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Poor, sweet, lovely Rory. With his stuttering manner, his unwavering devotion to Amy and his penchant for slightly naff body warmers, I’d grown really rather fond of him over the last few weeks.
But before I can delve fully into his untimely demise, I guess I better have a look at the rest of the episode. Ambrose being the one to kill Alayah made sense, as she did have the most to lose, but it came too early in the episode, meaning no real tension had been built up. It also spoiled the “Amy and Nasreen as the best of humanity” scenes, as we knew full well that the worst of humanity was about to turn up to spoil it. The whole humans-as-bad-guys thing was well done, particularly in the scene with Ambrose and the Doctor after they return to the surface – the Doctor telling her to make her son the best of humanity in a way she would never be was a nice return to the pragmatic Time Lord of ‘Flesh and Stone'.
But really, it’s all about Rory. I mean, he’d basically signed his own death warrant the second he stepped onto the TARDIS. It seemed pretty unlikely that there’d be room for three in the ship for very long, although I was beginning to hope that might not be the case. But the inclusion of future Amy and Rory at the start of the last episode as a supposed guarantee that they both would survive was always likely to be a red herring, while Tony and Nasreen weren’t enough to fulfil the great losses that we were told the Doctor would suffer in this episode.
Yet, despite knowing all this, I couldn’t quite believe it when Rory died. He’d gone and become all noble in this episode, defending the Doctor and deftly stepping up to speak for the humans on the surface. To have him erased from history and Amy’s memory is an ingenious way of getting rid of him mid-series while keeping her in the TARDIS, but it’s also staggeringly heartbreaking. Arthur Darvill has been quietly brilliant throughout his short stint on the TARDIS, making Rory funny, sympathetic, believable and rather wonderful. I was genuinely impressed by Karen Gillan as Amy raged against what had happened to Rory and what was about to happen to his memory, while the pain on Matt Smith’s incredible face as he had to deal with Rory’s death alone was, well, incredible.
Of course, Rory may well be back when the Pandorica opens in the series finale, as the crack widens and the mystery surrounding what exactly is behind it heats up, but I’m not daring to hope. It’s the hope that hurts the most.
But I’m not hurting enough to stop me being ridiculously excited about next week’s episode. Because it’s Bill Nighy. In Doctor Who. Bill Nighy. I might actually explode.
Bill Nighy is the best actor in the WHONIVERSE!!!! 
And the universe!
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