New Who Review #87

The Wedding of River Song

This story was bad. It's the series 6 finale and it doesn't feel like it. This feels like it's a mid series episode to bridge us into the next half of the series. It should have impact on the show and move us forward into series 7 but it doesn't it just flops. I thought using the teselecta as the answer to kill the doctor was a cop out and we built a whole series up for that. The Silence were spooky in this breaking out the glass and going for the doctor. I loved the sunset atop the pyramid I thought that was beautiful it gave Egyptian nights Vibes. Overall a bad finale with some Beautiful shots. 5/10

What a completely ridiculous finale, I love it. There’s nothing more camp than that ending Doctor Who? Doctor Who? Doctor Who?

okay so it's a disastrous mess by pacing standards, and a lot of the choices it makes are baffling. however it is endlessly entertaining and has so much ideas and doctor who spirit in it that I must love it truly and completely despite all of it's misdemeanors

Underrated masterpiece. This episode went from a 3,5 in my first viewing to a perfect score.

First time I watched I was completely lost and I felt a bit cheated with the way the Doctor gets to live. Now, having watched all of classic and new who, plus a modest number of audio stories and a few novels, I have found a love for weird and unorthodox stories. Exactly like this one.

A fast-paced episode where everything seemed to fit in the right place, can't say there's a boring or unnecessary scene, everything moves the plot toward the conclusion. Plus I love episodes with a different timeline that causes the characters to act different, for timey-wimey reasons (like Inferno).

Coming back to the resolution, if you think it through it just makes sense, everyone sees him die, so as far as the universe is concerned, he died, which stops the paradox from being created (the resolution is somewhat similar to what happens in The Fires of Vulcan audio story, with the premise that the TARDIS was found buried in the ruins of Pompeii, which is something I haven't seen pointed out before). Plus, knowing how everything ends makes rewatching this season in particular extremingly gratifying.  The design of the "all of time together" world is really cool too.

I'll end by saying that I'm completely biased toward this era of the show. Moffat is tied with Hinchliffe and Cartmel (from Classic) as my favourite script editor/showrunner, so I'll always prefer a story from this period to any other. I just wish we got another season with the same amount of ambition and cleverness as series 6 had, even if I can understand it isn't everyone's cup of tea.

PS: I loved the Brigadier scene, even more knowing that's what makes the Doctor snap out of another Timelord Victorious moment and get back to reality, forcing him to face his fate.

Great episode. Yeah, there are still unanswered questions but until we find out that they're never gonna be answered, that is no complaint. I'm fully expecting Moffat to explain all of this by the time his run is over.

The Brigadier phone call was great and I'm very intrigued by the fact that they don't want The Doctor to be famous anymore and also that they're gonna explore The Doctor's identity. I'm apprehensive about that because I don't want them to mess it up but it is definitely interesting.