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'''''The Wedding of River Song''''' was the thirteenth and final episode of [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|series 6]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. | '''''The Wedding of River Song''''' was the thirteenth and final episode of [[Series 6 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 6]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. | ||
The episode featured an unusually extreme alteration to the course of history resulting from a change to a [[fixed point]] in time. It also showed how the Doctor survived his supposed death and it concluded a long-running story-arc when the Doctor [[marriage|married]] River Song. However, a new arc arose in its place with a prophetic statement about the Doctor's future battles, which would become a pressing matter in [[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|due time]]. It's also the first time since the first half of [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]] that Amy's pain of losing Melody on [[Demons Run|Demon's Run]] is mentioned, and she takes her anger out on [[Kovarian]] by killing her. | The episode featured an unusually extreme alteration to the course of history resulting from a change to a [[fixed point]] in time. It also showed how the Doctor survived his supposed death and it concluded a long-running story-arc when the Doctor [[marriage|married]] River Song. However, a new arc arose in its place with a prophetic statement about the Doctor's future battles, which would become a pressing matter in [[Series 7 (Doctor Who 2005)|due time]]. It's also the first time since the first half of [[Series 6 (Doctor Who 2005)|Series 6]] that Amy's pain of losing Melody on [[Demons Run|Demon's Run]] is mentioned, and she takes her anger out on [[Kovarian]] by killing her. | ||
This episode was notable for featuring [[Simon Callow]] to briefly reprise his role of [[Charles Dickens]], who was last seen six years prior to this episode in the [[Ninth Doctor]] story, [[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]''. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] stories had up until then remained somewhat detached from the [[Russell T Davies]]-era, introducing a purely new entourage of human and humanoid characters to work with instead of bringing back the old ones. This cameo, as well as stories after this one, effectively broke the practice. | This episode was notable for featuring [[Simon Callow]] to briefly reprise his role of [[Charles Dickens]], who was last seen six years prior to this episode in the [[Ninth Doctor]] story, [[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]''. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] stories had up until then remained somewhat detached from the [[Russell T Davies]]-era, introducing a purely new entourage of human and humanoid characters to work with instead of bringing back the old ones. This cameo, as well as stories after this one, effectively broke the practice. | ||
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With the ''Teselecta''<nowiki/>'s information, the Doctor tracks down [[Gantok]]. He challenges Gantok to a game of [[Live Chess|live chess]], an illegal game that has electricity run through the pieces that increases with each move. The Doctor corners Gantok, with the queen being his only legal move; however, the voltage is too much, even with the protective glove he wears. Gantok asks the Doctor to concede in exchange for a favour; though fearful of retribution from the Silence, Gantok agrees to take the Doctor to [[Dorium Maldovar]], who can answer the Doctor's questions. Gantok brings the Doctor to the [[Seventh Transept]], where the Headless Monks keep their heads. The richest have their heads preserved in boxes, which shocks the Doctor upon finding Dorium's, which sneezes. Gantok then tries to kill the Doctor in revenge for being beaten at chess; however, he falls into a trapdoor that drops him into a pile of ravenous skulls. | With the ''Teselecta''<nowiki/>'s information, the Doctor tracks down [[Gantok]]. He challenges Gantok to a game of [[Live Chess|live chess]], an illegal game that has electricity run through the pieces that increases with each move. The Doctor corners Gantok, with the queen being his only legal move; however, the voltage is too much, even with the protective glove he wears. Gantok asks the Doctor to concede in exchange for a favour; though fearful of retribution from the Silence, Gantok agrees to take the Doctor to [[Dorium Maldovar]], who can answer the Doctor's questions. Gantok brings the Doctor to the [[Seventh Transept]], where the Headless Monks keep their heads. The richest have their heads preserved in boxes, which shocks the Doctor upon finding Dorium's, which sneezes. Gantok then tries to kill the Doctor in revenge for being beaten at chess; however, he falls into a trapdoor that drops him into a pile of ravenous skulls. | ||
The screams awake Dorium, who jokes about his condition. The Doctor asks about the Silence, and why he got stuck being killed at [[Lake Silencio]]; the location was chosen as it was easier to create a [[fixed point]] to ensure that the Doctor died without fail. Dorium insists that if the Doctor lives, on the fields of [[Trenzalore]], [[Siege of Trenzalore|at the fall of the Eleventh]], [[Truth Field|when no creature can speak falsely or fail to answer]], [[ | The screams awake Dorium, who jokes about his condition. The Doctor asks about the Silence, and why he got stuck being killed at [[Lake Silencio]]; the location was chosen as it was easier to create a [[fixed point]] to ensure that the Doctor died without fail. Dorium insists that if the Doctor lives, on the fields of [[Trenzalore]], [[Siege of Trenzalore|at the fall of the Eleventh]], [[Truth Field|when no creature can speak falsely or fail to answer]], [[Aliases of the Doctor#Doctor Who|a question that must never be answered will be asked]]: [[The Question|the first question]], hidden in plain sight. To Dorium's surprise, the Doctor doesn't know the question, despite its significance to him. He asks if his visitor wants to know the question. The Doctor agrees nervously. | ||
Taking Dorium's head with him, the Doctor determines to continue his [[farewell tour]]. However, when he learns his old friend [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] is dead, his bravado crumbles. He accepts his time has come. He gives the ''Teselecta'' invitations to deliver since it would involve crossing his own timeline, which is a bad idea. He goes to Lake Silencio with [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams]] and [[River Song]], where they drink a bottle of [[wine]] [[Napoléon Bonaparte|Napoleon]] threw at him. An [[The Impossible Astronaut|impossible astronaut]] rises from the lake and he goes to meet it; as before, he orders his companions to stay back and not interfere no matter what they see. The astronaut's visor lifts to reveal River Song, trapped in the suit by [[the Silence]]. She has no control over the suit as it prepares to kill the Doctor. He explains she won't remember murdering him and will serve time for a crime she doesn't remember and committed against her will. He forgives her unconditionally, shutting his eyes as her arm rises to deliver the three deadly blows. | Taking Dorium's head with him, the Doctor determines to continue his [[farewell tour]]. However, when he learns his old friend [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] is dead, his bravado crumbles. He accepts his time has come. He gives the ''Teselecta'' invitations to deliver since it would involve crossing his own timeline, which is a bad idea. He goes to Lake Silencio with [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams]] and [[River Song]], where they drink a bottle of [[wine]] [[Napoléon Bonaparte|Napoleon]] threw at him. An [[The Impossible Astronaut|impossible astronaut]] rises from the lake and he goes to meet it; as before, he orders his companions to stay back and not interfere no matter what they see. The astronaut's visor lifts to reveal River Song, trapped in the suit by [[the Silence]]. She has no control over the suit as it prepares to kill the Doctor. He explains she won't remember murdering him and will serve time for a crime she doesn't remember and committed against her will. He forgives her unconditionally, shutting his eyes as her arm rises to deliver the three deadly blows. | ||
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[[File:Area 52.jpg|thumb|left|The train arrives at "Area 52."]] | [[File:Area 52.jpg|thumb|left|The train arrives at "Area 52."]] | ||
The Doctor awakens in Amy's office on a train; he tries reasoning with her, and make Amy remember the proper timeline. However, he stops once he sees that the walls of the office are lined with drawings of their adventures. Thanks to the [[time | The Doctor awakens in Amy's office on a train; he tries reasoning with her, and make Amy remember the proper timeline. However, he stops once he sees that the walls of the office are lined with drawings of their adventures. Thanks to the [[time rift]] which Amy grew up next to, she can [[history-proofing|things that never happened]]; however, she doesn't recall that Captain Williams, a soldier in her force, is Rory. The train is bound for the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] - [[Area 52]]. Amy wonders if things can stay like they are, but the Doctor tells her that this mess on Earth will spread to the rest of the cosmos until all of reality will fall apart. | ||
In Area 52, the Doctor and Amy walk past more than 100 captured Silents; he is given an eyepatch, which is explained as an external memory storage system to remember the Silents. They arrive in the King's Chamber, where River awaits them. [[Madame Kovarian|Kovarian]] is a prisoner, tied to a chair, annoyed at how the Doctor continues to live. "Did my best, dear; I showed up. You just can't get good psychopaths these days." River taunts Kovarian, telling her it was a big mistake to kidnap and raise a girl into a perfect psychopath and introducing her to the Doctor; who else would River fall in love with? | In Area 52, the Doctor and Amy walk past more than 100 captured Silents; he is given an eyepatch, which is explained as an external memory storage system to remember the Silents. They arrive in the King's Chamber, where River awaits them. [[Madame Kovarian|Kovarian]] is a prisoner, tied to a chair, annoyed at how the Doctor continues to live. "Did my best, dear; I showed up. You just can't get good psychopaths these days." River taunts Kovarian, telling her it was a big mistake to kidnap and raise a girl into a perfect psychopath and introducing her to the Doctor; who else would River fall in love with? | ||
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They kiss and time moves again. River shoots the Doctor thrice, preventing his [[regeneration]]. He dies. The distorted timeline vanishes. | They kiss and time moves again. River shoots the Doctor thrice, preventing his [[regeneration]]. He dies. The distorted timeline vanishes. | ||
Sometime later, River, fresh from the crash of the ''[[Byzantium ( | Sometime later, River, fresh from the crash of the ''[[Byzantium (spacecraft)|Byzantium]]'', arrives at her mother's home to split a bottle of wine. Amy wonders what the events in the aborted, frozen timeline say about her, particularly her murder of Kovarian. She needs to talk about her guilt with the Doctor, but he is dead. River disagrees. Amy notes that her daughter is still having adventures with him in the centuries before his death, but River tells her a secret which she probably shouldn't. As Rory joins his wife and daughter, they dance for joy until Amy realises to her horror she is the Doctor's [[mother-in-law]].[[File:Doctors_plan_revealed.jpg|thumb|The Doctor reveals his plan.]] | ||
A [[Headless monks|monk]] carries Dorium's head back to the Seventh Transept. Dorium recognises the Doctor and asks how he escaped. Discarding his disguise, the Doctor explains that he asked for some help from the ''Teselecta ''crew; he had it disguise itself as him while he and the TARDIS were safely inside of it. Simply, he was at Lake Silencio but had someone else take his place. | A [[Headless monks|monk]] carries Dorium's head back to the Seventh Transept. Dorium recognises the Doctor and asks how he escaped. Discarding his disguise, the Doctor explains that he asked for some help from the ''Teselecta ''crew; he had it disguise itself as him while he and the TARDIS were safely inside of it. Simply, he was at Lake Silencio but had someone else take his place. | ||
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* A [[Prequel (The Wedding of River Song)|prequel]] to this episode was released online.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/videos/p00kn2y6</ref> | * A [[Prequel (The Wedding of River Song)|prequel]] to this episode was released online.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/videos/p00kn2y6</ref> | ||
* [[Meredith Vieira]], co-host of the American morning news/chat programme ''Today'', filmed her cameo during a visit to the Upper Boat Studios as part of a profile of ''Doctor Who'' produced for {{wi|Today ( | * [[Meredith Vieira]], co-host of the American morning news/chat programme ''Today'', filmed her cameo during a visit to the Upper Boat Studios as part of a profile of ''Doctor Who'' produced for {{wi|Today (American TV program)|Today}}. The profile aired on 9 May 2011, contained several minor spoilers for this episode. It revealed the cameo appearance by [[Richard Hope]] as [[Malohkeh]] and the return of [[Ian McNeice]] as [[Winston Churchill]]. Appearances by several [[Cybermen]] served as a "false flag" spoiler suggesting they might also appear in the episode. They did not. | ||
* This is the first series finale of the revived series not to be a multi-part episode. In fact, it is the first series finale ever to only be one episode, though it can be seen to be completing the multi-part story started in [[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]''. It was also the first-series finale of the revival series not to feature a "classic series" adversary as the main antagonist, even though it featured a cameo of a [[Dalek]]. | * This is the first series finale of the revived series not to be a multi-part episode. In fact, it is the first series finale ever to only be one episode, though it can be seen to be completing the multi-part story started in [[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]''. It was also the first-series finale of the revival series not to feature a "classic series" adversary as the main antagonist, even though it featured a cameo of a [[Dalek]]. | ||
* In [[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'' the versions of the Doctor give their ages as 909 and 1103. The Doctor has apparently lived for almost two hundred years between these two episodes. Writer [[Gareth Roberts]] indicated in an interview that this is indeed two hundred years after ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'' for the Doctor and he spent these years "waving" at Amy and Rory through history books. | * In [[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'' the versions of the Doctor give their ages as 909 and 1103. The Doctor has apparently lived for almost two hundred years between these two episodes. Writer [[Gareth Roberts]] indicated in an interview that this is indeed two hundred years after ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'' for the Doctor and he spent these years "waving" at Amy and Rory through history books. | ||
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* The Doctor encounters the ''[[Teselecta]]'' again, and its [[Carter (Let's Kill Hitler)|captain]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') | * The Doctor encounters the ''[[Teselecta]]'' again, and its [[Carter (Let's Kill Hitler)|captain]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') | ||
* The Doctor again sports a beard. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]])'' | * The Doctor again sports a beard. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]])'' | ||
* When talking to Amy after the timeline has been restored, River mentions climbing out of the ''[[Byzantium ( | * When talking to Amy after the timeline has been restored, River mentions climbing out of the ''[[Byzantium (spacecraft)|Byzantium]]''. She is still in her combat fatigues and has just seen a younger Amy who had no idea as to River's identity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'' / ''[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]]'') | ||
* Amy is partially protected from some kind of temporal changes by her long-term exposure to [[The Cracks|the cracks]] in the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') | * Amy is partially protected from some kind of temporal changes by her long-term exposure to [[The Cracks|the cracks]] in the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') | ||
* When River says to the Doctor that time can be rewritten, he replies "Don't you dare." This is what River says to the [[Tenth Doctor]] in a similar situation ([[TV]]:'' [[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'') and echoes the sentiment of the [[First Doctor]] when trying to stop [[Barbara Wright]] interfering in [[Aztec]] history. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'') | * When River says to the Doctor that time can be rewritten, he replies "Don't you dare." This is what River says to the [[Tenth Doctor]] in a similar situation ([[TV]]:'' [[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'') and echoes the sentiment of the [[First Doctor]] when trying to stop [[Barbara Wright]] interfering in [[Aztec]] history. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'') | ||