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.
RIVER SONG DIDN'T GET IT ALL FROM YOU
"You and I should get a drink sometimes."
"Okay."
"And married."
"Okay."
Best proposal ever
Maybe the Master will come back? That would be amaaazing.
Wow that's harsh, Doctor.
Yes, he really did think that. SELF ESTEEM DOCTOR.
Time Lords?
Oh, god, I'm crying.
Oh River, please stop crying. I can't handle that.
Why does this have to be in front of the in-laws? 😀
That's really selfish.
Poor Rory is so lost.
I LOVE THIS WHOLE CAST SO MUCH RIGHT NOW!
THEY'RE GETTING MARRIED!
MARRIAGE!!!!!!!!
THEY'RE GETTING MARRIED!
AAAAAH OMG THIS IS AAAAAH!
Mummy and Daddy giving her away *flail*
Oh that's how she knows his name!
NAAAAME OMG!
Is this a Time Lord wedding ceremony? I bet it is. With the True Name giving and all.
ALL THOSE SERIES 4 THEORIES WERE RIGHT
KISS OF DEATH.
thereisnogifforthesethingsthatiamfeeling
..WAIT BUT WHAT NEXT?!
The countdown coming up at the bottom of the screen made me giggle
I think I like london better with airballoon-cars
weren't they all Minis too?
…I don't remember. Don't think so? Minis would be terribly impractical. And the one we used to have smelt plasticky
You'd better not cliffhanger us again.
There's only five mins left!!!!!
Now prison waits for River.
Awww Mummy and Daughter bonding <3
Aw, River visiting her Mam.
Amy is looking extra pale right now.
OH MY GOD IT WASN'T HIS NAME!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?!?!?!?!
I <3 River and Amy having drinkies. AND RORY HAS A JOB THAT HE GOES TO AND COMES HOME FROM YAAAY
I NEED TO KNOW.
TELL US GODDAMMIT
I'm being shallow but they're both so pretty.
rofl it just hit Amy
Can you imagine having the Doctor as a son-in-law?
He would bring the worst mother's day gifts. Or at least the most impractical.
"Here's a gift for you, air from my lungs. No wait that only works on tree people, damn".
"How about a balloon? Balloons are cool!"
"Is that a red balloon in the mirror behind you?"
"Can I have your TARDIS?"
"Okay, sure…no, wait. No, you can't."
IM A HEAD I HAVE RIGHTS!!
Why can't these people just communicate!?
TOTALLY CALLED IT HE WAS A TESSALECTA ALL ALONG!
ROFL I FUCKING KNEW IT!
I was wondering why he didn't just use the Tessalectors for a replacement!
*laughs*
YOU'RE AMAZING. WONDERFUL. GREAT. AWESOME.
Oooh er nights
Can we get some of those nights?
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There are knights as consolation prize?
CANON SEX.
I'm just sayin'.
MOST DEFINITELY CANON SEX
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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That's a bit of a cheat.
I actually love this Tesselecta twist!
More cliffhangers. Damn you, Moff.
LOL YEASSSSSSSSSS.
ROFL WELL OKAY THEN
Doctor Who? I KNEW IT
IT WAS DOCTOR WHO. ACK!
DOOOOOCCCCCTTTTOOOOORRR WHHHHHOOOOO??????
Merlin time!!
Nice Silence noise at the end there.
Was that episode not shorter than normal or am I imagining things?
Normally it finishes around 8, I think it started a little earlier this week.
Yeah, it was the same length as usual.
Maybe it felt shorter because it was exciting.
Plus we're so used to extended finales as well.
Sarah Jane Adventures ;_;
Well that was weird and silly and a bit of a cheat, but who didn't think it would be? And yet all strangely satisfying, so I'm happy.
Also, first liveblog, check.
I don't know> I think it was less of a cheat than previous finales. IThe tesselectra was setup well in advance, present in the episode, along with the Doctor lying…
Also, I think the Flesh was a huge red herring that worked. Everyone was like "omg it's going to be a flesh Doctor" and Moffat was like HAHAHA NO IT IS A TESSELECTRA DOCTOR
…for a moment, i was going to carry on commenting. But then I realised I'd be commenting about Merlin. Oops.
Merlin was still pretty good though.
I'm torn. It might have been better than DW :/
Fine, fine, I'll hang around for hot knights.
Hot Knights, better than Doctor & River nights? There's already been Prince Arthur with his clothes off…
That… was better than I thought it was going to be.
For a River/Myth Arc episode, everyone's reaction is much better than expected.
Wait, does this mean we're actually going to find out his name whenever that battle is (presumably next series finale)?
I think it depends how long Moffat wants The Silence around as an antagonist.
I don't think we'll ever know it, but I think we might find out why it's such a big secret. Okay, I hope we find out why it's such a big secret.
I would like both of these things. :3c
I bet his name is something like Alonso. Or Percival. Or Bob.
Maurice!
Brian?
He is a very naughty boy.
Well, he's certainly not the messiah.
Though he kind of looked like Jesus at points in this episode what with the hair and all…
"THE FALL OF THE ELEVENTH"
do not want 🙁 🙁 🙁
at least we'll have the gang for another season! 😀
I feel like I could spend another ten seasons with Matt Smith as the Doctor.
srsly. the day the series finale ends. jesus i CAN'T imagine this series ending. EVER.
I KNOW I could. <3
Steve. His real name is Steve.
HOLY SHIT FUCK DFAWKGHAET;H
HOLY SHIT THAT WAS THE BEST GODDAMN THING EVER HOLY FUCK CANNOT COHERENCY
FUCK YEAH AMY KILLING THAT BABY-STEALING BITCH
FUCK YEAH RORY BEING EVEN MORE BAMF THAN NORMAL
FUCK YEAH RIVER FOR BUTTFUCKING TIME THROUGH SHEER FORCE OF WILL (WHICH WAS PROBABLY NOT A GOOD THING BUT YEAH)
FUCK YEAH DOCTOR FOR FIXING IT AND SHIT
THE PONDS: BADASS FAMILY FOREVER AND FOR ALL OF TIME omg it just hit me that the doctor finally has a proper family again ALL MY CREYS
SO
MUCH
JOY
So yeah, Daleks don't fear River Song, they fear her mother.
When the Dalek begged River for mercy, she conceded by shooting it herself rather than fetching her parents.
ALSO, THE QUESTION BEING 'DOCTOR WHO': I. FUCKING. CALLED. IT.
lol at Amy for being a little bit worried about being the Doctor's mother-in-law.
So does this mean every time Rory (or anyone else for that matter) dies in future episodes (come on, you know it's inevitable), it's going to be a miniature Rory (or other character) in a robot body?
And now I wonder about River in FotD.
I was just thinking about that! TBH I wouldn't mind if River in FotD was a robot River because then she wouldn't get her crapsack "I get to live in a computer forever" ending.
There might be a way for the Doctor to download her from the computer into a Ganger or something.
I also wonder what the Ponds would do if they found out future!River was digitalized in a Library.
I want this to happen so bad. Yes, I know it's supposed to be the end of her life and therefore we see her life backwards, blah blah blah, DON'T CARE, RIVER SHOULD LIVE, AND NOT IN A COMPUTER.
Also, I think it's clear the Ponds would show up, make the Vashta Nerada run away, and then demand the computer give River back OR ELSE. Because even reality and time bend for the Last Centurion and the Girl Who Waited, as adequately demonstrated.
RIVER SHOULD LIVE, AND NOT IN A COMPUTER.
I agree! She's too badass to spend the rest of her existence reading stories to virtual children.
And, you know, why NOT download her into a Ganger? Or have the Doctor come by just after the events of FotD and lend her one of his regenerations? There are a lot of ways they could bring her back.
So when River and the Doctor are having their big emotional moment by the lake, there's like a bunch of tiny little people having it with them? Why do I find this so hilarious?
Because it is hilarious!!
Oh yeah, that's why!
Do we know for sure they were still in there? He was dancing around the eye and talking ot River at the same time, so obviously you don't need to be in the control room to run all the controls. And if he could run the voice from not the control room then maybe he's running everything else on his own too (the Tardis is right behind him when we see in the eye). So maybe they beamed up to the mother ship and gave him the robot body to use himself.
oh dude the tardis was there? i didn't even see. that explains where she went!
It's funny because when the teselecta was first introduced in LKH, I thought the Doctor was going to fly the TARDIS into it and Doctor/Amy/Rory would get miniaturized through the power of the TARDIS' dimensional thingy it can do. I think that's the technical term, anyway. So I think it's neat that the Doctor must have landed the TARDIS in there, because how else would it get shrunk? I wonder how many tries it took for him to do it 🙂
Confidential time *tear*
I hadn't thought of the flirting issues brought about by eyepatches.
I would like more footage of Matt flirting please.
In an eyepatch. 😀
Confidential is not available on iPlayer! ;___________; I was counting on that!
Oh… it seems it is now. Yay!
…who would have thought that the Silence was really attractive under the suit?
OK so had time to digest it. Pretty good overall but I'm hoping we go back to single episodes next year (I've heard this is happening anyway but yeah)
A few things I didn't like, kinda annoyed that we still don't know why the TARDIS exploded in Series 5. You can assume the Silence did it but no one explains that or confirms it.
Also when the Silence are about to kill Rory, how did Amy return? Shouldn't she have forgotten all about them as soon as she left since she didn't have her eye-drive anymore?
When I say single episodes I mean standalone with less of a focus on an overarching story, season 5 had the cracks but they didn't completely dominate very many episodes overall.
But she would remember Rory wouldn't she? And maybe wonder why she was leaving him behind?
Yeah thinking about it again it's been long established that Amy remembers things better than most people, she remembered seeing the Silence at Lake Silencio and in the Whitehouse when she talked to the one in the Whitehouse bathroom. Also rebooting the universe and such.
Karen Gillen + Dressing Gown + Machine Gown = BADASS
Rory and Amy have an amazing back garden.
This River bit in Confidential is making me think how heart breaking it would be to see the Doctor telling the Ponds River's dead.
EDIT: Also I still really want to see that final date even if I'd probably end up crying.
That Einstein short was hilarious.
And written by kids! I wouldn't mind seeing some of the other entries they got for the competition
Matt must have been loving it.
Well, that was a mess.
But I suppose that was the idea. And it was a lot of fun, so what the hell!
Urgh, I'm so confused. Why did they get married then? Was there a reason I'm missing, or were they just like, well, why the hell not? (And why couldn't the Doctor tell River, 'lol, not really me' at the lake?)
On the other hand, 'texting and scones' pretty much sums up my last relationship, so win.
Because, er… well… because Moffat. That is the only answer that will ever be truly given to us fans.
So he would have an excuse to kiss the bride and end the time-freeze.
Like chichichimaera said, but also so she would let him get close enough to look in his eye without risking anyone else hearing what was going on. Same at the lake, he didn't want to risk the Silence overhearing.
And so he could "[give] all he could give her".
Because he had never met someone who would suffer more at his death than the whole rest of the universe would suffer if he lived.
The Doctor should take Dorium's head on as a companion.
How did the Teselecta mimic regeneration? Can it do that?!
(am I misremembering that when we first saw that scene, the Doctor started to regenerate before he was shot again?)
The tesselecta can mimic anything. Like a motobike that works and everything. So the regeneration was probably easy for them
Wow. Well. I'll be damned.
I hope next series is more fun… this was all too serious.
CHRISTMAS PTERODACTYLLLLL
Fluffybeard.
WAIT A MINUTE. The fact that that robot thing from Let's Kill Hitler (The tessalecta?) is being featured so prominently in this Previously On has got me thinking a Robot Doctor will be dying in the real ones place.
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WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON. Is everyone suddenly immortal? Or time is … frozen…
Moffat, look, you really need to stop it with these vaugely sexist remarks, really.
The Doctor and Dumbledore, both huge fans of knitting patterns.
EYEPATCH, so they must be something to do with helping you remember them, right?
That was a terrible special effect, WELL OF SKULLS 😀 NUNG NUNG NUNG RAAARRRRR.
MOFO SILENCE. D: THEY ARE HEEEEEERE.
AHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
OMGWTFBBQTHAT WAS AWESOME HATERS
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MUSIC VIDEO TIME
RIVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRR. You might have just broken all of time but you are still a BAMF.
So, she prevented the Doctor's death and now all of time is happening at once? Did the rest of the season just get erased again?
I can handle Silents, right up until they do that ROOF CLING, ERRRRRGHHH.
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Massive DNW.
It makes me wonder if they're related to bats or something.
Oh god the roof cling freaks me right the hell out.
so much DO NOT WANT
AMY, WHAT IS THIS, WHAT IS THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
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You seriously need a haircut Doctor, you're about to cross the fine line between long hair and a mullet.
Rorrrrrrryyyyy!
There is definitely something going on here. Million bucks says River and/or Kovarian is waiting upstairs.
I think I liked it a lot more the second go 'round.
Heh, I was right.
Run, Rorrrrrrryyyyyyy.
Amy with a gun taking out Silents like the BAMF she is.
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All my dreams come true.
What, WHAT WHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT. THEY JUST GOT MARRIED. I AM TOO HUNGOVER FOR THIS.
And he told her his name. So, is Doctor who the question then?
So, after a series of endless trolling, Moffat's gone for a finale where everything really is EXACTLY AS YOU THOUGHT IT WOULD BE. River's wedding? Boom. Yep, she marries the Doctor. River's in the suit? Boom. She was, but couldn't go through with it.
River drops in for a wine with her mum and I cried ALL THE TEARS.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. FUCKING RIGHT ABOUT THE TESSALECTA.
And it is Doctor who… so, Moffat is setting this up as a lead in to the 50th anniversary series then? The fall of the Eleventh. HMMMMMMMMM.
Overall, series 5 had a much stronger mytharc, but series 6 wasn't without it merits, which mainly were The Doctor's Wife, because NEIL FUCKING GAIMAN.
Now I have to go skull a liter or more of water and inhale a bacon sandwich. BREAKFAST TIME, YAY.
Just started!!! Coolest London EVER!
Shaggy Doctor!!
Cool chess board. Creepy tunnel.
secret tunnel secret tunnell seecrettttt tunnnneeelllll
Dorium + the Doctor are so fun, why did we not get to hang out with them til he got headless.
Twenty-eight minutes on the east coast until Doctor Who!!!
Brigadier!!! Aww. 🙁
So the Doctor dies and the Universe breaks?
Rory looks like G. I. Joe.
well the only thing I can think of to improve it would be if madam vastra and jenny made an appearance.
That improves everything, so it doesn't count.
BAMF Ponds! Heck Yes!!!
It’s about to start! 🙂 asdf jkl; asdf jkl;