NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 285: "The Wedding of River Song" is Up!

 
"It's all still waiting for you -- the fields of Trenzalore, the fall of the Eleventh, and the Question!"
"Goodbye, Dorium."
"The First Question! The question that must never be answered! Hidden in plain sight! The question you've been running from all your life! Doctor Who? Doctor WHO? DOC -- TOR -- WHO?!"
-- Dorium Maldovar and the Eleventh Doctor, Doctor Who: "The Wedding of River Song"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we're joined by special guest companion Holly Mac to discuss "The Wedding of River Song", the 13th episode from Doctor Who Series Six in 2011, featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy Pond, Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams, and the return of Alex Kingston as River Song!

In this episode, Jesse, Holly and I discuss things like Holly getting a bunch of snow before her spring break, the recent news of the upcoming UNIT spinoff with Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart, wondering if we'll get the return of Brigadier Winifred Bambera, UNIT making sense as a Torchwood replacement, the upcoming Doctor Who: Doom's Day multi-platform event, getting the return of Dorium Maldovar, Winston Churchill, Malokeh, and Charles Dickens, the Eleventh Doctor learning that the Brigadier died in his sleep in a nursing home, the eye-drives being a tribute to Jon Pertwee era story "Inferno", Mark Gatiss being credited under the pseudonym "Rondo Haxton", Today show host Meredith Vieira making a cameo as a newsreader, the unrevealed backstory of Madame Kovarian, where "The Wedding of River Song" falls on the River Song timeline, Jesse's spoiler of the ending for The Last of Us Season One, River selfishly putting her love of the Doctor over the needs of the universe, the Doctor's quest to find information regarding the Silence, the Silence resembling vampire bats, the Doctor marrying River to create enough physical contact to restart time, the reason River agreed to kiss the Doctor, Amy killing Madame Kovarian as revenge for what happened to her daughter Melody Pond, Amy Pond as James Bond, the fairness of River having to spend the rest of her days in Stormcage Prison, Steven Moffat creating the Teselecta as the Doctor's escape hatch to avoid his fate, the Doctor's sobering reaction to the Brigadier's death, our favorite quotes of the episode, my Reverse the Polarity segment, new feedback from Dave Proctor, Xan and I watching The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) for our 42nd episode of Drunk Cinema, "The Final Beginning" being set after the end of "The War Games" but before the beginning of "Spearhead from Space", and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for the next episode of Next Stop Everywhere as Jesse and I discuss "The Final Beginning", the first audio drama from Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who: Beyond War Games set from 2022, introducing Michael Troughton as the Second Doctor and Emma Noakes as Raven, along with Jon Culshaw as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart!