Doctor Who: Amy and Rory to Leave During Series 7

They kind of have to leave. The Doctors going underground against the people that want him dead, so he can't keep hanging out with them.

Well this article already says he will get a new companion, so that's just a plot device to get rid of them. And got to say, if thats the logic to get them off the show, it will be very poor. He already attempted that during the last run.

It also does not sound like the seed for a "heartbreaking end." Maybe they are planning to kill one or both of them. Hope they dont do the alternate universe lock again.

Also there is no mention of Riversong leaving. Given that tie... makes it hard to permanently get them off the show without some real locked doors in between the characters.

On a side note: GIVE US MORE LADY VASTRA!

In a recent radio interview, Karen Gillan sounds like she's taking the right approach:

"I know the time is going to come when Rory and Amy have to leave. It’s inevitable and that will make me really, really sad. But that’s the nature of the show and what’s so good about it. What keeps it exciting is the fact that it’s reinvented all the time with new people. I think that’s a really great part of the show, so I will welcome the new companion with open arms."

There's also a lot of hints for next season in the new Doctor Who's Brilliant Book annual:

Every time they dump a great companion I feel like giving up on the show. But I hang in there through the new and start enjoying it again. Except for Donna where I hated the series while she was on and started liking it again after she was gone. Being a whining shrew does not mean depth of character.

However I would love to see an Amy/Rory spin off. Sort of like a space going Torchwood.

I'm a little wary of them calling it "hearbreaking". I hope they don't do anything inane just to stir up cheap melodrama.
Honestly, though, I feel like the spot where series 6 ended...they really don't need to be back in series 7 anyway. It was a good closing point for them.

This just in. Amy and Rory Pond are not leaving in Season 7. Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill are, but the parts will be recast. Amy and Rory will now be played by...
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TOM WELLING AND KRISTIN KREUK!

*runs like hell*

It's 106 miles to Grandville, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing faceless helmets

... Hit it ...

I loved the characters and storylines but *shrug* They had to leave sometime and I've eventually gotten to at least really like all but one of the companions along the way so I have no problem with them leaving now.

In fact, better they leave now than the show turn into The Doctor, Rory and Amy Show. In other words, leave them on too long and I think there would be a possibility we get bored of them... Always best to leave before that happens.

As for a spinoff... I would ALMOST like to see that, but not quite. I love both characters but I don't think either one is the type to lead adventures. Rory would much rather sit at home and have a happy little family life with Amy... Amy may long for adventure, and have a bit of a nose for finding it... But on her own, or even dragging Rory along, I don't see her as being the imputus of such a show.

I am a little surprised and worried by the "heartbreaking" bit.

Surprised because I thought they'd already left! And worried because I thought/hoped they were going to get a happy ending. They deserve a happy ending

Not really surprising, this last season we saw a lot of winding down and slowly separating.

As long as it isn't another stupidly hamfisted allegory like the God Complex, I think it'll be fine.

Then again, it's very likely Moffet that's handling it and so far I believe he's shown himself to be a very competent writer for the show. The season finale this time was, admitted, a little weak, but in general I've really enjoyed Moffet's take way way more over Davies. He really doesn't go for the soap opera love drama, and while River is Moffet's "Rose", she's a far more interesting and complicated character than Rose could ever hope to be.

Honestly, I think just Amy and Rory leaving is going to be heart breaking however they choose to do it simply because the characters are so lovable and so close. Really though, I think it is about time to move on, honestly I imagine they're going to try to have another child they will actually get to raise.

Curious who the new companion will be. Kind of hoping they get another guy, to break away a bit more from the boy/girl romance angle. Then again, even Davies showed he was capable of a more classic companion set up with Donna, as overshadowed as she was by Martha and Rose stealing the limelight for a large chunk of her season ;p

I'm betting Amy is getting offed. Karen Gillan has said that she wants it so that her end on the show is a closing thing and not how Rose was which she felt made the departure cheap how she kept coming back. So more than likely they're going to either kill er off and Rory won't have reason to come back or Rory will die in such a way that she sees the Doctor's flaws and starts to despise him and says she can't be around him anymore.

I think they are going to go with the running joke that the doctor is always late. I can see it now.. Amy and Rory go back home on a break while the doctor zips off for a moment.

He returns 60 or so years later. Amy has died of old age, Rory is ever young waiting each day for the doctor to return to tell him that Amy had a good life and to not go mucking it up. Then Rory plays a video of Amy that she records each year on the day that they last said good bye to each other, at first it would be very angry that he's late again, then she tells him about her life of the previous year, then finally as an old women asking when the funny man in the blue box is going to come visiting her again. When its all over Rory tells the doctor that his final duty is over and to depower him so he can join his wife.