Doctor Who: Happy Wedding Anniversary, Doctor! [SPOILERS]

Oh, bugger! I missed it!

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Hello, Whovians and other Doctor Who fans!
Yesterday, April 22, 2018, was a fantastic day, do you know why? Yes, Earth Day!!

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But what does that have to do with Doctor Who? Good question. It’s the Wedding Anniversary of the Doctor! But which one …?

Was it the “Family of Blood” alternate timeline wedding with Matron Joan Redfern?

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Maybe this royal wedding from “The Day of the Doctor” 50th-anniversary episode? (fun fact! This marriage was also mentioned in the David Tennant special “The End of Time: Part 1” and season five “The Beast Below”.)

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Or was it, perhaps, when he accidentally gets engaged to Marilyn Monroe and has to make a quick exit in “The Christmas Carol” Christmas special 2010.

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[SPOILER ALERT FOR DOCTOR WHO SEASON SIX FINALE EPISODE OF THE NEW SERIES.

IF YOU HAVE NOT GOTTEN THAT FAR, TURN BACK NOW. YE BE WARNED.]

By the goddess, whose bleeping wedding anniversary??

Of course, it’s our beloved Professor River Song.

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In the Doctor Who season six finale entitled “The Wedding of River Song,” our title hero, River Song, essentially breaks time.

When confronted with an impossible situation between killing the best man she knows and letting time die, she does the only thing she can do: she kills time to give the Doctor a message.

Since the Doctor is such an important fixture in the universe, his death is what he calls a “fixed point in time,” meaning essentially what you could guess. It’s an immovable constant, something that always happens and must always happen, and when a fixed point in time is…tampered with, shall we say, then time, well, breaks.

At the end of the Doctor Who episode, River and the Doctor have a passionate argument about how much his life is worth, and at what cost. He is desperately trying to convince her that nothing is worth time dying, and there’s no one who can help; this is his end, and it must happen as it always happened, on a lakeshore in Utah on April 22, 2011, at 5:02 p.m.

River, on the other hand, just needs him to understand that he’s wrong. While, sure, he has to die otherwise everything everywhere will die in his place, she needs him to understand that there are entire worlds crying out for him to show him exactly what his life is worth.

Her speech, in my opinion, ranks up there with the most valiant declarations of love to shame even Cyrano de Bergerac. (Thanks, Moffat!)

"River Song: The sky’s full of a million, million voices saying yes of course, we’ll help. You’ve touched so many lives, saved so many people. Did you think when your time came, you’d really have to do more than just ask? You’ve decided that the universe is better off without you, but the universe doesn’t agree. I can’t let you die.The Doctor: –but i have to dieRiver Song: –Shut up! I can’t let you die without knowing you are loved. By so many, and so much. And by no one more than me.”"

River, then, expresses how much she would suffer to have to kill him.

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To which River replies a heavy, “Yes.”

So, to save time from disintegrating, the Doctor makes a decision: let her in on his secrets, of which there are so many…

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…and marry River Song, which leads to probably the sexiest kiss I’ve ever watched over and over and over and over and over and ov…

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On April 22, 2011, time died and the Doctor wed.

Re-watch Doctor Who season six “The Wedding of River Song” and join Caesar Winston Churchill and me as we rip a hole in time and space.

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Happy Earth Day, Happy Anniversary, Doctor and River, and Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!

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