Doctor Who: 10 Biggest Facepalm Moments

8. The Lake Silencio Resolution (The Wedding Of River Song)

There's a certain degree of bias here when it is said that this is a HUGE facepalm moment, because this episode is the one that first got many Americans into Doctor Who. It was bizarre beyond all reason, it was twisted, and it was perfect. A future Doctor interacting with his own past to meet his own death by an astronaut in a Utah lake alone was a facepalm moment for most newbies, and even some of the more zealous diehards, but the word facepalm is used in the nicest way possible because it was a huge moment for Matt Smith's Doctor. So naturally, with an exponentially increased audience this season alone, expectations of a tense ending were huge. Of course there was no way the Doctor was really going to die, and the overall story arc was actually great, but the season's finale which wrapped up said arc was extremely confusing and didn't wrap up until the very last few seconds. You waited months for that... Okay so after Let's Kill Hitler and the Teselecta were introduced, the resolution should have been seen from a mile away, but the season still left viewers with more questions than answers. River says that Madame Kovarian died in the alternate reality and is probably still alive, but she's still never seen again (thank God). By that logic, are the Doctor and River actually married, especially considering it was only done to get close enough to her to start time back up again? How could the Doctor still be destined to die on the fields of Trenzalore if his death at Lake Silencio was a fixed point to begin with? If it really was a fixed point, then the Silence would seem to have succeeded, yes? Exactly why one should never apply logic to Who. The Wedding of River Song was a decent, albeit confusing finale, but it didn't neatly wrap things up while making us anticipate the new season even more the same way Big Bang did.