October 1st, 2011
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The Moffat Paradox
October 3rd, 2011 - 4:52pm“Steve moffat saying’all the questions are answered here’when acc not one of them were.”
I agree.What is this? Postmodern scriptwriting?
The patient viewer wants to see a plot that has a coherence, a consistency ,a logic and sensible resolution instead of characters saying “silence will fall when the question is asked” which is unknown.So why should the viewer not just cease caring and switch the channel in angry response?
Explain for example why and how in the “Pandorica Opens” this Silence wants to destroy the universe with the Tardis and how they do it?
Explain or spell out better for example if the girl in the Impossible Astrounaut/Day of the Moon in the spacesuit instead of the adult River is her being prepared for killing the Doctor by this Silence years before she regenerates and becomes the Alex Kingston River?
Explain how if the Silence believes the Doctor is the greatest threat to everything he is any worse than what they attempt to do in The Pandorica Opens.
Throwing everything including the kitchen sink into a series end without grounding in more COHERENT Plotting or thinking your cleverer than you are is an insult to the avid viewer.
TARDIS DUDE
October 3rd, 2011 - 4:21pmYeah. Thats what he called the doctor. A nick name
matt smithy
October 3rd, 2011 - 6:44amme nether. my exuse is that it was an effect
Anonymous
October 2nd, 2011 - 11:28pmThat is a genuine type of wedding. In fact it’s where we get the term “tying the knot” from.
King of the weevils
October 2nd, 2011 - 11:24pmIt might not be. Smith is currently signed till 2013 which doesn’t mean he will leave then as he once stated he wanted to beat tom bakers run as the doctor and do at least 8 years so we may not be at the fields of trenzalor till 2018
CG
October 2nd, 2011 - 11:22pmLepter, have i missed something???? It was the teselecta at the pandorica?
CG
October 2nd, 2011 - 11:17pmHow did the tessellector start to regenerate? In the impossible Astronaut it clearly starts to regenerate. But in the wedding it does not.
I don’t think Mr. Moffat thought this through at all.
King of the weevils
October 2nd, 2011 - 11:12pmI take it you’re referring to the music after the previously(which went on for a bit too long but it had “I am the doctor” so I won’t complain) as for the music after the previously that reminds me of something also the music just before the reveal that the soothsayer was the doctor sounded a lot like a variation of “The pandorica” from series 5.
Anonymous
October 2nd, 2011 - 11:09pmPatience is a virtue. This is exactly why we are stuck with so many one parters because everyone wants to be spoon fed the answers and can’t wait a year or four for a plot arc to finish.
King of the weevils
October 2nd, 2011 - 11:02pmAccording to DWM:the eleventh doctor vol 3 the line was originally cut from the impossible astronaut but info about the wedding of river song was probably unknown back when it was being written and researched so yeah could have been a delibrate cut or cut but to be put in this ep instead.
Anonymous
October 2nd, 2011 - 10:55pmIt might not have been, we can’t be certain if the line about Napoleon was edited out of The Impossibel Astronaut or not, or if it was deliberately only in The Wedding of River Song.
King of the weevils
October 2nd, 2011 - 10:54pmAmy and rory will appear in the Christmas special however judging by the filming pictures and all we know about the plot so far they may not have much to do again apart from be in some kind of danger and mainly focus on the doctor
King of the weevils
October 2nd, 2011 - 10:48pmIt was meant to be in the impossible astronaut,as was the Nazis in the POW camp, but was cut. Another thing you may not know is that the doctors line about napoleon(I believe that’s how you spell it) was meant to be in the impossible astronaut but was cut but appeared in last nights episode.
Anonymous
October 2nd, 2011 - 10:46pmShe didn’t think so.
Anonymous
October 2nd, 2011 - 10:32pmMiss Gillan did not, apparently she felt she wasn’t sexy enough in it.
Makes you wonder what would have happened if they had done it how she wanted.
Anonymous
October 2nd, 2011 - 10:31pmBecause she grew up with a crack in time in the wall of her bedroom so she can remember things that did not happen and see alternate timelines. Similarly her daughter inherited this from her mother but Rory was unaffected by them.
Anonymous
October 2nd, 2011 - 10:29pmWell somebody is going to ask him “Doctor Who?” and get an answer at the fields of Trenzalore. Why not River?
Gareth Stafford
October 2nd, 2011 - 10:27pmContinuing the upward trend of the episodes in this series, this episode had some nice references to the past, and a long overdue tribute to the Brig – bit disappointed that the episode wasn’t dedicated to him, but there you go….
Let’s see what Christmas brings….
Fox Mulder
October 2nd, 2011 - 9:57pmYeah more river maybe they will show the doctor and river have a proper emotional romantic moment, the night before she goes to the Libery were she dies. is it me but the doctor doesn’t have feelings for river yet does he.?
Fox Mulder
October 2nd, 2011 - 9:55pmIt was god awful but the twist at the end was epic
Fox Mulder
October 2nd, 2011 - 9:54pmIf Moffat leaves I hope Matt goes with him
Fox Mulder
October 2nd, 2011 - 9:53pmIf the Moffat goes I’ll be having a party
Fox Mulder
October 2nd, 2011 - 9:52pmVery Clevwr twist at the end but the episode was Rubbish. That’s my views
mollusc man
October 2nd, 2011 - 9:34pmI was really suprised by tessellector reveal. Maybe because it was so simple when i was expecting something massively convoluted and mad.
Or maybe i’m just stupid. 🙁
mollusc man
October 2nd, 2011 - 9:26pmAhh. But did they actually get married? That was an aborted timeline, firstly, and then there’s the fact that the doctor didn’t tell her his name.
Mr Moffat is not finished with river song just yet i’m afraid.
Jim
October 2nd, 2011 - 9:26pmP.S. I also loved “Night Terrors” and “ClosingT Time.” I think they were my favorite episodes of the season because they were actually about something — a father always loving his child no matter what. Although it is troubling that there were hardly any women in either episode. Doctor Who does not write women characters well under Moffat. Rory I am okay with when the show doesn’t show him as just another “tough guy” killing things, but the Amy/River stuff has definitely ruined the show.
Nigelp
October 2nd, 2011 - 9:25pmRiver still doesn’t know the Doctor’s name, so she isn’t married.
Also, she hasn’t been given his sonic screwdriver yet.
This means more River to come.
Jim
October 2nd, 2011 - 9:21pmVery disappointed at how Amy showed up guns-a-blazing rat-a-tatting at the Silence and then murdered Kovarian. Doctor Who is now glorifying violence. The 30 second guilt at the end doesn’t make it better. Rory saw Amy kill Kovarian and was clearly troubled by it, but did nothing to stop it. This sends a bad message to kids to stand by and say nothing when their friends commit an evil act. Moffat has to go before he ruins the morality of Doctor Who any more and makes it more and more like an “action” series instead of drama. This is not even getting to all the needlessly confusing plot strands. Someone like Gareth Roberts should take over who is more grounded in character-based writing and morality (killing the Cybermen with love — much better than the guns), or bring back RTD.
mollusc man
October 2nd, 2011 - 9:21pmI think it’s because it was never the doctor in the first place. The silence ‘created the fixed point in time by performing the act at lake silencio, a ‘still’ point in time. As it was never the doctor in the first place, they created the fixed point around the tessellector’s death, not the doctor’s.
I think. 🙂
matt smithy
October 2nd, 2011 - 9:17pmhold on, in the first series 6 trailer, there was a clip of a naked river song. when did that come into play?