I liked RS, I liked all her appearances including Let’s Kill Hitler(totally genius episode and one of the BEST of nu Who).
But the sixth season ender which apparently resolved both the River Son and Silence storylines…wow that was bad!
I was cool with a lot of her and the Doctor staying offscreen, but their wedding was the Doctor being forced into it with River like an obsessed maniac… So what were all those dates they were going on about?
Was the shows future in limbo or something at the time? It seemed very rushed and poorly done.
Oh and the idea of setting a trap for The Doctor bygetting him intimately involved with his killer so he cannot just change time to erase them was really cool, but in the end didn’t matter at all. In fact why even have River when the suit could have done everything?!:smack:
I don’t think the River storyline is so much resolved as just… had some of the more important details filled in. There’s still a lot we don’t know and, I’m assuming, more to come and more to uncover.
We don’t even know if that was their real wedding. Technically, you could argue that River married the Tesselecta, although the Doctor was driving it at the time. Who knows if that’s their real wedding? It could go either way.
Most of their dates seem to happen while River is in prison (for his murder, which she of course didn’t actually commit). Have you seen the “Night And The Doctor” short episodes? They address this quite a bit. The “First Night” segment shows their first date after her incarceration, and “Last Night” shows an episode from the other end of her timeline. They’re up on youtube and are good fun.
No, the show’s future wasn’t in limbo, although Steven Moffatt apparently was quite rushed in the writing of the final episode. I agree, I don’t think it’s one of his finest moments. As an episode it’s incredibly entertaining, but as the climax of the stories he’s been threading throughout the last 2 seasons I found it a bit disappointing.
A willing River would have been a much better weapon than just the suit with an unwilling River inside it… and as it turned out, the suit didn’t really succeed.
…I have to make the following admission: I am madly in love with River Song.
Which is kind of strange: because she isn’t really the kind of person I would normally fall madly in love with, and also because her first episode felt so “wrong.”
Which was kind of the point. In Silence in the Library I didn’t hate her character, I just felt indifferent. It was hard to bond with a character who made a heroic sacrifice at the end of the episode when we had no emotional connection to the character. In a way I felt like Tennant’s Doctor: sad that we had lost this person, but we didn’t really know this person anyway.
But then we met her again at the crash of the Byzantium: and we grow to know her, and then by the last episode of the last season she is having a glass of wine with her mum and everything is different. And I go back and watch Forest of the Dead and I can’t do it now without crying. Its amazing character growth: and fantastic to see such wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff on television.
By “extra movies” do you mean the David Tennant Specials? Those weren’t extra, they were the culmination of his run as the Doctor. Instead of a regular series, they did four extra length episodes staggered throughout 2010, ending with The End of Time. To miss those is to miss the end of his story.
However, IIRC, you can watch Season 5 and not spoil anything. It’s pretty much a completely new story.
Do you know the episode title that is missing? I don’t have access to Netflix to check. I would just crack on with Matt Smith’s Doctor if I were you - a new Doctor is a bit like a re-boot anyway.
The one that’s missing is Planet of the Dead. It’s available on Amazon Streaming, free if you’re an Amazon Prime member, $1.99 if you’re not.
eta: (She said, two months later >_<)
So what were all those dates they were going on about?