Well, it seems that the time has come for series six of Doctor Who to end, and we can only hope that the massive plot holes left open over the course of all of this are finally closed. Also LOOK AT THAT GODDAMN TITLE. Let’s all liveblog the fuck out of Doctor Who and then flail about for months.
I have managed to avoid every single spoiler for this episode, so please, let us all be the most awesome community of television watchers on the planet and have respect for a spoiler-free viewing of “The Wedding of River Song,” okay? LET’S DO THIS.
Because we are all on the exact same ground this time around, our spoiler policy for these blogs will be completely different. Anything that has aired in the past is fair game for discussion. Anything that has not publicly aired WILL BE CONSIDERED A SPOILER.
This liveblog will work in relative to when the episode airs for you. So, you may begin your livebloggy commenting down below when the episode starts. To avoid spoilers, I stick to the first page and comment away, and then go back afterwards to add any more
DO. NOT. POST. SPOILERS. This community is not the place for that. You have the rest of the fucking Internet. Go there.
oh my god this is so sad i never want Doctor Who to take breaks.
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You don't understand how much I love that this is the first comment.
Everyone has to see it.
westeros you are amazing
why are other people not appreciating the genius of westeros
I can't take credit for making it but I think it is the most appropriate picture ever. I PREDICT THE TARDIS WILL MAKE THE FWOOSHY NOISE TWICE IN THIS EPISODE.
Oh dear god. This made me spit sweet tea all over my key board.
Now my fingers are sticky.
*flails*
OMG OMG OMG. SO EXCITE except I can't watch until Sunday night D:
But I shall be excited on behalf of everyone else who can watch it live!
Also, I was doodling the cybermats in Biology the other day, then went home and got bored, so I drew it up a little better. I'm unreasonably proud of this xD
(let's see if I can embed this right)
EDIT: Uh, a bit big. Sorry.
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Not unreasonably! That is fantastic! (I particularly like how the light hits its gaping maw.)
Aw, thanks! Just a little sketch…who doesn't love Bitey the cybermat?
Unreasonably? Hardly! That's awesome! <3 I love it!
Aww, its adorable.
<3 Bitey.
7.05pm Season Finale of Doctor Who
7.50pm 1st episode of new Merlin
8.35pm LAST EVER DW:Confidential
Oh my.
I may or may not be a bit of an emotional wreck by 9.30pm
There's a Confidential to go with the Christmas Special as far as I'm aware.
I don't think there is :/ BBC Doctor Who website says that tonight's is the final episode of Confidential and the rest of the announcement sounds fairly "that's it" ish 🙁
Yeah, I just double checked and they changed their initial announcement that originally included the Christmas Special 🙁
I'm going to miss it – I like seeing all the other people behind the scenes and seeing what they do on DW 🙁
I read that a couple of days ago the BBC had already received over 1,000 complaints about the cancellation of DW Confidential — by now imagine the number is much higher. Maybe the BBC will get their act together and CHANGE THEIR MINDS.
And to be honest, we don't need a 45 minute Confidential. I'd be happy with a shorter Confidential, if it mean we could keep it.
I love behind-the-scenes stuff, sometimes more than the original (case in point, Peter Jackson's King Kong; the movie was fine, but the extras — including the production diaries — were awesome), so I selfishly love the 45-minute Confidential. Then again, shorter Confidential >>>>>>>>>>>> no Confidential.
I sent them two XD The first one a general complaint and then the second one to complain about their crappy generic response to my first complaint.
Still waiting on a response to the second one…
Maybe the BBC will get their act together and CHANGE THEIR MINDS.
maybe its fixed point in time.
I can't wait! But I honestly have no idea how they can explain everything in one single episode. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. In the mean time, one gif spam coming up 🙂
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I may need to be held by the end of the night.
We shall all be here to hold you, no worries.
DO YOU NEED ME TO HOLD YOU
I'M
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After so many times seeing that gif
Noticed the Human Being hanging from the ceiling
mon dieu
I didn't notice it either! It is basically amazing
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Woo! I AM EXCITE!
And listen, guys, if you need a distraction after the episode is over, in order to stave off the soul crushing depression when it sinks in that we'll have no new DW until Christmas, and then only one episode, and then it's months and months away….I strongly encourage you to watch the Merlin premier which is following DW.
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I'm just sayin'…
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Hello knights.
Clearly I need to start watching Merlin properly again
OMG, a Being Human gif. You win.
p.s. In the US we're getting the premiere of Bedlam immediately following the Doctor Who finale. But this Merlin business looks like Very Good Programming, is all I'm saying.
Hell yes. I think Merlin fandom on tumblr exploded with glee when the photos, video and interview from this magazine started circling
Oh smart BBC, you clearly knew there fans like me who were thinking of watching Confidential instead of Merlin so you've pushed Confidential back. SNEAKY!
Hot knights are pretty much the main reason I'm still watching Merlin at this point if I'm honest.
I stuck with all 3 season of Robin Hood and splashed out on the DVDs. I will pretty much watch anything. Well. To a point.
Merlin? Well, Merlin's not had blue spandex wearing ninjas yet has it?
You did better than I did with Robin Hood. I forced myself to watch the first episode of series 3 and couldn't go any further. I adored the first series, had mixed feelings about the second but the finale of that was too much even for me.
Oh god I'd nearly forgotten the spandex ninjas. That was a low point.
So if I ever decide to watch Robin Hood, avoid series 3. Good to know.
Kind of. It depends whose story you end up enjoying the most in the first 2 series.
I was basically watching "The Continuing Story of Guy of Gisborne" pretty much – series 3 was great for him, especially since Richard Armitage (and pretty much everyone else in the cast probably) could not understand why the series 2 finale went the way it did.. I hated Robin from the first episode. Which wasn't a good sign initially. But then I realised that every other character was great and figured I might as well keep watching.
What about the whole casino thing?
Trying to be vague but aside from…That Part of the series 2 finale there was also the part where another of my ships got sunk (that's mostly just me being bitter). The two things together made me very unhappy with the show and the beginning of series 3 didn't make me want to keep going.
I was always of the meh about Gisbourne if I'm honest. I didn't hate him but I didn't love him the way a lot of his fans do. (I do have a lot of respect for Richard Armitage though, especially for how vocal he got about his displeasure with That).
I…can't really remember much of the casino episode, I haven't rewatched most of that series since it aired to be honest. this is another occasion where I'm probably being overly negative. It had its good points but a lot that I didn't like.
I did like the Sheriff though – Keith Allen was always entertaining.
omg merlin premiered tonight. I TOTALLY FORGOT. THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME.
unf unf
not enough colin morgan and bradley james on that cover tho
NYOOOOOOOOOOOO I'M GOING TO MISS IT!!!!! 🙁 🙁 🙁 I always miss the season finales for some reason
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So guys, the most amazing thing happened! I was on the train, going to a con, and there I saw David Tennant, Daniel Radcliffe and John Barrowman. It was amazing!
…and then I woke up this morning, and I realised it was a dream. Damn.
But then I remembered it was Doctor Who day, and I brightened up considerably.
I was getting ready to be super jealous and then got to the all a dream part. Now I want to hug you, that's always a disappointing moment.
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I yelped "WHAT!" and raised my heart rate by 55% after reading that first paragraph. I am possibly as disappointed as you are that it was a dream.
ONE HOUR
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MY EXCITE, I CANNOT CONTAIN. IT CAN ONLY BE EXPRESSED THROUGH (shamelessly stolen) GIFSPAM.
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I love you forever for that Spanish Inquisition GIF alone. <3
I love you forever for the dancing volus gif.
Is that Stephenie Meyer Rickrolling me?
Yes, yes it is.
HALF AN HOUR!!!
NOTREADYNOTREADYNOTREADY!
NEVER PREPARED!
PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BE PREPARED FOR THIS!
Okay, I'm ready!
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Alright guys, half an hour. I can't believe it. I'm so excited that I'm almost dreading it, you know? AGMGTW was kind of a letdown when I first watched it (somewhat drunk and hormonal as I indeed was) so I'm trying hard not to get too hyped for today to avoid a repeat performance.
But it's difficult. The excite is hard to control.
I don't comment here much and I don't liveblog (can't multitask) but I wanted to say how much I enjoy this blog. Mark, your reviews are always fantastic and the commenting here is possibly the finest the internet has to offer. I hurry over here to read everything before I even check other reviews (and I'm a total review hound, believe me). I count this site as being part of watching Doctor Who – I don't feel like I've really finished with an episode until I've seen y'all analyse and GIF the hell out of it.
In short, it's been a pleasure. You all rock the very hardest.
Now. Tick tock, goes the clock…
Right. I've got myself two live streams up, my ear phones on, and a clock set to London time. I'm ready.
Tick tock goes the clock … Ten minutes to go.
Thought I was late to the show when I saw a monster in red stomping over everything, but realised it was Edwina on Strictly!
ZZOMG 2 minutes. MY KETTLE ISN'T BOILING QUICKLY ENOUGH
OMG NEXT! *flails*
Merlin trailer. We're getting close.
AAAAH IT'S STARTING!!!
I can't stop grinning I'm so excited. *flails*
GHERKIN
WTF IS GOING ON?!
Can I live in a London like that?
Mfanwe?
What in the fuck? This is awesome.
CHARLES DICKENS!
And he has a Christmas Special every year!
Pterodactyl's just make me think of Myfawnwy.
DICKENS. BBC BREAKFAST. CHURCHILL
sian and bill!
I <3 them.
I should really start waking up early enough to watch Breakfast again.
WTF is wrong with time.
WTF IS GOING ON?????
CHURCHILL IS SUSPISH ABOUT TIME!
The holy roman emperor, Winston Churchhill, on his personal mammoth.
Wait. Is this the space behind the Doctor's sofa?
OH DOCTOR. BEARDY DOCTOR
I greatly approve of all this Roman stuff though.
'Somthing's happened to time' No shit Churchill.
I am so fucking intrigued,
HAIRY DOCTOR!
…oh dear
Beardy Doctor again!
If you're not thoroughly confused by the end of the cold open, its not Moffat.
Also, looks whose in the credits!
HAT! Sorry what was he talking about?
'A woman' D:< I C UR SEXISM THAR MOFFAT
This is a genuine enquiry, and I’m genuinely interested to know: in what way is this sexist? What else was the Doctor supposed to say? “River Song” would mean nothing to Churchill. It just baffles me how anyone could equate the Doctor explaining that a woman messed up time to sexism. Is it because he said that she’s a woman? It’s not like he said “A woman… but then, they’re always messing things up, eh? etc etc.” He was stating a fact. If that’s sexist, then where does it end?
There’s a thread on a DW forum addressing the sexism of this line, only the OP was joking when they said that they found it offensive or derogatory. I agree that the joke in LKH was out of line, but I think that has had the knock-on effect of conditioning people to spot sexism in Moffat’s writing where there isn’t any.
I did not see that sexist. Why? He didn't say "women". He didn't say "of course a woman would be the end of all things." It was more like; what caused this? A person who happened to be female.
If River had been a guy and he'd said "a man" there would have been nothing wrong. I really don't think this had anything bad hidden in it.
I don't know, there was just something about the way he said it/it was set up that rubbed me the wrong way. I think I would have minded it less if Moffat didn't have a reputation for saying sexist things in interviews.
'Hello Dalek' Doctor you are such a BAMF
I quite like the stetson
Dalek: I'VE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GET UP.
Ooop a Dalek!
The hat is really subtle for sneaking about Doctor
Well, that's a statement of intent….
EYEPATCH!
Eyepatch! (should've made that a drinking game)
You want to go into a finale doing a drinking game? Do you want to understand this at all?
Series 6 marathon drinking game:
Every time someone is a duplicate or copy, one shot.
Every eyepatch, one shot.
Every time a reference is made to Amy's pregnancy/the Doctor's death/we see a screen on the TARDIS console referencing either… please don't do anything, we don't want lawsuits.
Each instance of sexism: drink as much as necessary to assuage the pain.
ALL THE UPVOTES.
OH HEY THEY'RE BACK!
TESSALECTA DOCTOR????????
ZOMG. Tessalator
…OHHHH is the Tessalecta going to pretend to be him?
rofl Live Chess?
HAHAHAHA CHESS STADIUM TOURNAMENT AWESOME.
AHAHAHA LIVE CHESS
…isn't the eyepatch a bit of a giveaway
I love that there are dinosaurs in the park but Bill and Sian are still accurately on BBC Breakfast 😀
FIRST RULE OF CHESS CLUB! DON'T TALK ABOUT CHESS CLUB!
Live battle Chess!
Eurgh skulls, skulls that move FUCK YOU MOFF!
The skulls eat them
The skulls are amaaazing
Cause crypts aren't creepy enough without moving skulls.
Ohhh…no no no, head in a box omg
Dorium's back? sweet
Unfortunate.
Ack death by skulls!
ARGH DO NOT WANT DO NOT WANT
oh no D:
Jesus!Doctor
hee talking heads
Wi-fi chip! Awesome!
Disembodied Heads get wifi in a creepy tomb. Love it!
The fall of the 11th? 🙁
Why? or Who?
THIS IS SO CONFUSING AND I LOVE IT!
WE WON'T GET THE QUESTION NOW! TOO EASY!
I don't think we were ever going to get it. Because of Moffat.
I'm fine with never knowing, I've just always wanted to know why it's such a big secret and why the Doctor runs from it. I don't think it's just a Time Lord thing.
"Your real name is hidden. It burns in the stars, in the Cascade of Medusa herself."
…I bet it was River. Doing graffiti with fire.
Welcome to my Head!Canon new information.
River probably IS Medusa. I bet the head of snakes was a metaphor.
…Didn't Journey's End take place in the Medusa Cascade?
Yeah, but the Doctor's been there before that. According to the Master, the Doctor sealed the rift there when he was but a wee lad of 90.
CREEPY SKULLS! CREEPY SKULLS!!
TELL US ALREADY
Head in a box road trip!
lol carrying the box around. Look it amuses me.
Yeah I don't think I like Dorium as much anymore.
DOCTOR WHO?????
Silence as in a person's silence. Nice.
Loosing time?
zoooomg silence mark?
….wait what the shit is happening?
Is…he…is…WHAT?!
OH FUCK, THE SILENCE.
This is really good so far. ty Moff.
Oooo, still points in time exist.
BBCA's Doctor Who Marathon is turning me into Comic Book Guy.
Jack's stag parties!
OMG BRIGADIER.
Awww mentions of Jack and Rose.
OH SHIT I HEARD ABOUT THIS. BRIG *cries*
when did he mention jack? I must have missed that.
Right after the "Help Rose Tyler with her homework" line he talks about visiting "all of Jack's stag parties at once"
You've probably caught it by now but I though I should say it anyway.
JACK'S STAG PARTIES IN ONE NIGHT!?
And now sad 🙁
OH FFFFFFFFUUUUU ALLL MY CRAYSSSS BRIGADIER
All of Jack's stag parties? Impossible?
The Brigidier is dead?!?! NOOOOO.
Aw The Brig! The Brig! 🙁