Doctor Who: mixed feelings, and a question

[major_clanger]

The Wedding of River Song

Did I enjoy it? Yes. Did it wrap up the Amy/River plot arc? Sort of. Did it work as an exposition of time travel. Um, I have serious doubts.

Comments

[bugshaw]

My reading was that the Doctor was holding the blue envelopes, and called the Brigadier hoping he could be one of the people to come to the beach and be with him at the end, in April 2011, which is not possible in the Brig's timeline. No comment on if he could go back in time and see him one last time.

[watervole]

Now that is an excellent thought - and makes perfect sense of why he would call the Brigadier on a specific date.

(I think there's a Gallifreyan code of manners which says that you encounter people sequentially along their personal time lines in order not to cause them total confusion. River, not having been brought up on Gallifrey, has never absorbed this rule.)

[parrot_knight]

I like this idea of a Gallifreyan code of manners - it makes a lot of sense, and complements the 'Gallifreyan Mean Time' drawn from the sequential meetings of Time Lords.

[ciphergoth]

Now that makes sense. Thanks.

[twinfair]

This does make some sort of sense except that he didn't call any of the others, just sent them the invite.

[bohemiancoast]

Gosh, if this wasn't what they had intended, it certainly should have been.