Yes, I know, I'm posting about it late, but i work and go to school, so deal with it. Anyway, Season (or series, depending on which side of the pond you call home) 6 wrapped up recently (October 1, 2011), and may I just say, quite nicely, with the episode titled The Wedding of River Song.
As many of my fellow Whovians may recall, in previous episodes, April 22, 2011 by Lake Silencio, Utah, is a fixed point in history, and a dark day: The day of the Doctor's death at the hands of an impossible astronaut (as the prophecy goes). This episode tells the story of how the Doctor prepared for these events, what happened when the "Astronaut" (better known as River Song) was unable to kill him, how he saved the whole of time and space by allowing his own death, and that Steven Moffat can make it look like he wrote himself into a corner, when in all actuality, he did not.
If the spoiler of a title didn't give it away, River Song does, in fact marry the Doctor, who learns from the severed head of Dorium (severed courtesy of The Headless Monks in "A Good Man Goes To War") the question that he will (probably) have to face next season: the oldest question in the universe. one that must never be answered. one that I felt like an idiot for not realizing sooner. "Doctor who?"
From an objective, critical, nonbiased standpoint, I would have to give this episode a 4.5 out of 5. It was an amazing, engaging, thought provoking episode that's going to force me to rewatch season 6 just to see little things i didn't notice before, and has me sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for season 7, but I'm not entirely convinced it's worthy of a 5... and I don't know why...
Anyway, some of my favorite things about it had to be the fact that the Doctor's Stetson (worn in The Impossible Astronaut and near the end of Closing Time, where he received it from his friend Craig) actually survived (surprise, River Song. you hat destroying @#$%&! You may have gotten the Fez, but the Stetson lives on!), and hearing Amy call someone "Sweetie" in the same manner as River. That, and the addressing of the issue of the recent death of former companion Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of U.N.I.T. (R.I.P. Nicholas Courtney), stating that the character died peacefully months in advance.
Anyway, that's my take on the episode, watch it, don't, i don't really care. just watch all of season 6 first, or you won't get it.
This is Shigure signing off. Remember to keep the faith, and you are not alone.
-Shigure
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