Showrunner Steven Moffat and producer Carol Skinner are keeping pretty mum on the intimate details of the departure of the Ponds on their final season of Doctor Who. On the other hand they were able to talk about why New York was picked for their final episode.

In an interview with Collider, Moffat and Skinner dish on what the table read for the emotional farewell was like, why traveling to the past is more engaging than future travel, and why New York City was selected as the site of the final episode of Amy and Rory.

Why New York for their final farewell?

MOFFAT: Because I was in New York when I thought of the story I wanted to do, and I think it fit with the weeping angels. Visually, it was a good place to put them. It was more about that.

SKINNER: Also, it’s a city that has such scale and romance. It gives the episode a real atmosphere and a very different tone for Doctor Who. The other episodes before this one are Amy and Rory’s last adventures, but they’re all huge adventures. They’re fun and they’re big, and it felt as if you wanted to do something and say something really phenomenal for their final story. They’ve been with us for such a long time, and it felt as if New York was just the right place to do that. It had a real magic about it.

How do you feel about a show that is so quintessentially British using New York City as the location to say goodbye to the longest running companions in the reboot era?