It’s been a little over a week since Doctor Who‘s most recent companions, Amy and Rory, said farewell. Now Arthur Darvill, who played Rory, is speaking out on where he would have wanted the duo to go.

According to the Radio Times, Arthur Darvill saw the fate of Amy and Rory as sort of a mixed bag. They were now together, but not in the fabulous and exciting circumstances they were used to with The Doctor. Darvill stated, “I think they have a very quiet life – which is quite sad after having such an adventurous time – but they’re just happy to be together. Obviously it doesn’t run smoothly as they’re stuck back in quite a horrible place but they’ve got each other and that’s all they really need.”

An element in Darvill’s opinion brings up something that is being actively debated by fans. Is the Weeping Angels’ New York City headquarters, Winter Quay, still in existence? Some fans feel that it can’t be. It was destroyed in the paradox, and the angels who fed from its energy were poisoned by the paradox as River Song stated in the episode. On the other hand, there are those who feel the one, surviving angel who sent Rory and Amy back is an indication that other angels from Winter Quay did survive, and that perhaps so did the building itself. Effectively the angels were not put out of business in 1938 New York.  

If things were left up to Arthur Darvill, 1938 would never had entered back into the picture. He’d pick a late twentieth century location for Amy and Rory, “Because of my music obsession, I’d have liked to travel back to the sixties and do something with the Doctor there. Or go back to when I was an annoying child and reassure myself it’s all going to be alright.” Amy and Rory could have been in the middle of Beatlemania, or perhaps even traveled up to Woodstock?

Where would you have liked Amy and Rory to end up? What is your opinion in the status of Winter Quay?