The Wedding of River Song Today!

 Today is the day we've been waiting for: The Wedding of River Song airs today!

Summary: The city of London, 22 April 2011 – soaring buildings, glittering and mighty under a perfect blue sky, and life tumbling onto pavements below. And horse-drawn Roman chariots driving through the streets. And a Victorian steam train on a monorail… hang on, like in a sci-fi city, but with Romans and steam trains? And hot air balloons? And pterodactyls? And Charles Dickens appearing on BBC One’s Breakfast! Something isn’t quite right…
In Buckingham Senate, at 5.02pm, Holy Roman Emperor Winston Churchill calls for his Soothsayer to be fetched from the Tower. Greying, unkempt, older, tireder, but unmistakably – it’s the Doctor. “Tick tock goes the clock,” Winston tells him, “but they don’t, do they? The clocks never tick.” It’s always 5.02pm these days. All of history is happening at once. “What happened to time?” asks Winston. The answer, it seems, is a woman…


Next time trailer:

TV trailer:

Prequel:

The Wedding of River Song airs at 7:05 PM on BBC1 and at 8/9 PM on BBC America. Answers are promised, but questions will be asked. Grab your Jammie Dodgers, bow ties, sonic screwdrivers, and fezzes and get ready.

As a side note, I recently made a Tumblr account called Brand New and Ancient.

New Images for The Wedding of River Song

Three more images have been released for the finale:

Arthur Darvill Introduces The Wedding of River Song

Arthur Darvill introduces the Series 6 finale, The Wedding of River Song, in the video below.

Doctor Who on Radio Times

The Doctor Who finale has made the cover of the Radio Times, featuring the Doctor, River, Amy, and Rory, all wearing the mysterious eyepatches.

About the issue:  

As we bid farewell to another cracking series of Doctor Who, we thought we’d gear up for its sand-blown finale by quizzing the show’s mastermind, Steven Moffat, and stars Matt Smith and Karen Gillan on their hidden Who heroes – and also look back at the Doctor’s five greatest escapes…

The Wedding of River Song Teasers

It turns out that as last year, Moffat isn't sending out preview DVDs to the press of the finale, but SFX have managed to see a screening, here's their teasers:

• It’s a surprisingly simple tale, though told in a clever way. It’s so rich with detail and it’s enormous fun
• There is technobabble, but that’s largely a red herring
• The teaser looks like it was more expensive than the rest of the “back six” put together. It’s a visual and conceptual delight
• It does answer a lot of questions, but some old ones (from Matt Smith’s first series) are still left open, and some new ones are posed
• There are many, many glorious special effects sequences
• The denouement is bound to cause some debate. If you like the episode, you’ll be able to rationalise it, but if you don’t you’ll be going, “But hang on, in that episode…?” But that’s Doctor Who fandom
• You’ll discover a whole new meaning to the phrase “Live Chess” that has nothing to do with Harry Potter
• The Doctor wonders if he could be the fifth member of something
• Wi-fi comes in handy
• There’s the return of an old look for the Doctor
• There are some unexpected (truly unexpected) returning characters
• There’s a moving tribute to an old friend
• The Doctor offers and eye for an eye patch
• A big revelation may remind you of Little Britain
• There are some peculiar postmen
• Somebody’s portrait looks nothing like them
• The episode title may not be as much of a red herring as you might think. But then again…
• Bow ties are not just cool, they’re useful on occasion
• It’s a bit of a gamechanger
• The eye patch is explained

Slightly Spoilery Pictures from The Wedding of River Song

As PreTitlesSequence mentioned in an earlier post, there are some leaked pictures from The Wedding of River Song. Spoilers follow, but very minor ones. This is the first half of the pictures, and PreTitlesSequence will be posting the other half soon.

Information for The Wedding of River Song

As in the style of the other episodes, we now have a synopsis, quotes, and some details for The Wedding of River Song.

Synopsis:

The city of London, 22 April 2011 – soaring buildings, glittering and mighty under a perfect blue sky, and life tumbling onto pavements below. And horse-drawn Roman chariots driving through the streets. And a Victorian steam train on a monorail… hang on, like in a sci-fi city, but with Romans and steam trains? And hot air balloons? And pterodactyls? And Charles Dickens appearing on BBC One’s Breakfast! Something isn’t quite right…
In Buckingham Senate, at 5.02pm, Holy Roman Emperor Winston Churchill calls for his Soothsayer to be fetched from the Tower. Greying, unkempt, older, tireder, but unmistakably – it’s the Doctor. “Tick tock goes the clock,” Winston tells him, “but they don’t, do they? The clocks never tick.” It’s always 5.02pm these days. All of history is happening at once. “What happened to time?” asks Winston. The answer, it seems, is a woman…

Quote:

DORIUM: “On the fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, when no living creature may speak falsely or fail to give answer, a question will be asked. A question that must never, ever be answered.”
THE DOCTOR: ‘”Silence will fall when the question is asked…’”
DORIUM: ‘”Silence must fall’ would be a better translation. The Silence are determined that the question must never be answered. The Doctor must never reach Trenzalore.”
THE DOCTOR: “I don’t understand? What’s it got to do with me?”
DORIUM: “The first question. The oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight. Would you like to know what it is?”
THE DOCTOR: “Yes!”
DORIUM: “…Are you sure?”

Details:

• There is a wedding ceremony, of sorts
• Amy and Rory are reunited with the Doctor
• Silurian Malohkeh is back (Richard Hope)
• The eyepatched, chess playing alien is the son of a future viking
• There is a exciting battle sequence near the end
• Another big River revelation
• And River gets a big revelation about the Doctor
• Some of the locations we see: Buckingham Senate, Ancient Egypt, Calisto Bay docks, The Chess Pits of Vegas 12, The Labyrinth of Skulls, Lake Silencio

Summary for The Wedding of River Song

The BBC have released the summary for the Series 6 finale, The Wedding of River Song:

As the Doctor makes his final journey to the shores of Lake Silencio in Utah, he knows only one thing can keep the universe safe – his own death – in the concluding episode of this series of the time-travelling drama. But has he reckoned without the love of a good woman?

Doctor Who fans can also enjoy an extra helping of the Time Lord’s adventures in a special, one-off mini episode written by schoolchildren in Doctor Who Confidential on BBC Three tonight.

The Doctor is played by Matt Smith, Amy by Karen Gillan and Rory by Arthur Darvill.