Fridge / Doctor Who S32 E13 "The Wedding of River Song"

• Fridge Brilliance:
  • In "The End of Time", Ten can distinctly remember marrying Liz I, but in this episode he thinks she's still waiting for him. Given that the wedding happened in the middle of a multi-Doctor adventure, and crossing his own timeline always causes him to forget until the final time it happens to him, it makes sense that he's forgotten about it now that it hasn't just happened to him.
  • Amy comes back to save Rory from The Silence, despite the fact that she would have forgotten about them as soon as she left the room. Why did she know to come back, loaded for bear? She heard Rory screaming in pain.
  • All of time is happening but space-faring tech is notably absent. That's because the ripple effect of the Timey-Wimey Ball hasn't spread to a part of the universe where humanity's history would have achieved that point.
  • A Meta example for the whole series: On the Recap page it notes that the key to Doctor's survival was presumed to be a Ganger, which were used in the last 3 episodes before a 3 month break, giving people plenty of time to solidify their theories so the real key, the Tesselecta, was overlooked when it showed up, thus allowing it to be a surprise. Really of the 2 it makes more sense, The Doctor disapproved of the Tesselecta's methods and would therefore be all right with destroying it, while he was one of the 2 characters (along with Rory) who always supported the idea that Gangers were people as well.
• Fridge Logic: When the scientists in River and Amy's group were reverse-engineering the Eye Drives, they couldn't tell they were designed to be able to electrocute the wearer? Seriously?
• Fridge Horror: Amy leaves Madame Kovarian to die at the hands of the Silence when they overload her eye-drive. This is all well and good, but why is it that everybody, including Tropers and the series itself, treat the character as dead? That scene took place in an alternative, collapsing universe that was undone by the end of the episode, so Madame Kovarian should still be alive!
  • Actually, that's not the point. The point is that Amy cold-heartedly killed her. That she has the will to go through with it. It's a What You Are in the Dark issue - Amy has seen herself in the dark and she's scared of what she saw. That's about her moral apprehention, not the universe's mortality statistic. And Kovarian could have died for real later on (you know, wibbly-wobbly moffatish continuity). Or the Doctor might have killed her later.
• Why couldn't the Doctor just tell River about his plan as soon as they reunited at the pyramid, or indeed any time or way before the wedding? Because of Rivee and her allies huntingg and capturing them, from the moment he got there, they were surrounded by the Silence, and Kovarian, if either were present when he told her, and they remembered when history reset, which given that they were still aware of the true timeline is likely, then the Doctor would still be hunted, and River would still be trapped under their thumb, and the entire plan would be near pointless, they'd just try again, when the Doctor hasn't had time to prepare.