading to the Leadworth registry office. It's the Doctor who picks their home, and who decides to give Rory his dream car.

If the Doctor doesn't want to travel with Amy and Rory anymore, that's his choice. But what was missing was any discussion about what Amy and Rory want. The Doctor imagines Rory's domestic ideal, and gives it to Rory - including giving Amy to Rory.

Maybe Amy and Rory would rather settle somewhere other than Leadworth in the early 21st century? Perhaps they want to settle so that they can visit their daughter in prison? Maybe they'd like to be at a good university, with scholarships, so they can study and take some time to figure out what options they have for their future? Or maybe near wherever River becomes a professor, after she's free from the Stormcage, so that they can share a life with her when they all know who the others are?

The house and car in Leadworth offer Amy and Rory their old lives, with added financial security. But they deserve to be able to go on, not back.

Thank Christ. I enjoy Rory enough, but I've been sick of Amy since she stopped being Amelia. Besides, no companions should stick around past 3 years. That's way too long. No Doctor should stay that long either...

I agree with the folks that want them to end their time with the doctor in peace. Or send them to take up where Sarah Jane left off on that other show. "The Amy Pond and Rory Adventures." Kind of has a nice ring to it, I think.

The moment it was revealed that they were River's parents and that she was concieved on the TARDIS their days were numbered. Time travelers away from the bubble of the TARDIS's path through time would be too much temptation for a time traveling master criminal with haliucinigenic lipstick, deadly aim, and an iron will.

"Spoilers" isn't enough to keep River away from her parents...

They were doomed the moment that relationship (and that child) was conceived. The domestic ideal is wonderful and sweet...but it's not the reward of the girl who recreated the universe and the Last Centurion who guarded her throughout time.

They transcend domesticity. The down side to being incredible - to being utterly and completely beyond the scope of humanity as the rest of us know it - is that the candle will not burn slowly and gutter out in a gentle end. It will blaze, and it will flare out all too soon.

The Ponds have (arguably) been the most important companions in the Doctor's history. Sure, Susan left our universe for another, Romana was impressive (both of them), he loved Rose Tyler truly, and Doctor Donna was a real friend and equal (if only for a moment); but the Ponds have created a new Timelord, been instrumental in the creation and restoration of the universe, and witnessed the Doctor confront the most profound relationship (with their own child) we've yet been privy too.

Rory is actually my favorite companion ever. Sure, I'm tired of "I'm a nurse" but by and large he just works with the Doctor on so many levels. Where the Doctor is goofy, Rory is ready; where the Doctor is passionate, Rory is reserved; where the Doctor is scattered and manic, Rory is focused (to the end of time itself).

In the universe of Doctor Who, Rory is the epitome of the Old Warrior. And despite the old adage, old warriors very rarely get to fade away.

The Ponds have earned a heroic end and a memorable departure. Sure, our heartstrings have been tugged at a lot in the last decade, but this is melodrama at its most infinite (as it has all of infinity to work with after all).

I'd honestly feel deeply cheated if the Ponds just forgot everything and married some dude and then won the lottery (yes, still bitter).

Somewhere, on a beautiful planet (because she so loved the planets) there needs to be a monumental tomb with a plaque that reads:

"Here lies the creator of the universe, and the man who watched over her throughout time."

I think that I am with some of the others. I hope the tearful goodbye is a non-fatal one. Let Amy go off and be a model/actress in the city with Rory at her side and occasional drop-ins from their daughter. ("You never call!")
I want the type of farewell that Aslan gives the kids of Narnia. You've had your adventure. Go live your life now. That was tearful and only a mortal wound in the normal sense--a 60 to 80 year life span.