It'll be interesting to see what happens is Amy and Rory have a son.
32X13 The Wedding of River Song (Grading/Discussion) SPOILERS
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And that's what we're here to talk about, isn't it?
I haven't had a chance to rewatch the finale but on one viewing I felt the wedding was forced and had no real meaning. Why did the Doctor marry River Song?
To have the opportunity to convince her, why else does he play along with anything until he gets through it. But, the Wedding did feel a very Romantic part/point in their relationship. I assume they are married, because, although it was the Tesselecta, he was piloting it, and providing it's words
Well, I felt the wedding was so he could say his name. Then it turns out he didn't say his name. But it fooled me and fooling others might have been the point (although only Rory and Amy were witnesses and River said it anyway).
We know he told River to look into his eyes, but he said out loud that he told River his name. I wonder if the Doctor thinks not only Amy and Rory are watching what's going on, and the wedding gave him an excuse to whisper something in River's ears and people won't suspect that it wasn't his name that he whispered. Since he would presume that other people were watching his 'death' (how else would the universe knows that he's dead?), and we know the Silents are in the pyramid just about to come up, so there could be Silents around in that scene.
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The word is fazed.
Being phased is what Captain Kirk will do to you when he comes in peace.
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Sorry couldn't resist.
Insert 11th Doctor's most withering look here...
Good additional point, very good.
I don't think anyone has really mentioned it but am I the only one who thought what The Doctor did to The Dalek was especially brutal. Don't get me wrong, I don't feel that bad for a single minded killing machine but still. Apparently The Doctor had to cripple The Dalek first, open it up and access it's data base then as a finale he rips off it's eye stalk. I thought it was a pretty dark moment.
Could it be what he whispered to her in LKH and therefore why the TARDIS taught her how to pilot it?
I liked the episode a lot more on my second run of it. I still wonder about the ending though. How does the Doctor really intend to keep off history's radar? He would effectively have to stop traveling, avoid another companion, etc. And I still want to know where the silence fit into the overall story of the show ...
By changing his name. He now calls himself Inspector Spacetime.
^ Maybe he'll actually get the chameleon circuit working. Surely no one would think that was the Doctor coming out of the piano.
I thought he told her she was a child of the Tardis.
This is an interesting look at River's timeline: http://www.twitvid.com/019TG
I haven't seen the library episode from which the clips at the end are taken, so I can only go by what's in those clips, but if I understand correctly River's memories are stored in a computer somewhere? Since she knows the Doctor's name, perhaps this computer will come into play again next series when apparently answering "Doctor Who?" is going to be a major issue.
I haven't seen the library episode from which the clips at the end are taken, so I can only go by what's in those clips, but if I understand correctly River's memories are stored in a computer somewhere? Since she knows the Doctor's name, perhaps this computer will come into play again next series when apparently answering "Doctor Who?" is going to be a major issue.
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