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.
I've got a fez, a bowtie, oddly painted nails, a vest and an "I <3<3 The Doctor" shirt… and STILL I feel I am not prepared. I want the new episode and yet i don't. Doctor Who, why are you so conflicting?
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I want balloon cars. >>
I WANT TO GO THERE
Dinosaur's in 2011. Do not want.
What? Malcom? Church hill?
All of history is happening at once? Well…shit.
Explain faster
I like how the more I try to guess what Moffat's plan is, the more my brain starts to physically hurt.
Vg hjbdkenwjk ghjeb hj hjel d dhk!!! Ok matt smith has jesus beard. Sooooo distracting….
That first part looks confusingly like a rot13 rather than a keysmash… especially since "Vg" is correct rot13 for "It".
"A woman." Sigh. Was that really necessary?
Where is this? Where!?
Yay! Tessalecta:)
Chess, but X-TREMEEEEEEE
lol the seedy underbelly of Live Chess. DO WANT.
Hai there odin!
Moving skulls? Why, Moffat, why?
*tries to stop humming indiana jones theme song but fails*
Skulls? And they behead you alive? Well I know who's not sleeping for awhile.
D: D: D: Moffat, why would you make me scared of piles of skulls too? Whyyyyy?
Is this turn left doctor style?? Or something??
It's turn left Moffat style. Less lingeringly creepy, more pterodactyls.
I could do without the sexism prevalent in this episode.
Ditto.
ITS HIS NAME ! It has to be!! Calling it now!
While were on commercial break I’ll try to compose my thoughts…still not working…
Tee hee jesus robe 🙂
omg, the marks? nooooo
So then if silence falling means the Doctor's death, then that means the Silence/Silents won't be defeated? Well, we're boned.
Because utah is awesome duh!
Rose referance!!
Flashbacks? My tears.
wtf stop it marks, stop it! I don't want to see more of you!
Silence marks nooooooo:(
So it really is her…? Did Moffat trick us by making us think he'd trick us?
What!!
wait what….
Wait What
WAIT WHAT
…River, da fuq u did?
River broke time? That's amazing.
D: Why are they always on the ceiling? Why?
Well great….
Wut.
Wat.
WHAT?!
On the plus side– Amy makes the Silence eyepatch look goooooood. Werk it gurl.
I know right?
what. WHAT. WHAT?!?!?!?!
Ok I just have to say the greenscreen usage is well…maybe…not the best. 🙁
Oh, so THAT'S why her room was #7. Because she's 007.
Is that the TARDIS cookie jar on the table?
AMY REMEMBERED LIFE IS AWESOME. THERE IS A WHOLE TEAM WORKING ON IT. FUCK YEAH. HUUUUUGS!
Yay every thing makes sense! Kind of;)
…Rory and Amy aren't together? Life is AWFUL. ;_;
RORY~ I missed you! <3
Amy and Rory aren't together and time is disintegrating? Well we're boned.
OH THERE HE IS. I'd really appreciate it if you quit jerking me around, Show.
That’s why she has an eyepatch!!
Doctor, you really are the worst wingman ever. Never change. <3
Oh, Captain Williams is Rory? …Mkay then.
<3 Rory and Doctor moments shall be missed when the team is broken up.
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"Oh, they're flirting; do I have to watch this?" And suddenly I love that chick.
No! Bad Silent, bad! You stay in your glass case of (lack of) emotion!
Silence = NO THANK YOU.
Really really bad time to have just rewatched waters of mars…
Well, shit.
Okay why are they making a big deal about the Brigadier's death but nothing about Sarah Jane's? I want to see that addressed sometime.
ALSO WHAT IS THE GODDAMN QUESTION MOFFAT STOP TEASING ME
I have no idea of the validity of this, but I've heard she actually did film a few episodes more before she got too sick to continue, and that they're planning on airing those later this month.
So maybe she'll get an acknowledgment next year? Her actress did get a dedication at the beginning of Impossible Astronaut, so if they're going to have the character go out with the actress as well, it'd make the most sense to do it after her show has officially closed. (Then again, maybe we can just pretend Sarah Jane just lives forever having adventures. 🙁 🙁 🙁 )
Yes. The final series starts airing tomorrow in the UK. They filmed half of series five at the same time as series four, to make it easier to schedule for the kids. The plan, before Lis got too ill to do it, was to finish series five and film series six this year.
So, yes, there are three completed stories still to go. I don't know how they're planning to end the series, but it's not carrying on with a new lead so they could leave it open ended if they wanted to.
Apparently one of the three stories they were able to film was, what was meant to be, the series finale. so it looks like we will get something of an ending.
They aired the advert for SJA right after Who on BBC1 yesterday. It was ALL THE TEARS
Because Sarah Jane isn't dead. Russel T Davies who's still in charge of the Sarah Jane Adventures was very adamant about not killing Sarah Jane off. He wants to preserve the illusion of her being somewhere out there having adventures.
This makes me feel warm and fuzzy. SARAH JANE SHOULD JUST NEVER DIE OKAY. She's conquered death with her awesome. The Brig did that too, but he decided he'd best be sporting about it. Eventually. (I like to think the Doctor wasn't phoning back in time, he was just phoning from Dorium's time, IE, the 51st century or whatever.)
If only that worked in real life. 🙁
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I love this. All the upvotes.
Aw, I like that ending.
rooory:( nooo!
Rory, why are you so perfect? Please go with the others~.
YEAH! GO AMY! WOOT!
Well that was unexpected…
EVERYTHING ABOUT THAT ENTIRE SCENE MAKES ME SO VICIOUSLY HAPPY I COULD JUST MACHINE GUN A BUNCH OF SILENTS IN GLEE.
"So, you and I should get a drink some time." "Okay." "I'm married." "Fine." Oh you two. <3
i think it was AND married, lol, cos Amy in this timeline wasn't yet married.
Lol, yeah, I realized reading back through the comments that I misheard (though I thought she meant in jest as in she was already married to him even though they were going on a date *shrugs*). In my defense, I was laughing at Rory's general calmness about the whole thing so much that it kinda got drowned out a bit.
Of feisty Amy. I like.
I was downstairs at the start of the episode so I couldn't comment until now… My first reaction to finding out that time is stopped at 5:02pm and all of time is bleeding together: "Oh Moffatt. You've done it again."
Why does everything revolve around time with him? 😛
He's secretly a Time Lord trapped in our time, and he's trying to send out a distress signal.
You tell her, Doctor.
OMG he says "don't you dare" when she says "time can be rewritten" JUST LIKE SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY OMG OMG OMG
:,(
"We got married and had a kid and that's her." "… Okay." Rory, you are WAY too accepting and that is why you are amazing.
Even though I knew it was coming, I still didn't the wedding. Blegh.
BGJKSDBGJSBDKSNVLD;;;!!!! HANDFASTING. THE DOCTOR AND RIVER MARRIED BY HANDFASTING?! EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL AND EVERYTHING HURTS.
Okay, they killed him. Now they have 7 minutes to fix it.
So the doctors bowtie was like a giant plot point the entire time?
omg she refused to kill him and that stopped time omg their love is so timey wimey
That moment where you just need to scream because your brain is already so amazingly confuzzled and there's still nine minutes left for Moffat to have his fun with.
Awkward family. Yay.
"And I'm his… mother-in-law." EXCELLENT FACE, AMELIA POND.
AND WITH THAT LINE STEVEN MOFFAT AND KAREN GILLAN HAVE SLAIN A FLUFF.
“Mother-in-law…” <3 <3
DOCTOR IN A DOCTOR SUIT… so simple! so genius! THANK GOODNESS!
Yo dawg I heard you like Doctors…
Yeah, the question wasn't surprising at all.
And what sort of time do you call this?
What happened right after the Doctor and River got married? Before the commercial break? My signal froze. 🙁 I was able to see the very end, though.
It just showed River shooting him and other various Doctor Being Dead/Cremation Scenes from "The Impossible Astronaut," and then all the anachronistic things disappearing from modern London.
Ooookay. People totally called the Tesselector AND the question.
At this point, I think the success is partly due to the fact that we're spewing out so many theories that its impossible not to get some of them right.
Ahhhhh, of course; Matty, you lying, cheating, trickster. I hate you and yet I still heart you forever. (That goes double for you, Moffat.)
Actually, I kinda have the same feeling about that ending as I did with finding out who River was. Like, because it's Moffat, he could solve it with anything so nothing is rarely finalized as the answer until revealed, and yet, because he could solve it with anything, the actual answer is always thought of at some point as fans go on increasingly crazier ideas to figure out how he did it, even if it's just in a passing thought. Thus, it fell right between totally caught by surprise and knew it all along. And like, that's somehow the worst feeling of all. And yet the best. Again, Doctor Who, you are a swirling time vortex of conflicting emotions.
FUCK YEAH AMY WITH A MACHINE GUN AND NO MERCY.
…Oh… oh no…
I went to take my fez off and that was the moment where I fully realized what "there won't be any more new episodes until December" means.
My heart. It cannot take the accceptance of such a fact. *begins weeping openly*
But it's October (despite the heatwave here) and then it'll be November and then it's DOCTOR WHO TIME.
Only my cousin has an awesomely timed wedding (even though they ACTUALLY got married back in May) on Christmas Eve. So I'm in MALAYSIA on Christmas Day. Missing Who. And also the Songs of Praise wot I am in. FAIL.
Solution: make them get married with a bow tie.
I believe there is a banquet, which I am cool with.
There is also a separate level in which I get to serve the happy couple tea and they give me cash in return for successfully unlocking certain skills and being able to say something in Chinese to them, which I am unsure of the meaning of. :/
Moffet is the master at making something really obvious that you should have known a suprise. First Melody Pond=River Song. Now Doctor Who?
I sense many many geeky weddings in the future that will use this bowtie ceremony
Just…just, I can’t even. My brain is splattered on the walls. But’s that why we have lists:) 1. Ok firstly, that is the best and most creative alternate reality ever. Silurians and Churchhill. And hot romans. And dinosaurs. ‘Nuff said.
2. Tessalacta yay 🙂
3. MOFFAT YOU JUST MADE A REFERANCE TO A PREVIOUS COMPANION, I LOVE YOU FOREVER. So much so I almost don’t care that it’s not Donna. Almost.
4. Indiana Jones much?
5. About the carniverous skulls. Props to Moffat for deciding what will be in my room. Again.
YAAAAAY THE DOCTOR LIVES!!!
Doctor Hoo?
6. Karen Gillan is the only woman ever to exist that can rock an eye patch like that. Just sayin.
7. “For texting and scones.” Can I come? I’ll bring my own scones!
8. Ok seriously, Madam Kovarian. We NEVER find out why she had such a huge vendetta against the doctor! So were left to assume that she was part of a religion that wanted the doctor dead? I mean I guess we are, but it seems Moffat just went “She wants to kill the doctor which makes her automaticly evil, so who cares about her backstory?”. I just feel like they could’ve given a really fantastic backstory for hating the doctor as much as she did and like they didn’t…But then again knowing this show if they went to all the trouble to show her death scene then I think we know she’s coming back.
DITTO KOVARIAN plot line. my money's w/ you on moffat bringing her back. srsly, that man does not take anything for granted.
Remember she dies in an aborted timeline. Nothing at all says that this remains permanent after things are set right…
But yes, argh, want backstory on that woman.
I don't think she, or most of the Silence, have a PERSONAL vendetta against the Doctor. I think they've just seen what he's done, they fear it, so they want him gone. They also know that Silence will fall when the question is asked and I think they really want it to.
I mean, how rational and logical are most religions really? That's not really the point of them, is it?
I know it's a small thing, but I was really happy it was a dalek-free season- UNTIL THEY SHOWED A DALEK. Damn, so close!
Well, at least it didn't have any lines.
9. So the bowtie was a giant plot point all along then 😉
10. Okay what was with Matt Smith’s hair this episode??*grumbles pettily*
11. That scene at the end with River and Amy? SO GOOD. I really love the idea of River popping in at the end of the day to drink a glass of wine and just gossip about the doctor 🙂
12. “So that makes me his…mother-in-law?” Now that I can never rewatch Time of angels…
13. RIVER SONG RIVER SONG RIVER SONG. Next season. NOW.
JUST OVER THIRTY MINUTES.
I cannot look at Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr right now. The internet has EXPLODED with spoilers.
omg just like the TARDIS
amirite amirite
Where I was like an hour ago. It's always weird to start typing tumblr into my browser and then having to be SHIT WAIT NO STOP
TEN MINUTES.