6x13 The Wedding of River Song

I don't like the idea and plot thread of "silence will fall when the question is asked" i just don't like it. It feels contrived and overly-whimsical and making the doctor too important and everything revolves around the doctor and the doctor has so many secrets even his name it's all so important and dangerous. No.

It's a contrived plot idea to increase importance around the doctor and a question, and it's a writer thinking they're clever by harping on about how important the question they have made is. It's nonsense, how contrived everything is around "the question"

So this universal religious order wants to kill the doctor because of the future actions he might do. No, but rather because of the question and secret around his name in the future. Or something.

It's terrible.

In this episode, all of history happened at once? That makes no sense at all.

The doctor destroys a dalek to get some information. Dalek's are just disposable villains now, even though they were once a ruthless enemy, and the enemy that destroyed the timelords. When 9 saw a dalek in the first season he was terrified because of what they had done, their power and capability. Nevermind.

Ugh.

I guess the reasoning is that the doctor has become a lot more powerful and experienced since then.

Some nonsense about the doctor needing to be dead so a "question" can never be asked because then silence will fall. Because of this question being asked and/or the answer. With words...

Lake Silencio in Utah is supposedly a fixed point in time because of the doctors death. Because it just is.

Nonsensical time happening all at once because of the fixed point being unfixed. Everything is nonsense. Nonsense how Amy and Rory are there. Nonsense memories. Nonsense action. Eyepatches no one checked them before? Silence creatures still there. But can now defeat an army with guns? These jokers are supposed to be threatening? Amy is our Amy i guess but Rory is a random Rory. It doesn't matter we're in nonsense land where nothing needs to make sense.

Ugh.

There's no tension at all.

It's lucky Amy and her soldiers found the doctor in this nonsense world.

Why didn't the doctor tell River his plan straight away? After all, time as "disintegrating" apparently. Time was of the essence.

I liked Amy killing Kovarian.

I like River's love for the doctor.

I do kinda like them getting married, but i didn't care much in the moment because of the quality of the episode.

I liked Amy's realization about being the doctor's mother in law.

I like River being able to visit her parents anytime now.

The doctor being the robot being on the beach was good, even if it seems a too simple of a resolution. and way to escape a fixed point.

The mystery around the doctor's name and the "doctor who" line feels like it's the writer trying to prove he's clever. It's just more contrived nonsense in-universe.

Terrible, terrible, terrible.

And this nonsense storyline is being spread out to season 7.

Ugh.

Doctor Who as a show hasn't fallen apart, but it's in the trash right now when it comes to the bigger story arcs.

This is one of the worst episodes of Doctor Who.

Season 1 finale. The Doctor and Rose race against time to defend against the Dalek invasion. They also learn about the twisted nature of those Dalek's and what they did to survive.

When the Dalek's attack we see some characters we liked in the previous episode and before die, like captain jack, a contestant and civilians. There was emotional depth to their deaths, even if Jack survived at the end.

We see the emotional turmoil, the emotional struggle of the doctor sending Rose back to protect her, and her emotional turmoil in trying to get back to him, and we see her street smarts in trying to get back to him. Then the awe-inspiring moment and power when she absorbs the time vortex and wipes away all the daleks. We also had the hard moral choice from the doctor whether to kill all the daleks, earth and himself and thus commit genocide, or become a dalek himself.

Nothing in this episode approaches any of that. Nothing in this episode approaches any of that depth.

I could go on and on about every season finale before this and how they're better.

In season 2 we have the cool enemies of the cybermen vs the daleks. The episode starts out with following through on the previous reveal, that of the daleks coming out of the hive ship. It's interesting as Rose tries to survive, and when the doctor finally confronts them. We then see the cool "what if" moments happen between the daleks and the cybermen. It's all really cool. And then at the end we have the extremely emotional moment of the doctor and Rose being torn apart.

Nothing in this episode comes even minutely close to that kind of awesome interesting action or emotional depth.