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spectroscopes: All the promise that River’s narrative implicitly carried has now been destroyed: the idea that she had killed a “good man” because she believed it was the right thing to do, because she believed she was killing a war criminal, and that she had realised her mistake and wilfully gone to prison to atone for what she’d done was so powerful and hinted at a well-formed and complex moral code for her as a character — and this episode entirely dismantles it. If “Let’s Kill Hitler” attributed River’s desire to kill the Doctor not to any sense of being in the moral right but to brainwashing, this episode goes one further: River did not even kill the Doctor; the space suit killed the Doctor. What was the point, from Madame Kovarian’s point of view, of even putting River in the space suit when the suit was always going to kill the Doctor of its own accord with no input from River? How was River necessary to their plan? The answer is that she wasn’t: there was no need for River to be Amy and Rory’s daughter, there was no need for her to be a Time Lord, there was no need for her to be brainwashed into wanting to kill the Doctor; take River out of the equation and everything happens in exactly the same way – except that it comes off entirely without a hitch, because River is unable to interfere. And if the aim of the Silence was to created a fixed point in time for the Doctor’s death at Lake Silencio, why even have someone running around with the motivation to kill him at some other point in time? This storyline: not about River at all; none of this services River as a character. Review: Doctor Who 6.13, “The Wedding of River Song”

spectroscopes:

All the promise that River’s narrative implicitly carried has now been destroyed: the idea that she had killed a “good man” because she believed it was the right thing to do, because she believed she was killing a war criminal, and that she had realised her mistake and wilfully gone to prison to atone for what she’d done was so powerful and hinted at a well-formed and complex moral code for her as a character — and this episode entirely dismantles it. If “Let’s Kill Hitler” attributed River’s desire to kill the Doctor not to any sense of being in the moral right but to brainwashing, this episode goes one further: River did not even kill the Doctor; the space suit killed the Doctor. What was the point, from Madame Kovarian’s point of view, of even putting River in the space suit when the suit was always going to kill the Doctor of its own accord with no input from River? How was River necessary to their plan? The answer is that she wasn’t: there was no need for River to be Amy and Rory’s daughter, there was no need for her to be a Time Lord, there was no need for her to be brainwashed into wanting to kill the Doctor; take River out of the equation and everything happens in exactly the same way – except that it comes off entirely without a hitch, because River is unable to interfere. And if the aim of the Silence was to created a fixed point in time for the Doctor’s death at Lake Silencio, why even have someone running around with the motivation to kill him at some other point in time? This storyline: not about River at all; none of this services River as a character.

Review: Doctor Who 6.13, “The Wedding of River Song”



  1. emceecapitalgee reblogged this from lilybriscoes and added:
    I just finished this yesterday and have been trying to figure out what bugs me about River’s story. This is it.
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    There’s a lot in this review that I agree with, but the crux of my disappointment with season six is right there. So...
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  12. sspectrespecs reblogged this from bluestabilizers and added:
    i was so disappointed with the outcome of this season/series of doctor who. ah well.
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  15. phoenixdragondreams reblogged this from themuslimbarbie and added:
    I agree with some of this, but not al. We still don’t know Kovarian - who she is. But using River to kill the Doctor was...
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  21. k-m-anthony reblogged this from spectroscopes and added:
    But the Doctor is so many other things first. He’s a hero. He’s a Time Lord. He’s just so many things to so many people...
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  23. irememberandiloveyou reblogged this from vonblixen and added:
    Actually going to reblog this one. It’s closer to how I feel.
  24. shortergirl reblogged this from spectroscopes and added:
    The only thing I can think...his death willingly. The Doctor has a time machine -
  25. martinusmiraculorum reblogged this from brittanias and added:
    bit here: So I saw your back...forth on River’s necessity
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  27. vonblixen reblogged this from spectroscopes and added:
    I’m being controversial here. Don’t read on if you agree fully with the above quoted article, because I don’t. And while...