The Wedding of River Song (TV story): Difference between revisions

* [[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 (NBC 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]].

* The hat shot off the Doctor's head by River in [[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'' was a copy made by the ''Teselecta''.

== Continuity ==

* The Doctor uses the internal [[TARDIS phone]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]'', ''[[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]'', ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')

* [[Charles Dickens]] appears in an interview talking about an upcoming [[Christmas]] story involving ghosts. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'')

* The Doctor tells River that archaeology and gossip are the same thing. [[Tenth Doctor|His previous incarnation]] told her "I'm a time traveller. I point and laugh at archaeologists". ([[TV]]'': [[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'')

* Amy draws several creatures and moments from her adventure with the Doctor, including:

** the [[Weeping Angel]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'' / ''[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]]'')

** the [[Dalek]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')

** the [[Minotaur (The God Complex)|Minotaur]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'')

** the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')

** the [[Smiler]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]'')

** and of herself emerging from the [[Pandorica]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')

* Amy mentions the Doctor making it so that [[Silent|the Silence]] are killed on sight by humanity. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') Combined with the Minotaur in her drawings, this means the alternate Amy's memories go through to ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]''.

* The Doctor mentions [[Elizabeth I]] waiting in a glade to elope with him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]], [[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]'')

* The Doctor says, "Geronimo!" again. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[The Beast Below]]'', ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')

* [[Dorium Maldovar|Dorium]] tells the Doctor what the "question that must never be answered" is. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')

* The notion of [[The Question|"Doctor Who?"]] as a dark secret rather than simply a question has been mentioned before, ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'', ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'') and hinted at by [[Ian Chesterton]]: “Who is he? Doctor who? Perhaps if we knew his name, we might have a clue as to all of this”. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'')

* While held captive, Madame Kovarian is annoyed at River and the Doctor's flirting, as Amy was earlier. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')

* River mentions having to pretend not to recognise a space suit in 1969. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'')

* The Doctor makes marks on his arm when he sees the Silence. He also discovers them under the same circumstances as Amy did, inadvertently looking up at the ceiling where a large nest of Silence is roosting, then forgetting the encounter over and over as he keeps looking down, putting increasing numbers of tally marks on for each time he notices the Silence. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')

* River says she is a child of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]:'' [[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')

* The Doctor reads a knitting magazine. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')

* River shoots the Doctor shortly after marrying him. Her father, Rory, shot Amy while they were engaged. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')

* The Doctor is revealed to simulate a regeneration through use of the ''Teselecta''. He later explains he had exhausted all twelve of his allotted twelve regenerations, thus if he had suffered lethal wounding at Lake Silencio, he would not have begun to expel regeneration energy- instead, he would have died immediately. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')

* The Doctor later faces Dorium Maldovar's prophecy in [[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]''. There it is revealed that the Silence's efforts to change the future led to it coming to pass.

* The events with the future Doctor in ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'' are explored and what really happened is revealed.

* In an alternate timeline created by a [[continuity bomb]], the Doctor did not seek the help of the ''Teselecta'' and allowed River to prevent his death. The two then married and settled down for a domestic life as time remained frozen. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'')

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