Doctor Who:
The Wedding of River Song
By Steven Moffat
Reviewed By Will Barber – Taylor
“Doctor Who? Doctor Who?!”
The Doctor travels to Lake Silencio for
his date with destiny. However, he
doesn’t reckon on the love of River Song, who decides not to kill him. If The Doctor lives then time will collapse.
The plot is excellent. Starting off with
time all happening at once. The episode
takes us to a flashback telling the
audience how time was corrupted. The
second half of the episode is set in the corrupted timeline where The Doctor
has to die or time will die instead. The story flows beautifully and shows
Moffat on top form. The whole River Song/Doctor story arc is weaved brilliantly
into the story and without the story arc as a backbone the story wouldn’t be as
convincing as it is. The Doctor faking his own death to fool the Silence is
similar to Sherlock Holmes faking his death to fool Moriarty’s criminal
empire. Seeing as Moffat has brought
Holmes back this could be a sneaky reference.
The ending of the story is sublime in its ambiguity. Steven Moffat writes Doctor Who as a
magically, dark fairytale, which is how it should be.
