Doctor Who Season 6: 5 Questions About “The Wedding of River Song”

he is not god that is just frightening that irresponsible maniac the creator of all life sssuuuurrrreeee ill pass on that theory i think hes the most powerfull time lord thats all.

He has also said that Time-Lords came first.

I am sorry we dont get the SJ chronicles here in the states. As for the Doctor’s name..River told it to him in the Library to prove that she was his wife! While I also agree that the Doctor is very very smart I don’t think he is the strongest. We have seen the master and the Time Lord’s leader (his name escapes me now) have been stronger. The Doctor has just been smarter than them always…lol. As for all the divirgent timelines? who knows what is fact now and what isn’t. That is the beauty of the reboots..all kinds of things may have changed and it could just be a butterfly effect and this is a long game like we have seen with the cracks in the wall. I for one wait with baited breath for this wonderful series to continue!!

The Doctor is not Rassilon, as he’s met him on at least three occasions, and vowed to kill Rassilon if they were to meet again.  It’s also been established that The Doctor is a clone of “The Other”, who fought against Rassilon’s rule when the Time Lords were being established.

Honestly, it doesn’t matter much. Neither RTD nor Moffat have any respect for the classic TV series.  They’ve done what they want, and will continue to do so. I just wish they could do so without illogical plot lines and cop-outs like “love conquers all”, “The Doctor Lies”, and general 11th hour antics.

He said i dont wanna marry you cuz thats just how they roll. shes dangerous, okay, but shes sexy which is an interesting combo…i would marry her though…

but obviously she cares too much to kill him so she does love him. if he didnt matter to her why would she care?

i know im off topic, but this is what im saying: river and the doctor ARE married and he loves her even though he may not show it.

BLEH!

Could Rose be back? Hmm. Let me think…

Russell T. Davies wrote ‘Journey’s End’, in which a clone of The Tenth Doctor, and Rose, were left in a parallel universe, just waiting for an opportunity to bring David Tennant back, and specifically done to allow his return.

And as it was him AND Rose, and it was suggested that they get to live as a couple, then I guess Rose will be back for the 50th anniversary special.

Considering that The Doctor has just spent a year fighting religious fanatics wanting him to die, I’m pretty sure that the show has never really wanted to portray The Doctor as a Godlike figure. A saviour, yes, but he’s really about as Godlike as Reed Richards – they’re both really good at sci-fi science, not fantastical magic. He’s an old soul, a lonely wanderer, and he is very wise, but the whole point of this year has been that The Doctor isn’t a God, and he doesn’t want to be a General, either. He just wants to travel with his friends, have fun, and save people from suffering.

The Silence are a religious order, not just the aliens that were referred to as ‘The Sentinels of Time’, and they exist to stop the oldest question being asked – that on the fields of Trenzalor, when he will have to answer truthfully, and the 11th Doctor falls, someone will ask, “Doctor who?” But there is more to this Silence – they wear Omega symbols, and are happy to work with The Doctor and River to stop the Weeping Angels, and is implied to be towards the end of River’s timeline. They have Headless Monks, and are completely devoted to defeating him. Then there is Madame Kovarian… Who is she? Why does she hate The Doctor? Who is the leader of The Silence, given they were willing to kill her in this final episode?

The important questions:
- How does Prisoner Zero know about this?
- Why were there perception filters in Amy and Craig’s houses?
- Why was there a TARDIS in Craig’s house, and in a warehouse in Florida?
- What motive did The Silence have for attacking Rosanna from ‘Vampires in Venice’?
- Whose voice was it in the TARDIS before it exploded, and why destroy the universe?
- Have these ‘Sentinels of Time’ been manipulating the TARDIS?
- Who is Madame Kovarian?
- What does the question really mean?
- Why all the Omega symbols?
- Who is the leader of the Silence?
- Can Headless Monks remember the ‘Sentinels of Time’?
- Why are they so convinced The Doctor is a threat?
- How does Dorium know so much about the future?

My reading of this:

The voice in the TARDIS, and the leader of the Silence are one and the same, and it could be Omega (direct reference), or it could be a final regeneration of The Doctor, bitter and twisted and full of hate for his younger self (Omega, as in Last). It also explains how the Silence seem to have TARDIS like consoles, and passageways leading off from them that extended, seemingly, under the entire planets surface. It would also explain why the person would want to destroy our universe if it was Omega – he’s self elsewhere – or if it was an evil final Doctor who hates his younger self (he could even create a paradox machine from his TARDIS to do it). They could easily do it by having The Silence make River blow the TARDIS up with one of those creatures in there, or by Omega, or a Cartmel-like Other-Doctor, using backdoor access into the TARDIS itself.

Prisoner Zero and Rosanna could have been told to tell The Doctor what they knew as a warning – don’t go down this path, The Silence warned, and he didn’t listen.

It also fits in with the question:

Doctor: Someone has been controlling our lives for too long, and I think I just figured out who it is.
Amy: Doctor… who?
Doctor: I’ve always known Amy. The greatest threat to the universe… its me.

It would also fit in with the idea that time can be rewritten, as that would be the only way The Doctor could stop a future version of himself… and its so timey wimey that Moffat would love it.

The only problem with this is that we know one other thing about the question – it is a secret that no-one else should know the answer to. So, more than likely, they are asking about either The Doctor’s true identity, which could answer, at last, why he has been running his whole life, or someone else’s identity. It could be about some original sin, committed back when The Doctor was young and still on Gallifrey, something that caused him to steal a TARDIS and flee, something that is only now coming back to bite him in the bum. So:

The Silence: Who, Doctor? Who?
Doctor: Me. I did it.

Which, again, fits in with this theme about him being a silly old man. Maybe The Doctor did something terrible, a long, long time ago. Or maybe he has been lying about something for a long, long time.

One thing is for certain, the direction the series is heading in means that its heading into Time Lord territory – a return of the Time Lords, perhaps? Or a visit to old Gallifrey?

There was a dedication at the beginning of this season to her. At least, there was in the UK.

Sorry, that should be Nicholas Courtney who played the Brigadier. Briggs does the voice of the Daleks.

There will be Doctor Who in 2012. All that’s been confirmed is the lack of a full series. There will still be a special and probably a couple episodes next fall.

Also:
The crack in Amy’s wall is the same as the other cracks — They were caused by the TARDIS exploding.
Prisoner Zero was the snake thing with the perception filter that could change it’s appearance.

It would seem to be Moffat’s way of saying that some things should remain mysterious and unexplained with the Doctor. Over the decades, subsequent production teams have revealed the name of his race, the origins of his adventures, the name of his planet, the origins of his race and numerous other secrets. But other things – Was Susan really his granddaughter, and if so, who were her parents? Who were HIS parents? Was the Master just his classmate, or was there a deeper connection? etc – have never been (and should never be) revealed. Moffat is suggesting that it would be terrible if the Doctor’s name was revealed.

Agreed (though I couldn’t remember the exact words). I love the way that Doctor Who has a pseudo-scientific explanation for all sorts of traditional magical and fantasy concepts!

The Valeyard broke so many rules of time, was part of a much-maligned story/season, and a cliche to boot. (I’m not a fan.) I would imagine that the current production crew would want nothing to do with him, so my guess is that he’s out of current continuity, wiped out either in this season finale or the last. (I’m surprised at how little has been said about that. Moffat has twice given himself leave to rewrite the entire history of Doctor Who! At this rate, he’ll soon be working for DC Comics…)

Maybe this is just me, but it seems like a LOT of the stuff that happened this season was making oblique references to old sixth and seventh doctor plots. All season I’ve been thinking that Moffat is trying to say he hasn’t forgotten about that old stuff, that its very much on his mind. I’d be surprised if the Valeyard doesn’t come back in some way. And for the 50th anniversary? Evil 13th doctor vs the Legion of former Doctors…?! It would be incredible.

Bipedal artery system. Stupid apes.

Well, understanding light exists as both a particle _and_  a wave, who’s to say what’s impossible?

Reference: Arthur C. Clarke, others & geosynchronous satellites (1945).

Binary vascular system- bipedal is two-legged, and artery is veins- two hearts, far more than two veins. Stupid ape. Also, that could be evolved.

technically she is isnt dead… Elizabeth Sladen is but Sarah Jane isn’t.. if your sad like me and watch the Sarah Jane adventures, they end the show with her still alive.. just no more episodes, which means that Sarah Jane is still alive just the show would be unable to include her character anymore. It’s the same for a few of the other companions. They are still alive and living in the fictional dr who universe but will no longer be in the show. The Doctor does not really need to mention them. :p

The brigadier was still alive despite Nicholas Courtney being dead. They wrote that death into the canon. I was stating that I feel they should write Sarah Jane’s into it as well. It’s not like they’ll recast.

I dont feel she is a time lord but i do feel she has been changed in some sort of way because remember they have already had a female compainion become a time lord do to tardis energry it almost killed her. The doctor i think can be killed but always has a away of being changed because they alter time and i dont believe that time has fixed points but that the tardfis can create a fixed point in time because everytimes the doctor does something or gose somewhere he is remembered and is known in all time like when they travel to the past to kill hitler but then they find that robot proves that the doctor does more to the time then just saving it

There has been no female Time-Lord companion in the revived series. Rose had the energy from the Time Vortex inside her, which is a bit different.